Bones (TV Series) The Man in the SUV (2005) User Reviews

Afghans are not Arabs!

[beltezam1939 · 6/10 · 21 July 2019]

There is a really glaring err in this episode. It totally mixes up Arabs and Afghans! Different area and culture. Afghans speak Farsi (Persian) or Pastoo. The only thing they have in common is religion and even then it is different sects.

The Chemistry has already started

[mitchrmp · 7/10 · 9 July 2016]

As far as the story line goes, there's nothing unusual or exciting there. Conclusions are drawn that the Muslim who blew up was a terrorist...

The chemistry between Booth and Brennan is there already. They work closely together with romantic tension that makes them argue (love the B & B arguments!) Angela goes out of her way to encourage they take their relationship to the next level. Unfortunately, we'll endure years of romantic tension before it explodes...

The ending with B & B is a bit sad - neither is happy and neither wants to leave the other. Of course, they do.

I like Zack in these beginning episodes. He gets a bit creepy in the third season. The other squints just seem a bit disjointed from each other, but eventually they all get close...

Meltdown

[ctomvelu-1 · 7/10 · 29 December 2008]

An SUV blows up outside a cafe, killing the driver -- an Arab -- and a couple of others in the vicinity. Waa it an act of terror? That's what B&B hope to find out. The man's wife and brother claim he was no terrorist. But are they telling the truth? It's pretty clear from the outset something else is going on. This early episode helps define members of Brennan's team a little better. Brennan and Booth get to indulge in some playful banter at a bar. And we get to see Angela outside the lab for a change. Angela will soon reach a point where she isn't sure this is what she really wants to do for a living. Who can blame her?

Bones:The Man in the SUV

[Scarecrow-88 · 7/10 · 20 November 2010]

By episode two the Fox series Bones was already hitting its stride. In THE MAN IN THE SUV, an Arab working with the US government for peace between his people in America, is blown to smithereens in his vehicle and, at first, it's considered a suicidal bombing, later to be proved(thanks to the Jeffersonian team)as murder. Something was causing this victim to be poisoned, and Booth is considering his wife as the prime suspect..that or her adulterous lover, an actual mole for Homeland Security(who soon order Booth and Brennan off the case). Thanks to Zack and Hodges' decision to piece together the bomb used to explode the victim's SUV, they might just uncover the one responsible. This episode was already exploring the dynamics in Booth and Bones' relationship, and how Seeley was currently seeing a gorgeous lawyer, Tessa(played by Anne Dudek who seems to be everywhere on television these days). There's the obvious tension between Booth and the squints, how their worlds are so painfully different(Booth even makes a comment that he's tiring of needing subtitles from the scientists just so he could understand their language), yet we see how, despite their differences, they can work together and catch criminals. For instance Zack and Hodges' prying into FBI territory, they are able to lend Booth a hand in stopping a possible suicide bombing in a cultural center in DC. Also how Bones and her people shun a member of Homeland Security assigned to keep an eye on them as they find out whether or not the charred corpse was in fact Masruk, hoping it wasn't due to the potential backlash as a result..it works both ways, the scientists do not like the FBI nosing in their affairs and vice versa. We see Booth have to take a target out and his reluctance to do so due to his past(Bones poked fun at him in the first episode when Booth spoke of making amends as a homicide detective for all those sniper kills where she says that there is no "cosmic balance"). Angela can not help herself in prying into Booth's personal life so that she can see if Bones has a shot with him, not to mention, Tessa is a constant presence in conversations..the topic of conversation is whether or not Tessa and Booth's relationship is strong and if Bones is a legitimate threat to this union.

At Least It Improved On The First Episode

[ccthemovieman-1 · 6/10 · 25 December 2006]

More evidence that this forensic crime show is made mainly for twenty-somethings with the fake-hip dialog and fixations of romances/sex. If only they would just stick to the crime and the investigation!

When they do, it's good - and informative - but there so much of the crap - mainly scientists talking like immature high school kids with their dating and sex gossip, it's ludicrous. Also, for the second week in a row our feminine, ultra-intelligent female lead shows she can beat up every man. How stupid can you get???! Anyway, this was better than the pilot episode, which shows you how bad that one was.

This week, we an Arab being blown up in his car and taking a number of people with him. It looks like a terrorist act at first, but then it's determined somebody murdered him and set off a bomb under his car. Was it the man who was having an affair with his wife, or was it his brother or was it his wife. (It's one of those three.)

Evidence in the bones that shows a poison tips off the "good guys."

The One With The Man In The SUV...

[taylorkingston · 7/10 · 6 April 2016]

I don't mind this episode. It's good, however, it's not fabulous. But for the second episode of the series, it's a pretty good continuation of this story.

In this episode, Bones, and Booth have another case, obviously. Bones is called to identify the remains of a body in a blown-up SUV. It is a suspicious case, as the victim is suspected to be a suicide car bomber. Sadly, the bomb did hurt, and kill other people surrounding the near-by car.

Best part of the episode: Bones.

Worst part of the episode: Politics.

Overall, I give this episode a 7 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Great.

Standard Fare

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 5 January 2023]

I am patient with first seasons. The writers amped up the tension between Bones and Seely here. Their simplistic views of their own importances at this time are quite distracting. Booth really does act stupid when he shows a lack of knowledge of a couple fairly simple vocabulary words. Brennan's treatment of the FBI guy is really unfair. He is just doing his job. She doesn't want to bother with protocol and he becomes a roadblock in her work. I know she is probably way over on the spectrum, but I hope we don't have too much more of that. I liked that the case becomes important at the end. One thing I would like to see dumped is Angela's fixation on getting Brennan laid. She sounds like an eighth grader at times.

Wrong facts

[angelaa-93949 · 2/10 · 24 March 2021]

So many things went wrong but let me just start with that the actor playing Hamid was talking Lebanese accent which brings us to the second point that Afghans aren't Arab and don't talk Arabic

Afghans don't speak Arabic

[hadjadjom · 1/10 · 22 February 2022]

The guy was clearly speaking Lebanese dialect (which is Arabic btw) while they're saying he's from Afghanistan this is terrible Americans know literally nothing about the world.