First off, it was the Singing Episode. Which, since this is FOX, meant it was the American Idol episode. I lost track of the number of AI references - including really stupid ones, because I don't believe for one minute that *Booth* is conversant on Kelly Clarkson's discography, or that he would admit it even if he was. There was also a ridiculous amount of singing; someone over on TWOP said they fast-forwarded through the singing, and the ep was only 20 minutes long. It featured at least two AI former-contestants that I could ID, as well as a Frank Sinatra impersenator. And both Bones *and* Zach sang - Bones at open mike night, and Zach in the middle of studying skelatons in the lab. Like, random much?

The mystery was that Ace Young is a trainer/wannabe singer who is found dead! zomg! Bones and Booth are on the case, and talk to: the guy whose song Ace Young stole! The guy whose money Ace Young stole! The neighbor who reported him missing because Ace Young's alarm clock keeps going off every two minutes and is driving him crazy! The owner of the bar and the fake 'talent scout' he used to entice people to the bar! The angry, biker-looking guy who glares at Ace Young! And, best of all, Fat Pam, the delusional overweight woman who was in love with Ace Young (oh, to get the mystery out of the way - the killer is, improbably, the next door neighbor who needs silence to work on his art, because Ace Young won't stop singing. But now he is tormented by the alarm clock of Ace Young! Because this man, who is willing to kill for some peace and quiet, is NOT willing to break into his neighbor's apt and unplug the damn alarm. Yeahhh).

OK, so 'Fat Pam' was the most ridiculous part of a ridiculous episode. So Pam, she is delusionally in love with Ace Young, and even has a stalker photo album, but she also has an alibi; she was in Florida with her parents planning the fake marriage between Ace Young and herself, because she is *just that crazy*. Oh, and she bitches and calls Bones a stick, which makes Bones defensive, and makes me laugh, because Bones is rarely defensive. Dr Sweets, the kid-psychiatrist who I still love and hope is not gormegon, tells Booth that  Pam is delusional, in part because she is fat (I am oversimplifying like crazy - he actually says she isn't fat, but people treat her like she's fat, or something; then he talks about Bones's Issues, and doesn't get back to it, and I don't really care enough to rewind and figure it out). She creates delusional romantic connections between herself and the hot menz by acting vulnerable and giving them things. And then, as Booth is leaving the interrogation room, Pam's face goes all crumply and she's like 'who will love me now???' and Booth sympathetically pats her on the shoulder, and Sweets is like 'NO DON'T TOUCH HER!' from outside the interrogation room, so we know that she has now transferred her psychotic love to Booth.

Sweets tells Booth that Pam is totally dangerous because of her delusions, and Booth laughs because he is arrogant and does not respect Sweets. Then Pam calls Booth all 'I need to see you...alone' and Booth (who is dumb) is like 'is it about Ace Young's murder? Well, Bones should be there...but ok! Whatever you say, dangerous woman!' And then Pam proceeds to get all creepy in Booth's office, like 'I saw that you were wearing funky sucks so I knitted you funky socks and you are JUST LIKE ME, let me stand way too close'. And Booth is all 'um, unprofessional?' and Pam goes 'hahaha you're so funny, wait til I tell my mom you said that!!' And then she is all 'are you dating Bones?' and Booth denies it, she sees a picture of his son and gets all creepily 'ARE YOU MARRIED?' and he denies *that*, even though he should totally have said he was married or gay or a eunich or SOMETHING. Anyway, Pam leaves.

Cut to the last scene of the show, where Bones is up there singing Girls Just Want To Have Fun at open mike night, and Booth is bopping along like a total dork (which is my favorite look on Booth), and of course Pam enters (how did she know they were there? Who knows, presumably her scary stalker powers), and stares at Booth bopping along with Bones, and whispers - seriously - 'don't look at her; look at me'. And then she proceeds to pull out a gun and try to shoot Bones, and Booth of course stands up to take the bullet for her, and Pam starts freaking out, and then Bones PULLS OUT HER OWN GUN AND SHOOTS PAM IN THE THROAT. Seriously! I was like, woah, I know Bones likes guns, but a) didn't Booth take her permit away after the last time she shot someone?b and b) she packs heat to *open mike night*? Anyway, of course then there's all the 'BOOTH BE OK!' stuff from Bones as Booth loses consciousness, but of course the most important thing is that this episode was half-singing, and culminated with Bones *shooting a woman in the throat*! WTF!