The Man in the Bear

"**The Man in the Bear**"
"The Man in the Bear"
Bonesepisode
Episodeno.	Season 1; Episode 4
Directed by	Allan Kroeker
Written by	Laura Wolner
Production code	1AKY04
Original air date	November 1, 2005
Guest appearances
	Alex Carteras Dr. Andrew Rigby; Marguerite MacIntyreas Dr. Denise Randall; Steve Reevisas Sherman Rivers; Rusty Joineras Charlie; Tom Kiescheas Sheriff Chris Scutter;
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"The Man in the Bear"is the fourth episode of the first season of the television seriesBones.Originally aired on November 1, 2005, onFOXnetwork, the episode is written byLaura Wolnerand directed byAllan Kroeker.The plot features FBI Special AgentSeeley BoothandDr. Temperance Brennan's investigation concerning a human hand that was found inside a bear inWashingtonstate.^[1]

Summary

To Brennan's dismay, Booth takes her, with Dr. Goodman's permission, to small town Aurora, Washington, to identify the victim whose arm was found inside a black bear. From a photograph taken of the arm, Brennan sees that the victim had his arm cut off by a saw before the bear ate it.^[1]

Once there, Booth and Brennan meet with the sheriff and the local doctors. The victim is a young male but only one person has been reported missing — a woman by the name of Ann Noyes. Brennan sends the bone fragments back to the Jeffersonian, where her assistant,Zack Addy,debrides them and finds indentations belonging to bite marks from a human — Brennan realizes the killer is acannibal.Since a cannibal would get sick withprion disease,Brennan visits local coroner Dr. Andrew Rigby to ask him if he has met with any patients with such symptoms. He says that he has not.^[1]

Back at the lab,Dr. Jack Hodginsexamines the bearscatBrennan had sent to him and finds a flap of skin with a tattoo, which turns out to be aHaidaSun motif, when recreated byAngela Montenegro.From the tattoo, the sheriff is able to find the victim's identity via a missing persons check. The victim is Adam Langer, and according to the sheriff, he used to come up to Aurora to visit Sherman Rivers, the town's Native American Park Ranger. However, when Booth and Brennan go to question Rivers, he escapes into the woods.^[1]

They find Rivers the next morning in the woods. From the evidence Booth and Brennan gathered from Rivers' house, they are convinced that he is apoacherbut not the cannibal. With Hodgins' expertise and Rivers' help, they find the crime scene in the woods, where they also find a perverse version of amedicine wheeland two dead bodies belonging to Adam Langer and Ann Noyes, whose heart has been removed.^[1]

Based onadipocereformation, Brennan estimates Ann Noyes has been dead for about a week. When it is revealed that Adam Langer was seeing local veterinarian Dr. Denise Randall, Booth and Brennan corner her at a local bar, where they get her to bite into a block of dental medium so they can check her teeth marks. However, Brennan points out that Randall had no motives for killing Ann Noyes and that they are more likely looking for someone who is clinically insane. Meanwhile, Zack finds more marks on Ann Noyes's sternum, which Brennan determines to be made by a sternum spreader.^[1]She realizes that Dr. Rigby would have seen this beforehand but did not mention it because he is the cannibal. Booth and Brennan find Rigby in the process ofcrematingthe bodies; Brennan knocks Rigby out with a bedpan.

During the episode, Hodgins and Zack vie for the attention of the parcel delivery person, played byK. D. Aubert,who later turns out to be bisexual, choosing Angela over Hodgins and Zack.

Music

The episode featured the following music:^[1]

Mike Doughty– "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well"
Peter Himmelman– "Big Me"

Production details

The episode was written as the series' fifth episode but broadcast as the fourth.^[2]According to Laura Wolner, writer of the episode, the idea for the episode came from her interest in cannibalism and that it would be fascinating to see "teeth marks on bones that turned out not to be from an animal, but from a human". Also by having a different setting, the character of Temperance Brennan could be explored further.^[3]

Response

As a lead-in program forHouse,Bonesattracted 7.99 million viewers in its Tuesday 8:00 pmETtimeslot on the episode's original airdate, ranking third in total viewers in its timeslot.^[4]

References

^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g"The Man In The Bear - Episode Recap".Bones Episode Guide.Los Angeles, CA: FOX Broadcasting Company.Retrieved3 December2010.The Man in the Bearsummary at the officialBonessite
^""Bones" (2005) - Episode list ".Seattle, WA: IMDb (Amazon, Inc).Retrieved3 December2010.
^cp2006."Episode 105, The Man in the Bear".Bones > Thread - Chronology of Temperance, Season One.Los Angeles, CA: FOX Broadcasting Company.Retrieved3 December2010.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Berman, Marc (4 November 2005)."The Programming Insider: Friday 11/04/05".New York, NY: Mediaweek. Archived fromthe originalon 13 December 2007.Retrieved3 December2010.

External links

"The Man in the Bear"at Fox
"The Man in the Bear"atIMDb

[TheManInTheBear-1] ^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g"The Man In The Bear - Episode Recap".Bones Episode Guide.Los Angeles, CA: FOX Broadcasting Company.Retrieved3 December2010.The Man in the Bearsummary at the officialBonessite

[IMDb-2] ""Bones" (2005) - Episode list ".Seattle, WA: IMDb (Amazon, Inc).Retrieved3 December2010.

[cp2006-3] 2006."Episode 105, The Man in the Bear".Bones > Thread - Chronology of Temperance, Season One.Los Angeles, CA: FOX Broadcasting Company.Retrieved3 December2010.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[Berman-4] Berman, Marc (4 November 2005)."The Programming Insider: Friday 11/04/05".New York, NY: Mediaweek. Archived fromthe originalon 13 December 2007.Retrieved3 December2010.

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