Stargazer in a Puddle

Season 2, Episode 21, Aired
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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.moreless
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  • Angela and Hodgins' wedding is as unusual as their entire relationship.

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    By whiteraven2005, Sep 06, 2011 Report Abuse
    Brennan's father just walks into the Jeffersonian and the answer becomes clear: he's created a new identity that stands up to scrutiny, to actually arrest him, Booth has to prove he's really Max Keenan. This doesn't make huge sense to me all those times they were hunting Max, the times when Brennan called in his location, the FBI didn't even know what he looked like?! If they'd shown up, would he have walked then too?

    How is Booth going to explain that he beat up Max before he arrested him?! Brennan's mother's tape was disappointing, thought it would be some big reveal, instead just the typical mother stuff.

    Chelsey's mother may have killed her out of misguided mercy and her agony when she realized she'd killed her child unnecessarily. Though she was wrong, what she did is certainly understandable.

    The wedding is certainly unorthodox from the music to Angela's dress (I liked the hood as opposed to the usual veil). Liked the service, as far as it got. Hodgins took the news about Angela's marriage very well, he's very understanding, very sweet that they 'ran off together'.

    Cool episode.moreless

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  • A really great end to a fantastic season! love the irony, the emotion and some wonderful, memorable quotes!

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    By Official_squint, Jan 11, 2011 Report Abuse
    Really loved this season finale. The case is a good one, little girl who has a mental health aging disease, mother gives her an overdose with her own aids medcine, is the basica gist but its more about the characters! Angela and Jack get to the alter, but do they marry?
    Booth and Brennan seem to be taking the lime light at the altar!! a great comparsion on how open Brennan has become when compared to the seasons opening episode.
    The video of Brennans up is also very emotive, and very beliebable acting by Emily Deschanel. I love the Max Kennan storyline and how he will be arrested and go to jail just to be by his daughter! and i cannot wait for season 3 and the surprizes and development it may bring!!?moreless

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  • Wow! I may have not started watching this show in the beginning, but I love it so much now! It's just so great.

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    By SandyMV2643, Jan 11, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode is now one of my favorites of this series. Along with the Christmas episode where Booth and Bones kiss! It had a bunch of great Booth and Bones moments, Bones hugging and giving Booth a kiss and of course the very end with them both at the alter. That was my absolute favorite part, I was screaming at the TV saying just do it, but I know better. I've seen season 3 and the start of 4, so I know it doesn't happen,,,yet. But it was a great scene! I always love when Booth and Bones stare at each other like that, there's so much chemistry between the two. I can't believe they're not together yet, I mean come on! They better get together in season 4, I don't think I can take much more of this waiting! lol And the part where Booth was fighting Bones' dad, ugh I loved it. I love that he cares so much for Bones that he wouldn't seriously hurt her father. And hand to hand combat is a very manly thing, and wellBooth is well you know where I'm going with this. ;) However, I was stuned when he punched Booth in the groin, now that mad me kinda mad. But Booth's face and sentence after was just so funny. I so love Booth and Bones together! Not to mention David, he's just....wellHOT! hahamoreless

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  • And so we have a weeding.........

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    By vicky24c, May 23, 2010 Report Abuse
    In this episode of Bones, the following happens. When a skeleton is found in an abandoned warehouse, Bones and Booth are called in to investigate. They quickly realise that the skeleton belongs to a child. When Booth and Bones are in her office, Max (Bones's father) walks into her office and Booth arrests him straight away. He came as he believed that she was getting married, but eh hear wrong as it is in fact Angela who is getting married. When Booth gets Max back to the FBI offices, he has to release him as there is no record of him, as the bank robber he used to be. Angela asks Bones to be her maid of honour and Bones hugs her and accepts. We see Bones that night with her father in her apartment. She offers him to stay the night, and we learn that she has made up the guest room for him, in case he wanted to stay. We soon learn that the victim had an ageing condition, and she was just 22 years old. Hodgins asks Zach to be his best man, and ac tells him that he needs to think about it. When they speak to the victim mother, she gives them the name of a man she believed abused her daughter. When they question him, he admits to bathing her, when she got sticky, and that Chelsea (the victim) even confirmed his story, but her mother wouldn't believe either of them that nothing happened. When Hodgins asks Zach what his answer is, Zach hands him a letter from the White House stating that he is to go to Iraq. Hodgins tells him that he can't go, and Zach tells him to ask Booth to be his best man. So Hodgins phones Booth to be his best man, and he accepts. They soon believe that her mother killed her. Hodgins goes to see Angela's father, and asks him for his permission to marry her. He tells Hodgins that he has guns and if he doesn't treat Angela right, then he may be seeing his guns. After running DNA on Max, Booth finally gets the evidence needed to arrest him. When he gets there, they fight. We then see Bones at her apartment watching a video tape of her mother, which she made for her not long after they vanished. She explains why they left her and Russ behind, during which Bones starts to cry. When Bones goes to see the mother, she admits to killing her daughter, as she herself is dying and that no foster family would take her, due to her condition and her age. She then learns that the new drugs she was on started to work. We then jump to Saturday, the day of the wedding. Booth tells Bones the true about her father's arrest during which they hug. As the wedding beings a man enters, and he needs to speak to Angela and Jack before the wedding and so they leave with him. Zach hands Booth his letter from the White House and asks him to read it and explain it to everyone later on. We learn that Angela is already married.
    And so they walk back into the church, tell everyone thanks for coming please go to the reception and then they leave. We end with Bones asking what do we do now, and her and Booth standing at the altar, with the priest smiling.moreless

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  • this was a good ep

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    By cube2k8, May 20, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this season 2 final of the show bones bones goes to a scene and it turns out to be the body a 80 year old women but its really the body of a 20 year old girl whos body was that of a 80 year old women and they found out that info from investgating into it more and they went and saw her mother and it tured out that she killed her because she thought her self was going to die due to aids and so she poined her. but she ened up surving and killed her daughter for nothing. and bones father comes back with inoformation in this one. and there is a wedding with hogens but the wedding between them does not go as planned turns out she was married before. and zack is on his way to irag. and it ends with booth and bones at the alter . this was a good way to end season 2moreless

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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 "A 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

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    • The german title for this episode is "Die junge, alte Frau in der Pfütze," which means "The Young, Old Woman in the Puddle." This refers to the disease of the victim rather than referring to her simply as a stargazer. Edit
    • 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 on La Sexta Belgium: Friday January 11th, 2008 on RTL-TVI Saudi Arabia: Tuesday January 29th, 2008 on ShowSeries Germany: Thursday February 7th, 2008 on RTL France: Friday April 4th, 2008 on M6 Australia: Thursday July 10th, 2008 on Channel 7 Portugal: Thursday July 17th, 2008 on RTP2 Finland: Friday September 26th, 2008 on Sub Edit

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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

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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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