The Killer in the Concrete (2-18)

Booth and Brennan investigate the case of a partial skeleton found in cement. Booth thinks a member of a crime family - Hugh Kennedy - is to blame, but when he hears word that Hugh was burnt to death in a car things get more complicated. Booth finds out that Hugh is actually alive, but then gets kidnapped by him. Brennan must now find Booth before he is hurt, but this is harder to do than she thinks, and she ends up going to great lengths to get Booth back safely.

Quotes

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Cam: (to Booth) Was she pretty?
Brennan: Icepick is a male.
Cam: I mean the bounty hunter who gave Booth the slip.
Booth: You know, she didn't get away because she was pretty.
Brennan: (smiling and teasing) She was a she?
Booth: No, she was a - Oh, god! (grabs his jaw in pain)
Cam: What's wrong with your mouth?
Brennan: I'm guessing the anterior (holds out her hand to touch his jaw but Booth slaps her hand away) molar on the left side is infected. The leg was surgically amputated.
Cam: Go to a dentist.
Brennan: He's afraid of the dentist. (edit) Veleska Miller: A guy like you must be going crazy in the FBI.
Booth: What kind of guy is that exactly?
Veleska Miller: I'm a bounty hunter, sport, I read people fast or I die. You are not standard government issue. (edit) Booth: As a friend of mine likes to say, don't jump to conclusions until all the evidence is in.
Brennan: If the facts are in then it's not jumping to conclusions, so I never said that.
Booth: I never said that the friend is you. (edit) Zack: (to Cam) I'm with you. I'm with you not ahead of you. (edit) Bones: Why didn't you just, just tell them about Kennedy?
Booth: You know, I needed to give you time to find me. I've been tortured worse. (edit)

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Trivia

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Goof: At the end in the diner, Booth puts the dolphin down on the table before they sing and takes a drink from his cup. When the camera pans out, after they sing, he has the dolphin back in his hand and puts it down again, showing a goof in continuity. (edit) It is revealed that one of the cars that Hodgins drives is a fast Italian car. (edit) The end conversation with Booth and Bones in the diner is much like the conversation in the church at the end of "Aliens in a Spaceship". However, the roles have been reversed. Instead of Booth saving Bones as in that episode, Bones found and saved Booth. This marks a balance in their partnership. (edit)

Allusions

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When Booth was tortured, we could see that he had a wound on his forehead but towards the end of the episode when they were singing the wound was gone. (edit) When Booth said "I've been tortured worse," it could be an allusion to all the torturing that he went through in both Buffy and Angel.

It could also be a reference to the old wounds Bones identified in series one "two bodies in the lab". While a sniper he was tortures and had his feet broken with pipes. (edit) Booth: I had to give you time to find me.

This is an allusion to Booth having the same faith in Bones that she had in him in the episode "Aliens in a Spaceship". During that episode, when Bones and Hodgins were trapped, she knew that Booth would find them.