The Man with the Bone

Season 1, Episode 18, Aired
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Booth and Brennan investigate a case involving a 300-year-old finger bone and a site where there might be pirate treasure. Hodgins is excited when he's able to leave the lab and help with the case, but his life is put in danger and it's up to Booth and Brennan to save him.moreless
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  • Ahh Pirates!

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    By vicky24c, May 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    In this episode of Bones, the following happens. Bones is called into a case when a man is found dead, clutching a finger bone in his hand. When she runs set of it, we learn that the finger is in fact over 300 years old. Hodgins is excited when he's able to leave the lab and help with the case, and manages to help Booth find a skeleton deep under the water. Soon the bones disappear, and with only the finger left, Bones does her best. Soon she finds out that the bones were in fact planted in the shaft. Soon Goodman believes that the security guards are in fact the ones who took the bones. When they are questioned one of them soon confesses and we learn that he sold them for $10,000. When Bones and Booth go back to where the bones were discovered, they see that their main suspect has been killed.
    We soon learn who the killer is and when Booth and Bones realise this they race to the shaft to see that the killer is lowering Hodgins down. As they go to arrest him, he threatens to cut Hodgins air supply. By doing this Hodgins will die. As Hodgins finds gold coins at the bottom of the shaft, he is unaware that his life may end at any moment. But of course they manage to save him.moreless

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  • this was a good ep

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    By cube2k8, May 13, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of bones . they discover a figure bone pecice in a dead guys hand they bring it back to the lab and realize its over 300 years old. and they investgate some more and realzie it could be a pirate and hogens wants to comealong and he does and they go to were people think his tresured is hidden black baird. hoggens goes down and brings up the resto of the bones strucker and they do more info. and they have already started to question people the mayors wife and his partner.but the partner turs up dead and he was killed the same way . they also realzie the bones have been stoneln more then once from the jefferson and then realzie that they are a fake and there not real at all. and they find the person that stole them and they question him and he points out the people and it was the first guy who they found dead in the lab. and it was hocus the whole time meanhwile they go to the shaft to arest the man that let hoggens go down there and they realize hoggens is down there and the guy holds his life in hand thing is hoggens happens to find a real gold coin and the guy brings him up thing was the guy was just mad it was hocus and it cause hims brother life. this was a good ep i thoughtmoreless

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  • Pirates and treasure!

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    By vonkie_1991, Aug 15, 2008 Report Abuse
    Yes, this episode deals with a pirate treasure, and then you know it's always fun to watch. This episode was great, though not my favorite on. I really like the scene where Booth and Hodgins are all excited about pirates, that was just super cute and funny. We also learn that both Brennan and Hodgins dive sometimes, and I always like it when we get to learn more about the characters.
    I didn't found it funny however when Hodgins was almost killed, luckily Bones and Booth came in time to safe him. And that's a good thing as well, otherwise I would not have been happy.moreless

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  • KEWL PIRATES!!!

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    By BANGELORSPUFFY, May 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    This is a good show!! It was intense and very exciting it is just like reading a book when it is ve4ry interesting and like u just want to know what happens so u read very fast but since thsi is a show well u know it is kind of different because you know books and tvs are very different. i cannot wait for the next episode!!!!! i just love these shows David Boreanaz is hott!!!
    IN the show Buffy the vampire slayer since he is a vampire in that show he gets to be extra hott well anyways like i said i cant wait for the next show!!moreless

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  • Pirates and mystery.

