S5.E7

The Dwarf in the Dirt

Episode aired Nov 12, 2009
TV-14
1h

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David Boreanaz and Martin Klebba in Bones (2005)

Booth, still suffering from his brain surgery, has to get re-certified for FBI marksmanship. Meanwhile, the team investigates the remains of a little person discovered in a sinkhole. The vic... Read allBooth, still suffering from his brain surgery, has to get re-certified for FBI marksmanship. Meanwhile, the team investigates the remains of a little person discovered in a sinkhole. The victim, Bryce DaFonte, also known as "The Iron Leprechaun," competed in a popular wrestling l... Read allBooth, still suffering from his brain surgery, has to get re-certified for FBI marksmanship. Meanwhile, the team investigates the remains of a little person discovered in a sinkhole. The victim, Bryce DaFonte, also known as "The Iron Leprechaun," competed in a popular wrestling league, the popularity left him with many enemies.

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Trivia
During the original air date, Fox was having a "Tribute to The Simpsons" week during which their shows would somehow reference The Simpsons (1989). In this episode, Dan Castellaneta (who voices Homer Simpson) makes a guest appearance. Also, in the first scene inside the lab at the Jeffersonian, an X-Ray of Homer Simpson's head is clearly hanging in the background.

Goofs
Not only is the rusty gun on the tray nothing like a Ruger it doesn't even look like the weapon shown later to the girlfriend in the interrogation room, which appears to be a small Beretta.

Quotes
George Alano: You don't mind me saying, neither one of you looks like a cop. You look like a substitute teacher and fry cook.
Dr. Gordon Wyatt: "A fry cook?"
Dr. Lance Sweets: We're not cops. We're professional interrogators.
Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Nobody's a fry cook!
Dr. Lance Sweets: [Indicating observation] The cops are in there.
Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Yes. In case you annoy us, and we want an arrest made! Any more cracks about fry cooks and I'll have them come in here to rough you up!

Connections
References Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

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Reason to Live
Performed by Skybombers

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7/10

Hope and Patience

Hi The Bones Booth Pod!

The case itself is not one of my favorites, (it's pretty forgettable) but the episode gains some points with the addition of Gordon Gordon Wyatt. Every episode that Stephen Fry is in, is automatically a better one!

"Bones" is at its strongest when it centers its core relationship between Booth and Brennan, and this episode gives us a lot of forward momentum for their relationship, particularly where Booth's feelings are concerned. Getting Booth to admit to Gordon Gordon how he feels towards Brennan is an important and earned conversation. We as an audience already understand Booth's hesitancy to admit his feelings, (which is at least in part due to a fear that Brennan doesn't love him the way he loves her), but getting him to actually vocalize his fears, is significant. When Gordon Gordon tells Booth to have "hope and patience" when it comes to his relationship with Brennan, it sends a little thrill through my shipper heart every single time! That, and the final scene, are the highlights of the whole episode.

Additionally, I appreciate the conversations between Gordon Gordon and Sweets, and it's nice to see him continue in his mentoring/advice giving role that was introduced in "Mayhem of the Cross". Wyatt helps make Sweets both a better psychologist and better friend to Booth and Brennan.

Fun Fact: Jeremiah Birkett, who plays one of the suspects in the episode, also plays an important role on "Lucifer". It isn't the first or the last time that the two shows will share cast members. I just thought it was an interesting coincidence, seeing as "Lucifer" on the whole, is very much an homage to "Bones".