A Man on Death Row (1-7)

Originally aired: Tuesday November 29, 2005 on FOX

Writer: Dana Coen
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Show Stars: Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1)), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy)
Guest Stars: Ross McCall (Scott Costello) , Lou Richards (Dr. Barragan) , Matt Ross (Neil Meredith) , Alicia Coppola (Joy Deaver) , Leonard Roberts (D.A. Andrew Levitt) , Patti Yasutake (Federal Judge Lang) , Keith Sellon-Wright (Brian Schilling) , Kate McNeil (Audrey Schilling) , Rachel Miner (Mary Costello) , Josh Hopkins (Michael Stires)
Production Code: 1AKY07

Temperance and Angela are discussing Angela’s date while Temperance is assembling a skeleton. Zack enters and tells Temperance their paper is being published. Jack enters carrying a red box for Temperance that a man who is waiting in the lounge brought for her. She opens it and hurries out of the room to the lounge leaving the team wondering whom the man is.

Temperance and Michael Stires chat and the team come to the lab area to watch. Seeley arrives with an old refrigerator on a dolly. He opens it and Temperance identifies the remains as female. Michael offers that she is 18 to 20 years of age and Temperance declares that she’s been in the refrigerator for approximately one year.

In Temperance’s office, Angela gives her a sketch of the victim. Temperance has already identified the victim from her dental records. The victim is a 19 year old woman named Maggie Shilling. Temperance tells Angela her relationship with Michael is “purely platonic.”

In his office, Seeley goes over the particulars of Maggie’s case. He reveals that she has been missing for 11 months and that her parents received a ransom note but money was not paid. Temperance tells him there is no visual sign of physical trauma. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but she found stress fractures on both wrists and tests are being run on the fluid from the refrigerator.

Temperance and Michael are in bed talking. He asks about the case and they discuss it. She reveals that she keeps seeing the Maggie’s face when she thinks about how Maggie struggled against being bound. Michael comforts her.

In the lab, the team discusses using a refrigerator to dispose of a body as they wait for Temperance to arrive. Angela mentions that she is never late. Temperance enters with Michael in tow. They begin to analyze the findings and Michael questions her conclusions. She becomes defensive.

Zack offers that Maggie had high levels of Hydromorphone in her system and Temperance wants him to determine if it was administered over time or in one does and if it was ingested orally or intravenously. Michael leaves and Temperance assigns tasks to the team.

At the Shilling house, Seeley and Temperance talk to Maggie’s parents. Temperance asks for pictures of Maggie and they discuss her drug problem.

In Dr. Barragan’s office, Temperance and Seeley ask him about the medications Maggie was taking. He lists them and confirms that she was not taking any pain medication. He reveals that his office manager’s employment was terminated for accepting a bribe from Maggie for opiates.

At the Costello’s home, Temperance and Seeley question Mary and Scott Costello about their relationship with Maggie. Mary claims she is innocence and that Maggie stole the samples. She claims Barragan fired her because she was unwilling to sleep with him. She offers that she and Scott took Maggie in because her parents had abandoned her. Seeley discovers that they have a new refrigerator.

A team of agents examines the home and finds that the marks on the Costello’s floor match the refrigerator in which Maggie’s body was found. They find evidence of sadomasochistic sexual practices as well. Seeley finds fur covered handcuffs and Temperance believes that they might have caused the stress fractures on Maggie’s wrists when she struggled free herself from her bonds.

At FBI headquarters, Seeley and Temperance interrogate the Costello’s. Mary claims that Maggie was a willing participant and they did not kill her.

At the lab, Temperance and Michael discuss her findings. She tells him she can prove that Maggie was wearing the fur covered handcuffs and struggling to get free from them when she died. He bets her dinner that she can’t prove it and gives her 10 minutes to show him.

Temperance shows Michael proof that Maggie’s legs were bound and Seeley suggests that it wouldn’t have been the case if the bondage were a result of sex games. Michael is not convinced and the team offers more evidence, but he is still reluctant to agree with their findings.

Angela runs scenarios on the Angelator and proves that the injuries to the bones are consistent with lying in the same position for an extended period of time. Michael concedes.

In the lounge, Angela and Temperance discuss Temperance’s relationship with Michael. Seeley arrives and tells Temperance that Michael is the expert witness for the defense so she should not discuss the case with him anymore.

At dinner, Temperance and Michael discuss the fact that he is the expert witness for the defense and he apologizes for not telling her. He feigns innocence by claiming that he did not know he should have told her. She accepts his apologize and decides he can stay one more night but that he has to move out the next day.

At the lab, Temperance, Seeley, Dr. Goodman, and the team observe as Michael examines the bones and the team’s findings. Michael makes an attempt to obtain information to which he is not privileged but Seeley and Dr. Goodman object. Michael gives Temperance notes he made that criticize her findings and she takes it personally. She begins to express disagreement with his opinions but Dr. Goodman steps in and tells Michael it’s time for him to leave.

In Seeley’s office, he, Temperance, Andrew Levitt, and Joy Deaver discuss the presentation of the case. Joy accuses Temperance of being cold and aloof and tells her how to behave on the stand. Seeley stops the conversation as tempers begin to flare. After Andrew and Joy leave Seeley’s office, Temperance assures him that she can present her findings to the jury without alienating them.

At the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the opening statements are made. Seeley, Jack, and Angela testify. Temperance takes the stand and her testimony alienates the jury. Andrew calls for a recess and the judge grants 30 minutes. Joy leans over to Seeley and tells him that Temperance “can’t connect. Those killers are going to walk.”

Seeley tries to explain to Temperance that she is not capturing the jury’s attention. She gets annoyed with the criticism and storms off and almost runs into Michael. She tries to discuss the situation with him but he stops her.

Michael testifies and charms the jury. He questions Temperance’s character and her ability to draw unbiased conclusions with regard to her findings.

Temperance argues with Joy in the hall. Temperance wants to be put back on the stand to refute Michael’s testimony but Andrew is not certain he wants to allow that.

In Temperance’s office, she and Dr. Goodman discuss the trial. She tells him that the jury likes Michael better than they like her and she wonders if they are stupid. Dr. Goodman tells her that most people are stupid compared to her. He explains why he hired her instead of Michael and she is surprised to learn that Michael applied for her position.

At the courthouse, Michael tries to charm his way out of what he said on the stand. Temperance stands her ground and doesn’t let him manipulate her.

On the stand, Temperance testifies in rebuttal to Michael’s testimony. Her language is so technical that she begins to alienate the jury again. Suddenly, Andrew asks her why she became a forensic anthropologist. The defense attorney objects, but the judge allows the line of questioning since it was introduced by Michael’s testimony. Temperance explains that the case is about Maggie and that Maggie is the only one who matters. A teary eyed Temperance convinces the jury of the pain and suffering that Maggie endured before she died.

As Temperance leaves the courtroom, Michael attempts to apologize but she walks past him. Seeley approaches her and she tells him he had no right to allow Andrew to bring up her personal life. Seeley maintains that it was his case also and he did what he had to do to ensure that the killer’s were convicted.

Temperance sits alone in her office looking at a picture of her and Michael. Angela enters and tells her that the Costello’s were found guilty. Temperance tells Angela she and Michael won’t be seeing each other any more. Angela asks her if she wants to go for a drink and she says she just wants to work. Seeley enters after Angela leaves and tells her they have a case.

Seeley and Temperance examine the charred remains of what Temperance determines to be a male who is 35 to 40 years old. Seeley offers her his coat and she tells him she’d ask for it if she wanted it. He apologizes for what he did and she accepts and admits that she probably would have done the same thing. They continue the examination of the remains that are near the top of scaffolding erected half way up the Washington Monument.

