Stargazer in a Puddle (2-22)

The decomposed skeleton of a young woman is found in a shopping cart, but due to an aging disease she is reconstructed by Angela as an 80-year-old woman. Booth and Brennan investigate and are led to a former caretaker of the victim, but their lead is shaky and they have trouble finding out who would want to kill such an innocent young woman. Meanwhile, Max Keenan, Brennan's father, reappears with information from her past. Also, Hodgins and Angela walk down the aisle, but everything doesn't go as planned

Quotes

add » Angela: And this time, art made science her bitch. (edit) Angela's Dad: (to Hodgins) You should play it in the key of G Demolished. (edit) Christine Brennan: (From the videotape) Hi, Temperance, it's Mom, I don't know when or if you'll ever see this. I hope to put it in your hands myself, see you again, with my own eyes. This is a hard hard world, your father and I left you and Russ to save your lives. People would have killed you to get us. That's not what this is about. Today is your sixteenth birthday, I'm so sorry not to be there to tell you all the things that a mother should tell her daughter when she turns sixteen. And, I'm sorry not to give you this, it's a heirloom from my side of the family, and starting today it's yours. I don't know how long it will take me to get it to you, but I promise you I will. you're going to hear a lot of things about your parents, especially about your father. He is a good man. It was my insistence to leave you kids, Max would have kept us together, fought until the end, I'm not sure he'll ever forgive me for that. So please, Temperance, I need you to forgive me. And if you can't forgive me, I beg you honey, forgive your father, cause he is a very good man. Remember this, you were cherished in this world, adored. What I did to you may have been wrong, but I did it out of love. I did it out of love. (edit) (Booth punches Max in the face during his "arrest")
Max: Oh, hey, hey, that's good kid, you're throwin'. (Max punches Booth, who groans) What's the matter? Got a glass jaw?
Booth: You know what, you talk too much. (Punches Max)
Max: Right in the face, geez. (Doubled over) Time, time.
Booth: You had enough?
Max: Wait, I'm old.
Booth: There's no time outs during an arrest! (Max gets up and punches Booth. Booth returns with two punches. Max falls to the ground)
Max: Okay, I'm done, I'm done. It's over. I'm finished.
Booth: Let's go. (Takes out the cuffs to arrest Max, who punches him in the groin when he gets close)
Booth: (In pain) Oh, god that really hurts. (Falls to the ground next to Max) (edit) Zack: Booth?
Booth: Yeah?
Zack: Is there any sense in ducking when someone shoots at you.
Booth: Your body ducks whether you want to or not. (Suddenly figures out something is wrong) Why?
Zack: You can read this later, then explain it to everyone. (Hands him a letter from the White House)
Booth: Why me?
Zack: You know more about duty and honor than anyone else I know. (Booth looks touched) (edit)

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In this episode, Bones gets a ring from her father. He tells her it belonged to her grandmother and Bones reveals that she never knew she had grandparents. Her father says that they had to lie about not having any family because they had changed their identities. But in Season 1, the episode "Boy in a Bush" Bones tells Booth that she was a foster child until her grandfather got her out. (edit) This is Brennan's mom's second appearance in the show and they were both season finales. (edit) In one shot at the wedding, as the harp music is playing and Booth is explaining how he arrested Brennan's Dad, you can see the harpist in the background, clearly not playing anymore. (edit) Angela getting married in Fiji was first mentioned in season one's "The Woman in the Car." (edit) When Brennan looks up at the sky through a window in Cynthia Cole's house, she sees a sky full of stars, and even a shooting star. There's no way that many stars would be visible in a large metropolitan area like Washington D.C

Allusions

add » Hodgins: I don't know what that means.

This is an allusion to the line that Dr. Brennan coined on the show when she is oblivious to a pop culture reference.

The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House (2-21)

Glowing bones are found in an old stone house, and Brennan and Booth are called in to investigate. They find that strangely, the bones are not radioactive and lack any other explanation for why they would be glowing. With the victim identified, the team sets off to figure out the murder mystery.

Quotes

add » (Booth and Brennan talk about catching Carlie's murder)
Brennan: We do this all the time, you know, I should be used to it. It shouldn't bother me.
Booth: No, it should. (looks at her for a while) Was she really gonna teach you how to cook?
Brennan: Yeah. I've always understood the basics of cooking, the physics of it, but Carlie said she was going to show me what it was really about. To her, she said, that it was a way of...well, she said loving, but then, she was prone to hyperbole.
Booth: Well, hey, I mean, that's what family dinners are all about, right? Those are some of my, my best memories. (edit) Brennan: You still torturing Hodgins?
Angela: He loves it.
Brennan: Just tell him "No." Put him out of his misery.
Angela (laughs lightly): What if I want to say "Yes"?
Brennan: You, get married?
Angela: Sometimes your brain just shuts off because you're in love. (edit) Cam: (after walking in on Angela and Hodgins making out again) Doesn't marriage destroy sex? Please, Angela, say yes! (edit) (Cam walks in on Hodgins and Angela kissing)
Cam: Oh good lord, you have to stop mounting each other in the office. (edit) Booth: You know, you should let me help.
Bones: No, cleaning up, you can do that. (Brings over a hot plate of the famous Macaroni)
Booth: (Sarcastically) Great- (Shocked and giddy) Wow, hee hee, mac and cheese, wow, Bones, this looks fantastic.
Bones: Yeah, really?
Booth: Yeah, I mean, you-you shouldn't have all this work just for me.
Bones: No, I mean, it wasn't that much.
Booth: (Takes a bite) Mmm, this is unbeliebvable.
Bones: You like it?
Booth: I'd like to be alone with it. (They both chuckle)
Bones: She told me I could go with my instincts, so I put in a little fresh ground nutmeg.
Booth: Well, she taught you well. (Really blown away) Thanks Bones.
Bones: (Brushing it off) Yeah, well, you know, you have to eat right?
Booth: Yeah, gotta eat, always gotta eat. (edit)

