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Bones

The Hero in the Hold

Season 4, Episode 14, Aired Feb 05, 2009

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Booth is kidnapped by the Grave Digger and the Jeffersonian team must find and save him before it's too late. Meanwhile, when evidence from the Grave Digger's case goes missing, Brennan and Hodgins are suspected of taking it.

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Brendan Fehr

Jared Booth
GUEST STAR
Marisa Coughlan

Agent Payton Perotta
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Deirdre Lovejoy

Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Taffet

T.J. Thyne

Dr. Jack Hodgins
Emily Deschanel

Dr. Temperance Brennan
David Boreanez

Special Agent Seeley Booth
Michaela Conlin

Angela Montenegro
Tamara Taylor

Dr. Camille Saroyan
John Francis Daley

Dr. Lance Sweets

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By tanargue, Jun 29, 2011

Yet again more about Booth's past and character is revealed. The last few episodes have all fleshed out the person that is Booth - he has a brother, they were physically abused as children by an alcoholic father, he is very touchy about his father,the father was a barber.Booth was the best knife thrower in the Rangers, he plays ice hockey for the Fedcases team, he carried his wounded spotter a long way and blames himself for the boy's death.
This is a great episode. Love the idea of the 'ghost' ?hallucination helping Booth out. The race to uncover the Gravedigger as well as rescue Booth brings the team close together, working desperately against time. Even Jared comes up trumps for his brother.
The tension was heightened by the excellent music score, which enhanced whilst hardly being noticeable. Great episode all round.moreless
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The team is left helpless as the grave digger captures Booth to retrieve evidence found by Brennan's team. They try to save Booth without informing the authorities and this leads to problems and desperate measures.moreless

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By parmissm11, May 30, 2011

I admit it still could have been better, but this episode was exactly what the show needed to go to the next level. Booth's past was presented and his heroic character was depicted quite well. It was also very nice to see the things Dr.Brennan & her squints were willing to do to save him.
SPOILER ALERT, to find out the FBI lady was the grave digger was an unexpected turnout in the plot which in my opinion worked for the show, considering the story was introduced before in the previous seasons. I think the writers could have made the rescue even harder for those who wanted to be on the edge of their seats but on the whole, I stand on my perfect 10 score.moreless
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This has got to be my all time favorite Bones episode ever. it shows a very different side of Booth a side that hes been holding back on. Best episode and very touching.moreless

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By Robe82991, May 30, 2011

The episode starts out with Bones getting some award for her work. Booth is getting ready he hangs up with Brennan because there was a knock on the door. later we find out that Booth had been taken by the Grave Digger. The FBI think Bones and Hodgens are witholding information about the Grave Digger so they are forbiden to do anything that ivalves the criminal. we find out that Booth is actually on a ship that is about to be blown up. in my opinion this is the best episode of Bones because it shows a nice bond between Booth and his best friend Teddy, who was killed at war. Booth blames himself for Teddy's death. Teddy came back as a ghost to help Booth. the ghost tells Booth that he came back not only to help him escape the ship but also to tell him that his death was not Booth's fault. in the end they find out that one of the women working for the FBI is actually the grave digger. thanks to Teddy, Booth makes it to the deck of the ship and Bones is flying above in a hillicopter to save him. Teddy told Booth to tell his girlfriend Claire that he did love her. Booth goes back to Teddy's grave site as does his girlfriend and Booth hugs her.moreless
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The first Bones that made me cry!!

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By XooKey, May 30, 2011

This is the best Bones episode I have seen and it has a couple of big twists in it you won't believe. Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Taffet is looking for a key piece evidence in the Gravedigger case and thinks it was stolen by Brennan or Hodgins. But neither fess up.

