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Looking for missing six year-old Charles Gregory Sanders, Zach's equipment finds in a suburban youth party field the badly degraded corps of the barely four days dead boy. Autopsy, hard to do objectively on such a young kid, shows Charlie was drugged. Golden spoon-mother Margaret Sanders divorced Charlie's dad before his birth and has two happy teenage foster sons, the brothers David and Shawn Cook. Booth quickly gains their confidence and guesses right David dated his girl-friend Leila at the mall and left younger Shawn with a friend in the park. Mall security recordings show unattended Charlie went to someone calling him. A hereditary bone defect proves Margeret isn't Charlie's biological mother, she illegally kept baby Nathan Downey from OD's junkie Janine, Both arrests her for kidnapping. Video enhancement shows Charlie was taken out by Shawn, who was abused by his dad. Bones shows atypical empathy for foster kids, after personal experience, which proves crucially useful after the... Written by
KGF Vissers
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Angela, talking to Hodgins, mentions that he's annoyed by the government, "a conspiracy of dunces". She may be referring to 'A Confederacy of Dunces', a novel by
John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980.
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Angela describes a video image as "640 by 480 pixels per square inch". In reality, the image would be 640 by 480 pixels; "per square inch" is incorrect. (Pixels per inch would vary depending on the device being used to view the image.)
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Special Agent Seeley Booth:
Where were you taking Charlie, Shawn?
Shawn Cook:
[
Shawn moving water on the table with his finger]
I brought him to the mall to see David.
Special Agent Seeley Booth:
I know you brought him to the mall but we got a picture of you leading him out of the mall.
Dr. Temperance Brennan:
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in the observation room, watching Booth interrogate Shawn]
Have you seen much of this kind of thing?
Sara Johnston:
I'm a juvenile prosecutor. I wish I could say kids killing kids was rare.
Special Agent Seeley Booth:
Where were you taking him, Shawn?
Shawn Cook:
When can I talk to Margaret?
Special Agent Seeley Booth:
After you answer my questions.
Dr. Temperance Brennan:
Can he do ...
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Star Wars (1977)
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B&B investigate the death of a young boy who disappeared from a mall and whose body turns up in a nearby field. It takes a bit, but the team realizes he was crushed to death in some manner they have trouble understanding. Then it's a case of figuring out who grabbed the kid from the mall. The killer is given away early, unfortunately. The twist to the episode is that the boy came from a family with a single mom and two other boys -- all of them foster kids. And this has a serious bearing on the case, as Dr. Brennan intuits. She reveals quite a surprise to Booth near the end. A very depressing episode. A nice touch at the end had the boss telling one of the team, who is thinking of quitting, how valuable her job is to the team.