The Jeffersonian team attends the wake of Hank Reilly, a colleague from the Egyptology department who supposedly died of natural causes. While paying her respects, Brennan notices physical evidence (broken ribs) suggesting foul play. When a judge refuses to grant an exhumation order, Brennan and Booth decide to to conduct a covert investigation before the scheduled cremation.
The mystery deepens when they discover the victim was actually "murdered twice": first poisoned with tetrodotoxin from heart medication, and then accidentally stabbed by a panicking undertaker who thought the victim was a "zombie" when he began to move during the embalming process. [S4E22] Double Death of the Dearly Departed
"Bones" The Double Death of the Dearly Departed (TV ... - IMDb The Jeffersonian team attends the wake of Hank
The Bones episode (Season 4, Episode 22) is widely regarded as one of the series' most comedic, chaotic, and "slapstick" installments. Directed by Craig Ross, Jr., the episode takes a departure from the typical lab-centric procedural, leaning into a "lunatic" energy reminiscent of the film Death at a Funeral . Plot Summary The mystery deepens when they discover the victim