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Boy in the Time Capsule

Episode Number: 50    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Tuesday November 13, 2007    Prod Code: 3AKY07
A time capsule buried by a high school class of 1987 is unearthed by a group of the school's alumni who are shocked to find the body of one of their high school classmates hidden inside. Booth and Brennan find that the victim was an outcast in high school, so they go on to investigate the past lives of the classmates in an effort to discover the murderer.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Janet Lin
Director: Chad Lowe
Star: Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan),  Eric Millegan (Zack Addy),  Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2+)),  David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth),  Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro),  T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins)
Recurring Role: John Francis Daley (Dr. Lance Sweets)
Guest Star: Rick Ravanello (John Adamson),  Ray Baker (Daniel Dillon),  Patrick Fischler (Gil Bates),  Kristin Bauer (Janelle Stinson),  Patrick Fabian (Terry Stinson),  Stephon Fuller (Darwin Banks),  Diane Kim (Woman in Crowd),  Robbie Moore (Young Gil),  Katie Gill (Young Janelle),  Chris Hunter (Young Terry),  Ed Ackerman (Cop in Crowd),  Russell B. McKenzie (Guy in Crowd),  Houston Graham (Roger Dillon/Alex Stinson)

Notes

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International Air Dates:
Denmark: December 18th, 2007 on TV3
Sweden: January 15th, 2008 on TV3
UK: December 20th, 2007 on Sky1
Norway: January 31st, 2008 on TV3
Spain: February 22nd, 2008 on FOX Tv Spain
New Zealand: May 12th, 2008 on TV3 (edit)
Patrick Fischler, who played Gil Bates in this episode, also appeared alongside David Boreanaz in the Angel episode "The Magic Bullet" as a character named Ted. (edit)
Featured Music:
"Bandstand in the Sky" - Pete Yorn (end of the last scene) (edit)

Quotes

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Angela: (reading the year book in the time capsule) "Have a great summer. Don't ever change." Remember those days?
Cam: I remember being grounded every weekend ... so many rules to break, so little time ...
Hodgins: You were the nerds' fantasy! (edit)
Booth: There was this girl Karen Isley, and we were under the bleachers one night ... personally.
Bones: I got it. You were having sex in the dirt under the bleachers.
Booth: Excuse me, I'm a gentleman. I brought my sleeping bag. (edit)
Brennan: I saw Matthew McConaughey once in a movie on a plane. Very silly. But I was quite taken with his musculature. (edit)
Hodgins: C'mon. When you can ladle someone he's a little less than a person, don't you think? (edit)
Hodgins: Mullet alert! (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: Commodore Amiga did not use 5.25" floppy disks, it used 3.5" ones. One disk drive was built in, with the option of 3 more external ones. Even though it was possible to connect an external 5.25" drive, it wouldn't make sense to do so and use that to store a game, since 5.25" floppies had less space and were less reliable than 3.5" ones.

Also, in 1987 the highest Amiga model was the A500 (the Amiga used by Angela is an A1200), which did not have the power to run a 3-D Doom-clone game.

Furthermore, the Amiga was based on the 68000 series of processors, not the 6800 as Angela states.

The "prop" Amiga is actually a keyboard that was sat on top of the system unit from an original IBM PC-XT (5160). (edit)
Goof: Dr. Hodgins said that the pesticide was sprayed on Thursday, June 14, 1987. That date was on a Sunday, not a Thursday. (edit)

Allusions

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Commodore Amiga:
The Amiga computer, the first multimedia home computer (with 4096 colors, 4-voice stereo audio, and a mouse/pointer desktop), was originally developed by a company named Amiga-Lorraine then sold to Commodore, a computer giant of the '80s. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 and still continues today thanks to a still-fervent community. (edit)
One of the characters in this episode is named Gil Bates, who was going to start a business in video games and computing. This is an allusion to real-life computer entrepreneur and chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates. (edit)
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Community Reviews (19)

 
8.9
Great
Boy in the Time Capsule
"Another great installment"
Not one of the best, not one of the worst
Continue » Posted Apr 8, 2008 4:04 pm PST
9.6
Superb
Boy in the Time Capsule
"Character development"
That was an adorable episode.
Continue » Posted Jan 30, 2008 1:40 pm PST
9.7
Superb
Boy in the Time Capsule
"Character development"
this episode was very interesting ..a s booth and brennens relation ship grew further as they began sharing their pasts..this was very sweet how booth tried to impress her... i loved it ...
Continue » Posted Nov 25, 2007 2:20 am PST
9.8
Superb
Boy in the Time Capsule
"Fine example"
Bones wants Smurfette, but the men in her life tend to give her Brainy Smurf!
Continue » Posted Nov 24, 2007 11:19 am PST
9.0
Superb
Boy in the Time Capsule
"Fine example"
Exactly why I watch this show.
Continue » Posted Nov 17, 2007 7:09 pm PST
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