Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The Skull in the Desert (1-17)

Originally aired: Wednesday March 29, 2006 on FOX
Writer: Jeff Rake
Director: Donna Deitch
Show Stars: Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1)), David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan)
Guest Stars: Brent Briscoe (Larry Stansfield) , Mercedes Colón (Professor Inez) , Clayton Rohner (Wayne Kellogg) , Kalani Queypo (Alex Joseph) , James Parks (Sheriff Dawes)
Production Code: 1AKY17
Zack and Brennan examine a rib cage on the forensic platform while Hodgins distracts himself with pictures of Angela’s desert vacation. He stops on one photo of Angela relaxing in the arms of a man on a sun-kissed ridge. Brennan explains that Angela has a “boyfriend” for three weeks every year. His name is KIRK PERSINGER. Zack clicks on a videolink and Angela appears in her resort room. She asks to speak with Brennan in private.

Brennan retreats to her office where Angela reveals information that a human skull in a box arrived on the local Sheriff’s porch. Her boyfriend, Kirk, went in to the desert five days prior on a photo shoot and hasn’t come back. Nobody can find him, or his guide.

Against Goodman’s wishes, Brennan packs her bags and heads to the desert on “vacation.”

Angela and Brennan ride in Angela’s jeep. Angela feigns reassurance that the skull isn’t Kirk’s, asking Brennan to look at it for verification. Kirk was with a good guide, a friend named DHANI WEBBER, and it isn’t like them to be gone this long.

SHERIFF BEN DAWES is quick with Angela and Brennan. He orders the Navajo police to search the canyons. He doesn’t have any patience for city folk like Brennan. Low on water and gone for more than a week, he’s concerned that time might be running out. Reluctantly, Sheriff Dawes offers the skull to Brennan. A cursory examination reveals a, “prominent brow ridge” indicating “a male.” The cranial shape and nasal features paired with a “pattern of maxillary suture fusion” suggests a Caucasian around thirty to thirty-five years of age. The mood changes considerably when Brennan discovers “bevel marks” indicative of “perimortem-contact gunshot.” This man wasn’t caught “unawares” by the desert. He was shot.

In Angela’s Bungalow, Brennan and Angela discuss Kirk. Brennan regards some contact sheets with pictures of Kirk’s guide, Dhani, who also happens to be a beautiful model. She does her best to comfort Angela, which alarms Angela even more, “If you hug me and be all caring, it’s because you think either Kirk is dead or sleeping with Dhani.” Angela reaffirms her connection to Kirk and the special bond they share, tugging the few heart strings Brennan knows.

Brennan calls Booth and asks if he’ll come to the desert to assist in the investigation. The Sheriff can’t accept some book-smart hayseed blowing in to tell him his business. Brennan needs Booth to “get federal on his ass,” a request he gladly accepts.

Booth arrives to rally the troops. He uses his “FBI powers” to force the Sheriff to send the skull to the Jeffersonian for analysis. Brennan and Booth then head to Dhani’s trailer to poke around. Booth runs down the likeliest scenario - boyfriend runs off with an attractive model/guide and crosses a scorned lover. Brennan dismisses the possibility. Regardless of Booth’s “stodgy,” traditionalist beliefs, Angela and Kirk were in love. Their conversation is interrupted by ALEX JOSEPH, a Native American aiming a rifle at them. He is on edge and paranoid. After a brief showdown, Alex enters the trailer to retrieve some potential evidence. It’s a picture of Dhani arm-in-arm with Sheriff Dawes.

Back at the lab, Zack and Hodgins exchange words about proper conduct while Dr. Brennan is away. Hodgins, listening to his iPod, let’s Zack know how insignificant he is without Brennan around. After all, he is merely her assistant.

In the Sheriff’s office, Sheriff Dawes studies the search grid as Booth accuses him of avenging a love triangle. The Sheriff scoffs, claiming Dhani is his half-sister. The team considers the idea of Alex hurting either Dhani or Kirk out of jealous rage. To that, the Sheriff says deliberately, “It’s on my list of nightmares.” Brennan takes a call on her cell from Hodgins. The DNA results prove the skull belongs to Angela’s boyfriend. The hair sample tested “off the charts” for peyote. Zack discovered a full-grown male coyote with a malformed jaw dined on Kirk’s remains. Brennan orders the team to have Goodman locate a naturalist. Booth lays it out: a simple missing person’s case has now become a drug-related execution.

