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

Quotes

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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Trivia

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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)