The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond

Season 4, Episode 5
Air Date: September 24, 2008

Summary

When a shocked teenager finds a dismembered body laying in pieces in a strange purple pool of water, Brennan and Booth come to the scene only to find the victim’s head is missing. With help from Brennan’s newest grad student, Wendell, the team discovers the body is that of Jared Addison, a 25-year-old science fiction writer who suffers from OCD and a crippling fear of germs. With Sweets’ psychological insight into Jared’s perfectly regimented world, Booth and Brennan track down a number of suspects including Jared’s psychologist, his much older girlfriend and his science-fiction book publisher, all of whom have good reason to want Jared out of their lives. However, without the victim’s head, the team struggles to find enough evidence to locate a killer – that is, until they receive insight from Zack, who studies the case from afar at his psychiatric facility with case information provided to him by Hodgins. Meanwhile, Brennan scolds Booth for not letting her ever fend for herself

Cast: Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan, David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, TJ Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins, Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro, Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille “Cam” Saroyan, John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets, Eric Millegan as Zack Addy

Squintern: Michael Grant Terry as Wendell Bray

Guest Cast: Dean Cudworth as Jim Amerian, Matt Doherty as Gary Tushman, Debra Christofferson as Kelly Sutton, Todd Robert Anderson as David Sutton, Lisa Kamnir as Tilda Addison, Ryan Alvarez as Ralph, Ronobir Lahiri as Barista, Ransford Doherty as Detective Paynter, Gregory Hinton as Orderly, Jamie Renee Smith as Karen, Brian David Miller as Todd