121. The Soldier on the Grave (with Stephen Nathan)

Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo

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4.6 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Booth backstory? Yes please! This episode gets into Booth’s past as a sniper, explored through the mystery of a burnt corpse on the grave. Through a lot of twists and turns, Booth and Brennan unravel a story of military cover-up and corruption. Keep an eye on that B&B love meter! We’re also joined by “Bones” showrunner, producer and writer Stephen Nathan who talks about creating this episode, CGI gravestones and more.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.8	I'm
0:04.7	Do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
0:16.1	Hi, I'm Emily Deschanal.
0:18.7	And I'm Carly Gallo.
0:20.0	And this is Boneheads.
0:26.2	Today we're talking about episode 121, The Soldier on the Grave, which aired May 10th, 2006.
0:32.7	It was directed by Jonathan Pontel and written by Stephen Nathan.
0:36.2	I'm really excited to dig into this episode,
0:38.6	especially because we talk to Stephen Nathan, and you're going to get to hear that interview
0:44.5	at the end of the episode. He is just a very integral part of the show and a very special human.
0:53.8	So that's going to be a real treat. But before we do
0:56.9	that, let's recap what this episode is all about. Shall we? Yes, we shall. So this episode opens with
1:03.8	Booth and Brennan at the Arlington National Cemetery. Booth and Brennan think they're looking at a
1:08.8	suicide case, death by self-immolation.
1:11.7	Booth is upset that someone would choose a grave site to stage a protest. We're in the midst of the Iraq war, mind you.
1:18.7	That's right. We see a charred body sitting against a grave. It's the grave of Charlie Kent, a rising basketball player whose career was cut short when he was shipped out to Iraq as part of the National Guard.
1:30.7	Kent died protecting his unit from insurgents.
1:33.4	So obviously, the Jeffersonian team and Booth are facing a lot of political pressure to get this supposed protester identified.
1:41.7	But the twist, this may not have been a suicide at all. The victim's true
1:46.4	identity is a former member of Kent's unit. They ID him as a young man named Devon Marshall.
1:52.2	Brennan believes Marshall was murdered as their analysis shows something was shoved into his ear all
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