Bones is back and nasty as it wants to be. A body is found at the bottom of a cliff mutilated and smashed. After ruling out death by bungee, the body is brought into the lab. The show throws in an interesting twist when the body begins to bubble and foam. Out of concern for toxins the crew locks down the lab. The victim’s bones are literally melting and bubbling away before the crews eyes.

Now with time ticking away and the only evidence slowly destroying itself, Bones and Booth get to work. The victim was a car salesman and questioning leads them to his brother who he worked with him at a jungle themed car lot, two shady Indian car salesman and a ludicrous scene in a strip club. The scene is particularly silly as Booth gets a lap dance while Bones watches as if its a show on Animal Planet.

During all this, Bones finally notices that she has poor social skills and decides to get lessons from Sweets. Its a silly turn for the show to take, but at least we get more face time from Dr Sweets. He’s been surprisingly tolerable over the last few weeks and I’m actually getting getting to like the little weasel.

The body’s strange chemical reaction seems to have the crew completely confounded. Everything they try seems to make the problem worse and time is running out. Booth returns his attention to the strange jungle themed car lot. After bringing in the star saleswoman for questioning. Bones decides its time to test out her new social training. Its a massive failure but they are able to follow a trail back to the owner of the lot and his pet monkey. After discovering blood and a solvent that could’ve been used on the foamy corpse, it feels like their close to the killer. As usual, it appears as though the least likely is the killer. The wife of his brother did it after he discovered her having an affair.

Despite it being full of silly plot hooks, I enjoyed the nasty bubbling corpse. It added a certain amount of suspense to what is usually a pretty ho-hum part of the show. Also the concept of Bones trying to learn Booth’s art of persuasion turned out better than I would’ve expected. That’ll do, Bones. That’ll do.