Driving to deliver Angela the bad news, Brennan listens to Booth puff his chest. He’s ready to take over the case on a Federal level, but Brennan thinks that will only shut them out. “Desert Dwellers are very insular,” she defends. It’s best that they work within the system. Now in agreement, they decide to find out who supplied Kirk with his peyote.

Booth grills Angela with the difficult questions about her boyfriend. Angela protects his reputation, “the peyote wasn’t recreational – Kirk took part in some Native Indian rites.” Booth and Brennan learn Kirk’s peyote supplier was a local artist, WAYNE KELLOGG.

Wayne Kellogg proudly boasts about his lucrative overseas art career. He then coolly brags about his participation in numerous peyote rituals. Booth sets him straight, “Peyote is only legal if you’re a member of the Native American Church. Which means you and Kirk bought it illegally.” Wayne refuses to give up his source. Brennan notices his HUMVEE outside. It’s the same HUMVEE from Dhani’s trailer, the day Alex stared them down with his rifle. They put two and two together, and assume Alex Joseph is connected to the peyote trade.

Booth and Brennan return to Dhani’s trailer to question Alex. They find his body sprawled on the ground, bloody and unconscious.

Booth tries to push the Sheriff’s buttons. He throws a number of situations his way, all of them tying Sheriff to the crime. Sheriff Dawes denies that Dhani could’ve been the trigger person. He also refutes a rape vendetta fantasy Booth conjures. Sheriff Dawes first priority is finding Dhani, nothing else.

Brennan and Booth are patched in to PROFESSOR INEZ and Goodman via Angela’s laptop. The professor coordinates research on tracking coyotes. She locates the coyote with the malformed jaw Zack connected to Kirk’s skull. Based on the packs feeding patterns, she prints out coordinates that should lead the team to the remainder of Kirk’s skeleton.

Angela opens up to Brennan about Kirk, “He’s the man I compare all other men to.” Brennan appreciates her warmth and candor. Angela then offers to help search for Kirk’s remains.

In the middle of the desert, Brennan, Booth, Angela, Sheriff Dawes, and a line of Navajos search for Kirk’s bones. Angela and Brennan reflect upon the spirituality of the desert. “If you stand still enough, the desert will actually speak to you,” Angela wishes vacantly. Sheriff Dawes informs Booth that Alex woke up from his beating. The men who beat him were Navajos protecting their peyote ritual. When one of their own breaks rites, as Alex did by selling the peyote to “white guys,” justice is swift. Booth worries the same men could’ve held a kangaroo court for Kirk. This is a notion the Sheriff dismisses. The “whites” are his responsibility.

The searchers find Kirk’s scattered bones along with his camera. Angela carefully cradles the camera. She can’t afford to have the film recklessly exposed. If the desert has any omens, they might show themselves on the film in the form of Kirk’s murderers.

Angela and Brennan negotiate with Sheriff Dawes to keep him from sending the camera to the State Police Crime Lab. Even if the Sheriff believes Angela is better at developing the film than the state lab, it doesn’t absolve her from being a potential suspect. Booth gets a tip that Kellogg only sold one hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of art overseas, a meager number for someone who claimed to have a “beach house in Los Angeles.” They decide to follow up on the lead. Angela takes advantage of her moment alone with the Sheriff. He wasn’t aware that the relationship tilted in favor of Angela. Kirk wanted to marry her, but she couldn’t commit. She was friends with Dhani. Her guilt will only subside if she can put her skills to use. Sheriff Dawes relents.

Booth presses Kellogg about his success as an artist. He also pushes him on his vehicle capable of traveling great distances in the desert. However, it isn’t enough to detain him. Brennan comes across some quarter inch steel engraving plates with designs unlike Kellogg’s style. He contends they were commissioned from a private client. Angela calls Brennan’s cell. She was able to develop the film, but Sheriff Dawes ran off with the negatives the moment she showed him the pictures.

Booth confronts Sheriff Dawes in his office. The Sheriff took the photos to Joseph to help pinpoint an outcropping. The formation doesn’t match the location where Kirk’s body was found. Booth guesses he was killed and deposited in the area where they found his bones. The Sheriff suggests they travel to the site to check for clues.

Back at the lab, Hodgins and Zack have a battle of egos. Zack refuses to release the bones to Hodgins until he determines how the body expired. Hodgins needs to isolate the “particulates” to narrow down where the bones may have originated, a task more important to the case. Dr. Goodman settles the dispute by placing control with Hodgins.

