So I got a question and I answered it with a PM but others might be curious so I should answer it, did the story of the baby in the car come from the recent news? sadly hearing about kids in the car happens all too often and especially in the summer months. Whenever I get into a hot car in the summer I can't help but think how terrible it would be. But yeah a lot of stories tend to come from other news events. The Car in the Lake was from a news story about a car that was found fifty years later with bodies inside. Sometimes I change the facts around from there but it's sometimes I starting point. The Tierney in the Image was a takeoff of The Maltese Falcon & Laura which are fictions. I don't know if the others came from others or not. Sometimes I never know what's in my mind! ;)

If you ever have a question, please ask! ;)

4.

Booth nor Angela are able to find any information on Phillip Kareat. They find the identity on baby Anna's father, Bennett Hoch. Sweets is busy so Brennan & Booth go to question him. They find his remains propped on the couch with cold drink in hand. Brennan takes the bones back to the Jeffersonian while Booth goes back to work, finding Sweets reviewing Kareat's performance one frame at a time. Alarmed & confused but Sweets playing it off as nothing, Booth goes to his office. Sweets arrives there later with the true identity of Phillip Kareat - Allen Barton. Booth doesn't believe it as they head to the Jeffersonian.

Booth handed the print out over to Angela who looked at the image skeptically. She had reviewed images of Kareat over and over as she dug for information on him.

"Why do you think it's him?" Angela asked Sweets.

"Some people just leave an impression on you." Sweets said darkly.

Brennan came in the room along with Cam and informed them that Bennett Hoch did indeed die the same time Isabella Kareat did as well.

"So do we think that Kareat found about them and killed them?" Hodgins asked entering now as well.

"I don't think so." Angela said. "I've dug thru all of Isabella's emails. She was talking to divorce lawyers and some friends about how awful life with Kareat was. She was anxious to divorce him. He totally ignored her for weeks at a time. She thought he had just left her when she had the affair with Bennett and had a baby with him. Kareat hadn't signed the divorce papers and he showed up again after Anna was born, but still it didn't seem like he had a lot of interest in her."

"Unless it was all sort of some plan." Hodgins suggested.

"But it could be someone else, I mean, does it have to be Kareat?" Cam asked.

"He just seems so suspicious." Angela said.

"What is this guy here?" Brennan asked glancing at the paper.

"Sweets thinks it's Kareat, but his name is Allen Barton." Booth explained.

Angela put the image in her computer and placed Kareat's image next to it. She took several measurements. While they were waiting Brennan turned to Sweets.

"How did you know this Allen Barton?" Brennan asked though most of them still watched Angela's digital handiwork.

"High school." Sweets answered flatly.

"But he's quite a bit older than you." Hodgins said not following along.

"I was a bit younger than my classmates." Sweets explained and they recalled that Sweets was a boy genius, a fact he did not often point out to them.

"So how did you know him?" Brennan asked pressing ahead, ignoring the signs that Sweets didn't want to go into details, but a fact he knew he was going to have to the moment he agreed to go along with Booth.

Sweets cleared his throat. "I didn't really like high school." Sweets said hoping that described the situation enough.

"Because you were younger and smarter you didn't fit in." Brennan said. "I understand this."

Sweets nodded. He imaged even as a bookworm Brennan was still pretty and probably not bullied as much.

"Being into death metal didn't help fit in any. Anyway, I had forgotten about him." Sweets said. "Surprising what you can forget when you really want to." Booth looked over to him as he said it.

"Well there is a match." Angela said as Brennan looked over her work to concur.

"There is significant remodeling done along the nose and chin." She said looking at the images. "But I would feel comfortable to agree that it is."

"Which goes to support this." Angela said pulling up more information. "The information on Allen Barton disappears about the time that Phillips Kareat appears."

"It wouldn't be uncommon for a person to develop a new persona for a stage presence." Hodgins suggested.

"Or run from a past." Booth also suggested thinking of the murderous possibilities in Kareat/Barton's past.

"Booth could be right, he did a pretty good job covering up who he was. People with a stage presence don't work quite that hard." Angela added.

"So, if this guy knew Sweets, who naturally didn't recognize him because he looks different, Kareat had to have recognized Sweets." Hodgins suggested.

"And he didn't say anything?" Cam asked.

Booth shook his head.

"And the body appears at the FBI building." Hodgins said further thinking aloud. "Which seems pretty intently placed."

"Wait, you think he is deliberately targeting Sweets?" Cam asked.

"What went on between you two?" Angela asked questioning that level of retaliation.

Sweets was suddenly interested in the floor.

"There was a full scholarship to college." Sweets explained. "I got it."

"And Kareat didn't." Hodgins said nodding.

"My parents were great people, but they didn't expect to need a college fund while I was still young." Sweets explained.

"And Kareat didn't take it well." Cam deduced.

"I think he figured that I would have lots of opportunities being younger, he deserved it more." Sweets explained. He paused and everyone knew there was more. "He was pretty mad when he found out."

While Sweets had put Kareat out of his mind he had put what happened that day out of his mind as well. Booth didn't know the particulars but he felt hot under the collar just thinking about them.

Hodgins laughed. "What did he give you a swirly or something?"

Apparently everyone but Hodgins caught onto the fact that this was a difficult topic for Sweets as they all stared him down.

"He shoved me into my locker." Sweets said, his eyes stared straight down at the floor as he recalled it. "I remember his face, that face, smiling at me. Asking me if I was smart enough to get myself out." Sweets paused to clear his throat. He knew he had to tell the whole story now. "I had a panic attack." He explained. "I never did like being locked in small spaces."

Once he said it everyone got why he had relented from telling them any faster. They knew some from being a child, then from Booth and now there was a time in between. Poor Sweets came to their mind though they knew he would not want their pity so they said nothing. Still, it wasn't fair and they couldn't help but admire the fact he had overcome instances like these to become the optimistic and caring person he was today. A twinge of guilt washed over each one for always giving him such a hard time, never thinking to scratch the surface to see what scars were underneath.

"Someone got you out though, like right away?" Hodgins asked in attempt to back pedal.

"Oh I screamed for help at first, but they laughed, he and his friends. Then I stopped." Sweets shifted his weight on his feet and rubbed his head. He was feeling uncomfortable but not for just retelling the story but being reminded of the story. He reminded himself he wasn't in that small space. "I had a panic attack." He explained. Cam felt alarmed to know it got that bad. She knew what that entailed and imagined Sweets stopped screaming because he had passed out from lack of oxygen.

"You almost died." Brennan guessed the same as Cam had and Sweets nodded.

"And so they expelled Barton, now Kareat." Sweets explained.

"Which probably kept him out of colleges." Angela guessed.

"I graduated and went onto college, forgot about him." Sweets explained, almost surprised at himself he was so successful at putting the horrid memory away for so long.

"But I'm guessing that Kareat didn't forget." Booth said.

"So ten years later he kills his wife, her love and puts their baby in a hot stolen car?" Angela asked. "Why?"

"Good question." Cam said. "We'd better work on figuring that out.