01E22 - The Woman in Limbo

Even cool, together Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan is unable to go testify in court when she sees a facial reconstruction from a skull in a mass grave is her mother Christine Brennan, officially missing like her father, a science teacher, for years. Now Booth can finally start an official investigation, as mother, an accountant, had been giving evidence in high-profile tax evasion cases and Temperance's elder brother Russ, who deserted her, is on parole after convictions for a shop in stolen car parts. Now Booth finds Bones' parents had assumed the late Matthew Brennan's identity in 1978. However she was buried with a movie ticket for the 1993 movie The Fugitive, released two years after her disappearance. When Booth finds the parents were really Max and Ruth Keenan and had a federal criminal record as bank robbery strong box specialists, Russ, who was seven, admits his real name is Kyle, hers Joy. So why did mother 'Brennan' disappear, abandoning her kids for two years, and who killed her? The parents' abandoned car has blood of Russ, Bones, mother and another man. Booth finds the robbers gang survivor in witness protection, now a pig farmer, who admits a terrible twist, which at least makes closure possible...