Quotes

add » (Brennan and Deaver talking about the jury with Booth standing by)
Brennan: Well, you’re underestimating their intelligence.
Deaver: You’re overestimating their ability to stay awake. When these S&M perverts walk on this, it’ll be on your head.
(Deaver walks away and Brennan turns to Booth)
Brennan: Can you believe that!? (Booth is looking very uncomfortable) What? You agree with her?
Booth: Uh, not entirely.
Brennan: Not entirely. So that means partly. Well, I was perfectly clear. Didn’t you think I was clear?
Booth: (hesitantly) Sometimes and um, sometimes you were…a little hard to follow.
Brennan: What are you talking about? When?
Booth: When you were…talking. (quickly) Listen Bones, I know you care about this case but I think you should let them see that.
Brennan: So, I should perform?
Booth: Just a little bit. Yeah, I mean, did you see how I portrayed myself as a no nonsense, tough guy cop?
Brennan: You are a no nonsense, tough guy cop.
Booth: (snaps his fingers) Exactly! And I think that it wouldn’t hurt if the jury saw who you really are.
Brennan: Well I don’t know who you think that is Booth because this is who I really am…Just this.(She walks away upset) (edit) Booth: Bones, you ok?
Brennan: Why wouldn't I be?
Booth: Cause the nutty professor has graded your paper. What did he give you anyway, huh? I was always happy with a B.
Brennan: I never got a B and I never will. (storms off)
Booth: That's my girl. (edit) Brennan: Seeking sexual gratification through the manipulation of power. Probably the oldest of fetishes, Master-Slave. It's all about dominance.
Booth: This sort of thing only comes up when the bloom goes off the rose, if you know what I mean.
Brennan: I don't know what you mean.
Booth: You know, when the regular stuff, when it gets old you need to spice it up, it's over. If the sex is good you don't need any help.
Brennan: (big smile) That's for sure.
Booth: I'm sorry?
Brennan: I was agreeing.
Booth: Yeah, well, don't, ok? It kinda freaks me out.
Brennan: I was just saying that I myself feel no inclination toward either pain or dominance when it comes to sex.
Booth: Are you sure?
Brennan: Yeah, I'm sure.
Booth: Cause you can be very bossy. (edit) Zack: Do you run through alot of students?
Michael: That was a long time ago, and Tempe was very advanced. More collegue than student.
Zack: Im a pretty advanced student...
Michael: No offense but um, I'm not interested. (walks away)
Zack: No I meant me and her...
Hodgins: (laughing) Ohoho, burn. (edit) Angela:(to Brennan) So I spent the night at Todd's. You remember Todd, right? Base player, big hands... big nimble hands.
Brennan: Angela, I'm trying to work. (edit)

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Trivia

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During the interview with the parents of the dead girl, Brennan asks for photographs of the victim dancing or swimming, and the mother is surprised that Brennan knew her daughter was a dancer. She looks through the album and hands Brennan a number of photos. Yet they are all simply head shots - nothing of what was asked for. (edit) Here are the definitions for the forensic terms for this episode (There were a lot this week):
Avulsion fracture - the detachment of a bone fragment that results from the pulling away of a ligament, tendon, or joint capsule from its point of attachment on a bone.
Endocrinologist - A specially trained doctor who diagnoses diseases that affect the glands.
Gastrocnemius - The big calf muscle at the back of the lower leg.
Hyperparathyroidism - A condition caused by overactive parathyroid glands, which produce too much parathyroid hormone, stimulating increased levels of calcium in the blood stream. The excess calcium released by the bones leads to osteoporosis and osteomalacia (both bone-weakening diseases).
Hydromorphone - a drug used to relieve moderate to severe pain
Ilium – the largest one of the three bones composing either lateral half of the pelvis.
Lunate - The second of three bones forming the proximal row of bones in the wrist.
Metatarsals - the five bones between the toes and the ankle.
Malleoli - the two rounded protuberances on each side of the ankle, the inner formed by a projection of the tibia and the outer by a projection of the fibula.
Parathyroid - any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland.
Periosteal - situated around or produced external to bone. The periosteum is a fibrous sheath that covers bones.
Radii - the main bones of the forearms.
Scaphoid - one of the small bones in the wrist (carpal bones) located on the thumb side.
Sciarids - fungus gnats.
Tuberosity - a large prominence on a bone usually serving for the attachment of muscles or ligaments.
Ulnae - the bones on the little-finger side of the human forearms. (edit) The nameplate on Dr. Barragan’s desk reads Dr. Nicholas Skinner, M.D. (edit)

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"The Girl in the Fridge"

"Women in Refrigerators Syndrome" is a term used to describe a phenomenon in comic books when the hero's girlfriend gets murdered in a horrible, gruesome way. The phrase comes from Green Lantern #54 where the title character comes home to find his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in a refridgerator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators (edit) The jury consultant calls Brennan, Klaatu the robot. A reference to the 1951 movie The Day The Earth Stood Still. However, in that movie, Gort was the robot and Klaatu was the humanoid alien. (edit) Booth: Well, you know, that's the first time I've been able to look at them without imagining Moe knocking their heads together.

A reference to The Three Stooges. They consisted of Moe, Larry, and Curly (and later Shemp). They were known for getting angry and hitting each other.

A Man on Death Row (1-7)

Originally aired: Tuesday November 22, 2005 on FOX

Writer: Noah Hawley
Director: David Jones
Show Stars: T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1)), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth)
Recurring Role: John M. Jackson (Deputy Cullen)
Guest Stars: Dan Gilvezan (Ken Wright) , Marcus Ashley (Troy Pruit) , Rachelle Lafevre (Amy Morton) , Heath Freeman (Howard Epps) , Heavy D (Sid Shapiro) , Sarayu Rao (TV Reporter) , Ivan Davila (Agent #1) , Price Carson (Prison Guard) , Michael Mantell (Larry Carlyle) , Michael Rothhaar (Judge Cohen) , Gabe Cohen (Buck Harmon) , Edward Edwards (David Ross) , Terri Cavanaugh (Mary Wright)
Production Code: 1AKY03

Temperance is applying for a gun permit and Seeley is filling out the paperwork. He denies the application because she’s been charged with a felony and he tells her she can appeal the decision. As they walk back to Seeley’s office, they argue about the necessity of her having a gun. He finds an attorney and old acquaintance, Amy, in his office. She appeals to Seeley to recheck the evidence against Howard Epps who is scheduled for execution the following evening.

Seeley visits Epps in prison and Epps maintains his innocence.

In the lab, Jack and Zack are racing beetles. Angela enters and they invite her to join them, but she declines. She tries to convince Temperance to come with her on a double date, but Temperance refuses. Angela leaves as Seeley arrives. He asks Temperance to look at the evidence from Epps’ case and she agrees to do it. He tells her they have 30 hours and 23 minutes.

Temperance, Jack, and Zack examine the evidence from the case. Temperance finds particles lodged in the bones of the victim’s hand that were incorrectly identified by the Medical Examiner as bone fragments. She sends Zack to take pictures of the crime scene. While she’s explaining what she needs to have photographed, Seeley receives a cell phone call from April Wright’s father. Seeley explains that he believes Epps is guilty but he wants them to continue the investigation. He informs them about the pubic hair that was found on the victim but was excluded from evidence at the trial and leaves.

Zack photographs the crime scene and notices the number of the parking space as he returns to the car. He photographs it and then photographs a sign that displays “Picnic Area 10.”

Angela enters the lab with her date and is upset that she was interrupted. Temperance explains that a man will be executed in 26 hours and they need to have the results of their examination before that. Angela asks Troy to wait for her. Zack calls and informs Jack that the number they found on the body is not a phone number.

Temperance finds a bone shard on April’s clothing and Jack analyzes it in under the microscope. They discover that it contains foreign matter. Zack races into the lab babbling excitedly. He shows them that the number on the piece of paper indicates the time and location that April was to meet someone in the park on the night of her murder. Jack determines that the substance in the bone shard is aggregate gravel. Temperance states that the body needs to be exhumed in order for them to make a definitive determination that April was killed elsewhere.

At the Wright house, Seeley meets with the family and their lawyer, David Ross. They disclose that Ross gave April a job at his law firm working on weekends. Temperance calls Seeley on his cell phone to advise him that they need to exhume the body and inform him of Zack’s findings regarding the number found on the body. The Wright’s are upset when Seeley tells them that new evidence has been found and Ross asks them to make some tea while he speaks with Seeley alone. Seeley presses him about his involvement with April and his whereabouts on the night of the murder after Ross mentions her having sex in a car. Ross requests a lawyer and refuses to answer any questions.

