The Man in the Morgue

Season 1, Episode 19, Aired
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Brennan takes a vacation down to New Orleans to help identify victims of Hurricane Katrina. While at her hotel, she wakes up the next morning bloody and beaten, with no memory of what happened. Booth comes down to try and help her figure out what happened. When the local medical examiner is found murdered, Brennan becomes the suspect. Their investigation leads them into the world of voodoo.

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  • A great episode

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    In this episode of Bones, the following happens. We open with Brennan in New Orleans as she helps to identify the remains of people who were killed during Hurricane Katrina. When she is working, a man named Graham offers Bones a bite to eat, we then see Bones waking up in a bathroom covered in blood and with no memory of what has happened to her. We quickly see that she is injured and is in fact in her own hotel room.
    The phone is ringing and it tells her that her airport pick up is there and she soon realises that it is Thursday and the last day she remembers is Tuesday, so ,a s she says, what happened to Wednesday?
    We then see Bones in a doctor's office and we see that the local police officer is there. And then as if by magic her knight in shining armour shows up in the form of...... Booth. Soon pieces start to come together of the missing day and soon Graham is found dead and hanging from the wall in his house. Evidence is found in the house of Bones being there, but Booth quickly removes it before anyone else can spot it. But soon everything goes wrong and Bones is arrested to the murder. Booth calls in a favour and manages to get Bones released. Soon the body of the Voodoo shop owner is found dead and we soon learn that he in fact murdered her, believing that using voodoo he could bring her back to life. We also learn that the shop owner also killed Graham. As the episode ends we see Booth handing Bones back her missing earring which he found at the crime scene.moreless

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  • This is a typical Bones episode.

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    Another one of my favorite Bones episode, though I love all of them. In the beginning I was kind of confused, but further into the episode I was staring to understand what is happening. And now when I watch it again, I luckily can say that I understand if from the beginning.

    There were so many great scenes, why this is such an amazing episode, and I will mention a few of them.
    One of them being, when Brennan is at the doctors' office, and Booth barges in is one of those fabulous scenes, and this one shows how much he really cares about Bones.

    The whole Jesus is a zombie scene is just hilarious, just as the scene where Brennan pokes a murderer in his eye.

    All in all, defiantly one of the best episodes out there.moreless

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  • Voodoo in New Orleans

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    Intense. This episode kept me on the edge of my seat. It's one of the best written episode I've seen in this series, with one of the most exciting premises. When Dr. Brennan gets involved personally, things always heat up. Delightfully. I like seeing her out of her traditional blue lab coat and interacting with the real world in a capacity larger than scientist. There's also great development between Booth and Brennan--Booth coming to bail Brennan out when she gets in a little over her head with both the New Orleans law enforcement and . . . someone else. I also greatly enjoyed the back and forth between Hodgins and Zach in this episode. 10 out of 10.moreless

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  • an interesting mix on bones with voodoo

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    this episode was great and very interesting. i love how booth gets so protective of brennan like in two bodies in the lab. the voodoo stuff was really weird but added an interesting twist to the episode. when brennan pokes the voodoo sorceror in the eye i cracked up so hard! it was hilarious! and it was very brave of booth to take brennan's earring from the crime scene, he wouldve lost his job. it just shows how much he cares about her. it also funny how brennan wouldnt tell the squint squad what happened to her and they kept making assumptions of why booth was there. this was a great episode!moreless

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  • this was a good ep

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    in this ep of bones bones is down in new orleans due to the hurricane and the people down there belive in vudo. thing is bones wakes up with bruises and blood all over her and she cant remember a thing that happened . and the police down there thinks she is faking it and is involved in the murders that have been happing down there.bones remembers that she was on a date and it went to the house and then she does not remember after that but with help from some people they peice it all togeather and realize it was the guy that owned the shop who was using dark sworsy to take revenge on the people he even kills his daughter and try to bring her back to life this was great ep i thought.moreless

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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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  • Trivia

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    • We learn in this episode that Brennan has a hunting licence and hunts for food. Edit
    • It would have been very difficult for Brennan to have lifted the man and nailed him to the wall, a foot off the ground, with one injured hand. The fact that Brennan's hand was injured must have gone unnoticed by the police or they would have seen her as a victim, not as a suspect. Edit
    • Booth compromises evidence by taking Dr. Brennan's earring from the house of the murder, displaying his loyalty to Dr. Brennan above his loyalty to the case. He trusts and cares enough for Dr. Brennan to know that she could not be a part of a ritual murder voluntarily. Edit
  • Notes

