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Aliens in a Spaceship

Episode Number: 31    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Wednesday November 15, 2006    Prod Code: 2AKY09
The bodies of twin teenage boys, kidnapped five years earlier, are discovered. Booth and Brennan follow the trail of a notorious serial killer, known as the Grave Digger. His M.O. is to kidnap, bury his victims and ask for a ransom. If the ransom isn't followed, the victims are left to die.

During the investigation, Brennan and a fellow colleague become the latest victims. Both are forced to solve their own kidnapping from an underground grave.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Janet Tamaro
Director: Craig Ross Jr.
Star: Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan),  David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth),  Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2+)),  Eric Millegan (Zack Addy),  Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro),  T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins)
Guest Star: Rich McDonald (Pennsylvania State Trooper),  Julie Ann Emery (Janine O'Connell),  Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Kurland),  Charles Mesure (Pete Sanders),  Benito Martinez (Thomas Vega),  James McDonnell (James Kent)

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This episode was included in the Emmy Awards "For Your Consideration" DVD for this season. (edit)
This episode (specifically its director, Craig Ross Jr.) was nominated for the 2007 Image Award for "Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series." (edit)
International Air Dates:
Denmark: February 27, 2007 on TV3
Spain: April 6, 2007 on FOX TV Spain
Finland: August 14, 2007 on MTV3
Belgium: October 19, 2007 on RTL-TVI
Germany: October 25, 2007 on RTL
Australia: December 20, 2007 on 7 (edit)
At the begining of this episode it reads "Viewer Discretion is advised." and in some areas of Canada it reads "Due to graphic forensic content viewer discretion is advised." (edit)
This is the first time we get actual confirmation (via the date) that Cam and Booth are dating, and not just spending "one night" together as they first intended. (edit)

Quotes

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(Booth and Brennan are sitting next to each other in a church.)
Brennan: I'm okay with you thanking God for saving me and Hodgins.
Booth: That's not what I thanked Him for. I thanked Him for saving ... all of us. It was all of us, every single one. You take one of us away and you and Hodgins are in that hole forever. (Booth looks at Brennan whose eyes are glistening with tears.) And I'm thankful for that.
Brennan: I knew you wouldn't give up.
Booth: I knew you wouldn't give up. (edit)
Cam: How are we going to get our hands on eight million dollars?
Zack: Hodgins is rich.
Cam: He is?
Zack: "Rich squared to the power of ten times four" is how he puts it. (edit)
Hodgins: (blurts) I'm nuts about Angela. Over the moon. Stupid in love with her. That's why I bought her that ... that crazy, expensive perfume. A man gives you a bottle of perfume like that, it says ... it says, "I love you". (Brennan nods) There. I said it out loud. (edit)
Booth: I need you to be Dr. Brennan.
Zack: (quoting Brennan) I don't know what that means. (edit)
Booth: I got about 100 agents working that angle. What does this mean, right here. (taps monitor) What does that mean?
Zack: You're forgetting something, Brennan and Hodgins are out of air.
Booth: Great, you wanna give up, huh? This is Bones we're talking about and Hodgins. You really think they didn't find a way to extend their air supply? Hell, they found a way to send us a message, to ask us for help and you wanna give up because of math. (edit)

Trivia

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In the lab, when Angela translates Hodgins' code and says that they needn't investigate, but need millions of dollars to free Hodgins and Brennan, there is a clock in the background. At the beginning it reads 5:33, but after not even a minute of conversation, it reads 5:08, leaving 22 and a half minutes unaccounted for. (edit)
Goof: The batteries in Nikon cameras are 7.4V, that would have been easier to step down with a resistor. (edit)
Hodgins tells Brennan (and Cam gets told) that he is filthy rich. (edit)
When the gang goes out to the parking garage and discovers the blood, someone tells Zack he's Dr. Brennan, and he replies "I don't know what that means," referencing what Dr. Brennan always says. (edit)
Although it is suspected, we get to hear Hodgins voice his feelings for Angela that have been building up from the middle of last season. He finally admits that he loves Angela, to Dr. Brennan. (edit)

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Aliens in a Spaceship
"Another great installment"
Hodgins and Bones get buried alive
Continue » Posted May 18, 2008 8:43 am PST
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Aliens in a Spaceship
"Tearjerker"
Just Wow. Kudos to Emily Deschanel and TJ Thyne.
Continue » Posted Mar 3, 2008 11:24 am PST

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"Tearjerker"
This review contains spoilers.
Continue » Posted Feb 22, 2008 6:26 pm PST
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Aliens in a Spaceship
"Another great installment"
Bone and Hodgins trapped under ground by the gravedigger
Continue » Posted Jan 2, 2008 9:29 am PST
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Aliens in a Spaceship
"A very special episode"
Wow - this is a real eye-opener and a brilliant way of working the characters in all their strength and their frailty.
Continue » Posted Nov 2, 2007 3:23 am PST
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