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A Boy in a Bush

Episode Number: 5    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Tuesday November 8, 2005    Prod Code: 1AKY05
Booth asks Brennan to help locate and identify the remains of a six-year-old boy, Charlie, who went missing from a local park.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Steve Blackman, Greg Ball
Director: Jesus Salvador Trevino
Star: 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 Star: 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)

Notes

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Featured Music:
"Some of Us" - Starsailor (plays while the suspect is being arrested and again at the very end) (edit)

Quotes

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Angela: Well, I wouldn't bet a date with Colin Farrell on it.
Brennan: I know him. He's funny.
Angela: Funny is Will Ferrell, sweetie. Hot, is Colin Farrell. (edit)
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 training the rest of you got on planet Vulcan.
Brennan: I don't know what that means.
Booth: She's more sensitive.
Zack: Who's more sensitive?
Brennan: Angela.
Booth: She likes puppies and kitties and ducklings and, you know, Jell-O 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.
Zack: I never got the big attraction.
Booth: I rest my case. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: At the beginning of the episode when Booth and Brennan get to Brennan's car, Brennan pushes a button to put the top down, but in the next shot, the top is already down. (edit)
Goof: When Angela is talking to Hodgins about his anger management technique (the rubber band on his wrist), an extra walks up right behind her and should have passed the two of them, but in the next shot, which is over her shoulder, has suddenly disappeared. (edit)
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)

Allusions

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In the beginning of the episode when Brennan is giving her lecture she talks about how J. Edgar Hoover made an alliance with the Jeffersonian and how the face they put together turned out looking like a monster.

On the X-files episode "Shapes" (1x18), J. Edgar Hoover's first
X-file is mentioned, and the same face that Brennan showed in the lecture is shown. (edit)
Booth: Angela didn't get the training the rest of you guys got on the planet Vulcan.

Vulcan was a planet in the Star Trek universe that was populated by a race of people that lived their lives completely by the concept of logic and suppressed their emotions through meditation so they wouldn't interfere with their judgment or actions. (edit)
Zack: It makes me look like the Great Gazoo.

The Great Gazoo was a two foot high green alien with magical powers that appeared in the final season of the animated program The Flintstones. (edit)
Booth: How's it going there, Darth. Seen anything on Saturn. Please tell me you've seen at least one Star Wars movie.

Star Wars is a set of six films that were written and directed by George Lucas. Darth Vader was the primary villain in the last 3 and had to wear a suit and mask that served as artificial limbs and respirator. (edit)
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10.0
Perfect
A Boy in a Bush
"A very special episode"
The story of the victim is poignant and tugs your heart-strings. I don't do enough justice in this review, you gotta watch for yourselves.
Continue » Posted Mar 3, 2008 8:13 pm PST
9.4
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A Boy in a Bush
"Well written"
A 6 year olds boy is found dead.
Continue » Posted Feb 20, 2008 10:53 pm PST
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A Boy in a Bush
"Revealing"
Really great episode!
Continue » Posted Feb 12, 2008 11:20 am PST
8.8
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A Boy in a Bush
"Well written"
Booth and Brennan investigate the gruesome murder of a little boy.
Continue » Posted Sep 20, 2007 2:45 am PST

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9.6
Superb
A Boy in a Bush
"Revealing"
A touching case altogether with interesting revelations
Continue » Posted Aug 9, 2007 9:35 am PST
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