Sheriff Dawes escorts Team Bones in his 4x4. They stop at the rock outcropping. Angela, Brennan, and Booth decide to locate the exact spot where the picture originated while the Sheriff takes a drive to see if he can find his sister. The moment the truck leaves their sight, Booth makes a startling realization: They are out of water, without cell phones. The Sheriff left them to die.

The sun bakes the team as they crest a small hill. They see a Jeep. It’s Kirk’s. The alternator is smashed, and all the wiring is pulled out. Blood on a rock and striated patterns in the sand tell a gruesome story for Kirk’s demise. The vehicle tracks leading away from the body appear much wider than the Sheriffs. They also stop at what appears to be a make-shift air strip. Booth was right - drugs. “ Mexico is about eighty miles that way,” Booth figures. Just as they are about to give up hope on their own survival, Sheriff Dawes appears with Angela in the passenger seat. The group determines Alex Joseph to be the prime suspect. He rolled up on Kirk and Dhani together, alone. The Sheriff calls the station and requests a deputy to “slap some cuffs on Alex Joseph.” However, Alex has disappeared. Sheriff Dawes decides to collect Wayne Kellogg’s Humvee instead.

At the Sheriff’s office, Brennan and Booth stand by Kellogg’s Humvee as Dawes and his deputies conduct a Luminol test inside the vehicle. “Any blood stains should flare bluish green when the luminal hits them,” Brennan reminds the investigators. The luminal flares on the shape of a body. The body could’ve been strapped to the hood, where it was transported two hundred miles before being dumped to the coyotes.

Brennan calls Zack and asks if Kirk’s bones show more damage than “can be explained by animal activity.” Zack eagerly offers, “The pubic rami are fractured and the left hemi-pelvis is severely displaced.” These are injuries congruent with a fall. Or, as Brennan hypothesizes, the murderer “Loaded his body on the airplane, then tossed it.” Brennan is miffed at the length of time it took Zack to get her the information, a screw-up at the hands of Hodgins. Regardless, Zack takes the bullet.

Wrapping up Kirk’s case doesn’t get Sheriff Dawes any closer to his sister. She could either be “kidnapped by drug dealers” or “dying somewhere out in the desert.” Dr. Goodman calls Brennan. The engraver plates she noticed in Kellogg’s home fit the dies for the Venezuelan 500 Bolivar bill. These are counterfeiters’ dies.

Kellogg and his lawyer, LARRY STANSFIELD, play a game of cat and mouse with Booth and Sheriff Dawes. Kellogg smugly admits to the counterfeiting, but vehemently denies any involvement in Kirk’s death. He arranged to meet with the counterfeiters at the airstrip in the desert. They noticed two people spying on them. The counterfeiters commandeered his vehicle and drove up the hill. A single shot was fired. The vehicle returned, and the men departed. Kellogg can arrange to have the FBI present at the next exchange, but only if Booth drops the murder charges against him. The Sheriff explodes on Kellogg. He wants to find his sister. Booth advises the Sheriff to ignore the deal. A trained Army Ranger, Booth offers to track Dhani himself.

At the Jeffersonian, Dr. Goodman levels with Zack. “You can’t assist Dr. Brennan forever,” he says delicately. Goodman implies that Zack is too comfortable in the lab. He needs to advance his studies. Being around Dr. Brennan is a distraction he can no longer afford.

Angela, Sheriff Dawes, Booth and Brennan spread out to search the arid landscape. For a moment, Angela stops, shuts her eyes, and is completely still. A vision of Dhani materializes. The spirit directs her to the near death Dhani collapsed in the shadow of a rock. Skin excoriate by the sun, lips cracked, Dhani is alive.

In her Bungalow, Angela comes to terms with the loss of Kirk. She confides in Brennan her apprehension at ever finding another man like Kirk again. Brennan uses science to settle her fears, “…nothing in the Universe happens just once. Nothing.” Booth enters and breaks the moment. Sheriff Dawes and his deputies caught the counterfeiters. Dhani gave a statement saying it was Kellogg who pulled the trigger on Kirk. If Angela hadn’t pointed the helicopter in the right direction, Dhani wouldn’t be alive to set the record straight. The desert spoke, and Angela listened with her heart.

