"Bones" Death in the Saddle (2007)

Director:

Craig Ross Jr.

Writers:

Hart Hanson (creator)
Kathy Reichs (inspiration)

TV Series:

"Bones" (2005)

Original Air Date:

9 October 2007 (Season 3, Episode 3)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

A body with equine markings sends Booth and Bones into a world of fetishism, and Angela agrees to undergo hypnosis to get the name of her husband.

Plot Keywords:

Love Scene | Knife | Ritual | Fingerprints | Whip

Cast

Emily Deschanel	...	Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan
David Boreanaz	...	Special Agent Seeley Booth
Michaela Conlin	...	Angela Montenegro
Eric Millegan	...	Dr. Zack Addy
Tamara Taylor	...	Dr. Camille Saroyan
T.J. Thyne	...	Dr. Jack Hodgins (as TJ Thyne)
Michael Cudlitz	...	Lucky
Christina Cox	...	Anne 'Annie Oakley' Marie Ostenback
Bess Meyer	...	Alice Milner
Anne-Marie Johnson	...	Dr. Jasper
Rik Young	...	Thor / Calvin Johnson
Jay Jablonski	...	Tom Mularz
Bashir Salahuddin	...	Counselor
Dave Marlin	...	Aaron
Miles Heizer	...	Joey

Runtime:

Germany:42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Josephson Entertainment

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the teaser, Dr. Brennen says that the victim's (Ed's) "... teeth show evidence of a bit...", setting up a "Mr. Ed - a horse is a horse, of course, of course" joke, Dr. Hodgin's laughs but in the picture we see Dr. Hodgin's mouth is closed, and he's, clearly, not laughing.

Quotes:

FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth: Here we are, all of us, basically alone, separate creatures, just circling each other, all searching for that slightest hint of a real connection. Some look in the wrong places, some they just give up hope because in their mind they're thinking "Oh there's nobody out there for me," but all of us, we keep trying over and over again. Why? Because every once in a while...
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Movie Connections:

References "Mister Ed" (1961)

Strange

B&B find themselves dealing with folks who like to act like horses and folks who like to treat other folks as if they were horses. A body leads them to a group that practices this rather odd form of fetishism. A stranger episode has never been seen, I can tell you that. It also is funny as hell. Meanwhile, Angels undergoes hypnosis to try to recollect the name of her husband (don't ask). The hypnotherapist will be familiar to fans of the old TV series, "In The Heatof the Night." The real comedy is watching how dispassionately Brennan reacts to the fetishistic horsey crowd, compared to the largely unnerved Booth. When the folks who play horses kneel down to eat oats out of troughs placed on the floor, watch B&B's separate reactions. Ya gotta love this episode, although I wouldn't want anyone under 12 watching it.