Bones/The Man in the Fallout Shelter

The Man in the Fallout Shelter
Season 1, Episode 9
Airdate	December 13, 2005
Production Number	1AKY08
Written by	Hart Hanson
Directed by	Greg Yaitanes
Stream
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Bones — Season One

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The Man in the Fallout Shelter is the ninth episode of the first season of Bones.

Starring: Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), TJ Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman)

Guest Starring: Jim Ortlieb (Hal), Heavy D. (Sid Shapiro), Margaret Avery (Ivy Gillespie), Billy F Gibbons (Angela's Dad)

Co-Starring: Bob Bouchard (Mr. Addy), Christina Copeland (Lisa Pearce), Ty Panitz (Parker)

Plot Overview

On Christmas Eve, Booth brings in a body found in a 50's era bomb shelter. Clutching a gun and an apparent suicide, the body lacks identification although it contains a number of curious personal effects. Bones is convinced immediately the death was not suicide, eager to avoid the company Christmas Party upstairs, quickly tackles the case and enlists the help of Zack and Hodgins. Hodgins, focusing on his spiked eggnog instead of normal protocol, sets off a contamination warning when they begin sawing into the remains. The alert is a trace of potentially fatal Valley Fever. The test to clear them will take several days, forcing Bones, Booth, Angela, Zack, Hodgins, and Dr. Goodman to stay over Christmas.

The personal effects include a wedding band, two unredeemed tickets to Paris, several coins, a small empty paper sleeve, and several love letters. Identifying the man as Lionel, his skeletal evidence and toupee don't paint him as wealthy, attractive, or well cared for, but he is meticulous and cared well for his possessions. The love letters are signed by a drawing of a flower.

Following a lead that his clothing was made by a local clothier back in the late 50's which is still in operation, they are able to identify him as Lionel Little and that he was scheduled for a fitting for a wedding shirt on November 7th, 1958 but he never arrived. Found in the bomb shelter of a since deceased fence named Gil Atkins, they suspect that Atkins killed him for Little's $8,000 coin collection, worth approximately $64,000 today, which Atkins sold to various coin dealers before his death. The last person to see Little was a woman who cleaned his office named Ivy Gillespie. Suspecting that Ivy, based on her personal letters, was a black woman pregnant during a time when interracial relationships were illegal and that Little had a plan to sell his valuable coin collection and buy them a new life in Paris when Atkins killed him to sell the coins himself.

Angela awakens painful memories of Christmas in Bones and she vigilantly searches assisted living centers for traces of Ivy Gillespie, eventually getting in contact with her granddaughter. Arriving on Christmas day, Ivy Gillespie and her granddaughter arrive and Bones is able to set her previous misconceptions that Lionel had abandoned her and instead she is overwhelmed with gratitude to know that Lionel had tried to create a new life for them. Bones is also able to provide her with an innocuous copper penny that was worth over $100,000 but Atkins casually overlooked it.

Notes

• Don't know what that means: Skeletor, a villain from the He-Man cartoon/action figure series, and The Grinch, a miserly character from Dr. Seuss.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Agent Booth has a 4y old son named Parker whom he sees on Christmas.
• Angela's father, while she refers to him as "you may know him" but never refers to him by name, is Billy Gibbons the guitarist for ZZ Top.
• Bones has stopped celebrating Christmas because her family disappeared before Christmas day and her older brother tried to cheer her up by placing the presents out. Heartbroken because she thought her parents were back, her reaction drove her brother away and she was placed in foster care.
• Booth has a reaction to the anti-fungal injections they get to help fight off the Valley Fever and suffers from hallucinations during the first day.

Trivia

The Show

• The penny that Bones found on the body is a 1943 penny struck on a copper planchet. In 1943, copper was in high demand for the war effort. To conserve copper, the U.S. Mint made pennies out of steel. However, several example were struck out of copper and are extremely valuable today.

Quotes

• Angela: OK. You people listen to me. There is a party going on upstairs, OK? A Christmas Party. We're going up there. We're going to talk to some people. We're going to sing some carols. We're going to drink some eggnog. (to Booth) You are going to kiss me under the mistletoe. On the lips. (to Zack and Hodgins) I might kiss you guys under the mistletoe too. (to Bones) Maybe even you, in a festive, non-lesbian manner. But we are going to that party.