Last week’s episode of Bones was the best of the season so far and I hope that Bones continues the momentum it gained last week. I was looking forward to some even more ridiculously mangled corpses and impossible murder plots. This week Bones really delivered on that.

Bones and Booth are on a cross pacific flight to China so that Bones can help investigate an ancient corpse. During the flight, one of the attendants find a cooked corpse shoved into a giant microwave oven. With only four hours to go before their plane touches down in China, our favorite couple springs into action.

Using the magic of the internet (airplane wifi actually working might be the least believable aspect of this episode) Bones contacts the crew back in DC. Using various junk that they commandeer from the passengers, they make various tools McGuyver style.

The victim was a travel writer who had just written an article about pilots who hid drunk driving convictions. The pilot of the plane is actually featured in her article, thus making him the number one suspect. As usual though, the first suspect isn’t the killer. It turns out another man on the plane had an affair with the victim, becoming the new best suspect. Twists and turns lead to a stewardess, a passenger who is a gun nut and finally the son of the victim’s lover. The teenager just wanted his family to be whole again, so he shoved his father’s mistress into a microwave. Nice.

Back at the lab, the relationship between Angela and Roxy is growing and Hodgins is clearly disturbed, but really, who wouldn’t be? This leads to Hodgins digging for information and generally acting like the jilted lover he is. Eventually, the two are forced together finally forceing the moment where Hodgins asks Angela if her bisexuality was the reason they couldn’t make it work. She tells him the truth and he seems to accept it.

Afterward Angela the skank and her new lesbian lover are having drinks. Angela asks Roxy to move in with her. She turns Angela down saying it’s too soon. I’m glad to see Angela get jilted for a change, its a rare moment of karmic justice.

Not a bad episode overall, but the idea that they must solve the mystery before the plane lands is pretty lame and unneeded. I’m certain the Chinese government would intervene in the investigation, but I’m equally certain that they’d be happy to turn the murder of a US citizen over to the FBI.