In the car on the way to the judge’s house, Amy asks Temperance if she’s interested in Seeley. Temperance says they only work together and Amy offers that she shouldn’t have passed up the opportunity to be with him when she had the chance.

Cullen enters the interrogation room and is angry that Seeley has detained Ross for questioning. Seeley convinces Cullen to allow him to question Ross.

Amy and Temperance convince the judge to authorize the exhumation of April Wright’s body.

Temperance and Amy watch Epps proclaim his innocence on television and Angela announces that April Wright’s body has arrived. Angela and Temperance leave to examine the body and Amy follows even though Temperance suggested that she wait in the office.

Amy is visibly shaken by the site of April’s body. As Angela begins to examine April, Troy leans over the rail from the lounge above, calls her a freak, and leaves in disgust. Temperance determines that the fragments in the hand are the same aggregate gravel found in the bone shard. Seeley arrives with a pair of Ross’ underwear and asks them to compare the pubic hair found at the crime scene to the hair on the underwear. Temperance finds microscopic particles that were beaten into the skull but were never analyzed. The hairs match but DNA testing is needed to provide the conclusive evidence necessary for a stay of execution to be granted. Amy tries to convince Seeley to change his mind about Epps’ guilt, but he refuses. He admits that he has doubts about the execution and decides they should go speak to the judge.

Epps sits alone on the cot in his cell as the clock counts down from 19:10:00.

At the judge’s house, they try to convince him to order a stay of execution as the prosecutor argues against it. The judge denies the request due to a lack of evidence.

As they drive to the prison to inform Epps of the judge’s decision, Temperance, Seeley, and Amy discuss what more can be done to try to stop the execution. Temperance and Amy debate about the death penalty after Amy declares it unjust. Temperance asks Seeley to drop her off at the Jeffersonian.

Amy and Seeley tell Epps the judge denied the stay. Epps reaches through his cell bars to shake Seeley’s hand as he’s thanking him but Seeley refuses to shake hands.

At the lab, the team analyzes more evidence. They find metal, silt, and pollen in the particles that were ground into April’s skull. From the pollen deposits, they determine that the murder occurred in a marsh near a chemical plant, not at the park. Amy receives a cell phone call informing her that Epps has just been taken to the imminent room. Seeley explains that the imminent room is where he will have his last meal and say goodbye to his family.

Seeley interrogates Ross and gets him to admit to having sex with April the night of the murder. Ross claims that April ran from him afterwards and he waited for over two hours for her return before he gave up and left.

Temperance and Seeley meet with Cullen to get permission to use agents, metal detectors, and GPR to try to find the murder weapon. Reluctantly, he grants the request.

As Temperance and Seeley drive to the marsh, she tells the team she will need satellite images of the area when they arrive so they can narrow the search area.

A team of federal agents arrives on the scene and set up their search equipment. Jack and Temperance locate the area that needs to be searched and the agents use metal detectors to find the tire iron. Something shows up on the GPR and Temperance begins to dig. She cajoles Seeley into helping her and he begins digging in a nearby area. Temperance asks Seeley what he’d normally be doing on the weekend if he weren’t working. He tells her and asks her the same question. She holds up a skull she just unearthed without answering his question. His shovel hits another set of remains.

Temperance determines that both sets of remains are females who are approximately 17 years of age and have been dead for at least 5 years. Seeley asks her if they could have been dead for 7 years and she says they could. He deduces that Epps murdered all three women and that he played them so he could get a stay of execution. Seeley calls Amy to tell her that they got her stay but she won’t like what goes along with it.

Temperance, Seeley, and Amy visit Epps in prison. Initially, he maintains his innocence and thanks them for finding the evidence to grant him a stay of execution. Amy gets upset as it becomes evident that he is guilty of all three murders and leaves the room. Epps reaches for Temperance’s hand but she grabs his arm and slams it into the edge of the table hard enough to break it. Epps sits holding his arm and whimpering as Temperance and Seeley leave.

Temperance and Seeley talk with Sid as they have drink at Shapiro’s. She tells Seeley that it’s their job to question things and find the truth and they shouldn’t feel badly about it. Sid brings them food and makes a toast to simple pleasures. Sid walks away and leaves them sitting at the bar to eat their meal.

Quotes

add » Brennan: Let’s pretend we are objective scientists and not indulge in conjecture. (edit) /Booth and Brennan at Wuang Fu's)
Booth: You know, I’m sorry for wrecking your weekend for nothing.
Brennan: No, not for nothing.
Booth: Ah, you know what I mean. You know all that running around it didn’t change anything. Epps was guilty. He was always guilty.
Brennan: There was doubt. We had an obligation to respect that doubt. We all share in the death of every human being.
Booth:Very poetic.
Brennan: No, very literal. We all share DNA. (very earnestly) When I look at a bone it’s not some artifact that I can separate from myself. It’s a part of a person who got here the same way I did. It should never be easy to take someone’s life. I don’t care who it is. (Booth stares at her intently for a long while) What? (he continues to stare and a smile begins to form on his lips) What?
Booth: You know you’ve been practicing your Nobel prize speech just a little too much. (edit) (Booth and Brennan are in a conference room in the FBI building, sitting across from each other. Booth is filling out a form)
Booth: Name?
Brennan: You know my name.
Booth: Bones, you are making an official request to the FBI to be allowed to carry a concealed weapon. I have to follow protocol.
Brennan:It’s ridiculous.
Booth: Fine. Then we’re done here. Do you want to get some coffee?
Brennan: My name is Dr. Temperance Brennan.
Booth: Reason for wanting a gun?
Brennan: To shoot people.
Booth: Not a good response.
Brennan: It’s the truth.
Booth: You know, I’m writing self defense in the performance of my duties pursuing suspected felons as contracted out to the FBI.
Brennan: So I can shoot them.
Booth: (gives her a look but continues undeterred) Have you ever been charged with a felony?
Brennan: Charged or convicted?
Booth: Charged.
Brennan: You know I have.
Booth: I have to ask the questions.
Brennan: Bureaucratic nonsense. (edit) (Booth and Brennan are digging in the marsh for evidence)
Brennan: What would you usually be doing?
Booth: What?
Brennan: If it were a normal weekend.
Booth: You wanna discuss this now?
Brennan: Compared to you with your multiple sex partners.
Booth: You know, that's none of your business, ok? I'm not having sex with Amy and I've never, ever cheated on any woman that I've ever been with. Never! (edit) Amy: So, you seeing each other?
Brennan: Who?
Amy: You and Booth.
Brennan: No. No, we're working together.
Amy: Cause, I'm picking up a bit of a sex vibe.
Brennan: No, that's tension. (a little frustrated) He has a girlfriend.
Amy: Tall, blonde, beautiful?
Brennan: (nods) Lawyer.
Amy: Figures. Should’ve jumped him when I had the chance.
Brennan: You’re really interested in Booth?
Amy: You aren’t?
Brennan: No.
Amy: Well then why are you helping him?
Brennan: Because he asked me, he said please. (edit)

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Trivia

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The number, thought to be a telephone number, 240-251-0221 is said to belong to an old woman living in a nursing home. The 251 exchange in the 240 area code is located in Mount Airy, Maryland. Mount Airy is just west of Baltimore on interstate 70. The number is currently assigned to a land line and, therefore, could belong to a woman living in a nursing home. (edit) Nitpick: When Booth is interviewing David Ross at the FBI you can see that his gun is still in his holster. This is a violation of procedure, a weapon would never be allowed in an interview with a man suspected of killing someone. (edit) Here are some forensic definitions for this episode:
Captitate – the largest of the wrist bones.
Ilium - The big bone on top of the pelvis that we think of as the hip bone.
Radius - the bone of the forearm that extends from the inside of the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist.
Sagittal Suture - extends from the front of the cranium to the back, down the middle of the top of the head. The two parietal bone plates meet at the sagittal suture. Sutures allow the cranial bones to move during the birth process. They act like an expansion joint, allowing the bone to enlarge evenly as the brain grows and the skull expands, resulting in a symmetrically shaped head.
Scaphoid - A wrist bone found on the thumb side of the hand. It is approximately the size and shape of a cashew, and is slow to heal because of the poor circulation to the bone.
Trapezium - A wrist bone that articulates with the scaphoid.
Triquetral – a pyramid-shaped wrist bone. (edit)

