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Booth and Bones investigate a murder that is connected to Bones' father. Meanwhile, after obtaining his doctorate, Zack gets a makeover to appear more professional.

An ex-FBI agent is crucified and torched on top of a hotel with a message inside his throat which re-opens a case from the 70s that sent an innocent man to prison. The case has ties that go deep inside the FBI, endangering Bones and her brother Russ, and risking Booth's career. Bones receives a visit from an old friend of their father Max Keenan, who is holding back a secret. Elsewhere Zack defends his dissertation to earn his doctorate, and worries he may not be hired at the institute as he is "cute, but a jury won't take you seriously".—mohka

An ex-FBI agent is crucified and torched on a hotel roof with a message inside his throat which leads to a new autopsy proving civil rights activist was convicted innocently in the 70s for the murder on FBI agent Augustus 'Gus' Harper. The locations -a bank robbed a few days later by Bones' parents- and timing indicate the real killer in nobody else then Bones and Russ's father, Max Keenan, who is sending a deadly warning to anyone who touches his kids and communicates with them trough his confessional father, Toby Coulter. Booth's solo-action in the reopening of the case leads to Becket's release, but FBI Deputy Director Kirby suspends Booth, virtually the sack; the forensic gang vows to get him reinstated by solving the case themselves, notably finding the hidden evidence. Booth soon realizes who must be the corrupt FBI agent who got Becket convicted, Bones how her father is hiding... Meanwhile comments from his doctoral exam jury and Jeffersonian superior that his teenage appearance makes it hard to take him seriously, no jury would, so he convinces Angela to give him a credible business-like make-over.—KGF Vissers