The Truth in the Lye

Season 2, Episode 5, Aired
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A man is found soaked in a bathtub of chemicals, leading the team to the secrets the man had been harboring. Booth and Brennan discover he had two wives with kids and a pregnant girlfriend, and the case becomes very complicated. They soon learn that there are two suspects with the same motive.moreless
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  • Another side of Brennan... And the guy with the 3 women.

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    By OnePerCentClub, Oct 28, 2011 Report Abuse
    I have to admit that I really liked the episode. I was a little bit reluctant to see it because of the whole Booth & his ex-wife & Cam. Ill talk about it later... Or not.

    The case itself was good, but I cant believe a man could have 2-3 lives and live with a clean conscious (if he has one at all). I liked to see Melinda McGraw in the show, who played Scullys sister in the X-files, another of my favorite shows.

    Brennan... When she asked Rebecca why she didnt marry Booth I thought, bad idea. But then, when Rebecca tells Booth what a wonderful father he is, I said, well it was worth it, because the look on Booths eyes changed completely.

    Favorite moment: The next to last scene, when Booth walks to Brennan in her office telling her there are people you just dont sleep with. There was obviously something more to it than that. But my god, the look on their faces!!! It was worth it.

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  • Booth's character destroyed!

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    By mindplay-dk, Oct 28, 2011 Report Abuse
    How disappointing - they just destroyed Booth's character completely. Sleeping with the enemy! Trashy. Otherwise good episode, but what a yucky ending. Even more so than all the detailed scenes of the decomposing body.

    This is the first episode of Bones that I'm officially not happy with - great show all-round, great characters, interesting camera work and visuals, this show is generally well written and well produced.

    And it's not like I'm not anxious to see how they plan on rescuing Booth's character after this. Definitely not ready to abandon the show. But hard to imagine how the author is going to make this okay...moreless

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  • A lot of humour in this episode despite the gruesome body

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    By tanargue, Apr 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    Was this the most gruesome find in all of Bones? No I don't mean the first and last scenes!!! I mean the body in the bathtub.
    A wonderfully convoluted plot or rather plots. Not only did we have a murder that might have been a suicide but we had the multiple strands of sexual involvement. Bigamy, verging on trigamy (is there such a word?). Booth the alpha male in bed with two women (not at the same time I hasten to add). Brennan rationalizing his having sex with Rebecca as quite normal behaviour in anthropological terms.
    A growing feeling between Angela and Hodgkins.
    Plenty of humour. Loved the first scene between Booth and Rebecca when he climbs over her and falls off the side of the bed to answer his phone. Borenaz is great at comic stuff - lets face it Borenaz is great period full stop.
    We get more insight into the relationship between him and his ex who seems a much more sympathetic person than we thought.
    All round, most enjoyable, and I don't hate Cam unlike a lot of other people.moreless

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  • You've GOT to be kidding me!!! no, No, NO!!! STOP!! It's official: Booth is a slut and the writers are morons.

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    By Trace_ZBullet, Apr 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    WHY did thye do this?! Booth slept with and dumped one innapropriate woman, ignored the one woman he SHOULD be sleeping with, and slept with ANOTHER! That last scene got my hopes up and then the camera panned around and revealed HER!! I, of course, yelled and threw things at the TV. What the hell are the writers thinking?? We all *know* he needs to be with Bones but *nooo* why don't we introduce a new character for everyone to hate and make Booth into a slut? /sarcasm/
    I hope I won't have to but I might only keep watching for Angela and Hodgins(the only reason my review didn't get a 1 out of 10)moreless

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  • I really want BOOTH and BONES to get together but no an ex-girlfriend and BONES\'s boss comes into the picture, can we give them a chance for them to atlest admit it was a mistake.moreless

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    By laurenauer, Apr 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    BOOTH has made 2 kinds of those mistakes why not make it a hattrick and throw BONES in the equasion.This is really annoying me. I thought that after BOOTH got blown up and he saved BONEs\'s life that they would at least kiss but know she just cancels her date with david. Stupid Stupid Stupid

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    • Brennan: Well, this is not a tooth. It's a crown. Cam: Exactly. Any of your women happen to be missing one? Booth: Not that I could see. Brennan: Well it wouldn't be theirs anyway. It's sized for a man. Cam: I knew that. There is no difference between a man's and a woman's crown. Crowns are sized for each tooth, but there is no specific type of crown that varies based on sex. Edit
    • Goof: Rebecca goes to tell Booth that he is a great father and Dr. Brennan walks away. Rebecca then asks Booth, "Was that Dr. Brennan?" trying to seem as though they did not have their conversation earlier in the episode. This would be fine except they met at the end of the episode "Mother and Child in the Bay" at the diner. In that episode Rebecca used Brennan's name in greeting her. Edit
    • In this episode Booth sleeps with both of his exes - Rebecca and Cam. He says both times, "That was a huge mistake", and at the beginning when Dr. Brennan calls after Rebecca and Booth have sex, it seems like he feels a bit guilty. Edit

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    • Featured Music: "I Want to Be Loved" by Cassandra Wilson (when Booth and Cam are in bed at the end of the episode) Edit
    • The German episode title for this episode is "Der Lügner in der Lauge," which actually means "The Liar In The Lye." Edit
    • International Air Dates: Denmark: November 28, 2006 on TV3 Belgium: September 22, 2007 on RTL-TVI Germany: September 26, 2007 on RTL Edit

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    • Booth: You know what Bones, it might be all anthropology to you, but there are certain people you just can't sleep with. I mean, you can pretend that it's just sex, you can lie to yourself and you can say that it's all good but there are too many strings, too much at stake, you know? Too much to lose. Brennan: Yeah, I can see that. Edit
    • Angela: (facing away) Thing is, I cannot think of a single woman who would want three husbands. Hodgins: (off-camera) Good thing. Guy would never be stupid enough to let it happen. Angela: Excuse me. These women were not stupid (turns around and sees Hodgins sitting in the now-clean tub)...and that is completely gross. Hodgins: But comfy. (Angela smiles.) Welcome back, by the way. Angela: What? Hodgins: Well, after two days of inappropriate comments, you're back to judging me for gross behavior. Angela: When am I ever appropriate? Hodgins: Good point. Maybe it was just the judging me I missed. Ah, the woman I know and love (sits up quickly)...in a purely non-romantic, happy-to-be-judged way. Angela: Well...(nods). Anyway. Hodgins: These women. Angela: Right. Not stupid. And, frankly, that they allowed themselves to be duped is a sad statement on how lean the market is out there. Hodgins: I resent that. I'm out there. Angela: You certainly are. Edit
    • Angela: First of all, how does anyone juggle two spouses? Hodgins: I can think of ways. Of course by juggle I mean quite literally... Cam: (motions to Hodgins) I have a scalpel. Angela: Maybe he dissolved himself so there'd be more of him to go around. (Sees Cam giving her a look.) I'm going to hell, aren't I? Hodgins: I'll save you a seat. Edit

  • Allusions

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    • Dr. Hodgins makes a reference to Vice-President Cheney accidentally shooting Texas attorney Harry Whittington back in February 2006. Edit
    • (talking about lying wives/mistresses) Booth: They should have a dozen Oscars. Brennan: I know what those are. Apart from the reference to the Academy Awards, this is an obvious reference to Brennan's common answer to any kind of cultural reference: "I don't know what that means." Edit
    • Angela: One medal for each desperate housewife! Desperate Housewives is a popular dark comedic TV series set in a suburban residential area about a handful of women whose lives are affected when one housewife commits suicide. Edit

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