A/N: First review - trying to catch this up and hope to have a review for "The Salt in the Wound" written and up before Thursday!
Sid turned the lights back up in The Black Hole as the wooden doors slid in front of the television. "Okay, gang!" he said as he started piling his tray with food and drinks to pass around. "Who wants to go first?"
Everyone in the bar turned and looked at Peyton Perotta. She started to swear, then choked as soap bubbles poured out of her. Of course, they had to start this whole review business with that episode.
"Look," she said. "They keep saying they're partners, right? And if he isn't taken Booth is an amazing man – what available woman wouldn't make a play for him? You have to admit he's quite attractive…"
All the women in the room sighed in agreement. A couple of the men nodded, and Sully rolled his eyes.
"Come on, Peyton," Jared said as he took a swallow of Dr. Pepper (Peyton had introduced him to it on an earlier visit and he liked it a lot), "you heard Seeley talk about her – you should've had a clue!"
"He was on Vicodin!" Peyton said. "And even if he does like her, what about her? She's so clueless it isn't even funny!"
"At least I'm not colorblind," Sully smirked. "Black hair? What was he thinking? Now if I could have another shot at her -"
"You don't think the Sully Haters group hate you enough yet, Sully?" Cam asked. She took a bite of French Silk pie and closed her eyes, moaning. "Sid, Bookwormlady is right – you make an AWESOME pie."
"Okay can we just get back to the episode for a minute?" Michael asked. "I really thought it was fortunate for the team that the intern-of-the-week was Mr. Fisher – what with all his knowledge of things in the fantasy and science fiction realm.
"And did you notice how they sneaked a mention of "Buffy" in there?" Will asked with a touch of admiration. "I mean, that was pretty cool, and all that was missing was a nod to "Angel."
"Yes, it was a treat for geeks in the audience," Tessa said. "And a rather…unique weapon."
"I gotta wonder, given the spoilers that's been coming down, if Booth's throwing his back out and wild reaction to medication is a hint to his future health crisis," Sid mused while he placed a pizza piled high with meat and cheese at the men's table.
"Health crisis?" Jared looked both concerned and hopeful. "Maybe I get to be in another episode?"
"It could happen, Jarhead," Cam said. "I thought this episode was well done overall, except the killer's motive didn't make sense."
"Yeah, I agree," David nodded. "I mean, if he loved her, why not over to give her money instead of killing her?"
Everyone nodded except Sully, who shrugged. "He was nuts. You expect someone who's nuts to make sense?"
Sid shrugged. "It's a matter of opinion, but Bookwormlady would disagree with you, Sully."
"Yeah, what a surprise," Sully muttered as he sampled his order of chili-cheese fries.
"Well, it's not the best episode of the season, but it was okay," Rebecca offered.
"Yeah, that about sums it up," Sid said. He glanced at his watch. "Okay, that's it for now – those of you who wanna go, go!"
Peyton toyed with her pie while Jared and Cam walked out. When Sully left she stood up and pulled out some money. "Here's ten on Sully – 25 seconds and Brennan shoots him."
She figured she could wait that long before leaving. And after doing that episode, she could use winning a bet.
