A Boy in a Tree is the third episode of the first season of the American television series Bones . The series premiered in the United States on September 27, 2005 on Fox . The episode was directed by Patrick Norris , screenwriter Hart Hanson . Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan investigate the death of a teenager in a prestigious private school.
| Boy on a tree A boy in a tree | |||||
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| Episode of the series " Bones " | |||||
 Brennan stands by a hanging corpse | |||||
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| Episode number | Season 1 Episode 3 | ||||
| Producer | Patrick Norris | ||||
| written by | Hart hanson | ||||
| Operator | Steven smith Greg Bubb | ||||
| Manufacturer Code | 1AKY01 | ||||
| Delivery Date | September 27, 2005 | ||||
| Guest Actors | |||||
| Toby Hemingway Kayla May Meloni Avis Urentmore Marlene Forte Tom Dugan Samuel Carman | |||||
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Content
Story
Booth, Brennan, and Zach go to Hanover Private School, where a decaying corpse hanged on a tree was found. After receiving the body, they go to the Jefferson Institute in Washington. Jack Hodgins determined that the victim died 10 to 14 days ago.
While Booth was trying to get a list of students from the school principal, Brennan removed a cochlear implant from the victim's ear. Tracing the serial number on the implant from the database, she found that it belonged to Nestor Olivos, a school student and the only son of the Venezuelan ambassador. Temperance seemed strange that Nestorn's hyoid bone was broken, as in adolescents it was flexible and should not break.
Although the school principal and head of the security service were confident that Olivos was suicidal, Nestor’s mother, Venezuelan ambassador, did not believe in suicide and urged Dr. Brennan to find the truth. The main secret was the question of whether Nestor killed himself or was killed.
Based on Tabinid dolls, Hodgins determined that before his death, Nestor took a large dose of ketamine , which is a dissociative anesthetic . However, the team is not sure that the guy took the drug unintentionally, but Brennan understood the role of ketamine in the scenario of Nestor's death. Nestor would have vomited due to suffocation, but ketamine mixed with gastric juice (consisting of hydrochloric acid ) was blocked by a rope tightened around the neck, and this mixture eventually weakened the hyoid bone. And body weight broke a bone.
In addition to forensic evidence, Brennan and Booth find a sexually-recorded DVD in the victim’s room. Nestor's classmates, Tucker Pattison and Camden Destry, hid a camera in front of his bed. After Tucker used the record to blackmail Camden's mother, Camden decided to blackmail Nestor as well. When Tucker and Camden found out that Nestor was going to tell the director everything, they pumped him with drugs and hung him on a tree to pretend to be suicidal. In the end, Booth and Brennan proved that the victim was killed.
Music
The following tracks were used in the episode [1] :
- Miles from Montery - West Indian Girl
- Sunshine everywhere - Deep Audio
- City Streets - Positive Flow
- The Alternative to Love - Brendan Benson
Production
“The Boy in the Tree” was filmed before the episode “The Man in the SUV ” , aired as the second episode [2] [3] . The story of the episode was designed to show the differences between the characters Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth. Hart Hanson, the screenwriter of the episode, describes Brennan as “the product of first-class private schools,” while Booth as “the product of public schools and the dirty education of the US Army.”
Rating
The third series of the television series in the USA was watched by 7.57 million viewers [4] . After the results of the three episodes, Fox found that the greatest number of viewers was during the demonstration of the television series at 8 o’clock in the evening [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Bones Season 1 music
- ↑ Bones' episode list Archived April 2, 2010 at Wayback Machine , Official site of Bones .
- ↑ Production codes for "The Man in the SUV" and "A Boy in a Tree" are 1AKY02 and 1AKY01 respectively.
- ↑ Berman, Marc, " Primetime Tuesday Ratings: ABC and NBC Share Dominance; Strong Start for ABC's Commander in Chief Archived October 8, 2007 to Wayback Machine ", Mediaweek.com , September 28, 2005. Retrieved on July 7, 2007.
- ↑ Fox Broadcasting Company, " Fox orders full seasons of the hit series 'Bones' and 'The War at Home' ", The Futon Critic , October 12, 2005. Retrieved on July 17, 2007.
Links
- A Boy in a Tree summary on the series website
- "Bones" Boy on a Tree (2005) at IMDb.com
- Bones: Boy on a Tree