The Superhero in the Alley

Episode aired Feb 8, 2006
TV-14
41m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

1.5K

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David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, and Eric Millegan in Bones (2005)

Crime Drama Mystery

Bones and Booth investigate a body found in an alley that is dressed in a costume. The case leads them to a missing teen involved in comic books and a role playing game.Bones and Booth investigate a body found in an alley that is dressed in a costume. The case leads them to a missing teen involved in comic books and a role playing game.Bones and Booth investigate a body found in an alley that is dressed in a costume. The case leads them to a missing teen involved in comic books and a role playing game.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Citizen 14 comic is made by Warren and Ellis. This may be a reference to graphic novel writer Warren Ellis.

Goofs
When Bones and Booth are supposedly in a DC-area bowling alley telling the owners that their employee had died, a yellow flier is visible promoting the "61st California State Bowling Championships".

Quotes
Zack Addy: [about the victim] Epiphyseal union with the diaphysis on the wrists, knees and ankles suggests the was between 14 and 18 years old. 1.6 meters tall, a very slight build suggesting that he was at the younger end of the scale.
Dr. Jack Hodgins: That tracks with the bag. The degraded cellulose we found is a graphic novel.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: A what?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: It's a comic book.
Zack Addy: I never read comic books.
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Really? Oh, I had you pegged for a graphic novel nut.
Zack Addy: The face and cranial vault are badly fractured. Blows to the parietal have sent radiating fracture lines between the mid-frontal and anterior temple buttresses.
[to Hodgins]
Zack Addy: Why?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Focusing gentleman.

Connections
References Star Trek (1966)

Soundtracks
Bat Country
Written by Avenged Sevenfold
Performed by Avenged Sevenfold

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Featured review

1/10

Insensitive to Domestic Violence

The reason I gave this episode the lowest of low marks, was due to the insensitivity to the plight of domestic violence in our world.

Your writer(s) made that segment seem like it is the "woman's" fault for being in that circumstance, without knowing what it is truly like. In fact, you made the character feel personal guilt for her "husband" killing the boy. Your writers were more "giving and understanding" to the parents who had isolated and had no love for him. Really... that's the problem with writers, you can shift people's views on public issues... and in this case, you shifted it the WRONG WAY.

Try to understand that it is sometimes a brave act to stay, as well as a brave act to leave. A woman will need to make decisions for her own safety, and sometimes the safety of her children, that you may not understand. She will need to find the confidence and the right time to act.

She will know when it is time to leave...