Later on as Booth is getting ready for a presentation for Brennan, he is kidnapped by the gravedigger and wakes up enclosed in some kind of a box. Booth manages to get out of the box. From the shadows appears the ghost of someone he tried to save in the war named Teddy Parker. With the help of Teddy, Booth manages to determine he is on a ship and to then get to the deck of the ship. A helicopter is arriving and he looks around for Teddy, who has disappeared. Booth gets away on the helicopter just in time. While all of this is going on, Brennan and Hodgins get a phone call warning them no to get the law enforcement involved or Booth will die. The gravedigger wants the key piece of evidence that will keep them from getting caught. They go looking for Thomas Vega, who wrote a book on the Gravedigger. When then find him he is dead. The team at the Jeffersonian, get hold of the body of Vega. And after investigation they determine that Vega had injured the Gravedigger, possible in the ribs. Heather Taffet shows up to reclaim the body; she has a judges order. The team realizes the the Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Taffet kidnapped booth, killed Vega and is in fact the Gravedigger.

After all is well, Booth is at Arlington National Cemetery (tears well up in my eyes typing it) to visit the grave of Teddy Parker and tell Claire, who visits his grave every year that Teddy had loved her. While this is going on Brennan is standing there and Teddy Parker walks up to her and tells her what a nice day it is and she replies back to him. Booth turns around to look at Brennan and Parker is standing behind her. He waves and they both wave back.moreless
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Awesome Ep. subtle scenes really shows how much Brennan cares for Booth. Also, one of my fav end scenes.. total Awwww moment.

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By kc_ann64, May 30, 2011

Ok. i have no idea where to start. hmm. ok. The only thing i can find really wrong about this episode, is the fact that the last GraveDigger ep was half way thru season 2, and, unless ur an avid fan, or u hav a really good memory, it sorta comes outta the blue and u hav no idea wat they are on about. That is bein real picky tho. Anyways, to the things that i loved, which, incidentally, was almost EVERYTHING!!!!! twas just a few nitty bitty things that bugged me. I shall start at the beginning:

Loved how Booth lies to make Brennan happy, it shows how close of a relationship they have. Also, the GPS convo was freakin hilarious, LOL the time machine comment from angela was funny. Didnt like brennans dress tho. didnt do anything for me, she should have worn something a bit more formal i think, especially if it was some award thingo.

Oh, just remembered another thing that i was iffy about... i thort it was wierd how Brennan grabbed Cams phone like straight away. Ok, she is rational, but that is mega quick reaction slash connection to what is happening time, i mean who would realise who was calling, figure out that you would need to record it to discover where booth is and record it, in what, 2.35678 seconds? :-S a bit unrealistic..

I had also been reading up on Bones because we are SOOOOOOOOOOO far behind here in OZ, so i knew the basic storyline of this ep. I hav to say, teddy parkers character was a complete shock, and nothing like id imagined him to be, but, after a few moments, suited quite well and was awesome. def one of my fav guest stars :-) loved the quips between them, and how Booth didnt hestitate in believing who he was and that he was there, even if he didnt kno why. My fav teddy/booth bits were where Teddy asked Booth wat he named his kid. im glad we got insight into that, and also reinforces booths character. My other fav bit was where teddy asked booth to tell clare he did love her, and booth got real quiet when he said "wat? you've never loved anybody and not told them?". *awwwwww*

Another part, which someone else has already said in their review, but i totally agree, how Brennan gets real emotional when people hurt Booth. -Example Number One: Season 2 "The Killer in the Concrete" Booth is kidnapped and Brennan, without hesitation, full on smashes this chick who she thinks has Booth in the face.
-Example Number Two: Season 4 "the Conman in the Meth Lab" Brennan pushing JarHead off the chair when she realised he had conned her into thinking Booth was loser. (which he totally is NOT)
-Example Number Three: This episode, when Bones realised who the GraveDigger was, picking up that suitcase and smashing over the head with it. priceless. These three examples show what all of us have known all along... ;-P