Quotes

add » Angela: [...] I'm a little afraid that... I'm just afraid that I don't have a generous heart. I'm afraid that I won't have the chance that I had with Kirk ever again.
Brennan: You will.
Angela: How can you be so sure?
Brennan: Because nothing in this universe happens just once, Angela. Nothing. Infinity goes in both directions. There's no unique event, no singular moment.
Angela: (laughs) I don't know what that means. (edit) Brennan: It doesn't make sense that the sheriff brings us to the scene of the crime and leaves us to die. Does it?
Booth: One godforsaken part of the desert is as good as another godforsaken part. We don't even know if Sheriff Dawes actually called Alex Joseph. I mean, he could've done all this himself.
Brennan: Could Dawes do that, Ange?
Angela: Well, I always thought Ben Dawes was a good man. It would take a lot to change my mind.
Brennan: Like beeing left to die in the desert? (edit) (The truck driven by the sheriff goes way)
Booth: Where's he going?
Brennan: He's looking for his sister.
Booth: Either of you two bring any water?
(Brennan and Angela show Booth their bottles of water)
Brennan: Why? Are you worried?
Booth: Yeah.
Angela: About what?
Brennan: Because we're way past where Jesus lost his sandals.
Booth: And I don't hear the truck anymore. (edit) Booth: I will call the FBI office in Albuquerque and take over the investigation.
Brennan: I wouldn't.
Booth: Why?
Brennan: Desert dwellers are very Insular. Mongolians, Bedouins of the Sahara, the Himba of Kanana. Good hosts, but extremely distrustful of outsiders.
Booth: Bones, this is the United States of America, not outer Mongolia. (edit) Brennan: (holding and looking at the skull) Prominent brow ridge indicates the victim is male. (pointing to the plate with a muffin) Do you mind?
Sheriff Dawes: Be my guest.
Angela: She wants the plate, Ben, not the muffin. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: After Booth says they are a minimum of five days from the highway, you can see cars driving in the background. (edit) Here is the definition for the forensic term in this episode:
Luminol - The basic idea of luminol is to reveal minute blood traces with a light-producing chemical reaction between several chemicals and hemoglobin, an oxygen-carrying protein in the blood. In this particular reaction, the reactants (the original molecules) have more energy than the products (the resulting molecules). The molecules get rid of the extra energy in the form of visible light photons. This process, generally known as chemiluminescence, is the same phenomenon that makes fireflies and light sticks glow. Investigators will spray a suspicious area, turn out all the lights and block the windows, and look for a bluish-green light. If there are any blood traces in the area, they will glow. (edit) Watch carefully through Booth's window when he and Brennan are driving through the desert arguing over whether or not he should take over the investigation. When Booth says, "This is the United States of America," a mountain appears out of nowhere in the background. (edit)

Allusions

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Engraver’s plates

Currency printing is a highly specialized craft. The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing prints currency on high-speed, sheet-fed rotary presses which are capable of printing over 8,000 sheets per hour. Printing plates are covered with ink and then the surface of each plate is wiped clean which allows the ink to remain in the design and letter grooves of the plates. Each sheet is then forced, under extremely heavy pressure (estimated at 20 tons), into the finely recessed lines of the printing plate to pick up the ink. The printing impression is three dimensional in effect and requires the combined handiwork of highly skilled artists, steel engravers, and plate printers. The surface of the note feels slightly raised, while the reverse side feels slightly indented. This process is called intaglio printing. Venezuela ’s currency is named for Venezuelan-born Simón Bolívar, who liberated much of South America from Spanish rule in the 19th century and became one of Latin America's greatest heroes. (edit) Peyote

The central and distinctive practice of the Native American Church is the ceremonial use of peyote, a psychoactive or entheogenic cactus (lophophora williamsii) regarded as a sacramental substance that has divine powers. It is often called “medicine,” and it is believed to have powerful healing ability. Peyote use among the Huichol and other tribes goes back thousands of years in Mexico, and was first documented among the Aztecs some 400 years ago. Its history in the United States beyond its native range (restricted to the Rio Grande valley), however, is much more recent. (edit) Booth: Ok, who are you, Dr. Phil?

Referring to the popular talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The Woman in the Tunnel (1-16)

Originally aired: Wednesday March 22, 2006 on FOX
Writer: Greg Ball, Steve Blackman
Director: Joe Napolitano
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)
Guest Stars: Matt Huhn (Cop) , Keith Pillow (Michael Preston) , Brian Gross (Kyle Montrose) , Ryan Alosio (Duke Daillel) , Mary Mara (Helen Bronson) , Fay Wolf (Marni Hunter) , David Denman (Phil Garfield) , Glenn Plummer (Harold)

Brennan and Booth stumble upon a subterranean world of homeless people when they find the remains of a filmmaker in the ventilation shaft of an underground tunnel.