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    • Featured Music: "Tipitina" by Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias (at the restaurant in New Orleans) "No Scratch Blues" by The Zydeco All Stars (at the restaurant, when Caroline joins Booth and Brennan to talk about the case) "Tee Nah Nah" by Buckwheat Zydeco Edit
    • At the end of this episode, David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel appeared to speak about the tragic events of the hurricanes this past year and with a phone number for those who wanted to give donations. Edit
    • Scott Lawrence appears in this episode as Sam. He was a notable character on the long-running military show JAG, playing Commander Sturgis Turner. His commanding officer in that show was Rear Admiral AJ Chegwidden, portrayed by John M. Jackson - also known as Deputy Director Cullen on Bones. Edit
  • Quotes

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    • Caroline: A jury is never gonna believe this amnesia story. Booth: But it's true. Caroline: Maybe this is true, too. (turns to Brennan) Leger tried to rape you. He was a notorious horndog. We claim self defense, you're out in three years. Booth: No, I don't care what it looks like or how you're reading the evidence, Caroline. She didn't do it. (Brennan looks at him with a smile, obviously touched) Edit
    • (Brennan at the New Orleans police station, Caroline and Booth have just joined her) Brennan: I've told Detective Harding everything I know so far. Caroline: (to Booth) She's a fool? You didn't tell me she's a fool. Booth: She's a brilliant forensic anthropologist. Brennan: I have three degrees, I've pioneered research in - Caroline: (Pointing to the little bag) What's that? Brennan: A gris-gris bag. I found it in my hotel room. I'm assuming the person who left it there is trying to frame me, so the tooth is probably Graham's. Caroline: Three degrees and still a fool. This interview is over Rose, I need to speak with my client alone before she gives herself a lethal injection. Detective Harding: Of course, of course. (leaves) Booth: Ok, Bones. what the hell where you talking to her for? Brennan: I was just trying to help. Caroline: Sew those lips together girl, because there is no such thing as helping the New Orleans police. They just wanna close the case as quickly and easily as they can and you are making it Christmas time for them. Booth: Ok, listen, there is no way that Bones could have killed Leger. I mean, it's just not her, I mean, look at her. Edit
    • Detective Harding: I'm here to arrest Dr. Brennan for the murder of Graham Leger. Booth: (standing in front of Brennan between her and Harding) That's not gonna happen. Detective Harding: I'm pretty sure it is. Brennan: I told you Booth. Booth: (exasperatedly) Bones, please, just for once in your life will you be quiet! Detective Harding: That's good advice because everything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law. (sees the little bag Brennan is holding) What is that? Brennan: It's a...I found it on my pillow. (hands it to Harding) Booth: (more exasperatedly) Bones! Detective Harding: Thank you Dr. Brennan. Booth: What's the probable cause? Detective Harding: Traces of Dr. Brennan's blood in Leger's home, Leger's blood on her clothing, from the clinic. Booth: Is that it? Detective Harding: All that I'm prepared to share with the federal government. Now please, step away from my collar. Booth: I'm afraid I can't let that happen. (Brennan steps away from behind him and lets herself be arrested) Bones! Jeez! Brennan: It's better if nobody else dies while we get to the bottom of this. (Booth hits himself on the forehead) Booth: You know what, I wasn't planning on dying. Brennan: It's not you I worry about. (while being dragged off in handcuffs) You're welcome to the room, it's paid for. Edit
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    • Angela: You're hopping the Streetcar Named Desire with Booth? Oh, I love this. A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams set in New Orleans. Edit
    • Booth: Hey Bones, howsabout while you're a murder suspect, how 'bout you act more like a normal woman and less like Lily Munster, k? Lily Munster was the mother/homemaker of the "creepy" sitcom family on the television show The Munsters which aired in the mid 1960's. Edit
    • Booth: All right, great then we just toss the ring into the molten river and blah blah. This is a reference to the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies which take place in a fantasy world where a hobbit named Frodo is the keeper of a mystical ring, who must complete his epic journey of destroying the ring while keeping it from the evil Sauron and his minions along the way. Edit
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