S7.E6

The Crack in the Code

Episode aired Jan 12, 2012
TV-14
44m

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David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Tamara Taylor, and T.J. Thyne in Bones (2005)

A human spinal column was deposited at night at the Lincoln monument with a message taunting to find the rest. Its vertebrates were reassembled, forming a code Hodgins gets obsessed with sol... Read allA human spinal column was deposited at night at the Lincoln monument with a message taunting to find the rest. Its vertebrates were reassembled, forming a code Hodgins gets obsessed with solving. The blood on it stems from 5 FBI agents, who donated it at the Red Cross. Sweets and... Read allA human spinal column was deposited at night at the Lincoln monument with a message taunting to find the rest. Its vertebrates were reassembled, forming a code Hodgins gets obsessed with solving. The blood on it stems from 5 FBI agents, who donated it at the Red Cross. Sweets and his profile help Booth identify suspects, notably brilliant hacker Christopher Pelant and... Read all

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Trivia
The office number of Sophia Berman, the hospital IT expert whose father killed himself after dealing with a corrupt FBI agent, is 447. A significant number within the Bones universe.

Goofs
When trying to solve the spine code, Hodgins has the sequence of bones displayed on bottom and on top of that is a sequence of letters that's implied to be what the bone sequence is supposed to translate to, but no explanation is given as to how he determined that sequence. Furthermore, when Angela suggests just looking at the numbers and ignoring the letters of of the spinal column, her program puts the numbers up on the screen in the correct order and then it spontaneously changes to a completely different number sequence with no rhyme or reason and neither of them question it. It isn't simply the numbers in reverse nor is it a simple letters to numbers transposition using the aforementioned sequence Hodgins had up. In other words, they should not have been able to arrive at the conclusion they did the way they did, and if the code actually contains the information from their conclusion at all then a bunch of steps were skipped.

Quotes
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Look, all I'm saying is that John Wilkes Booth was secretly a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle - affiliated with Rome.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Okay, a little friendly advice: do not mention Booth to Booth. They are related. He will shoot you.

Connections
References Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Soundtracks
Be Invited
Written by Greg Dulli
Performed by The Twilight Singers

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8/10

Now We Have to Wait

Not much to say. We have been introduced to Palent who is the villain for the rest of the season. He will be matching wits with Brennan who has declared herself smarter than he is. A spinal column, made up from the vertebrae of numerous people ends up being a code. Behind it all is a guy who is supposedly on house arrest. He is a sociopath, thinking he can save the world. There are several twists and turns, including the merciless killings of innocent people. There is also a vendetta against the FBI. Booth and Brennan find their dream house, but it's not exactly what they thought it would be. I'm a little disappointed that it will take so long to see things come to fruition.