Quotes

add » Helen: Harold is afraid of the world, why do you think he lives underground?
Brennan: Penance.
Booth: (looks at her surprised) What?
Brennan: You catch murderers to pay off your penance, Harold lives underground. (edit) Brennan: Maybe you could try the "Hey, we'e brothers in arms" thing on him.
Booth: Ok, that, what you just said right there Bones, that was cynical. It was glib and cynical.
Brennan: (earnestly) Really?
Booth: Yes. Really. I know what that guy has been through.
Brennan: You killed a pregnant woman who was holding a child?
(Booth looks uncomfortable and doesn't answer for a while)
Booth: Look, if you really wanna know what I've done I'll tell you, but you better be ready for the truth. (Brennan looks at him and then looks away without answering) Good choice, Bones. (edit) Booth: You ever see Treasure of the Sierra Madre? It doesn't matter whether the treasure is mythical or not. People will still kill if they think it exists.
Brennan: It did exist.
Booth: What?
Brennan: In the movie it's gold dust. People didn't think it exists so it blew away. But it did exist.
Booth: But no one got it is the point. All of a sudden you know a movie.
Brennan: Everybody knows that movie. (edit) Angela: Brennan, I understand that this is what you do when things get too close to home, you get all analytical and academic. (edit) Booth: Kyle hit the Duke, in the crypt, with the candle stick.
(Booth and Dr. Goodman burst into laughter)
Dr. Goodman: That's very good! Very good!
Booth: Right?
Brennan: What? What's the joke?
Booth: Clue.
Brennan: What clue?... what clue!?
Booth: Unbelievable Bones!
(Angela walks in)
Angela: What's funny?
Brennan: I have no idea. (edit)

Trivia

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When Booth was watching the video that the victim made, he was wearing Converse shoes. (edit)

Allusions

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LeMat

A Civil War repeating pistol designed by Jean Alexander Francois LeMat, a French gun designer who was also the son-in-law of a Confederate major. To increase the revolver’s military utility, LeMat built a 9 shot, .44 caliber cylinder, giving it three extra shots and more punch than the .36 caliber Colt. The LeMat revolver is most often remembered, however, for the 10th shot. LeMat put a second barrel under the normal .44 caliber barrel, around which the cylinder revolved. This second barrel was a single shot, .65 caliber 18 gauge shotgun - short, with very little range, but a nasty weapon up close, effectively a sawed off shotgun hidden in the middle of the pistol. (edit) Rangers

The 75th Ranger Regiment, also known as the United States Army Rangers, is a Special Operations Force of the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), with headquarters in Fort Benning, Georgia. The Regiment is a flexible, highly trained and rapidly deployable light infantry force with specialized skills that enable it to be employed against a variety of conventional and special operations targets. Their motto is “Rangers lead the way!" (edit) Tenth Special Forces Group

The 10th Special Forces Group was activated June 1952. It is assigned to the U.S. Army's Special Operations Command located at Fort Bragg, N.C. The group trains for and conducts combat, unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, and foreign internal defense missions. (edit) The documentary about underground tunnels and the society found within bears a strong resemblance to Dark Days, a documentary by Marc Singer. (edit) Booth: You know Treasure of the Sierra Madre but you don’t know Charlize Theron.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the name of a 1948 movie starring Humphrey Bogart. (edit)

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Two Bodies in the Lab (1-15)

Originally aired: Wednesday March 15, 2006 on FOX
Writer: Stephen Nathan
Director: Allan Kroeker
Show Stars: David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth), 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)
Guest Stars: Ron Marasco (Lewis Slater) , Adam Lieberman (Agent Sanders) , Coby Ryan McLaughlin (David Simmons) , Adam Baldwin (Agent Jamie Kenton) , Greg Ellis (Kevin Hollings)
Production Code: 1AKY15

Dr. Brennan is chatting on her computer with an unknown person when Goodman interrupts her with a top priority case involving the mafia: a member of the Cugini family who was found in cement shoes. She makes a date with her chat buddy and gets to work. She is introduced to FBI agent Jamie Kenton who worked on the case undercover with the Ramano family for 2 years. Before she can get deep into the case however, Booth snags her away to another case deemed more important. I female body was found tied up and eaten by dogs.

Studying the second body, Brennan discovers that the eyes were gouged out and the throat was slashed, a fact obviously known by Booth first. Booth previously worked on a case involving another female found the same way (minus the dogs) and the case was unsolved because of insufficient evidence. The suspect was named Kevin Hollins. Brennan’s date with David, her Internet buddy, is moved up and she leaves the scene to meet him. While walking to the restaurant, she gets a call from him letting her know she is running last and she just misses several shots that are obviously aimed at her.