Allusions

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While trying to convince Brennan to come out with her and have a good time, Angela says lyrics from the song "Cabaret", from the Kander & Ebb musical of the same name. (edit)

The Man in the Wall (1-6)

Originally aired: Tuesday November 15, 2005 on FOX

Writer: Elizabeth Benjamin
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Show Stars: T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1))
Guest Stars: Kathy Byron (Maggie Magregor) , Robert Gossett (Mr. Taylor) , Erica Grace (Female Dancer #3) , Jason "Slayer" Green (Male Dancer) , Porscha Coleman (Female Dancer #1) , Angela Meryl (Female Dancer #2) , Laz Alonso (George Warren) , John Sterling Carter (Special Agent Furst) , Charles Duckworth (Rulz) , P.J. Marino (FBI Forensic Guy) , Lonnie Lardner (Reporter On TV) , Anne Dudek (Tessa Jankow) , Bokeem Woodbine (Randall Hall) , Morris Chestnut (Agent Oakes)
Production Code: 1AKY06

Angela enters Temperance’s office and tries to hurry her to leave so they can go to a club. Temperance stalls but Angela finally achieves her objective.

Temperance and Angela are having a drink at the bar in The Bassment. Temperance appears to be awkward in the social setting. On the dance floor, Temperance starts discussing the tribal nature of the music and comments that she really likes the music. A woman misinterprets the remarks and is offended by them. Several angry people gather around her as Temperance tries to explain what she means. A woman asks her, “Are you calling me an animal, fool?” Another woman replies, “No fool. She’s using Descartes’ philosophy to say she’s down with the music,” and a fight ensues. Temperance and Angela start to leave the dance floor and a man tries to stop them. Temperance kicks him into a wall and the bricks fall out. A white powder cascades over the crowd and a mummified body is revealed to be behind the wall.

Seeley arrives at The Bassment with Tessa because their dinner date was interrupted when Seeley got the call about the case. Agent Furst explains that a cloud of Crystal Methamphetamine covered the dance floor and that Angela and Temperance inhaled quite a bit of it. Temperance is extremely agitated. She is pacing and trying to keep the officers from touching the crime scene. Seeley is amused by her behavior. He asks Hall who the man in the wall is and Hall says he doesn’t know. Jack and Zack arrive. Tessa is disgusted by the sight of the body and leaves. Seeley tells Hall he needs a list of all club employees and he orders an agent to run the names through the system to check for prior drug convictions. Seeley asks Temperance how long it will take to identify the body and she answers: “Well, I’m not at all tired so I’m sure I can stay up all night and work.” She smiles at the body as she pushes the cobwebs aside and says, “My first modern mummy.”

At the lab, Temperance and Angela are exhausted from working all night and ingesting the drug. Seeley arrives and the team explains to him that the victim died instantly from inhaling a large overdose of Crystal Methamphetamine and was mummified due to the “dry air convection behind the wall” removing the moisture from his body. Jack estimates that the body was in the wall for 6 weeks. Seeley notices that the hands are missing and asks what happened to them.

Temperance and Seeley enter another part of the lab. She has re-hydrated the hands and they discuss the case as she peels the flesh from the bones and puts it on like a glove to get fingerprints. Seeley squirms and looks the other way as he watches the operation. Temperance enters the fingerprints into the computer.

Temperance and Angela ask Seeley if the FBI found a match for the fingerprints and he identifies the victim as Roy Taylor. Angela recognizes the name and tells them that it is DJ Mount, who was a popular DJ at the club.

In her office, Temperance and Seeley discuss the fact that rap artists sometimes kill each other over the music. She leaves to meet the FBI forensics team at the club.

In his office, Seeley meets with Hall. They discuss the case. Hall excuses his bodyguard. As the bodyguard is leaving, he and Seeley make eye contact. Once the bodyguard has left the office, Hall indicates that there was conflict between Mount and Rulz but claims he has no details.

At The Bassment, Temperance and Zack look for evidence behind the wall and find footprints. Temperance tells the agents they need to go inside the wall to look for more evidence.

Roy Taylor’s father visits Seeley at his office. Taylor’s father tells Seeley he knows his son had nothing to do with drugs. Seeley assures the father that he will find out what happened to Roy.

Temperance and Zack examine the scene behind the wall. They find scrape marks and a blood smear on the wall. Temperance finds another piece of evidence and retrieves it.

At the lab, Seeley fills Temperance in on the rivalry between Mount and Rulz as she examines the blood and skin on the piece of jewelry she found behind the wall. Angela enters and asks Seeley if he buys jewelry for Tessa but he declines to comment. Temperance determines that whoever was wearing the jewelry was behind the wall at the same time Taylor was there. Angela comments that it must have hurt to have the stud ripped out of the navel and Temperance states that she thought it was an earring. Jack enters with Taylor’s eyes in a beaker. He states that there were traces of low-density polyethylene residue and methamphetamine crystals in them. Jack surmises that the plastic is from the drug bag. Temperance finds that the bag was pushed against his face with a great deal of force; therefore, his death was not an accident. They discover that the “Love Rulz” is engraved on the navel stud.

Temperance and Seeley visit Rulz at his studio. They find that he and Taylor did not get along and that Taylor was dating, Eve Warren, Rulz’s ex-girlfriend. Rulz tells them he has not seen her and that she has a child for whom her brother, George, is guardian. Temperance notices a scar and he explains that he was shot in the wrist.

In the car, Temperance and Seeley debate over the case and where he should go on his vacation.

At the lab, Zack relays to Temperance that he found evidence that Taylor’s head was forced to the right. He also found a small indentation in the skull, which he has not been able to identify.

Temperance and Seeley visit George Warren and discuss Eve’s whereabouts. George tells them that he hasn’t seen her in 6 weeks and that she gave him cash when she left her daughter Maya with him. They ask for a recent photo and explain that she might have been with Taylor when he was murdered. Seeley offers to buy the cash for double the value and George agrees.

Jack tells Seeley the methamphetamine on the money matches what was found on Taylor’s body. Seeley offers a theory of what happened and asks Jack what he thinks. Jack is reluctant to give his opinion, but Seeley urges him. They brain storm about possible events and motive.

Temperance and Angela deduce that Taylor was following Eve behind the wall based on his neck injury. Seeley arrives and offers his opinion that Taylor was chasing Eve because of the money and the drugs. Angela runs a computer scenario of what happened behind the wall based on the data the team has collected from the evidence. They discover that Taylor turned his head in the opposite direction from Eve and couldn’t turn it back because the passage way had become too narrow. They surmise that Eve could not have killed him and that a person was following him. The third person is the killer and couldn’t get to Eve behind the wall because Taylor’s body blocked the path.

At FBI headquarters, Seeley interrogates Hall’s bodyguard. He finds that the body guard is really Special Agent Oakes and is working under cover trying to bust Hall for drug trafficking. Oakes discloses that Hall’s real name is Terrence Baskin. Oakes tells Seeley that he doesn’t think Taylor is the one who stole the drugs and money from Hall.

Temperance and Seeley visit Hall at The Bassment and question him about hiding the information regarding his true identity. Hall professes his innocence and claims that he is simply a club owner and record producer and Baskin is his past. Temperance wants to know if “the rivalry between Mount and Mr. Rulz was strong enough to lead to murder” and Hall eagerly points out that Rulz recently built a new studio and that the cement for the building was poured the day after Taylor and Eve disappeared. Seeley tells Temperance that he needs to find a way to get a warrant to look for Eve’s body in the cement floor of the studio. She says she will make a phone call.

Temperance introduces Seeley to Tutti the cadaver dog. Seeley is skeptical but goes along with it anyway. Tutti indicates a spot on the floor by lying down and Temperance draws a chalk outline around it. She tells Seeley to start looking in that spot because Tutti has never been wrong.

At the lab, the team confirms that the remains from the cement slab of Rulz’s studio are those of Eve Warren and that she died around the same time as Taylor did. Temperance wants Zack to examine her skull to see if he finds a similar mark on it as the one found on Taylor’s skull.

