On Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 12:39:14 PM UTC-7, Rob Jensen wrote:

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:53:23 -0500, "Mac Breck"
<macthe...@yahoo.com> wrote:

IS the Gormogon case actually closed? The Gormogon apprentice, or the
at least, sole Gormogon apprentice *couldn't have been* Zack. The guy
who killed the lobbyist was NOT Zack. Cam suspected Dr. Sweets, and >doesn't, now, (apparently) as of "The Finger in the Nest," but I can't >shake the feeling that it IS Dr. Sweets, and that he's the Gormogon >apprentice that has or will become the next active, current Gormogon.

Any thoughts?

The Gormogon case is currently closed as far as I can tell because,
well, Zack's been convicted of it and sentenced to a loony bin.
However, Zack is enough of a savant that even given the times where
his logic fails him (uh, Gormagon), it seems to me that if he
suspected Sweets of being The Apprentice he probably *wouldn't* have
told Sweets his suspicions *or* to keep it quiet from Brennan and
Booth. Given how well that Sweets does fit the profile (height,
social deficiencies, etc.), letting the killer know that you're onto
him would make Zack too good a target for Sweets -- if Sweets were the killer. And Sweets would be book-smarts enough to clean up his trail
in one way or another if he were the Apprentice and if he had killed
Zack.
While I'm keeping an open mind about Sweets being a possibility (I
can't totally rule him out), it seems to me that there would be too
many conditions regarding a war of the minds between a Killer!Sweets
and Zack for Sweets to be the Apprentice. I still think that Sweets
is most likely a red herring.
Now, given that it only makes sense for the Apprentice to be an
insider at the Jeffersonian, it's entirely possible and plausible (and
I almost want to say probable) that the Apprentice is literally one of
the rotating new Apprentices of Brennan. Perhaps Brennan's
fangirl/Sweets's girlfriend, even. Yes, she has many of the same
issues of physical likelihood as Zack does (smaller than the killer,
etc.), but she's clearly obsessed on Brennan and could be an obsessive-compulsive savant that somehow faked all of the details.
Yes, it's likely that if Gormagon's Apprentice really is one of
Brennan's new Assistants (ie: Apprentices), then Sweets's girlfriend
(Daisy?) is likely yet another red herring, but she's the only
Apprentice that I can think of right now besides Michael Badalucco --
and he's clearly *not* the Apprentice.
-- Rob -- adds, "It's too bad that under the circumstances and in
retrospect, Gormagon didn't look anything like Donald Trump."

why

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On Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 7:53:23 AM UTC-7, Mac Breck wrote:

We have the old, toothless Gormogon in the nursing home (the hissing guy
in the wheelchair that looks like Abe Vigoda.), the active, current
Gormogon and the Gormogon apprentice (maybe more than one).
In the Season 3 episode "The Knight on the Grid," at the very end, the lobbyist is killed by someone who looks a lot like *Dr. Sweets* ( *NOT*
Zack Addy).
In "The Pain in the Heart," Zack admits to killing the lobbyist, and to
being the Gormogon apprentice. Also, the active, current Gormogon is
killed by Booth when the FBI raids the active, current Gormogon's home,
on information supplied by Zack to Brenner to Booth.
As of "The Pain in the Heart" (Season 3 finale) the Gormogon case is supposedly closed, and through the first four episodes of Season 4 (on
the Season 3 DVD set as a bonus), nothing is mentioned about the
Gormogon case still being open.
1. Zack did not kill the lobbyist. That killer waiting in the closet
did NOT look like Zack, completely wrong face.
2. The current active Gormogon, killed by Booth, did not kill the
lobbyist, again completely wrong face.
3. The only one who actually looks like the guy who killed the lobbyist,
is Dr. Sweets, the FBI psychologist who is assigned to Brenner and
Booth, and apparently on the team, the killer in their midst.
The questions I have for people who are regular "Bones" watchers, who
have seen all of the Bones episodes *including* the Season 4 episodes
*after* "The Finger in the Nest" is:
IS the Gormogon case actually closed? The Gormogon apprentice, or the
at least, sole Gormogon apprentice *couldn't have been* Zack. The guy
who killed the lobbyist was NOT Zack. Cam suspected Dr. Sweets, and
doesn't, now, (apparently) as of "The Finger in the Nest," but I can't
shake the feeling that it IS Dr. Sweets, and that he's the Gormogon apprentice that has or will become the next active, current Gormogon.
Any thoughts?

--
Mac Breck (KoshN)
-------------------------------
"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
Actually, Galen was wrong. TNT killed 99% of all hope for Crusade in
1999. Then, Warner Brothers and The Sci-Fi Channel came along and
killed the remaining 1% sometime in 2001.

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