Brennan returns to the lab shook up, but she tries to compose herself and continue on with her work. She berates Zack but apologizes for doing so. Booth arrives at the lab, worried about Brennan’s safety and does not want her to work either of the two cases she was presented for fear that someone does not want her to solve them. Brennan disputes that theory stating that the best way to save her is to find out who is behind the murders. She and Booth talk about suspects and Booth wants to include her date, which Brennan dismisses. Booth puts his foot down however and brings her date in.

In the interrogation room, Booth questions get personal as he tries to discredit David. But he fails in his attempt making Brennan like him even more much to his chagrin. At the lab, Angela makes a positive identification of the dead woman: Penny Hamilton, a 19-year old college student. Brennan knows that the information is going to upset Booth who looks downtrodden when he sees the picture. Examining the body from the mob hit, Brennan thinks she might be able to reverse engineer an imprint of the bullet using the indentations left on the bone. And by doing that, Booth can track down the gun used in the killing. Zack reports that the blade used to slice the female victim’s throat and the blade used to gouge out her eyes are two different knives. He was only able to match up the first blade to a regular pocketknife.

Booth takes Brennan with him to the office to meet with Kenton to look over information he got while undercover with the Ramanos. But actually it is a ploy by Booth to scare Brennan off the case so she does not get hurt. She is unfazed and decides to continue with the investigation. Hodgins calls her to report that he found some liver with a parasite attached to it in the dog feces. Whoever starved the dogs lured them with the liver. And Zack found out that the pocketknife used on Penny has a nick in the blade.

Brennan and Booth visit the home of Kevin Hollins hoping to find the knife or the liver. He lets them in willingly and acts cooperative and curious. Brennan finds a knife lying in plain sight but it has no nicks. Hollins has a collection of keys in containers and Booth uses it to find some reason to bring him in. With his attorney present, Booth tries to scare Hollins into confessing, which includes showing him pictures of Penny’s remains. Booth is watching threw the one-way mirror and Kenton approaches her with more information of the Ramanos. She informs him that she is trying to make a sketch of the bullet.

Booth doesn’t have enough evidence to hold Hollins or the keys and consults Goodman’s archeology skills for any insight he can give. Goodman reviews several pictures and points Booth in the direction of two containers of keys to focus on. None of the saw blades that Zack has tried compare to the cuts in the eyes because the cuts are of an irregular pattern. Hodgins approaches Brennan and Zack with the information that a compound found in the concrete used to sink Cugini led him to a company formerly owned by Carlo Ramano.

While trying to dig up information to use again Carlo in the interrogation room, Booth is informed that he has to turn over all the keys back to Hollins. In his ranting about losing a lead, he pushes Brennan to realize that the irregular pattern on the eye sockets could match the groves of a key. She asks him to have the lab send an image of each key to Zack before turning them over to Hollins.

Booth accompanies Brennan to her home where he decides he will stay the night to keep her safe. With no television to watch, Booth raids her CD collection to find something likeable to listen to. Booth finds another side to Brennan as she has a diverse collection and finds a cd for them to dance to.He ends up playing hot blooded by the foreigners A call from David interrupts their dancing session and Booths cuts the tension by going for a soda. While reaching for a cup, he opens the door to the refrigerator that explodes blowing back several feet. Reaching for the cup is the only thing that saves his life.

At the hospital, Brennan examines Booth’s x-rays and gets information about his past from the past scars on his bones show that his feet were whipped with a pipe or hose which Bones knows is a common form of torture in the middle East.She also see signs that Booth at one time in his life spread his ribcage in a way that shows he was trying to protect someone.Booth assigns Kenton to protect her while he recovers from his injuries. At the lab, Angela is almost done making an imprint of the bullet; a process that Kenton is very interested in.Hodgins’ examination of the explosion from Brennan’s apartment shows a chemical isotope that leads straight to Hollins. An FBI raid of his apartment reveals a map and several more keys.Zack calls to tell Brennan that Hollins never picked up the keys and they found the one that removed Penny’s eye but there were no substances on the key to trace.

Hodgins informs Booth of the progress so far when he visits him in the hospital. Booth puts several pieces together and deduces (with Hodgins’ help) that the mob framed Hollins for the explosion in Temperance’s apartment to throw off the investigation. But they only way they could do that is if someone in the lab is working for the mob. Booth needs to leave the hospital to pursue leads.

