The Woman in the Car (1 Feb. 2006)

Booth and Bones work quickly to solve not only a murder, but also the kidnapping of the victim's child.

Director:

Dwight H. Little

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
Zeljko Ivanek	...	Carl Decker
Suzanne Cryer	...	Agent Pickering
Lawrence Pressman	...	Trent Seward
Jake Cherry	...	Donovan Decker
Jaime Ray Newman	...	Stacy Goodyear
Sarah Ann Schultz	...	Maria Semov
Alexa Fischer	...	Sharon Pomeroy
John M. Jackson	...	FBI Deputy Director Sam Cullen
Anna Easteden	...	Polina Decker (as Anna Shemeikka)

Storyline

The completely burned corpse of a woman in a car is identified as the estranged wife of genius Carl Decker, the crown witness against his employer KBC Systems, a criminally deficient US Army supplier. Further traces show she bit a man's ear off and was tortured by electrocution; there also was a child with her- probably her and Carl's eight year-old son Donovan Decker, who is missing. The Jeffersonian team is security-screened by federal Agent Pickering, except Hodgins who is furious to be considered 'too inoffensive' and already screened anyhow because of a relative's promotion in the State Department, until... Booth shows his weak flank as a protective father, determined to find and save Donovan at all cost, thanks to good work by Hodgins and especially Zach, and deals with Carl's desperate move as well as cynical careerist Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Weeks who cares only for the company's trial...

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Plot Keywords:

sexual tension

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 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:

43 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

Booth, Brennan and Montenegro are discussing the presence of Agent Pickering whilst a facial identification system operates in the background. The system can be seen comparing face images from very different angles of view (see, for example, just after Montenegro says 'you better believe it, bucko'). In reality, facial mapping cannot work across changes in viewing angle.

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Quotes

Dr. Jack Hodgins: [to State Department agent who's running a security review on the squints] I know things that would curdle your blood, including a formula that literally curdles blood.

User Reviews

Okay episode but I don't like the show much

This was an incredibly gruesome episode, I suppose that is just representative of this television show. I admit I wasn't paying much attention. Anyway, as far as I recall, a woman was found dead and burnt in a car, and her son, it was worked out, had been kidnapped. They had to analyse her bones to work out all sorts of things about her, it was pretty cool. I think this might have been the episode in which a shrink popped up to work with all the bones people? There was one really cool scene with the shrink and the cool young bones guy Zach. It was pretty funny, I really enjoyed that. He is a very nicely-written character. This was a disturbing and sad episode, but Jake Cherry's acting was very good. Despite the cool young guy, the often-depressing nature of the plots and the fairly ordinary regular cast aren't enough to get me into the show.