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The Pain in the Heart

Episode Number: 58    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Monday May 19, 2008    Prod Code: 3AKY14
The Gormogon serial killer is back again, and the silver skeleton from the basement vault has gone missing. All the Jeffersonian employees become suspects, with the scary possibility that one of their own is working with Gormogon.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Hart Hansen, Stephen Nathan
Director: Allan Kroeker
Star: John Francis Daley (Dr. Lance Sweets),  Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro),  Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan),  David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth),  Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan),  T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins),  Eric Millegan (Dr. Zack Addy)
Recurring Role: Patricia Belcher (Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian)
Guest Star: Don Jeffcoat (Howie Madison),  Alain Uy (Grad Student #2),  Graham Miller (Grad Student #1),  David Greenman (FBI Forensic Tech Marcus Geier),  Jill Arrington (Attractive Newswoman),  Megan Paul (Grad Student #3)

Notes

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Featured Music:
"Bad Luck" by Social Distortion from their release titled "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" (during the bathtub scene) (edit)
International Air Dates:
Denmark: May 27th, 2008 on TV3
UK: May 29th, 2008 on SKY1 (edit)

Quotes

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Cam: (reading out of a script) Well, there's a little thing that looks like a Japanese stool, then a 'b' with a tail, then a fat fish. Does this make sense to you?
Zack: It doesn't to you? (edit)
Hodgins: Hey, how are you, Zack?
Zack: Quite severely injured. (edit)
Caroline: (at the funeral) I knew Seeley Booth. He was a good man, who earned my respect and affection - and I don't like many people. (edit)
Cam: I knew, the day I met Zack, he'd cause me pain. (edit)
Booth: There's got to be other stuff going on here, right?
Sweets: What?
Booth: Transference, uh paranoia. Come on! I mean, when I offer her a piece of pie, you say it has deeper meaning!
Brennan: I don't like pie, Booth.
Booth: Apple pie. She doesn't like baked pie.
Brennan: I don't like my fruit cooked.
Sweets: Okay, changing the subject is a way to avoid your feelings.
Booth: My feelings? Okay, now you're attacking my feelings? (edit)

Trivia

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There are five clocks on the wall in Booth's bathroom. They are all set at different times: 1:40, 2:10, 11:50, 10:05 and 8:35. (edit)
In earlier episodes it was stated that Gormogon only takes widows' sons as apprentices, yet Zack has both of his parents - they're alive and well in Michigan. Even though Zack worked in the Jeffersonian and had special access to Gormogon's vault, Gormogon still broke his own rule by making Zack his apprentice. (edit)
Goof: During Sweets' interview on TV, victims' bodies are shown - the second body shown is that of Ed Milner, who was discovered in the "Death in The Saddle" episode and who has nothing to do with the Gormogon case. (edit)
The symbols Cam explains to Zack right before Brennan and Booth show up to confront him are pi (the "japanese stool"), beta (the "B with a tail"), and alpha (the "fat fish"). All are common symbols in Calculus. (edit)
When Brennan and her student are talking about the skeleton from Limbo, Brennan says the femur indicates a height of approximately 180cm. When asked what that is in English, she says about 5'8". 180cm is actually just under 5'11". (edit)

Allusions

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David Boreanaz is seen reading a Green Lantern comic book in his bathtub. David Boreanaz voiced the character of Green Lantern in the 2008 animated video "Justice League: The New Frontier". (edit)
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6.8
Fair
The Pain in the Heart
"Above average"
um......YEA!! First Summary........to bad I don't know what to write. sorry
Continue » Posted Jul 1, 2008 6:48 pm PST

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9.9
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The Pain in the Heart
"A very special episode"
The main focus of this episode should be the departure of Zack from the series, instead of simply a conclusion to the cannibilistic killings.
Continue » Posted Jun 28, 2008 12:22 am PST

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9.5
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The Pain in the Heart
"Informative"
This episode was a mixed bag. The writers strike was responsible for it being not as good as it could be, but given they only had one episode to tie everything up, I am very impressed with them. Give them a break.
Continue » Posted Jun 27, 2008 7:53 pm PST

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3.8
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The Pain in the Heart
"Dream sequence"
Coma dream pleeeease!!!!!
Continue » Posted Jun 20, 2008 11:16 am PST

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1.0
Abysmal
The Pain in the Heart
"Out of character"
Terrible Ending to a great series
Continue » Posted Jun 18, 2008 4:02 am PST
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