"Bones" Mayhem on a Cross (2009)

Director:

Jeff Woolnough

Writers:

Hart Hanson (creator)
Kathy Reichs (inspiration)

TV Series:

"Bones" (2005)

Original Air Date:

16 April 2009 (Season 4, Episode 21)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

Skeletal remains used by a Norwegian Black Metal Band lead the team to explore the underground music scene...

Plot Keywords:

Ritual | Dinner | Abuse | Torture | Knife

Cast

Emily Deschanel	...	Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan
David Boreanaz	...	Special Agent Seeley Booth
Michaela Conlin	...	Angela Montenegro
Tamara Taylor	...	Dr. Camille Saroyan
T.J. Thyne	...	Dr. Jack Hodgins (as TJ Thyne)
John Francis Daley	...	Dr. Lance Sweets
Stephen Fry	...	Dr. Gordon Wyatt
Eugene Byrd	...	Dr. Clark Edison
A.J. Trauth	...	Pinworm
Michael William Freeman	...	Grinder
Tania Raymonde	...	Lexi
Greg Roman	...	Murderbreath
Frida Show	...	Dr. Solberg (as Frida Farrell)
Thor Knai	...	Delta Unit Commander
Frank Pacheco	...	Mayhem

Runtime:

Netherlands:55 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Norwegian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The team discusses the Norwegian annual murder rate of 0.7, and Brennan says that means less than one murder a year. Since murder rates are given as murders per 100,000 citizens, the Norwegian murder rate works out to about 33 murders per year.

Quotes:

Dr. Lance Sweets: "Scars on the back?"
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I saw them, Sweets.
Dr. Lance Sweets: So... what? You just decided to share something from your past? That is so unlike you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I still hate psychology.

Movie Connections:

References Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) (TV)

Soundtrack:

God of Anger

Cuckoo land

B&B descend into the world of black metal music, as they receive the skeleton of a former metal band member affixed to a cross. Not only do they discover he was shot in the gluteous maximus but that he was tortured and basically cut open down the back, and ultimately strangled. The fun part of the episode has Brennan and Sweets attending a metal concert, with Sweets in full metal makeup so he can blend in (he also was a big fan of metal music not so many years earlier). Brennan simply observes that the music all sounds the same. The Beetle-banged shrink from some previous episodes is back, this time to hobnob with Sweets. Somehow Booth discovers the guy was once a glam rocker. The episode is full out looney-tunes, and very entertaining.