In the lounge at the Jeffersonian, Angela talks with Seeley and Tessa about their vacation plans and relationship. She makes them nervous when she mentions that this vacation is the next step in their relationship before living together. As Tessa is leaving, Temperance arrives to tell Seeley what they’ve found. The cause of death is the same as Taylor’s. She doesn’t think Rulz killed her because her wrist was broken.

Temperance explains that Eve was smashed into the wall from behind and her wrist was broken when the killer pulled her arm up behind her back and twisted it with his right hand as he pressed the drug bag forcefully to her face with his left hand. The damage to Rulz’s wrist would prevent him from having the strength to do it.

Seeley and Temperance interrogate Rulz at the FBI headquarters. Seeley makes a deal with Rulz to arrest him and have him sent to jail for a month in exchange for information about the murders. Rulz tells them that Taylor was going to switch recording labels and that Hall built the studio for Rulz the day after Taylor and Eve disappeared.

Zack finds a mark on Eve’s skull that is similar to the one he found on Taylor’s skull. Temperance tells Zack to compare the two dimples to see if they are an exact match. Seeley offers a possible scenario and Temperance says they need evidence. Zack says that the dimples are a match but Temperance doesn’t know what made them. Seeley leaves to go put pressure on Hall and Temperance follows him.

Seeley accuses Hall of murder. Hall becomes angry and tells Seeley it is harassment. He pokes Seeley with the handle of his cane and Temperance gives the can a knowing look. Seeley wrestles the cane away from Hall and knocks him to the ground as Oakes pulls a gun on Seeley. After Seeley punches Oakes and takes the gun from him, he gives it to Temperance who points it at Oakes. Seeley starts to break the cane over his knee and Temperance stops him telling him they need it as evidence. He arrests Hall so they can confiscate the cane.

Angela tells Temperance that Tessa changed her mind about going on vacation with Seeley while Jack and Zack make an impression of the cane handle for comparison with the marks on both skulls. The impression matches and proves that Hall is the killer.

Seeley sits alone at the bar in Wong Fu’s having a drink and watching the news about the case on television. Temperance enters and he turns the television off as she comes up to the bar. He tells her that Tessa is not going on vacation with him because something came up at work. They talk and he alludes to the two of them going on vacation together but does not actually ask her to go. She smiles and tells him she will see him next week. He leaves and she reaches for the drink he left behind but pulls her hand away instead.

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Bones and Angela: (Hysterically after Booth and Tessa kiss) Awww!!! (edit) (Brennan is petting Tudy, a cadaver dog)
Brennan: Tudy has travelled the world finding dead bodies.
Booth: Does Tudy always drool like that? (Both Brennan and the dogkeeper give him a stare) What? I'm gonna hurt her, (takes a better look) his feelings?
Dogkeeper: Tudy is the best cadaver dog in the world, Agent Booth.
Brennan: It's true. If you were a dead body, you'd want Tudy looking for you. (edit) Booth: I don't like parrots. No, people should really, really do all the talking. (edit) Angela: Get this. I called Tessa to tell her a couple of places she should check out in Jamaica, she's not going.
Brennan: What happened?
Angela: Well, she said something came up at work but I know the truth.
Brennan: What truth?
Angela: They got freaked out by stage six.
Brennan: Which, what stage six?
Angela: 1. Spend the night. 2. Spend the weekend. 3. Exchange keys. 4. Sexy weekend getaway. 5. Extended vacation, inevitably followed by 6. Move in together.
Brennan: I'm an anthropologist, I know the stages of everything. You just made those up.
Angela: I did not.
Brennan: Yes, you did.
Angela: They got to stage five and they balked.
Brennan: Not Booth. Booth did not balk.
Angela: Sweety, it's always the guy.
Brennan: Booth is not a balker. (edit) Tessa: (to Brennan) Your pupils are the size of saucers. (edit)

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This episode marks the end of Booth's relationship with Tessa. (edit) In this episode Brennan and Angela discover the grave of a man in a wall. In the fifth episode of Angel, also starring David Boreanaz, the body of a young man who was murdered by his mother was also discovered in a wall. (edit) Here are the forensic definitions for this episode:
Facet joint - The facets are the bony knobs that meet between each vertebra of the spinal column. They extend and overlap each other to form a joint between the neighboring vertebra facet joints. The facet joints give the spine its flexibility.
Foramen - A natural opening, usually through bone.
Infraorbital and supraorbital margins – bones that partly form the eye socket, or orbit.
Lateral epicondyle - the piece of bone that can be felt on the outside of the elbow.
Manubrium - the broad, upper part of the sternum or breastbone, a long, flat bone located in the center of the chest.
Pisiform - a small knobbly, pea-shaped wrist bone.
Scaphoid - The scaphoid bone of the wrist is found on the thumb side of the hand. It is approximately the size and shape of a cashew, and is slow to heal because of the poor circulation to the bone.
Trapezium - a carpal bone in the human wrist.
Zygomatic process – the arch of bone on each side of the face, just below the eyes. (edit) Angela and Dr. Brennan get "stoned" as Agent Furst informs Booth, when the wall cracked open, and a cloud of methamphetamine dust covered the dance floor of the club, marking the first non-characteristic behavior of Dr. Brennan, due to this involuntary exposure to drugs. (edit) The black cane with a silver wolf's head handle that was a key piece of evidence in identifying the killer was the same cane used by the sometimes vampire Barnabas Collins in the gothic soap Dark Shadows. (edit)

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Booth: Let's just say your boss inhaled.

A funny allusion to Bill Clinton's famous admission that he had experimented with marijuana whilst in England, but that he had never inhaled. (edit) Brennan: I've done my Googling.

This is an allusion to the popular search engine, Google. (edit) Willard: Willard was a film made in 1971 and remade in 2003, starring Crispin Glover, about a man who controlled an army of rats to seek revenge on those who wronged him. (edit)

A Boy In a Bush (1-5)

Originally aired: Tuesday November 8, 2005 on FOX

Writer: Steve Blackman, Greg Ball
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Show Stars: David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1)), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins)
Guest Stars: Natacha Roi (Margaret Sanders) , Kathleen M. Darcy (Ellie Nelson) , Paul Parducci (Capt. Kyle Henning) , Michelle Anne Johnson (Sara Johnston) , Ryan Churchill (Student #2) , Kirsten Severson (Lab Worker) , Tiffany O'Hara (Student #1) , Paul Butcher (Shawn Cook) , Evan Ellingson (David Cook) , Max Roeg (Skyler Nelson) , John Sanchez (Child Advocate)
Production Code: 1AKY05

Temperance is giving a lecture to an auditorium full of Anthropology students. She asks if they have questions and the students ask her about her book rather than the lecture. Seeley interrupts the lecture to request her assistance with finding remains that were reported to be in a field near a shopping mall. He also needs the team to identify the remains to discern if they are those of Charlie Sanders, a 6 year old boy who was last seen near the mall, or not.

Temperance, Zack, and Seeley search the field for the remains. Zack reluctantly dons a thermal imager suit to assist in the search. They find signs of people having a party in the field as they as they are walking through the field. Zack locates the remains of a child.

At the lab, the team analyzes the remains and determines that it is a child between 6 and 7 years old who was killed via blunt trauma to the chest. Angela is visibly upset and Temperance is concerned about her. Jack declares the time of death to be between 36 and 48 hours and Temperance presumes he was sexually assaulted because his clothes were found a few yards from his body. Angela hands her completed identification sketch to Temperance and Temperance declares that the remains are those of Charlie Sanders.

Seeley questions Charlie’s mother about the day he disappeared and his background. Ellie Nelson, the neighbor, is also present. They discuss her two foster sons and her means of financial support. The boys return home with Skyler Nelson and Margaret insists that they stay home. They are disappointed because they will be bored since their video game is broken. Seeley offers to help them fix the video game.

Dr. Goodman enters the lab with invitations to a banquet. He orders the team to attend despite their protests. Jack is the only one who continues to refuse to go.

Seeley fixes the video game and talks to the boys.

