The Woman in the Garden (15 Feb. 2006)

Bones and Booth investigate the body of a woman found in the car of a gang member. The case leads them to a dangerous Central American gang and a Senator.

Director:

Sanford Bookstaver

Writers:

Hart Hanson (creator), Kathy Reichs (inspired by the life of forensic anthropologist and author),

Stars:

Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Emily Deschanel	...	Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan
David Boreanaz	...	Special Agent Seeley Booth
Michaela Conlin	...	Angela Montenegro
Eric Millegan	...	Zack Addy
T.J. Thyne	...	Dr. Jack Hodgins (as TJ Thyne)
Jonathan Adams	...	Dr. Daniel Goodman
Michael Cavanaugh	...	Senator Alan Corman
Dey Young	...	Kate Corman
Matt Barr	...	Logan Corman
Robert LaSardo	...	Miguel Villeda
Jose Pablo Cantillo	...	Jose Vargas
Mike Gomez	...	Hector Alvaredo
Emilio Rivera	...	Ramon Ortez
Dennis Cockrum	...	Neil Clayton
Adam Lieberman	...	FBI Agent Sanders

Storyline

In a Salvadorian barrio, a routine car check finds a recently dug-up, decomposed pregnant Central American body in a Mara Muerte gang member's car-boot, with a crushed skull; nobody is talking to the police, a car shoots at Booth and Bones so the gang driver can make a run for it. Booth questions gang leader Miguel Villeda. Plant traces make them search the barrio's communal vegetable garden, where it was indeed buried, with another body. A rare flowering pond plant trace points to Senator Alan Corman, a known supporter of oppressive Central American right-wing regimes which use death-squads. His son Logan, a landscaping architecture student, recognizes the gang driver's robot photo as Jose Vargas, a nice family-man and irregular gardener. The second body is found buried near the senator's pond; it's a year old, a Hispanic sixty-ish male shot with a military-type weapon, like death squads prefer, but he survived that wound and is the Salvadoran woman's father as indicated by the same ...

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Plot Keywords:

sexual tension

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance

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Details

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

15 February 2006 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Science Center in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Josephson Entertainment, Far Field Productions, 20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min

Did You Know?

Goofs

(at around 13 mins) Senator Corman says that his son is studying "landscape architecture at Georgetown". Georgetown University does not offer "landscape architecture" as a course of study. The closest school to Washington D.C. that does offer it would be the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Quotes

Dr. Jack Hodgins: Typically, grave diggers are necrophiliacs looking for a little action.
Angela Montenegro: Um... ew.

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Soundtracks

"Nada es para siempre"
(uncredited)
Written by Reyli
Performed by Elefante

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