Ep 117. The Skull in the Desert

Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo

Lemonada Media

Tv & Film

4.6 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Break out your desert attire — this week we’re trying to unravel the mystery around Angela’s part-time lover, who has unfortunately become just a dusty skull. But don’t be sad! Because, guess what? Michaela Conlin is here to discuss this Angela-centric episode — including the heartbreak her character was feeling. Emily and Michaela talk about peyote and Palmdale (the rare overnight shooting location) and unpack why this episode was a turning point for the friendship between Brennan and Angela. You’ll get all that plus Emily and Carla’s signature look at a case filled with mystical visions, counterfeit bills and slack-jawed coyotes.

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0:00.0	Lemonado
0:02.8	Hi, I'm Emily Deschanal.
0:14.4	Hi, I'm Emily Deschanal.
0:16.4	And I'm Carly Gallo.
0:17.7	And what is this?
0:19.2	It's bone heads.
0:20.6	Ha! I'm Carla Gallo. And what is this? It's bone heads.
0:37.5	Today we're talking about season one, episode 17, bones, the skull in the desert, with a very special segment with the one and only Michaela Conlon.
0:41.5	It is such a great episode, so we wanted to just get right into it.
0:44.6	It originally aired on March 19th, 2006.
0:48.4	It was written by Jeff Rake and directed by Donna Deach.
0:51.4	In this episode, we're trading lab coats for sunscreen and heading to the New Mexico desert, where Angela and her photographer
0:56.6	boyfriend, Kirk, have been vacationing. The problem is Kirk went into the desert with his friend
1:02.1	and guy Danny, and now both are missing. And when a mysterious skull turns up at the local
1:08.0	sheriff's office, Angela calls the only person she knows who can help.
1:12.4	Brennan. Upon her arrival to New Mexico, Brennan meets Sheriff Bendaws, a territorial man,
1:19.2	wary of outsiders. When Brennan discovers a gunshot wound in the skull, she calls in Booth to
1:25.1	help. And quickly, they get to work. First, they talk to Alex
1:29.5	Joseph, Danny's boyfriend, who has beef with Sheriff Dawes. Booth thinks it's jealousy until he
1:35.3	and Brennan realized Sheriff Dawes is Danny's brother. Dun, dun, dun. They're quickly refocused on the
1:42.9	case when back in D.C. Zach and Hodginsins confirmed the skull is Kirk and that they found traces of peyote in his hair. While this is legal for members of native churches, it is not for white people like Kirk and Wayne Kellogg, the suspicious rich artist who took the drug with him. While inspecting Kellogg's knockoff native art, Brennan notices something that stands out, an engraver of some kind that she sends to the lab.
2:09.2	Booth, Brennan, Angela, and Sheriff Dawes find the rest of Kirk's bones and his camera in the desert.
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