Bones 6x17 The Feet on the Beach

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4.67/5 (3 votes)

First Aired: Apr. 07, 2011 on FOX

Summary: Brennan teams up with a Canadian forensic podiatrist to determine the real victim after seven pairs of feet are found washed up on the U.S.-Canadian border, but six pair belong to research. Elsewhere, Cam crosses a major boundary when she takes away Michelle's right to choose her own college.

Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan	played by Emily Deschanel
Dr. Filmore	played by Scott Lowell
Norman Hayes	played by Michael Welch
Michelle Welton	played by Tiffany Hines
Professor Peter Simpkins	played by Tahmus Rounds
Kent Durham	played by Hank Harris
U.S. Border Agent	played by Joel McKinnon Miller
Bernie Gillespie	played by Andy Mackenzie

Episode Quotes

Dr. Douglas Filmore: I like to believe the fact that we walk upright is the reason our brains developed.

Dr. Lance Sweets: You forged Michelle's application and applied to Columbia?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Could you not say that as though I'd killed three people?

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sometimes wouldn't you just like to be a person like the rest of us - instead of someone who just - paralyzes people?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Those of us who tell the truth have always endured harsh judgements. Copernicus. Galileo. I accept that as something I have to deal with.

Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (factual errors): According to the feet-guy, the wounds had to be made by a lawn-mower. However, since the knives of a lawn-mower are always underneath the mower itself and protected by a hard shield above and around, so that only the grass under the mower is cut, the leg couldn't have been cut off by the mower that way. The mower would have bumped against the leg and the man would have fallen down, thus having just horizontal cuts instead of the diagnosed vertical one on his ankle.
Goof (continuity error): Supposedly the riding mower cut off a portion of the top of the victim's foot after he fell. Yet somehow, his shoe (which would cover the portion damaged by the mower) was intact.

Trivia

A number of "body farms" where cadavers are subject to various decomposition scenarios for research do exist in the United States. As of 2011, there are four universities with operating body farms: the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC; Texas State University-San Marcos; and Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. A fifth facility is being created at California University of Pennsylvania in California, PA. The body farm near the St. Regis River in New York as well as the nearby University of Hogansburg are both fictional.
The establishing shot of the fictional University of Hogansburg is in fact the Valley Life Sciences Building at UC Berkeley.