While driving Brennan to the lab, she informs Kenton that she is ready to find out the bullet that killed the mafia member as she as she gets there. She then kidnaps her at gunpoint and takes her to a warehouse where he plans on killing her and passing it off as Hollins killed her.She manages to fight back some but he gets the upper hand and subdue her.Booth manages to track her building down and the FBI raid the building down searching for signs of her. Booth finds her and shoots Kenton before he can kill her thus rescuing Brennan.They share an embrace as Booth removes her from her hook.Afterwards in the hospital, Brennan is ready to go on her date with David but cancels it to spend time with Booth in his room watching TV.


Quotes

add » (Brennan’s apartment)
Brennan: Romano didn’t give us anything, so I should probably be back at the lab.
Booth: No your squints can handle it. You haven’t slept in over a day, alright? You need to get some rest. I’ll sleep on the couch.
Brennan: You think you’re staying here with me?
Booth: Yeah. Nice place by the way, Bones.
Brennan: No, I’m locked in here, Booth. I’ll be fine.
Booth: Okay look, I want you to stay away from your windows too, okay? A sniper has a clear shot from any of these surrounding buildings.
Brennan: I could have just stayed at the lab. The security is tight there.
Booth: Then you would have worked. You would have gotten tired and you would have been more vulnerable when you did go out. Trust me this is the best, alright? (edit) (Brennan survives an explosive attempt on her life)
Zack: Could have been you.
Brennan: Yeah, I know.
Zack: The only reason he (Booth) survived was that he was reaching for the glass.
Brennan: I know... can we change the subject?
Angela: Let's talk revenge, blood lust. (edit) (Booth's in recovery after Brennan's fridge exploded on him)
Booth: Stick with her.
Kenton: Yeah, if you want me to.
Brennan: Don't you think I should be consulted?
Booth: No! Keep her close. (edit) (Booth checks up on Bones after a failed attempt on her life)
Booth: Kenton heard the Romanos were pissed that they reopened the investigation, when they get pissed, they shoot. (edit) Zack: Remains show evidence of bullet wounds.
Hodgins: Which would explain why he has all those holes in him. (edit)

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On the DVD commentary to this episode, both David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel comment on how many complaints there have been about the credits, because the names on screen don't match the pictures of the people and because you can't read the names of the two leads properly until a second before they disappear. If you believed the credits, Emily Deschanel is TJ Thyne and David Boreanaz Jonathan Adams! (edit) Given that Hodgins identified isotopes from the explosion that appear to point to Hollings as the bomber, it seems strange that the FBI would just go into his apartment in a normal 'bash the door in' way - and that Brennan would start opening drawers and things straight away. Surely the bomb squad should at least have done a cursory search or been involved in some way. (edit) It seems extremely odd that the killer tries to kill Brennan in order for her not complete her examination of the bullet that could lead to him. Even if Brennan were dead, the team would still be working on the bullet, so he'd have to take out half of the Jeffersonian and a few FBI agents to stop them. (edit) In the commentary, David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel switch their names. (Emily says David's name and David says Emily's as if he is her) (edit) Goof: Booth is getting ready to go into an abandoned building. He is wearing casual clothes as he has just been in hospital. He is also wearing a St.Christopher medallion and when the camera cuts to different angles the medellion is shown at different places. First, it is shown tucked in his jacket, then out. (edit)

Allusions

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Brennan: (about Booth) He's a Luddite.

Although now a term used to describe anyone who doesn't like the progress of technology, its origin is from the English uprisings that began in 1811, started by Ned Ludd. The Luddites became a very powerful force against the introduction of new looms and machines that could be used by relatively untrained people, therefore putting their own livelihoods as specialists at risk. Many Luddites destroyed machinery and the movement was extremely powerful at one time. Those found guilty of the destruction were often hanged or transported to Australia. (edit) Booth: You know whatever happened to seeing someone across a crowded room, eyes meeting, that old black magic gets you in its spell?
Two allusions to two different songs. "Some Enchanted Evening" from the musical South Pacific contains the line "...you will see a stranger across a crowded room", and "That Old Black Magic" is the title of a 1942 song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. (edit) In the opening scene of the episode, Brennan is chatting in the online dating chat room with David, her future date. When referring to whether or not the pictures posted on line were real, he says that he “Photoshopped out his third eye.”

Adobe Photoshop is a popular picture editing computer program. (edit) When Angela is questioning Agent Kenton about the reason for no wedding ring on his finger she says:
Angela: Brokeback, baby. Gotta ask.

