A man who seems to have some psychic ability gives the FBI a location for several missing person's bodies, but there is more buried than the agents on the case realize. Hollis is sent off with her usual partner to investigate this case, leaving Frank to look at it from a different angle, as suggested by his boss. What Frank discovers though hints that many of the bodies the FBI team have found were killed and placed there by the Millennium Group.
Sound promising? That's what I thought. And while it does hold the attention for 45 minutes, Skulls and Bones is based around what I believe is a fallacy, which spoils it. You see, one of the dead is ex-Millennium Group member Cheryl Andrews, revealed last season to be a traitor. Now, assuming that the start of Season Two was roughly a year before the start of Season Three, Andrews seems to have been murdered before she even got the chance to be a traitor going by dates stated here. I welcome alternative viewpoints.
Ignoring this minor continuity problem, the episode isn't too bad. Terry O'Quinn puts in another great performance playing Darth Vader to Frank's Luke Skywalker, trying to turn Agent Hollis to the dark side and get her to join Millennium. The episode works by insinuation, as Watts never states outright just what has been going on, but says the Group have made the world safer, leaving it up to Hollis to decide if he's telling the truth, as well as the audience. There are also some particularly creepy moments, with skeletal hands coming out of the ground (something that is never explained) and Hollis investigating a very dark spooky house. Intriguing, and worth going into further.
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