anyways, the helicopter hug could have lasted so much longer, they built you up, with him looking around for teddy, and brennan shouting, then Booth running to the helicopter, and then THAT look. OH. MY.GOD. wat i would hav given to be Emily Deschanel at that moment. anyways, the built you up and you have that swelling feeling in ur chest and then they hug and its like yess! she saved him and they're g------ and it just finishes. annoying much. grr. NOW. the big finale. my favourite part. i will not do it justice. but i shall try. :-/

the music was absolutely perfect. i bought it straight away. AWESOME. The cocky belt buckle. i cried when he threw it and it blew up. tis booths essence, plus, its in a pretty nice spot... ;-) lol nah
this is also an example of what she wud do for him. the whole he believes in ghosts and she doesnt, couldve been better, i mean she could have consented to his reasoning so much better. but no, it shall not ruin the moment. OMG the whole parker brennan moment. DUDE DUDE DUDE. bluddy awesome. could not have been done better. another 'swelling feeling in chest' moment. and then Booth *sigh* waves and they both wave back. LOVED IT. the smile on brennans face when she waved back was so cute. but again, with most bones episode endings, the music made that scene. one last thing, and i am the last person to be sexist, but seriously, a woman as the Grave Digger? that had to be one of the most ludicrous ideas HH has come up with yet. how on earth wud she get booth, who, incidentally, is quite muscular, *again, sigh* drugged, unconscious, stuffed in a tank and all the way out at sea? thats the only thing, they usually explain why or how the killer did it, and this ep they didnt, which was a tad annoying but who cares brother.

