The Double Trouble in the Panhandle

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Bones Season 4 Episode 12

Episode Essentials
Original air date:	January 22, 2009
Writer(s):	Lyla Oliver
Director(s):	Dwight Little
Guest stars:	Andy Richter (Henry Simon) Ryan Cartwright (Vincent Nigel-Murray) Stephen Lee (Texas Ranger) Michael Patrick McGill (Oklahoma Officer) Maggie Baird (Sandra Hicks) Michael Monks (Dell Hicks) Bernard White (Dr. Albert Muir) Ed Gale (Lavalle) Gregory D. Wilson (Tumbles) Jason Richter (Clown #2) Lester "Rasta" Speight (Magnum) Mageina Tovah (Madame Nina) Alix & Kris Angelis (Juggling Twins)
Featured songs:	"No Envy No Fear" by Joshua Radin

Episode Summary
Booth and Brennan investigate the remains of conjoined twins found in a shallow grave in a remote desert area on the Texas-Oklahoma border. Back at the lab, the team determines the skeletal remains to be those of Jenny and Julie, who were jugglers in a traveling circus. Knowing there is no way the circus folk will talk to anyone outside their tight-knit clan, Brennan and Booth must infiltrate the circus community in order to find out more information about the twins’ deaths. Honing Booth’s Ranger knife-throwing skills, the duo goes undercover as knife-throwing act “Buck and Wanda Moosejaw.” As they encounter a variety of suspects among the colorful circus crowd, including ringmaster Henry Simon (guest star Andy Richter), a rather raucous clan of clowns and a tempestuous strong man who may have been romantically involved with one of the twins, Booth and Brennan find the circus experience to be quite the spectacle.

Booth & Bones relax after the circus has left

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Bones Episode Crime Trail

Bones Opening Crime Scene Description

Booth and Bones are walking up a hill in the arid southwest on the Texas Oklahoma border. At the top of the hill is an oil derrick and two sheriffs one from Texas and one from Oklahoma. Booth and Bones meet then and find two skeletons lying in the dirt together. Bones examines then and determines that they are female conjoined twins, joined at the rump. Booth determines that the FBI had jurisdiction.

Victim's name: Jenny and Julie van Owen

Suspect: Dr. Albert Muir

	Murderer: N/A
	Methods used to solve: Undercover
	Motive: N/A
	Notes: Case was cleared as accident. Muscle man arrested for obstruction of human remains.

Cause of death: Kissing Fracture on their skulls

Relationship to victim: Had a sexual relationship with both girls. (not at the same time...)

Time/location of death: Texas, Oklahoma border four months prior

Finds/evidence: soil dwelling Mite Genus Arrenurus, decomposing popcorn and cotton. magnesium carbonate chalk. Hair jell on victims fingers

Suspect: Norman van Clock aka Magnum the strong man

What do the bones say? they were conjoined twins, had stressed feet and heads bashed against each other. Age 19-21

Relationship to victim: fellow circus act.

"Aha!" moment: When Bones Fell off the high-wire

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Bones Episode Trivia

Emily Deschanel injured her left eye during the filming of this episode. The injury was written into the script and fit into the episode by having her wear an eye patch as part of the costume she wore during her and David Boreanaz's knife-throwing act.
It is revealed in this episode that Dr. Sweets was adopted.

Best Bones/Booth Moments

Having "sex" in the trailer
Booth: So uhm, sex right? (silence)
Brennan: Oh, good idea.
Booth: Okay.
Booth and Brennan (aka Boris and Natasha) perform a daring knife throwing act
With a patch over one eye, Bones tries the high-wire as Booth fearfully looks on
Booth: ooohhh. Okay. Look at them...clowns.
Brennan: The psychiatric term for fear of clowns is coulrophobia.
Booth: It’s not fear, it’s hate. Okay? Big difference.

Unanswered Questions

Did the FBI ever catch up with Muscle Man?

Bones/Booth Romantic Developments

Booth is very concerned about performing the knife throwing act because he is concerned at possibly injuring Bones, but Bones keeps egging him on during the act with hard to hit objects she is holding.
Fearing that she will no doubt fall from the high-wire, Booth covers his eyes so as not to see but that doesn't last long. He is very impressed by her skills, but when she does in fact fall, he fears she's been hurt.
Booth and Bones make a home together in the motor home with only one bed. Unfortunately sleeping arrangements are never mentioned, only Booth's lack of tidiness.

Bones Pictures and Video

Buck & Wanda meet Henry and Lavell		Promo

Booth flashes his badge to blow his cover		Buck takes his aim.

In Soviet Russia, knife throws you.		The opening of the act, don't move Natasha

Natasha finds more props for Boris to throw at		The Ringmaster introduces Boris and Natasha

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