The Woman in the Car
"The Woman in the Car" | |
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Bones episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 11 |
Directed by | Dwight H. Little |
Written by | Noah Hawley |
Production code | 1AKY09 |
Original air date | February 1, 2006 |
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"The Woman in the Car" is the 11th episode of the first season of the television series,
Summary
Special Agent Seeley Booth enters Dr. Temperance Brennan's office and waits as she awkwardly answers questions about her new book, Bred in the Bone, in a television interview on Wake Up, DC!. After the interview ends, Booth quickly takes her to the crime scene where a car and its driver were found extensively burnt, with signs of a child kidnapping. They retrieve the body to the Jeffersonian Institute where they determine the remains belong to an Eastern European female, who is also a mother.
As they examine the evidence, the team is interrupted by the arrival of Agent Samantha Pickering from the
Booth finds out Carl's secret meetings at a motel were the cause of the separation between Carl and his wife. The meetings were with Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Weeks, assigned to Decker's case against KBC Systems. Weeks tells Booth that Carl disappeared after he was not allowed to talk with his son. Booth and Brennan find Carl at KBC Systems, pointing a gun to the CEO's head, accusing him of the kidnapping. Carl reluctantly surrenders at Brennan and Booth's urging.
Brennan and her assistant,
The kidnappers threaten Booth by sending him Donovan's finger. From the finger, Brennan is able to ascertain that the boy is alive and her team is able to pinpoint the location the boy is being held, which is an abandoned gas station or mechanic shop. Booth and the SWAT team find the abandoned gas station, kill the kidnappers and save Donovan.
This episode also marks Booth's 48th and 49th kills.
Conception
According to the writer of the episode, Noah Hawley, the main idea of the episode was that the characters get to save a person's life by using their skills whereas in most of the series' episodes, after they find a body, it is followed by an investigation on the victim. Hawley also "wanted to raise [Booth's] stakes in this case and then give him the chance to take some real action - to save a boy's life not just based on his expertise as an investigator, a sniper, but also as a father." The security review conducted on the characters in the episode was used to explore "each person's quirks and create possible scenarios that played against who we think they are. But however far the dismantling of our team went, it was satisfying to show our heroine Bones, remains somehow, untouchable."
Response
On its original airdate, "The Woman in the Car" received 12.61 million viewers with
References
- ^ Berman, Marc, "The Programming Insider", Mediaweek.com, February 2, 2006. Retrieved on July 17, 2007.
External links
- "The Woman in the Car" at Fox.com
- "The Woman in the Car" at IMDb