Bones 4x23 The Girl in the Mask

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First Aired: Apr. 23, 2009 on FOX

Summary: When the head of Sachi Nakamura, the sister of Booth's friend, is discovered in Washington, DC, her brother Ken, a detective from Tokyo, flies in to aid the search for his sister's killer. The investigation leads to an elite escort service, and the team must race against the clock when…
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Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan	played by Emily Deschanel
Jared Booth	played by Brendan Fehr
Arastoo Vaziri	played by Pej Vahdat
Molly Briggs	played by Jaimie Alexander
Greg Harmalard	played by Nick Ballard (II)
Dean Vernon Warner	played by Rick Peters
Robert Hooper	played by Edwin Hodge
Sheriff Tina Mullins	played by Michael Hyatt (II)

Episode Quotes

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: If you go with him, then he won't be alone. You won't let him be bad. And his frontal lobe will always be the size of a raisin. That's what you said. Makes no scientific sense.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, I said that. Got it.

Molly Briggs: Me and Beaver? Sexually. Do I look like a blow up doll?

Dr. Lance Sweets: Do you guys compare penis sizes too?
Eli Rounder: Only if we're drunk and already naked. [the frat bothers look at him] Guys we agreed...

Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (revealing mistake): When the victim was first identified, Brennan says his age is 23 years old, but later when Booth and Brennan are investigating the victim's room, she says his birthday was 5-11-89, which would have made him 19-20 at the time of his death, not 23.
Goof (factual errors): Twice in the opening minutes of the show, characters refer to a full-sized muzzle-loading cannon (mounted on spoked wooden wheels) as a "blunderbuss," which was an early hand-held firearm usually loaded with shot.
Goof (factual errors): When Bones holds up the evidence bag and says that ballistics had matched the bullet to the gun and that the bullet was found in Beaver's corpse, the bag contains an expended shell casing, not a bullet.
Goof (factual errors): You cannot use blanks in the Beretta auto loading pistol used in the show. It requires blow back to operate.

Trivia

SPOILER: There are several nods to the movie National Lampoon's Animal House. It all centers around rival college fraternities. The guy who is killed, nicknamed "Beaver", is a womanizer who slept with the dean's wife, similar to "Otter" in Animal House ("Beaver" is also found in an otter costume at the beginning of the show). The dean is Vernon Warner (Vernon Wormer), Greg Harmalard (Marmalard) is the president of the rival house, and the president of their house is Robert Hooper (Hoover). Other references include Eli Rounder ("Flounder"), Gary Bacon (Animal House was Kevin Bacon's first film) and one character is a member of the ROTC (like Douglas Neidermeier). There are also references to "Academic probation" and a Toga Party for the wake.