At the lab, Zack is shaken by the fact that the remains are those of a child. Temperance tries to help him by suggesting that he focus on the facts rather than the size of the remains.

As Seeley is leaving the Sanders home, he asks if David’s girlfriend was with him at the park the day Charlie disappeared. David admits to being at the mall and leaving Charlie with Shawn at the park in order to meet her at the mall. Margaret becomes upset. Edward and Skyler Nelson watch the conversation from the street while they are loading cable onto their truck. Seeley realizes that Charlie was taken from the mall and not the park when David admits that Shawn and Charlie met him at the mall.

Angela and Jack discuss the rubber band that Jack is wearing on his wrist. She snaps it for emphasis and tries to convince him to tell her why he is so against attending the banquet. He ignores her questions and focuses on analyzing the jawbone to determine what chemicals are present. She snaps the rubber band a final time before she leaves.

Angela uses a program she designed to pick out the images of the three boys on the mall surveillance tapes. She finds video footage of all three boys. Angela becomes upset when she sees that Charlie is alone at the mall. Seeley realizes that someone is calling to Charlie and he turns to head toward the person who is calling him. They are unable to see the face of Charlie’s abductor because a flag hanging from the mall ceiling obstructs it.

Temperance asks Angela if she is considering leaving the Jeffersonian. They discuss the situation and Temperance asks Angela to speak with her before making any decisions.

Temperance confides in Seeley that she is afraid Angela will quit. He tells her that he is surprised Angela stayed as long as she has because she is more sensitive than they are. Zack analyzes the bones and relays that Charlie had a degenerative disease, which caused his bones to be more brittle and retarded their growth. Seeley states that Margaret never mentioned it and Temperance begins to suspect that Margaret is not Charlie’s biological mother. She asks Zack to run tests for hereditary diseases so they can be certain.

Temperance and Seeley interrogate Margaret at the FBI headquarters. Temperance explains that they know she is not Charlie’s biological mother because of the genetic disorder. Margaret tells them that his mother died of a drug overdose and she took Charlie to give him a good home and keep him safe.

Temperance and Seeley argue over Margaret’s arrest for kidnapping Charlie. She is concerned that David and Shawn Cook will end up back in the system and be separated. She tries to convince Seeley to allow them to go home to Margaret Sanders instead, but he refuses. She storms out of his office.

While viewing the mall tape, Angela asks Zack why Jack is so against going to the banquet. Zack reveals that he lives above Jack’s garage and has never been to the main house. Seeley enters and joins the discussion about Jack. He tells them that Jack is rich and his family makes large donations to the Jeffersonian. Seeley looks at the tape and suggests trying to find the abductor’s reflection in the mall doors as he and Charlie leave the mall.

Jack enters Temperance’s office to tell her that there is Fluoride in Charlie’s mouth and the concentration is too high for toothpaste. He recognizes the expression on her face and realizes she is writing another book. She tells him the publisher gave her a car so she feels she feels obligated to write another one. Seeley enters to tell her that Angela identified the abductor.

Angela shows Temperance and Seeley that Shawn Cook is Charlie’s abductor.

Seeley questions Shawn in the FBI interrogation room as Temperance and Sara Johnston, the juvenile prosecutor, watch from the other side of the two-way mirror. Shawn does not give Seeley the information about where he took Charlie despite being shown a photograph of his reflection in the mall doors. Sara mentions that Seeley is not being aggressive enough and Temperance disagrees.

Angela reveals to Jack that she is aware of whom he is and he snaps at her that he does not “want to be anybody’s boss.” He asks her to respect his feelings and she walks away without saying anything.

Seeley tells Temperance that he has arranged for David and Shawn to stay together. As they discuss the case, he leans on a pencil and breaks it, which leads her to realize that Charlie was not crushed to death as they originally assumed. As they leave the bone examination room, they meet Angela walking down the hall. Temperance tells her they need to run some simulations and hurries off down the hall leaving Angela and Seeley following behind slowly. Jack runs up and stops them to explain that he does not want to go to the banquet because he will be recognized and his secret will be divulged. He asks them to keep his secret so he can continue to live the life he loves as an ordinary guy who analyzes slime and bugs.

Temperance, Angela, and Seeley run scenarios through the Angelator. Angela determines that it would have taken a 190 pound weight on Charlie’s chest to kill him. Seeley realizes that they are looking for an adult male. Temperance convinces him to let her talk to Shawn because she is certain that she can get the name of the killer from him.

Temperance talks to Shawn in the FBI interrogation room as Seeley and the Sara watch from the other side. Temperance describes what it is like to be a foster child in the system and convinces Shawn that she can relate to what he is experiencing. She promises him that she has a friend who can make sure he and David get to live with Margaret if he will tell her the name of the person who hurt Charlie. Seeley tells the Sara that he is going to need her help to keep the promise. Sara starts to object, but Seeley interrupts and tells her that they are going to have to make it happen. A sobbing Shawn gives Temperance a hug and whispers the name into her ear.

Seeley and Temperance get out of the car. Seeley walks over to Edward Nelson and places him in handcuffs as he arrests Nelson for the murder and sexual assault of Charlie Sanders.

Seeley tells Temperance that the fluoride concentration in the insecticide that Nelson used to exterminate termites matches the concentration found on Charlie’s remains. He apologizes to her for having had experience in the foster care system and starts to talk more about it. She stops him and explains that she will discuss it with him at another time because she has to get ready for a party now.

Goodman enters wearing a tuxedo and passes out nametags to everyone as he chastises Jack for not being appropriately dressed for the banquet. Jack informs him he is not going but Goodman insists that he is. Zack asks what they are to discuss with people and Goodman explains that they should discuss their work. Angela is upset and defines their jobs in a negative way. Goodman wonders how she sees her job and she tells him that she draws “death masks.” He disagrees and defines her job as giving the victims back their identities. A teary-eyed Angela hugs him as Temperance enters and asks what happened. Zack tells her.

Seeley arrives and tells Goodman that he needs Jack to analyze something for a case. Temperance wonders if she was supposed to know about this and Angela quickly interjects that Seeley mentioned it to her earlier in the day. Temperance agrees to it and Goodman agrees with her decision. Everyone leaves and Temperance and Seeley are alone. He tells her she looks nice and they talk for a short time. They leave the room in opposite directions

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add » Booth: I’m sorry.
Brennan: For what?
Booth: You have personal experience in the system.
Brennan: (she turns to look at him and speaks after a while) I was a foster child until my grandfather got me out.
Booth: (carefully) Yeah, when you said, um, they take you away from your brother, I kind of had the feeling you weren’t talking about David Cook.
Brennan: Booth, I’ll tell you all about it one day but tonight, I have to get dressed for a party. (edit) (Brennan inside the FBI interrogation room with Sean, while Booth is standing outside on the other side of the mirror, listening)
Brennan: I can make sure that you go back to Margaret.
Sean: How? You work at a museum.
Brennan: (She looks towards the mirror as she speaks) I have a friend at the FBI. If I ask him to, he will make sure that you and David get to live with Margaret again.
Child Advocate: Dr. Brennan, you can’t make promises like that.
Brennan: (firmly) Yes, I can. He will do it. My friend will make it happen.
Booth: Oh man. (to Johnnston) I’m going to need your help to keep the promises she made to that boy.
Sara Johnston: Hey, I…I…I can’t promise -
Booth: (firmly) Mrs. Johnston, my people and your people are going to have to make this happen. (edit) Booth: Bones, I thought you'd like to know. Sean and David are in emergency care. Pulled some strings, to make sure they get to stay together.
Brennan: (without even looking at him) That's good, thanks.
Booth: The best I could do.
Brennan: Yeah, I understand.
Booth: (exasperated) You know, you say you understand, but you don't! Not really. I mean, if you don't like the rule, you ignore it, right? I can't have that. And if you want to do this -
Brennan: Do what?
Booth: Work on cases, with me, outside the lab. If you wanna do that, I need to know that you will respect the law.
Brennan: Tell you what, if I can't respect the law I can at least respect you.
Booth: (baffled) Oh, ahm, huh, yeah, that'll work. (edit) Brennan: I'm afraid Angela might quit.
Booth: I'm amazed she stuck it out this long.
Brennan: Why?
Booth: Because she's human? (Brennan gives him a look) I'm sorry Bones, it's just, you know, Angela didn't get the same trainig the rest of you got on planet Vulcan.
Brennan: I don't know what that means.
Booth: She's more sensitive.
Zach: Who's more sensitive?
Brennan: Angela.
Booth: She likes puppies and kitties and ducklings and, you know, jello shots, and dancing on bars.
Brennan: I know that. She's my best friend. And Angela is not the only person in the world who likes baby animals.
Zach: I never got the big attraction.
Booth: I rest my case. (edit) (Auditorium of the Jeffersonian, Brennan has held a talk and is being questioned by the audience)
Booth: I have a question. Regarding the role of the FBI in your book, who did you base brilliant and insightful Special Agent Andy Lister on?
Goodman: Oh, for God's sake.
Booth:(smirking) Cause, you know, I'm pretty sure it was me.
Brennan: What are you doing here Booth? (edit)

