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From all over the world Brennan's former team reassembles to help Cam solve a difficult case of identifying an unknown baby's corpse, as her failure to do so may wreck her career. They soon realize this may not be just one case, but two.

With Cam's reputation and career on the line, the team travels from overseas to help her solve the case of an unidentified young boy. The Forensics Anthropology Unit lost much of its vigor after disbanding to pursue personal ventures, and it will take the collaborative energy and knowledge of the newly reunited team to unravel evidence and find closure for the family of the unknown boy. After unearthing new clues in the lab and making unexpected personal discoveries, the team realizes they belong back in Washington, D.C.—Fox Publicity

Justice official Caroline Julian appeals to the team members on leap year to return (Booth is on tour as an Afghan army trainer in Helmand province, Sweets is at a piano bar, Bones and Daisy at their Indonesian missing link search etc.). They are needed to prevent Cam, who spoke out concerning veteran problems, from being sacked as an 'incompetent' coroner. The case is a body presumed by the press to be the missing child Logan Bartlett, given custody to his alcoholic mother. After Bones admits her selfish desertion caused the Jeffersonian team to be disbanded and the apprentice program revoked, Wendell and the regulars regroup. They soon establish that the body can't be Logan as the body is a different ethnic grouping and died before Logan disappeared.—KGF Vissers

Last season on 'Bones': Sweets (John Francis Daley) said goodbye to Daisy (), wearing camouflage, said goodbye to Brennan (Emily Deschanel). The latter promised to meet again in D.C.

"Seven Months Later"

This season on 'Bones:' Brennan and Daisy continue to look for "evidence of early man" in Indonesia. Booth, meanwhile, leads a squad into enemy territory in Afghanistan. A firefight ensues. Meanwhile, Camille (Tamara Taylor) is preparing to appear on a TV news show in Washington. Caroline (Patricia Belcher) warns Camille the interviewer is only going to ask about the "missing child." Camille says she has "nothing to say about Logan Bartlett."

CUT back to Indonesia, where a group of men carrying guns approach Brennan and Daisy, stranded after their truck breaks down. Brennan says these particular gorillas "venerate" woman, so she loosens her hair and begins to pose seductively (or tries to). Daisy, meanwhile, strips down to her underwear.

CUT to Afghanistan, where a pair of bad guys takes a little boy hostage. Booth shoots one dead immediately. The other drops his weapon when another soldier appears from around a corner. The boy runs to his mom. "Thank you!" the mother says. "This wouldn't have happened if his father were here, where he is supposed to be ... instead of fighting someone else's war." Just then, Booth's phone rings. Caroline is on the line, telling Booth to hustle back to the states or Camille is going to lose her job.

CUT back to Indonesia, where Brennan is busy bashing bad guys with a shovel (the sultry routine didn't work). Second later, all the bad guys are laid on the jungle floor. Caroline calls. "You need to get home right now," Caroline says. "You left Cam alone and if you don't come back, she's going to lose everything." Sure enough, the TV news interviewer in Washington asks why Camille is "stalled" in the Logan Bartlett case.

Sometime later, Booth and Brennan meet on the Mall in Washington. They hug. The team is back together -- almost. Caroline makes a call to Sweets, playing piano in a bar. "I'm on sabbatical," Sweets explains. Caroline says Booth is suffering from post-traumatic stress -- and needs a psychologist. Sweets agrees to give up his music gig.

B&B, meanwhile, catch up. "Did you meet anyone special?" Booth asks. Says Brennan: "You mean did I have sex with anyone?" Booth laughs -- he missed Brennan's unconsciously blunt nature. Booth then shows Brennan a cell-phone photo of his new girlfriend, a beautiful and blond journalist named Hanna. Brennan is perturbed.

Later, the entire team meets in the conference room. Caroline explains Camille has been making noise about "brain damage in veterans" and someone high up on the food chain wants her silenced. To do so, Camille is being framed as "incompetent" for refusing to ID a recently found skeleton as belonging to the missing Logan Bartlett. The evidence is just too thin. So the team needs to positively ID the remains or find the boy. Everyone leaves the room except for Brennan and Camille, who is clearly angry with her coworker for dropping everything to go to Indonesia. "We had a great thing going," Camille says. "You let it fall apart." Brennan is shocked ... and hurt.