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GOOF: Different characters refer to Michaelson's character as either being in the Reserves or the National Guard. These are two different entities within the US Army. (edit) GOOF: When David Boreanaz is walking away from his conversation with T.J. Thyne's character about marriage, he is not looking, and runs into the edge of the partition, and you can see him jolt if you watch closely. (edit)

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Booth: Okay, what are we missing here?
Cam: The Stooges.

This is an allusion to the Three Stooges, a slapstick comedy trio, who made people laugh by essentially slapping each other and inflicting slight physical pain that was over exaggerated. (edit) Bones has a hard time with the victim because she had met her and had arranged to meet her again, saying that she's not used to knowing the victim. This isn't exactly true. In The Man in the Morgue, one of the victims is a coworker, in The Woman in Limbo the victim is her own mother, and in The Bodies in the Book a victim is her publisher. That's three seperate instances where she's known the victim

Spaceman in a Crater (2-20)

A mysterious dead man is found in a crater with his body flattened as if he had fallen from the sky. Brennan and Booth try to find out who the man was while Hodgins comes up with different conspiracy theories involving aliens. Booth and Brennan find out the man was an astronaut who was murdered, and a complicated murder case unfolds.

Quotes

add » Brennan: I bet if you told the agency you're going to identify Colonel Howard to the press they'd be a little more cooperative.
Booth: Yeah. You know, I've been a wonderful influence on you.
Brennan: Actually I learned that move from Cam. (edit) (At restaurant, Jack pushes small velvet box across the table to Angela)
Jack: I believe that if two people care enough for each other, the rest of the world disappears to them. I feel that when I'm with you. (Angela opens the box to reveal a diamond engagement ring) I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life. Angela Montenegro, will you marry me? (edit) Booth: You eat yet?
Bones: I said I’d wait…how did you know that James would tell me?
Booth: Well, man loves his wife. May not be strong but, he has a conscience.
Bones: See, I…I can’t tell that stuff.
Booth: And I can’t tell the difference between coral and bone, so, guess we make a great pair. (Rushing) Hey, speaking of marriage, Hodgins is going to propose to Angela tonight.
Bones: Hmm.
Booth: What?
Bones: I guess right now it looks to me like marriage is having someone who’ll slap your enemies and then toss their dead bodies out of airplanes.
Booth: Try not to mention that to Angela. (edit) Hodgins: (Confused after Angela’s refusal) I don’t know whether I should laugh, cry or punch out the sommelier. (edit) Hodgins: (After Angela has turned down his proposal) But you love me?
Angela: More than you know. (edit)

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At one point Bones refers to "a thousand RPMs". Any scientist would know that RPM is already a plural. (edit) At the very beginning of the episode there are two cows facing the camera. The cow on the right has some short rope tied around both of it's front hoofs which you can see when it picks up it's left hoof to complete it's turn but it cant because of the rope tied to it's other hoof. Presumably they did this to keep the cow facing the correct direction during the shot. (edit) Goof: When Bones says she learned the blackmail trick from Cam, this is wrong. She used the EXACT same trick in the pilot to get Booth to take her in the field when she threatened to tell the press that they found Cleo Eller, and that was long before she knew Cam. (edit)

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Cam (to Zack) Igor!

Igor is the usual name of a stock character who is the assistant to a mad scientist. Originally from the 1939 movie Son of Frankenstein. (edit) Booth: Broadsword?! Where do you people come up with this stuff?

This could be an inside joke, considering the many times David Boreanaz used a broadsword in Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (edit) Zack: Little green men?
Hodgins: Grey. They're grey, not green. Grey.

This is an allusion to The X-Files and the long Moulder's quest to convince everyone that aliens are grey (let alone convince them they exist).

alternatively it could be seen as a allusion to Stargate SG-1 where the "little green men" are grey.... and asgard. (edit) Booth: Broadsword, like King Arthur?

This is an allusion to King Arthur, who is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship both in war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of legends known as the Matter of Britain. He was said to be born in the 5th century. There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed, or whether he is a mythic figure who has been given a historicised setting. (edit) Booth: (sarcastically) Come on, four hits simultaneously with a broadsword? What, was he attacked by the Knights of the Round Table?

This is an allusion to the Knights of the Round Table who were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle The Matter of Britain. The table at which they met was created to have no head or foot, representing the equality of all the members.