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At the end of the episode when the gang is getting ready to go to the party Temperance is wearing a silver necklace with a flat angel on it instead of one of her usual chunky ones. (edit) Brennan reveals that her grandfather got her out of foster care, but if her parents were in hiding from the FBI, how did her grandfather find her under her new alias? (edit) It is revealed that Hodgins is rich and his family is the largest donor to the Jeffersonian. (edit) It is revealed that Booth has a brother named Jared. (edit) It is revealed that Dr. Brennan was a foster child. (edit)

The Man in the Bear (1-4)

Originally aired: Tuesday November 1, 2005 on FOX

Writer: Laura Wolner
Director: Allan Kroeker
Show Stars: Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1)), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth)
Guest Stars: Chris Schuette (Lab Worker) , K.D. Aubert (Toni) , Alex Carter (Dr. Andrew Rigby) , Marguerite MacIntyre (Dr. Denise Randall) , Steve Reevis (Ranger Sherman Rivers) , Rusty Joiner (Charlie) , Tom Kiesche (Sheriff Chris Scutter)
Production Code: 1AKY04

The local vet, Denise Randall, performs a necropsy on a black bear while the park ranger, Sherman holds a flashlight for her. She is shaken when she finds a human hand among the contents of its stomach.

At the Jeffersonian Institute Medico-Lab, Temperance looks at a picture of the hand and tells Seeley that it looks human. Seeley tells her it was found inside a bear in Washington State. She views more pictures of the bone fragments that were retrieved from the bear’s stomach and determines that the hand was severed from the body before the bear ingested it. Seeley informs her that they are going to Washington State to investigate the case.

As they walk through the Jeffersonian, Temperance complains to Dr. Goodman about Seeley deciding that she has to go to Washington State. Goodman corrects her assumption that Seeley made the decision about her going and tells her that it’s his decision, not Seeley’s. Goodman explains that he’s sending her to give her the opportunity to interact with people outside of the Jeffersonian.

Temperance and Seeley are driving along a mountain road and discussing per diem. She reveals that she has no daily limit as he does and she imagines that it’s because she has “an indispensable skill.” He wants her to take him to dinner but she agrees to buy him breakfast instead.

When they arrive in town, Seeley walks in the opposite direction of the hotel. Temperance wonders what where he is going and he explains that he’s going to ask someone how to find the sheriff. He walks off to continue his search for the sheriff as she heads in the other direction.

Denise explains that she called Dr. Rigby when she found the remains in the bear to verify that they were human. Temperance offers her preliminary analysis of the remains and asks Dr. Rigby if he has performed any recent amputations. He tells her he has and asks why. She tells him that there are saw marks on the remains.

Temperance arrives at the local courier’s building with a box of human remains and tells Charlie she needs to ship them to the Jeffersonian overnight. They engage in idle chat and she asks where she can find the sheriff. Charlie recognizes her name and tells her he’s reading her book.

At the Jeffersonian, Zack analyzes the images Temperance sent from Aurora. He becomes frustrated because he is not able to reach a conclusion without help. Angela offers to help him and tells him that he shouldn’t be hard on himself.

Seeley and Sheriff Cutter discuss the case as they walk through town. Sheriff Cutter tells Seeley that a tourist named Ann Noyse disappeared a couple of weeks ago.

Sheriff Cutter and Seeley discuss crime in Aurora as they return to Cutter’s office. Temperance arrives and Sheriff Cutter asks if he can help her. She pushes past the secretary to enter the room and indicates that she’s with Seeley. Sheriff Cutter comments to Seeley in a low tone of voice: “Suddenly, I wish I was FBI,” at which Seeley chuckles. Seeley introduces Temperance to Sheriff Cutter and the three of them discuss the case. Temperance asks if the bear scat has been checked for more remains and Sheriff Cutter offers to organize that with the Sherman.

At the Jeffersonian, Jack and Zack discuss the case. A beautiful delivery woman arrives with the package of remains addressed to Zack. Jack jumps up to sign for the package and takes the opportunity to flirt with the woman.

Temperance, Seeley, and the Sherman walk through the woods in search of bear scat. Seeley walks ahead of them and finds the scat. Temperance squats and begins to collect samples of it while she sends Seeley to find more.

Temperance brings the box of scat to Charlie to be delivered to the Jeffersonian overnight and they have a brief discussion about her book. Zack calls her cell phone to update her on their findings and ask her to look at something he is unable to categorize. He sends her some images and she determines that the killer is also a cannibal.

Temperance discloses the new findings to Sheriff Cutter and Seeley. In the course of their conversation, Temperance realizes that a cannibal is going to get sick from eating human flesh.

Angela and Zack discuss the teeth marks in the lab at the Jeffersonian. Jack paces as he waits for the delivery woman to bring the bear excrement. A man enters the lab and tells Zack that he is wanted upstairs.

The delivery woman is waiting with the package. She flirts with Zack and tells him: “I could just eat you up,” as she rubs his chin. She leaves and Zack watches her go with his mouth agape.

Temperance asks Dr. Rigby if he’s treated anyone with Prione disease. He tells her that he hasn’t. She becomes suspicious when he mentions the cannibal and he tells her that the entire town knows about it already.

At the Jeffersonian, Jack and Zack examine the excrement while arguing over the situation with the delivery woman. Jack finds a piece of skin in the excrement that has a tattoo on it.

Angela reconstructs the tattoo from the design found on the pieces of skin that were recovered from the excrement. Jack and Zack argue over whom the delivery woman likes more.

Angela tells Temperance via computer satellite phone call that the victim had a Haida Sun tattoo. Temperance disconnects when Angela turns the conversation to social happenings rather than business. Sheriff Cutter identifies the victim as Adman Langer and tells Temperance and Seeley that Adam wanted to be a park ranger and visited Sherman on a regular basis.

Temperance, Seeley, and Sheriff Cutter arrive at Sherman’s home. Sheriff Cutter suggests that he go make them some tea to give Temperance and Seeley time to search the house and Sherman takes the opportunity to leave through the back door. Seeley chases Sherman through the woods as Temperance and Sheriff Cutter search the house. They find a saw and fresh meat in a freezer. Temperance takes an apple core from the trashcan to measure the bite marks. Seeley looses Sherman in the woods when Sheriff Cutter’s flashlight batteries die.

While Temperance and Seeley are in the car, she tells Angela that she sent the meat overnight for analysis. She also tells Angela that Seeley lost Sherman in the woods and he becomes defensive saying it’s not his fault. They argue over it and Angela tells Temperance that she needs to take him for a drink and some fun.

Temperance dances with Charlie while Seeley sits down at the bar. Dr. Rigby cuts in just after Charlie starts discussing the case and he and Temperance dance. As Rigby begins discussing the case, Sheriff Cutter cuts in to dance with her and discuss the case. She continues to protest about discussing the case and Seeley cuts in on Sheriff Cutter. Seeley and Temperance dance while he explains that the men were not interested in discussing the case and that Denise is jealous of the attention the men are giving Temperance.

Jack analyzes a mushroom while he waits for the next delivery.

Temperance, Seeley, and Sheriff Cutter search the woods for Sherman.

An exhausted Jack sits at his desk when Zack arrives with the package. Jack is frustrated at having missed the delivery woman. While he worked through the night, he discovered that the fir trees are infested with beetles.

