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Season 4 » Episode #25 - The Critic in the Cabernet

Bones - 04x25 The Critic in the Cabernet

Summary: The team is on the case when human remains are found inside a barrel of wine during a wine tasting. When the victim turns out to be a wine critic whose scathing reviews were capable of sending a vineyard to its ruin, everyone from the winery's owner to the victim's own wife becomes a suspect. After deciding that she wants to have a baby, Brennan shocks Booth by asking him to be the father of her child. Booth can't stop thinking about Brennan's request. His stress, along with an undiagnosed health issue he has, causes him to hallucinate -- and see Stewie from the TV show Family Guy, who offers his advice to Booth.

Who appeared in this episode?

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan	played by Emily Deschanel
Max Keenan	played by Ryan O'Neal
Grayson Barasa	played by Sean Blakemore
Jared Booth	played by Brendan Fehr
Colin Fisher	played by Joel David Moore
Themselves	played by Mötley Crüe
Arastoo Vaziri	played by Pej Vahdat
Gormogon Band	played by Dayplayer

Episode Quotes

Max Keenan: [speaking of Seely] He's a man of principle. And I mean that as a terrible insult. If he had just paid me off, none of this would have happened.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You're awake. Your operation was a success, but you reacted poorly to the anesthia. You've been in a coma for 4 days.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: It felt so real.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It wasn't real.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Who are you?

Lance Sweets: Hey, so uh, we're Gormagon. Um, I mean the name of the band is Gormagon. Some people think I'm Gormagon, but I'm not. It's like there's no one named Floyd in Pink Floyd.
Seeley 'Mr. B' Booth: Just play Sweets.
Lance Sweets: Yeah.
Temperance 'Bren' Brennan: [Quietly to Booth] Gormagon's a stupid name. What does it even mean?

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (continuity error): The alarm clock in the first scene, which reads 4:47 is all black around the edges, whereas the second clock, showing 0543 has white writing (perhaps numbers) along the left, right and bottom sides of the display, suggesting the clocks were switched over during filming. Also, the second clock does not have a colon (:) between the hour and the minutes.
Goof (factual errors): When Cam (as the Detective) pulls out the .38 that was hidden in the sound system she refers to it as a "Saturday Night Special" and "totally disposable". In fact it's am older model Colt Detective Special, a collector's item that would never be referred to as a Saturday Night Special. Ironically her next line is about crime novelists ""always getting it wrong".

Trivia

The main titles were not used in this episode to emphasize that this is alternate story separate from the main storyline.
Jack Hodgins was named after an author friend of series creator Hart Hanson. Hodgins being portrayed a writer in this alternate-universe episode is likely a reference to this.
The title "The End in the Beginning" might be a pun on Mary Stuart's motto: 'In the end is my beginning.'
In the first few seconds of the opening scene, the clock beside the bed shows the time as 4:47 (civilian time). A minute and a half later, after the first "fade to white" the clock now shows 0543, which is military time. This possibly alludes that before the white flash was reality, albeit in the future, while after the flash is the dream sequence.