Bones (TV Series) The Woman in the Car (2006) User Reviews

Not the best episode, but far from the worst

[kolys · 8/10 · 17 October 2007]

This episode is more about character development than about the specific story, I think. Fortunately this show does character development very well.

The investigator who was brought in acts as a foil for the unique traits of each character to play off, and they each do it brilliantly.

Despite my first paragraph, there's also no shortage of action and plot, with the usual twists and turns to be found in any episode of the show.

I'm very confused by the previous commenter who said that the main team were being interviewed by a shrink - a State Department investigator is hardly just a shrink, and I think that goes to show how valuable the previous comment is. If you post a comment in here, please be familiar with what you're talking about.

Viewed through the 2021 prism....

[fabfrenchy-25342 · 7/10 · 3 February 2021]

15 years later, it's easy to forget what a massive conspiracy-spewing tool Hodgins was in the beginning. If the show was still on, I wonder if he'd get sucked down the QAnon rabbit hole. Also fun to see things like Brennan insisting that she's never going to have kids.

How does this episode foreshadow Zachs "fall from grace" at the end of season 3?

[maryellen1077 · 9/10 · 3 October 2009]

I love this show. I have read numerous character reviews about Zach Addy, and one said that his connection to the Gormagon in season 3 can be foreshadowed in this episode of season 1. I have seen the episode a few times and don't understand how on earth this specific story could tell such a thing. Yes, I know a Federal Agent does background checks on all of the squints but I don't recall anything be that detrimental to Zach. Plus didn't the results of the background check get thrown away anyhow?

I have to say this was a great episode, though a tad gruesome with the 8 year old boy. But there is always a little gore when watching a forensics show:)

I simply love the scene in wich...

[andresbrito-imdb · 9/10 · 16 March 2022]

...Bones calls somebody and tells they are asking for... "you know who". That faces are magic in actresses!

I feel a great empathy for the child. I like this episore very much!

Decent but Mindane

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 13 January 2023]

A woman is found, burned in her car. She is traced to family where the father is no in witness protection. He is on the run for a while. The case involves a company that was selling defective military gear that has allowed 30 soldiers to lose their lives in war. The maker of the equipment, the one he blew the whistle on, is being investigated and a grand jury is being impaneled. It appears that the company has had the man's little boy kidnapped. At one point he is mutilated. This gets Boon's goat. Brennan remains icy but gets his fears. In a subplot, the gang at the Jeffersonian are being screened for loyalty. She is having an awful time getting answers.

Bones;The Woman in the Car

[Scarecrow-88 · 7/10 · 22 November 2010]

A woman found burnt in a car turns out to be the wife of a corporate whistleblower who was to inform the grand jury of his company's faulty body armour used in combat which led to the deaths of over 30 troops on the battle field. It is determined that the woman was electrocuted through torturous methods in order to find her husband, Carl Decker(Zeljko Ivanek), under witness protection for his safety. Carl's son is kidnapped and there's a possibility it was the company, KBC systems, who hired South African mercenaries as to keep him from testifying. An ear found lodged in the victim's larynx and a severed finger(from Carl's son)could lead Booth and Brennan to the mercenaries. Suzanne Cryer is Agent Pickering, sent by the government to question/interview members of the Jeffersonian as a means to determine if their team could be trusted with classified cases..of course, such a person fuels Hodgins paranoia even more(however, his ego is intensified when he's considered a benign non-threat).

Great one

[Lythas_85 · 9/10 · 5 April 2021]

Another good one. Everybody had major involvement in the case Just the tactical part bugs me sometimes.. Bones usually just ignores what Booth says and storms inside ahead of him and of course, nothing happens or she kicks the guys asses.. that was pretty much a recurrent event but annoying nonetheless.

Good Father Instincts

[mitchrmp · 7/10 · 10 July 2016]

This is another good episode where Booth and Brennan work well together fighting and finding justice. This one, like the refrigerator one, is a rare one where the "who done it" is figured out pretty quickly. Instead of looking for a bad guy, the team is looking for a little boy. This hits close to home for Booth, who is a father of a young boy himself...

After watching the entire series (up through near the end of season 11), I find it interesting that Brennan declares rather adamantly that she will never have children. It's nice to see how much her character evolves over the years!

And of course, there's some chemistry in play.

I questioned the care seat in the police SUV for two reasons: 1. His son is five years old, isn't he? therefore, he doesn't need a car seat - but a booster seat. 2. Why do we see a car seat now but then B & B have two children, we never see one? Just wondering...

Fluff Episode

[shaver_dave · 2/10 · 1 December 2014]

Starts with a burned body in a car and the rest relies on the viewers I saw this episode as a, fill in the blanks to the ultimate rescue of a boy.

The process of creating a story starts from the end, but this story started from the middle, or the process, and assumed the end.

The story begins with a burned body in a car.

The story rambles on evidence, assumptions and drama.

There's not much connection.

But just like I rambled on,

so did this story.

The hip hop episode had a story, this episode just contained filler.

This was a fluff episode