This is an allusion to the Oscar winning movie Brokeback Mountain directed by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. This epic love story is about two cowboys in 1960s America who fall in love and spend the rest of their lives trying to hide this love affair from their respective wives. (edit) The movie Brennan and Booth were watching at the end of the episode is The Grapes of Wrath.




Wednesday, March 8, 2006

The Man on the Fairway (1-14)

Originally aired: Wednesday March 8, 2006 on FOX
Writer: Steve Blackman
Director: Tony Wharmby
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: Shashawnee Hall (Ian Dyson) , Michael E. Rodgers (Jesse Kane) , Christina Chambers (Karen Anderson) , Marc Raducci (Eddie) , Michael Bowen (Ray Sparks) , Dana Cuomo (Female Tech #1) , Roderick McCarthy (Security Guard)

Brennan and Zack investigate a small jet crash that was carrying some Chinese diplomats and a woman. At the crash site, Brennan finds some bone fragments that do not belong to any of the passengers, but might belong to a man who has been missing for five years. Dr. Goodman orders the team to work solely on the Chinese diplomat case, but Brennan decides to go behind his back to investigate the bone fragments.

Quotes

add » Booth: I say we go visit Miss Anderson and we’ll know pretty fast if she’s a suspect.
Brennan: How?
Booth: How? Subtle psychological indicators, Bones.
Brennan: I looked those up on the internet, body language, sweat, tonal quality, shifty eyes.
Booth: Hey you know what? I don’t go poking around your bones stuff, okay? Just leave the human stuff to me.

(edit) Booth: (about Kane) Wow, pushy.
Brennan: Well, maybe he discovered that being pushy is how you get cops to pay attention.
Booth: What are you hawking at me for?
Brennan: The Chinese, the plane crash, that’s politics. This is murder. Will you help?
Booth: Well, you know, I guess if you’re uh, if you're really asking me, I guess I could uh, you know, fudge it with my boss to make it look like it was attached to the Chinese plane crash thing.
(A tiny smile has crept on Booth's face while talking and Brennan, happy with his answer, smiles at him) (edit) Brennan: You’re back to ignoring Zach?
Booth: Alright look, I know you don’t approve but you know, it works for us. It worked for him so…
Brennan: Yeah, I get it and it’s kind of sweet.
Booth: Hey, you know, your people are my people.
Brennan: What, I have people? (smiles) Hey, I have people. (edit) Brennan: No poking and prodding, do you think Jesse murdered his father?
Booth: You know Bones, all I’m saying is, we get into these things, we look into murders and we can’t let our heart strings get all plucked. Okay? We got to poke at peoples' wounds, we got to make them bleed a little, we got to make them tell us things that they normally wouldn’t want to tell us. Alright? We got to be willing to be hard on them is what I’m trying to say, even when we know that we’re no different than them.
Brennan: You didn’t answer my question.
Booth: Well I have an opinion. You want to know? (she looks at him) If I had to bet, I’d say he didn’t do it.
Brennan: Me, too.
Booth: I’m going off my gut. I mean what…what’s persuading you?
Brennan: The bone fragments at the golf course, they didn’t come from Max Kane.
Booth: That’s great. You knew that when you asked me what I thought. You testing out my instincts, Bones?
Brennan: Poking and prodding. I learned from the best. (She pinches his cheek and Booth laughs) (edit) Booth: Next time, you know, you miss me, pick up the phone, call me. We'll do lunch.
Brennan: I do not miss you.
Booth: Yeah, you miss me. Come on, say it!
Brennan: I do not miss you.
Security Guy: Dr. Brennan, Agent Booth. You have a visitor.
Brennan: No I don't.
Booth: You miss me. (edit)

Trivia

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When Zack and Hodgins do their little woodchipper experiment, they supposedly use a solidly frozen pig, but when the pieces start to fall on people, they make a very unfrozen splattering sound - and there's no way a piece of frozen meat would attach itself to Goodman's lapel and leave a bloodstain. (edit) Brennan's parents' names are Matt and Christine Brennan. It is on her parents' profile. (edit)

Allusions

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Booth: Did you ever hear of the Menendez Brothers?

Booth is worried that Jesse Kane might have killed his father for the money. The allusion is to Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted of the shotgun murders of their mother and father in 1989, in order to inherit their fortune. (edit) When Bones is trying to get Booth into the murder case, he tries to get out of it saying that he (the FBI) doesn't have jurisdiction on a golf course. She asks "who does?" and he replied "I don't know, try the PGA!"

He is talking about the Professional Golfers Association which goes by PGA. This is the association responsible for the professional golf tournaments and all that have to do with it.