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It was almost over. Angela had been working for weeks on Christopher Pelant's code. His use of the library books had been brilliant and Angela had worked on his code with every spare moment she had. Every programmer has a signature. Every program written is unique to the programmer who writes it. No matter how generic the writer tries to be, something of the writer is entered into the program. Pelant had been brilliant and he had high jacked other software when he had written his malignant programs into the library books and yet Angela found him. She had gone over the software he had used to hack the Pentagon and Homeland Security line by line. She had been given a copy of that software by a friend of Booth's and she had studied it until she thought she could see it in her sleep. She had found his unique signature in the programs that had him sentenced to prison and finally she had found his signature in the library books.

Finding his unique fingerprints in the software was the first step Angela needed to prove that Brennan and everyone else were being played like chess pieces in Pelants' sick game of human chess.

The second step was to show how the recordings at the mental institution had been manipulated. If it wasn't for the fact that Pelant was extremely dangerous and extremely insane then Angela would have admired the brilliant job Pelant had done to work his will on everything he touched.

The third step was to prove that the money transfers from Brennan's accounts to Caroline's accounts were all part of Pelant's game of revenge.

Step by step, Angela unraveled Pelants' electronic house of cards. Documenting each step, Angela, with the help of Ethan Sawyer's puzzle he had left painted on his wall, slowly proved that the things that Pelant had pointed towards his victims were merely the actions of the malignant mind that was Pelant.

Repellant Pelant, that's what Angela and Hodgins called him. Bastard is what Booth called him. Terrifying was what Cam called him and public enemy number one is what the FBI called him once all of the evidence was in and Agent Flynn could no longer ignore what everyone had been beating him on the head with for weeks. Agent Perotta was in charge of the case because of Flynn's myopia. He wouldn't make that mistake again.

Brennan was the dupe of Christopher Pelant. The FBI was no longer able to ignore the fact that they had been hounding an innocent woman. The Director of the FBI felt like he and his organization had been made to look foolish. They had broken up a team that had the highest rate of solves in the history of the FBI. They had been forced to treat the world's leading anthropologist as public enemy number one. The FBI had been tricked into treating one of the finest agents they had with suspicion and animosity. The Director was embarrassed and he wanted blood. He wanted Pelants blood and by God he was going to get it.

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Booth was sitting in Cullen's office. He had been invited to the 9 a.m. meeting with Cullen, Hacker, Sweets, Perotta, Flynn, Caroline, Cam, Hodgins and Angela.

Licking his lips, Booth looked at Cullen and asked the bitter million dollar question, "How am I supposed to get Bones to come home now? Whatever message we put out there is going to sound like a trick. She has no reason to trust the FBI and she'll think that any message I could send her might not be from me at all or it's being done under duress. She knows I haven't tried to contact her since she left; so, why trust any message she gets? For all she would know, Pelant is trying to trick her into turning herself in."

Nodding his head, Cullen said, "I know Agent Booth. She's managed to stay out of sight for weeks now. I don't know how she's done it; but, she has. We're going to have to put our heads together to come up with something to get her to come back. I know you want her back right now, Booth; but, we need to take our time and do this right. Whatever we do, we need to do it in such a way that Pelant can't use it to get his hands on Dr. Brennan. That's the last thing we all want."

Nodding his head, Hacker said, "We know that the last thing Pelant wants is for our crack team back together. We need to get Temperance back safely and in such a way that Pelant will not be able to stop it. Once you and Temperance are back working as a unit, Pelant will be looking over his shoulder. The fact that we haven't got a clue where he is doesn't help the situation. Once that ankle monitor came off, we lost track of him."

Laughing harshly, Caroline said, "That ankle monitor never meant a damn thing. He came and went as he damn well pleased and no one could prove it."

Sighing, Cullen said, "That's true; but, while he had the monitor on, he was living at his house. We knew where he was most of the time. Now, we don't know where he is and I don't see a solution to that in the foreseeable future."

Hacker, looking at each person in the room, said, "For now, we need to keep the fact that we know Temperance is innocent a secret. If anything got out into the press, she might go deeper under cover thinking that it was a trick and she'd make it harder for us to find her. We also need to keep Pelant thinking we're as stupid as a box of rocks and the FBI doesn't suspect him in the murder of Ethan Sawyer. We may be able to use that. If not, at least we'll be able to get Temperance home without his interference. I can't say this more clearly. Do not put anything that was said here this morning in any electronic device. Keep it in your head and no where else. Pelant is out there and he has access to computers. We can't trust our firewalls to keep him out. Until Temperance is back with us, be very careful what you put out there. If that means going back to notebooks and pencils then that's what we'll do."

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After work, Booth drove over to his church and sat near the alter. Staring at the crucifixion of Christ, Booth prayed for his Bones and for his daughter.

"They know, Babe, they finally know," Booth thought. "We just need to get you and Christine home now. Then we can go after that bastard, Pelant."

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