Temperance, Seeley, and Sheriff Cutter find Sherman sitting on a rock waiting for them. Zack calls Temperance on her cell phone and tells her that the meat is black bear. She informs Seeley and Sheriff Cutter that Sherman is the poacher and that is the reason he ran from them. She also tells them, “The bear dug up the arm in a stand of Western Pine Beetle infested Douglas Fir.”

A handcuffed Sherman leads them to the Douglas Firs as he explains why he poaches the bears. Seeley finds what he thinks is a satanic stone circle. Temperance takes pictures of it and sends them to Angela for identification. Temperance looks around and finds two bodies buried under some pine needles. Sherman recognizes Adam’s body and Seeley surmises that the woman must be Ann Noyse. Temperance discovers that Ann’s heart is missing.

At the Jeffersonian, Dr. Goodman examines the images and deduces that it’s a perverse version of an Indian Medicine Wheel. He discovers that the killer is performing an Indian healing ritual by consuming the human body parts. The killer has consumed the arm for strength and the heart for spirit. He tells Angela that it is likely there will be two more victims.

Temperance and Dr. Rigby perform autopsies on the two bodies. Chris, Seeley, and Sherman talk in the hall outside of the examination lab. Sherman tells them that Denise is having an affair with several of the men in town and Adam was one of them. Sheriff Cutter admits that he is one as well. Zack tells Temperance via cell phone that the bite marks from the apple do not match the bite marks on the remains. She relays the information to the others and Seeley decides to check the bite marks of other townspeople.

Temperance and Seeley attempt to get Denise to make an impression of her teeth in a mold. After a certain amount of drunken philosophizing, she consents.

Zack shows Angela marks he found on Ann Noyse’s sternum that are too regular to have been made by anything other than a machine. He explains that they are exactly 2.4 millimeters apart.

Temperance gets a cell phone call from Angela as she and Seeley leave the bar. Zack sends the magnified images to her computer via satellite and she deduces that a sternum spreader made the marks on Ann Noyse’s sternum. She wonders aloud how she and Dr. Rigby could’ve missed the marks on the sternum and suddenly realizes that he didn’t.

Walking down the hall of the medical examiner’s office, Temperance argues with Seeley about having a gun. Seeley concedes and gives her his spare firearm but cautions her to be careful. They enter the lab, but it’s empty.

They head for the incinerator and find Dr. Rigby trying to dispose of the bodies. Temperance maneuvers her way behind him and knocks him unconscious with a bedpan.

Jack and Zack anxiously await the delivery woman’s arrival as Angela walks up to stand beside them. The woman arrives with the package and Jack indicates that he person who signs for it is her choice for a date. She hands the package to Angela.

Temperance and Seeley are having breakfast in Aurora. Temperance begins discussing cannibalism and Seeley pushes his plate away. He starts to eat again when she tells him she’s going to return to go skiing with Charlie in the winter. She says, “I bet he’s a great skier. His hips and thighs are perfectly developed for strength and maneuverability.” Seeley pushes his plate away. She tries to feed him cornflakes, but he refuses

Quotes

add » Denise: If I were your cannibal, would I have pointed out that there were human bones in the bear after the autopsy?
Brennan: An autopsy on an animal is called a necropsy.
Denise:Yeah, there’s a reason I get all the guys and you don’t. (edit) (Booth and Brennan are in a car, Brennan is talking to Angela on the phone)
Angela: So, did you catch the guy?
Brennan: No, Booth lost him in the woods.
Booth: Whoa, wait a second. I didn’t loose him.
Brennan: Well, you didn’t catch him.
Angela: So, you two have the night free?
Brennan: Yes, we can’t do anything until I get a determination on that meat and Booth has to wait until it’s light for the guy he lost.
Booth: I didn’t lose him, okay? He - Tell her that my flashlight died.
Brennan: She doesn’t care.
Angela: What?
Booth: Give me the phone. (He reaches for her cell but Brennan pushes his hand away)
Brennan: It’s not safe to drive and talk on the cell phone.
Angela: Are you two fighting?
Booth: Professional pride. Tell her! Please tell her that.
Brennan: Booth wants you to know that he lost the guy because his flashlight died.
Booth: And because he’s an Indian and he’s a park ranger and he’s very, very familiar with the territory. Tell her that.
Brennan: (to Angela) Did you hear that?
Angela: Yeah, something about Indian Territory?
Brennan: (to Booth) Yeah, she says she understands. (to Angela) I need to know about that meat as soon as possible.
Angela: Yeah, I’ll tell Zach.
Booth: Give me the phone. (he grabs the phone away from a protesting Brennan) Hold up. (to Angela) Plus, you know what? It wasn’t even my flashlight, okay? It was the Sheriff's flashlight and his batteries, they ran out, okay? (Brennan snatches her phone back)
Brennan: Goodnight Angela. (edit) Brennan: You know, I'm gonna come back up here this winter. Charlie says the skiing is great.
Booth: Oh, it's Charlie.
Brennan: Yeah, the overnight guy.
Booth: (laughs) Yeah, I know who he is.
Brennan: I bet he's a great skier. His hips and thighs are perfectly developed for strength and manoeuvrability.
Booth: (pushes his steak away disgusted) Ok, I'm done.
Brennan: (totally unaware) What? No good?
Booth: (sulking) Puh.
Brennan: (trying to feed him the cornflakes) Want some? (edit) (Booth and Brennan on the dancefloor)
Booth: I thought you might need a break.
Brennan: (looks at his shirt which is not buttoned up to the collar) What happened to your shirt?
Booth: Well, we're in a bar. It's a look.
Brennan: Everybody's pumping me.
Booth: Sorry?
Brennan: For information on the case.
Booth: Bones, they're only pretending to be interested in the case.
Brennan: Why?
Booth: They're hitting on you.
Brennan: Are you sure?
Booth: Yes, I'm sure. You're the hottest thing this town has seen in a long time. (edit) Booth: I tell you what. You can take me out to dinner, hm? Put me on your tab.
Brennan: It doesn't seem ethical.
Booth: You still want that gun now, don't you?
Brennan: We'll start with breakfast. (edit)

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When Booth first shows Brennan the photos of the hand she remarks that it is probably male, based on the size. However, the photos show no marks or indicators of the size of the hand, so it would be impossible for her to make such a conclusion. (edit) Bones and Booth's arrival in Aurora, WA was computer-generated. Their car pulls up to the curb in front of several other cars. The shadow their car casts does not extend to the edge of the curb, while the other cars' shadows extend well on to the sidewalk. (edit) During one of the scenes in the woods, the rock known as Half Dome appears. Half Dome is in Yosemite National Park, approximately 700 miles from the Washington border. (edit) Temperance's book that Charlie is reading is entitled "Bred in the Bone." (edit) Goof: During the scene where Brennan and Booth are dancing in the bar, the sheriff is first shown with his badge over his right pocket. In the next shot of the sheriff, the badge is over the left pocket, and his nametag is over the right pocket. (edit)

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Hodgins asks Angela: If we were a Peruvian soccer team and crashed in the Andes, who would you rather eat? Me or Zach?

Hodgins is talking about an Uruguayan rugby team that actually did crash in the Andes Mountains, in South America. They became so desperately hungry they had to eat thier dead team mates in order to survive. (edit) Dr Rigby says that he is no policeman. However Alex Carter who plays him, did play a policeman in a recurring role in Point Pleasant and as Detective Vartann on C.S.I. (edit) Angela: You're kidding? It's like watching the clash of the horny Titans.

The Clash of the Titans is a very well known movie based on Greek mythology.
It has also been used in Veronica Mars as a play on words in the title of an episode of season One: "Clash of the Tritons." (edit) Sheriff Chris Scutter: We see this kind of thing all the time. Kids come up here, get baked, do their own version of the Blair Witch Project.

A reference to the movie The Blair Witch Project in which several student film makers disappeared in the woods leaving behind footage of strange and creepy events that happened before their disappearance. (edit) Angela: What happens in Aurora stays in Aurora.

A takeoff on the famous Las Vegas tourism slogan "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." (edit)