The next day, Booth has breakfast with Parker, who asks if his dad is going to "go away again." Says Booth: "Never." Brennan, meanwhile, approaches Wendell (Michael Grant Terry), now repairing school buses in order to make "tuition" money. Turns out that when Brennan left, the intern program was shut down. She asks Wendell to return to help identify the child remains. He refuses, saying he has to think "long term." "How much would it take -- because I have quite a lot of money," Brennan says. Wendell immediately reconsiders.

Booth, in the meantime, interviews the parents of the missing boy. The mother, Carrie (Melissa Marsala), explains she put the boy to bed as she always did -- but he was gone the next morning. The father, Trevor (Dylan Bruno), accuses her of having had too much booze. "I've been sober for over a year," Carrie says through tears. Turns out Trevor and Carrie broke up before the boy disappeared. Trevor is clearly angry. CUT to the examination room. Brennan immediately points out the bones indicate an Asian boy. So it can't be Logan.

Sweets and Daisy, meanwhile, discuss their relationship while speed-walking down a Washington street. Turns out Daisy wants to be back with Sweets, who says he spent the last few months trying to forget about her. "I thought about you everyday," Daisy says. "You keep the ring. If you want us to be engaged, you just give it back."

Back to plot A: Booth and Brennan tell Caroline the skeletal remains are NOT Logan. "We still have to figure out whose remains are in Cam's lab and what happened to him," Brennan says. So now we have two cases! Later, Sweets theorizes the dead boy might be the victim of a sex crime, as his body was wrapped, indicating shame on the part of the killer. He then asks Booth for advice on the Daisy situation. Booth tells Sweets to "move on" so he can be happy. But is Booth happy? He claims to be, yes.

But wait -- there are more subplots! Angela (Michaela Conlin) takes Brennan to lunch at the diner and confesses she is pregnant. The two share witty banter and then hug it out.

Back in the dingy examination room, the team notices the dead boy has a puncture wound in his neck. Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) finds evidence of wood in the wound. Brennan theorizes the boy swallowed something -- maybe a tooth pick -- and his sternum was damaged when someone tried to save him. The hands and feet, meanwhile, were bound as part of a cultural burial ritual. "So we're not looking at a murder?" Camille asks. "We're looking at negligence or an accident?" Brennan believes so.

Hodgins, meanwhile, identifies the fabric in which the body was wrapped -- a material common in North Korea. On top of that, the twine used to tie the hands and feet is an industrial thread. "So we're looking for an industrial sewing operation with a Korean connection," Camille declares. If you say so. Sweets and Daisy, meanwhile, have it out in the hallway. Sweets says he is keeping the ring. The psychologist then declares their relationship over -- a decision lasting only a few seconds as an initially brief kiss goodbye turns into a full-fledged make-out session. Looks like "Sweetsy" is back.

B&B visit a sewing shop where the proprietor explains a young employee who recently came from Korea decided to send her child back home. Uh oh. The crime solvers visit the mother at her home. Booth asks the woman what happened to the child while Brennan examines the crib. It's immediately apparent the boy choked on a wooden screw from the crib. The mother begins to cry. Case closed -- at least one of them.

But what of Logan? "The dad bought a car three days after his son disappeared," Booth says to Camille and Brennan. "What kind of father does that?" The pair then head to a local park -- Logan's favorite -- along with Carrie. Sure enough, they spot dad with Logan. "He kidnapped him to hurt his wife," Booth says. Trevor soon spots Booth -- and begins to run! Booth tackles the man and Logan is reunited with his tearful mother. Second case closed ... but not the episode.

Angela and Hodgins decide to stay in Washington to have their baby. Almost as good, the team returns to the Jeffersonian. "You are all my true friends," Camille says. She then turns on the light of their old digs and discovers a giant mastodon. The lab has been transformed into a history display -- at least for the time being. "Welcome home, Bones," Booth says. "Welcome home, Booth," says Bones.