Overall, great episode i will definitly watch over and over. :-)moreless
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- At the end of the episode when Booth and Bones are in the graveyard, the ghost of Teddy Parker appears and talks to Brennan, and Brennan responds, not knowing that he's a ghost. However, later in the season, in the episode "The Critic in the Caberet," Brennan says that due to a tumor Booth had, he experienced several hallucinations, one of which she says was Teddy Parker. If Teddy was a hallucination, then how did Booth get off the ship on his own, and more importantly, how was it that Brennan saw and spoke to Teddy?
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- Goof: When Booth escapes from the yellow tank, he uses his keys to unscrew the bolts. The bolts were not fixed though, making tightening the screws around them impossibile without having access to the bolts themselves. Thus the Grave Digger could not have been able to lock Booth in the tank unless she was in it herself.
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- The recording that Angela plays of the call from the Gravedigger (from back when Brennan and Hodgins were buried alive) is not that same as the one that Booth played back on his phone in the episode "Aliens in a Spaceship."
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- Booth reveals in this episode why he named his son Parker. Back when he was a sniper, Booth was the sergeant for a man named Teddy Parker. He named his son after Teddy because Teddy died under Booth's watch, leaving Booth feeling responsible for his death.
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- Teddy Parker's Ghost: Beautiful day. Makes you glad to be alive, doesn't it? Bones: Yes, it does.
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- Jared: So you want me to steal the remains of a murder victim from the F.B.I.? Brennan: Yes, as soon as possible, please. Jared: I can make a few calls. Brennan: No, this is not a situation where you make a few phone calls. Jared: That's who I am, Tempe! I am the guy who makes a few calls. Brennan: Booth has never turned his back on you. You are a selfish coward, and you never deserved him!
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- Brennan: Sweets you- you shouldn't be here. The Grave Digger said no FBI involved. Sweets: I'm a psychologist not an agent. Cam: An FBI psychologist. Dr. Sweets, get gone now. (Sweets leaves)
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- Bones: Do you need directions? Booth: No, I do not need directions because I am driving. Bones: My GPS can provide perfect directions, in several languages. Booth: Oh get this, okay Parker got me this new watch, that does the same thing. Bones: Oh? Several languages? Booth: No. Bones: Well then it's not the same thing.
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- Teddy Parker: What they do Sarge is they sink ships for reefs. They, get school kids to do all the decorating. Booth: Why? Teddy Parker: For fish why else? Fish love decorations.
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- Teddy Parker: So, just to sum things up, the ship's about to explode and now there's no way to stop it. Booth: Rub it in, I got you killed twice.
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- Teddy Parker: Sarge ... one more thing I gotta tell you. No way you're gettin' the deposit back on that tux.
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- Booth: We have 6 hours and 23 minutes. (turns to Teddy) What? No ideas? Teddy Parker: According to you I'm already a ghost, as a result I got no sense of urgency.
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- Angela: You stole evidence? Hodgins: You don't know what it was like, being buried in that car. Brennan: I do! I was there. Hodgins: I know. And if we turn over that evidence we will never catch the Grave Digger. Camille: Booth only has nineteen hours. Hodgins: Okay, okay! Then let's just take ten of those hours and see if we can do both. Brennan, I'm telling you the answer is there. (pauses) Ten hours. Brennan: Eight. And Dr. Hodgins is never left alone. Angela: You don't trust him? Brennan: No I don't.
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- Hodgins: You gotta get your hands on some truth telling drugs. Sweets: What? Hodgins: Would you rather torture her? Jared: I know a little bit about that. Sweets: No! What? We don't do that. Brennan: Booth will die. Sweets: Character is who you are under pressure, not who you are when everything's fine. We're the good guys. We don't- we don't torture people.
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- Teddy Parker: You got a partner now? Booth: Yeah. Teddy Parker: You two tight? Booth: (pauses) Yeah, I mean we're, uh ... you would, you'd like her. She's ... Teddy Parker: Her? Way to go Sarge!
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- Sweets: (looking at the monitor) Oh uh Angela, this pointy bit here just got way pointier.
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- Cam: You're late! Bones: I know. It took me longer to get dressed than I thought. But don't worry, my GPS will get us there on time. Angela: (laughs) It's not a time machine, sweetie.
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- Booth: Alright Bones listen, don't worry. I will be there when they crown you super scientist. I will be the guy ... in the 'Cocky' belt buckle, and snazzy rented tux.
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- Hodgins: I gotta say, it doesn't seem to be the smartest move to just hand over this evidence. We need to be rational. We should maximize the chances to catch the Grave Digger, not minimize them.
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- Teddy Parker: Hey, you got any kids Sarge? Booth: Yeah, I got a boy. Teddy Parker: What's his name? Booth: Uh you're probably gonna take this wrong ... Teddy Parker: Why, what'd you do? You name him somethin' stupid? Like- like Cutter? (Booth doesn't reply) What Tanner? Brady? (Booth sighs) Oh God you didn't name him Sebastian. Booth: Parker. I named him Parker. Teddy Parker: (pauses) That's my name.
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- Teddy Parker: I need you to tell Claire I loved her. Booth: You never told her. Teddy Parker: I was twenty. I didn't know how to say it. Booth: Well, you say "I love you." I mean, what's so hard about that? Teddy Parker: What? You never loved somebody and didn't say it to 'em? (Booth just looks at Teddy and doesn't respond) See maybe that's why I'm here. To get you to say "I love you" to somebody.
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- International Air Dates: Sweden: March 8th, 2009 on TV3 Latin America: April 14th, 2009 on Fox Spain: May 15th, 2009 on Fox Australia: June 7th, 2009 on Channel Seven Finland: August 29th, 2009 on Sub Norway: October 15th, 2009 on TV3 Germany: November 5th, 2009 on RTL Slovakia: December 2nd, 2009 on JOJ Czech Republic: November 15th, 2010 on Prima
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- Featured Music: "When The Pain Dies Down" by Chris Stills (during the final scene, when Booth and Brennan are at the cemetery)
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- Booth: No offense, but you know, I've been drugged, electrocuted, stuffed in a Beatles toy ... The contraption Booth was "stuffed" in was very similar in appearance to the yellow submarine from the 1968 Beatles' movie "Yellow Submarine," which was also the name of a song and album by the band, the latter of which was released in conjunction with the film.
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