"Bones" The He in the She (2008)

Director:

Craig Ross Jr.

Writers:

Hart Hanson (creator)
Kathy Reichs (inspiration)

TV Series:

"Bones" (2005)

Original Air Date:

8 October 2008 (Season 4, Episode 6)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

Half a decomposed body is discovered by a pair of beach combers. They find the deceased was leader of a local religious congregation. When the other half of the body is found, they learn the leader had a hidden past.

Plot Keywords:

False Identity | Father Son Relationship | FBI | Forensic | Anthropologist

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
Ryan Cartwright	...	Vincent Nigel-Murray
David Gallagher	...	Ryan Stephenson
Bruce Thomas	...	JP Gratton
Blake Shields	...	Chuck Kennedy
Nancy Youngblut	...	Cecilia Stephenson
John Livingston	...	Wade Schmidt
Sylva Kelegian	...	Rita Gratton
Brett Gilbert	...	Hippie #1
Dustin Hess	...	Hippie #2

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Trivia:

David Gallagher plays the son of a pastor. Gallagher also played the son of a reverend on "7th Heaven" (1996).

Goofs:

Factual errors: There are several references to the "Thai Federal Police", there is no such force. The correct term is "Royal Thai Police".

Quotes:

Ryan Stephenson: One of God's challenges to us is to see past the surface.
[picks up a book and tears up the dust cover]
Ryan Stephenson: To the deeper essential nature, which lies right beneath.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You believe our bodies are like dustcovers?
Ryan Stephenson: That's exactly what I think, Agent Booth. Rip them off, and see what's underneath... You see, all this time I though my father was killed, or had abandoned me, and that's just not what happened. He didn't want to shake my faith. He was protecting me from the truth. He... he didn't want me to have to choose between him and God, and I love my father for that. I just hope God can forgive me for making him feel that way.

Soundtrack:

River Of Sorrow

Check under the tail

A decomposed, partial body is found in the water. Eventually, the other half turns up. Identification is difficult at first, as the deceased apparently had some serious plastic surgery. The team finally realizes this is the body of a man surgically turned into a woman, and a minister at that. Suspicion falls on his son, also a minister. The episode treads lightly on the subject of transsexuals, but it is gruesome in a way that the kiddies in the viewing audience definitely should not be watching this. Keep an eye on the actor playing the son. He undergoes his own rather remarkable transformation without benefit of surgery.