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Stargazer in a Puddle

Episode Number: 43    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Wednesday May 16, 2007    Prod Code: 2AKY22
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.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Hart Hanson
Director: Tony Wharmby
Star: Eric Millegan (Zack Addy),  T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins),  Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan),  Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2+)),  David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth),  Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro)
Guest Star: Joe Nieves (Joe Mellon),  Ryan O'Neal (Max Keenan),  Eric Stonestreet (D.C. Cop),  Roxanne Hart (Cynthia Cole),  Hallock Beals (Steve Brown),  Larissa Miller (Ruth Keenan),  Cleo King (Minister Sheila),  Travis Brorsen (State Department Employee),  Billy Gibbons (Angela's Dad),  Patricia Belcher (Asst. U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian)

Notes

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This episode was included on the Emmy Awards "For Your Consideration" DVD for this season. (edit)
International Air Dates:
Denmark: Tuesday May 29th, 2007 on TV3
Spain: Friday June 29th, 2007
Belgium: Friday January 11th, 2008 on RTL-TVI
Saudi Arabia: Tuesday January 29th, 2008 on ShowSeries
Germany: Thursday February 7th, 2008
France: Friday April 4th, 2008 on M6
Australia: Thursday July 10th, 2008 on Channel 7
Portugal: Thursday July 17th, 2008 on RTP2 (edit)
The background instrumental in the beginning of the episode is "Running up that hill" by Placebo. This song was featured in episode 33, Judas on a Pole. This episode also featured Temperance's father. (edit)
Featured Music:
"La Grange" - ZZTop (When Hodgins asks Billy Gibbons for Angela's Hand, this is the song he is strumming on his guitar)
"Gimme All Your Lovin'" - ZZTop (When Angela walks down the aisle and when they leave the church)
"Blue Jean Blues" - ZZTop (When Max gives Bones the videotape from her mother) (edit)

Quotes

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Bones: Your daughter spent a long time looking up, correct?
Mrs. Cole: Chelsea was obsessed with the stars. She thought they were signals from heaven showing people the way home. (edit)
Cam: Oh, God. Please tell me that is not ...
Zack: That's not human. That's Spam.
Hodgins: Which has been injected with a number of organic poisons. We'd like to introduce a colony of Artemia Salina.
Zack: Commonly referred to as sea chimps.
Hodgins: If they die, I can check to see if running them through the spectrometer reveals what poisoned them.
Cam: What do you want from me?
Zack: Permission.
Cam: Why?
Hodgins: Because you said you'd fire us if we did any more experiments without clearing them first.
Cam: Boys, you've got Spam and sea chimps. You get anything out of that, and I will ... buy you each a car.
Hodgins: Release the hounds.
Zack: Why?
Hodgins: Pour in the sea chimps.
(Zack pours them in)
Zack: I found that anticlimactic.
Hodgins: Yeah. (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)

Trivia

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Goof: 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, during 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)
Goof: 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. (edit)

Allusions

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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. (edit)
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9.8
Superb
Stargazer in a Puddle
"Series finale"
A really great end to a fantastic season! love the irony, the emotion and some wonderful, memorable quotes!
Continue » Posted Jan 30, 2008 11:38 am PST
9.2
Superb
Stargazer in a Puddle
"Series classic"
A really good season finale for a really good season. I really enjoyed the second season of Bones and I must say that its season finale was really great.
Continue » Posted Oct 26, 2007 11:59 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Stargazer in a Puddle
"Exactly why I watch this series"
An awsome season finale
Continue » Posted Sep 29, 2007 10:21 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Stargazer in a Puddle
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Great Season Finale!!!
Continue » Posted Sep 18, 2007 6:10 am PST
9.3
Superb
Stargazer in a Puddle
"Series finale"
One crazy series finally!
Continue » Posted Sep 13, 2007 11:32 am PST
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