Bones discusses religion a lot. When an Egyptian expert was found murdered and placed in a sarcophagus, the Smithsonian crew dissected their thoughts on the afterlife. When an Amish lad was found dead in the city, Bones and Booth weighed the pros and cons of a religious group who eschews technology.

So too last night’s winter finale, “The Devil in the Details,” which used the badly burned body of a man who has devil horns and a tail as a way to explore the ultimate battle between good and evil.

With shades of Supernatural, Booth and Brennan discovered that the man who was cooked to extra-crispy on a church altar was anything but Lucifer. In fact, it was a young schizophrenic who believed that he was the son of Satan and had the horns fused to his skull. Being born a vestigial kind of furthered his feelings of being different.

When B&B dropped by the hospital the man called home, they discovered a young lady who fancied herself an angel and confessed to killing him with a huge staff. Too bad the staff was invisible. “Hard to dust for prints,” Booth commented dryly.

Further digging uncovered drugs meant for the patients being sold on the side, a wayward set of nunchucks, and the victim’s penchant for hiding in places around the hospital and injecting himself between his toes with heroin. Ouch.

Through it all, Brennan challenged Booth on his unwavering Catholic faith, which he finally admitted had been shaken by this latest case – especially when the killer was unmasked.

No, it wasn’t the devil, but the devil was in the details.

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Bones returns April 1, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Global/Fox.


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