Crystal's Favorite Episodes: #2
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#2~The Man in the Morgue
This is by far a terrific episode. Temperance goes to New Orleans to help identify victims of Hurricane Katrina, and once there is drawn into a web of voodoo & hoodou rituals, murder, and the law. This is also the first episode in which we meet the current AUSA Caroline Julian. The episode is a great example of how well Brennan and Booth work together, especially considering that we see very little of the team back at the Jeffersonian.
WOMAN #1: Sir, ,sir, you can't go in there.
BOOTH: (shrugging her off) Bones, you okay?
BRENNAN: Booth, I told you not to come.
DETECTIVE HARDING: Who's this?
BRENNAN: He's FBI. We're sort of partners.
DETECTIVE HARDING: Guy flies down from D.C.? You're more than “sort of.”
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Angela perks up hearing Booth's voice and turns toward the speakerphone.
ANGELA: Is that Booth?
BRENNAN (O.S.): (through phone) Yes.
ANGELA: (smiling) You're hopping the Streetcar Named Desire with Booth? (to Zack) Oh, I love this.
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Cut To:
INT. JEFFERSONIAN – X-RAY ROOM
Angela steps forward and speaks into the speakerphone.
ANGELA: Why haven't you come home?
BRENNAN: (O.S. through phone) Pretty soon, Ange.
ANGELA: Is Booth there socially?
Cut To:
INT. CAR – NEW ORLEANS - DAY
BRENNAN: No, of course, not.
ANGELA: (O.S. through phone) All right, what's going on?
Booth grabs the phone from Brennan's ear and talks to Angela.
BOOTH: Okay, Bones has amnesia because a…
Cut To:
INT. JEFFERSONIAN – X-RAY ROOM
Camera on Zack's and Angela's reactions to Booth's story.
BOOTH: (O.S. through phone) …voodoo murderer put a spell on her to keep her from solving the murder of John Doe 361.
Cut To:
INT. CAR – NEW ORLEANS - DAY
Brennan tries to grab the phone back from Booth to clarify the story but he switches it to his other ear so she can't reach it.
BRENNAN: That's a huge supposition.
Cut To:
INT. JEFFERSONIAN – X-RAY ROOM
ANGELA: (disbelieving) That's fine if you don't want to tell me.
Zack turns off the phone.
ZACK: Ah. Voodoo amnesia. It's a good one.
ANGELA: Mm-hmm. It's great. Brennan's fighting zombies in New Orleans and we're stuck here.
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ZACK: Can't you send the actual remains?
Cut To:
INT. TEMPORARY MORGUE – FREEZER ROOM
BRENNAN: They don't exist.
ZACK: (O.S.) That makes no sense.
BOOTH: Voodoo. It's probably voodoo.
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CAROLYN JULIAN: You sew those lips together, girl, because there is no such thing as “help” in the New Orleans Police. They just want to close the case as quickly and easily as they can. And you are making it Christmas time for them.
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ANGELA: Or, better still, you can forget the whole thing and come home.
BRENNAN: Don't worry. I made bail.
ZACK: (shocked) Bail?
ANGELA: (shocked) Bail? For what?
BRENNAN: I told you. Don't worry. The…the murder charge won't stick.
HODGINS: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Murder charge?
ANGELA: (rises) Brennan, the next plane. Okay? The next plane or I'm coming down there to get you myself.
BRENNAN: Everything's fine.
BRENNAN: (O.S.) I'm healing up satisfactorily. Bye for now.
The phone shuts off.
HODGINS: Healing up?
ANGELA: (sighs, then to Zack and Hodgins) You know what? This whole state of affairs where Brennan just runs around fighting crime? It's stupid. It's nuts. Don't you agree?
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And finally, the moment that we all first went 'awww' over Hodgins & Angela:
Angela sits down at the computer. Hodgins starts to leave but turns back to her.
HODGINS: Brennan will be fine, Angela. She got bail and the murder charge won't stick.
ANGELA: What is going on with her?
HODGINS: Angela. (he chuckles) She started to change the day she met you.
ANGELA: What?
He has come forward and sits on the edge of her desk.
HODGINS: She sees how you do it. All fun and involvement and pizzazz. Big, you know? Big life. Booth came along and gave her the opportunity, but she got the idea from you. Brennan wants a big life like yours. (she smiles) That's how it looks to me anyway. But what do I know? I'm a bug guy. Bug and slime. And, you know…dirt.
ANGELA: Yeah.
He stares at her and she looks down and up – a bit awkward and shy.
HODGINS: So…okay.
He gets up and leaves. Angela smiles and watches him leave and then ponders a moment.
ANGELA: Hmm.
