Stargazer in a Puddle

Stargazer in a Puddle
Season 2
Episode 21
Air date	May 16, 2007
Production code	2AKY22
Written by	Hart Hanson
Directed by	Tony Wharmby
Previous	The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House
Next	The Widow's Son in the Windshield (Season 3)

Stargazer in a Puddle is the twenty-first and final episode of the second season of Bones.

Summary

A corpse is found in a popular dumping pool, apparently shot. It seems to be that of a child, but Zack also finds adult, even aged traits. The only explanation is an aging disease, actually Werner Syndrome, which also affected the brain of Cynthia Cole's missing daughter. She falsely accused social worker Joe Mellon of abusing the girl. The real cause of death is a striking OD. Meanwhile, Max brings Bones things from her grandmother. Booth has a duty to arrest him, but first has to prove his criminal identity. Zack declines being Hodgins' best man, so as not to cause sadness if he is killed while serving the nation, but there are more problems.

Cast

Main Cast

• Temperance Brennan - Emily Deschanel
• Seeley Booth - David Boreanaz
• Jack Hodgins - T.J Thyne
• Angela Montenegro - Michaela Conlin
• Zack Addy - Eric Millegan
• Camille Saroyan - Tamara Taylor

Recurring Cast

• Caroline Julian - Patricia Belcher
• Max Keenan - Ryan O'Neal
• Ruth Keenan - Larisa Miller
• Angela's dad - Billy Gibbons
• Charlie Burns - Nathan Dean

Guest Cast

• Cynthia Cole - Roxanne Hart
• Joe Mellon - Joe Nieves
• Minister Sheila - Cleo King
• Steve Braun -- Hallock Beals
• State Department Employee - Travis Brorsen
• D.C. Cop - Eric Stonestreet
• Harpist - Stephanie Bennett
• Wedding Guest - Tiffany Pulvino

Featured Music

• "La Grange" by Billy Gibbons
• "Blue Jeans Blues" by ZZ Top
• "Gimme All Your Lovin'" by on harp Stephanie Bennett and ZZ Top
• "Sonata Pathétique (Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13)" Ludwig van Beethoven by on harp Stephanie Bennett

Notes

• The episode appears to be inspired by the case of Janine Albury-Thomson, a woman who strangled her daughter who had autism, out of finding herself unable to care for her any longer.
• The letter Zack receives has the mailing address of the Jeffersonian Institute. It is addressed to:

Dr. Zachary Uriah Addy

Jeffersonian Institute

1 Jeffersonian Circle

Washington, D.C. 2001

• Bones is given a ring from her father who tells her it belonged to her grandmother. Bones states that he told her she didn't have grandparents. However in A Boy in a Bush, Bones told Booth that she was a foster child until her grandfather got her out of the system.
• Cam asks why Hodgins and Zack are asking for permission to run the "experiment" with spam and the sea shrimps, implying it was unnecessary to ask. The first time she required them to ask permission to run any experiments it was because using Spam would ridicule the Jeffersonian in court.
• In this episode Bones has a TV and a VCR. But it has been established she does not have a TV and it is unlikely she would buy one just for the tap. Most likely she would force someone to let her watch it on their TV.
• In The Woman in the Car, the State Department had mentioned that Angela was married. Now if she was already married then, why wouldn't she previously try to find out about her husband before saying yes to marry Jack. Unless the writers forgot about it when they wrote this episode.
• When Brennan asks Booth how he felt about his father, Booth says he loved his father. This contradicts the later revelations that Booth’s father was an abusive alcoholic, who drove Booth to consider suicide before his grandfather Hank rescued Seeley and his brother Jared. However, he may have simply been lying to her here or was about Hank he later called him his real father.
• Both Brennan's interactions with Max (and her mother) and the murder explore the Nietzschian notion "Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse" meaning "What shall be done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
• Despite the assertion that the victim had Werner Syndrome, the symptoms do not line up with it. It is more consistent with a more severe form of progeria.

I don't know what that means

Angela's Dad: Always play it in the key of G demolished.
Hodgins: I don't know what that means.
Angela's Dad: Well, if you do, you do; if you don't, you don't. Forget it.

Quote

• Angela's Dad: Hodgins, I've got cars, and I've got guitars and I've got guns. You treat my little girl right and you'll only see the business end of the cars and guitars.
• Bones: Angela, with all due respect to your art, facial reconstruction is a science.
  Angela: It's both, babe. And this time, art made science her bitch.
• Aubrey: You know what they say, once a Ranger, always a Ranger. Booth: That's not the Ranger's slogan, Aubrey. Aubrey: Ah, I'm thinking of the Power Rangers.