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Bones Episode: "Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van"

Season 3, Episode 2
Episode Synopsis: The Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of a soccer mom, whose minivan was rigged with a bomb. They discover clues linking the victim to a radical left-wing group that carried out numerous crimes in the 1970s. Meanwhile, Brennan visits her father (Ryan O'Neal) in prison, and Angela becomes jealous when Hodgins works closely with an attractive FBI agent. Original Air Date: Oct 2, 2007

"Soccer Mom in the Minivan"

Tonight's episode put me back in that happy Bones place that made me love the show in the first place. Somewhere between solving a murder and using big science-y words like "capillary electrophoresis" is the show's big heart, and I have to say that tonight I sighed more than once.Soccer mom Amy Nash was killed when her car exploded at a soccer field. I can't say how much this scene got me — the explosion churning red while Lou Reed's sunny "Perfect Day" played in the background and little girls screamed in horror from the adjacent field. The three couldn’t have contrasted more, and it was totally beautiful.Back at the lab, the FBI called in Special Agent Frost, a lady with some impressive skills and equally impressive cleavage, a fact not lost on Hodgins. My favorite quote of the night came when Angela, noting the stuttering mess her man Hodge became around Frost, introduced herself to Frost as "Angela Montenegro. I do facial reconstructions. And him." I heart Angela. Unli... read more

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Premiered: September 13, 2005, on FOX
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Premise: A scientist with an 'uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones' solves murders in a procedural series inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs. Scientist Brennan is often teamed with FBI Special Agent Booth, who mistrusts science and believes evidence should come from the living. The Brennan-Booth pair have drawn favorable comparisons to Scully and Mulder of 'The X-Files.'

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