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    By PaxPhoenix, Jun 19, 2007 Report Abuse
    I just loved this episode.It was great. It was so funny. It was an unusual episode. All the mystery about this pirate treasure thing. Hodgins and Booth excited about pirates. This episode showed a new side of Hodgins. He can be so much more than a squint. I loved all the jokes. Brennan was so worried about the way the examiner destroyed the finger bone. Then, she was worried about the missing skeleton. At least, Zack had saved the finger bone. So they could go on on their investigation. Brennan found out about a hole in that bone and it was made recently. Poor Hodgins, after some beers he was almost killed. Brilliant episode!moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • The entirety of Assateague Island is a national park - there are no towns on the island as depicted in the show. Assateague is most famous for its wild horses. The herd on the Virginia side of the island is rounded up every year and swum to Chincoteague Island, where many of the foals are sold as population control. One of these foals was the inspiration for the children's book Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry. Edit
    • The Money Pit: There is a legendary "Money Pit" where people have been searching for hundreds of years for buried treasure, but it is not on Assateague Island. It is actually on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Edit
    • Goof: In the first scene, the x-ray nearest the corpse is upside-down. Edit

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    • Featured music: "Whistles the Wind" by Flogging Molly (when Hodgins has a drink with McGinnis) Edit
    • Rodney Rowland (Dane McGinnis) appeared with both David Boreanaz (Booth) and T.J Thyne (Hodgins) in the TV series Angel in episode 5x01 - "Conviction." Edit
    • International Air Dates: Denmark: June 6th, 2006 on TV3 Norway: Thursday October 12th, 2006 on TV3 Edit

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    • Booth: (to Branson Rose) At least let us know if your reputation is for real, sir. Hey, we'll just contact the SAS, they'll tell us. Rose: Don't expect a speedy response. (Brennan approaches Rose and slaps him really hard) Booth: Woah, Bones! Brennan: Would a special forces guy have been able to stop that? Booth: I don't know, you kinda got the jump on him there. Brennan: Well, this one won't be a surprise. (turns to Rose) You ready? Rose: What? (before he knows it Brennan has slapped him a second time) Booth: No way he's special ops. It's just a bunch of PR crap. Brennan: Alright, no more questions. Edit
    • Booth: At this point it appears as if the stolen 300-year-old bones were being used to, you know, salt the shaft. Brennan: Salt the shaft? Booth: Yeah, you know, an investor spends a million bucks, he gets antsy when nothing happens and voilà, pirate bones appear and the golden goose keeps, you know, pr-pr-pr, laying those eggs. Brennan: Ok, that is a convoluted metaphor, Booth. Goodman: It's a hoax, Dr. Brennan. Like the Piltdown Man? Brennan: Oh, got it. (to Booth) Why can't you be clear like that? Edit
    • (Brennan and Booth have nailed down the suspect) Booth: The guy was a Navy Seal. Brennan: So? You were a Guide. Booth: Ranger, I was Ranger Bones, okay? I was not a guide, guides they show you waterfalls, they sell you cookies, I was a Ranger. (Brennan wants to rush in on the suspect, Booth holds her back) Brennan: Are Rangers afraid of Seals? Booth: What? No, come on Bones, Rangers aren't afraid of anybody, okay?... Though Seals are pretty good though. Edit

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    • Dr. Daniel Goodman: A hoax, like the Piltdown Man. The so-called Piltdown Man was fragments of a skull and jaw bone collected in the early years of the twentieth century from a gravel pit at Piltdown, a village near Uckfield, in the English county of Sussex. The fragments were claimed by experts of the day to be fossilized remains of a hitherto unknown form of early man. The Latin Name Eoanthropus dawsoni was given to the specimen. The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jaw bone of an ape combined with the skull of a fully developed, modern man. It has been suggested that the forgery was the work of the person to be its finder, Charles Dawson, after who it was named. This view is strongly disputed and many other candidates have been proposed as the true creators of the forgery. Edit
    • Booth: Sure, I mean, your attorney wants to go to court for the next 20 years, and buy himself a nice vacation home in Tuscany. This is a bit of an in-joke. Booth is talking to Rose, played by Robert Foxworth, who starred as Chase Gioberti, one of the main characters in Falcon Crest. Falcon Crest was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley, part of the Napa Valley region of Northern California. Edit

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