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The Man in the S.U.V.

"The Man in the S.U.V."
Bones episode
Bones season 1 episode 2.jpg
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 2
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Written by Stephen Nathan
Production code 1AKY02
Original air date September 20, 2005
Guest appearance(s)
  • José Zúñiga as Mickey Santana
  • Nicholas Massouh as Farid Masruk
  • Bahar Soomekh as Sahar Masruk
  • Federico Dordei as Ali Ladjavardi
  • Said Faraj as Hamid Masruk
  • Anne Dudek as Tessa Jankow
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List of Bones episodes

"The Man in the S.U.V." is the second episode of the first season of the television series, Bones. Originally aired on September 20, 2005 on FOX network, the episode is written by Stephen Nathan and directed by Allan Kroeker. The plot features the investigation of Dr. Temperance Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth into a man whose S.U.V. exploded, killing him and several other civilians, and highlights issues about terrorism.

After an S.U.V. explodes in front of a busy café in Washington, D.C., forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is asked to confirm the identity of the SUV's driver as Hamid Masruk, the leader of the Arab-American Friendship League. With the help of her assistant, Zack Addy, Brennan cleans the skeleton and compares the bones to Masruk's medical records.

Although she is convinced the victim is Hamid Masruk, Brennan sends Zack to reconstruct the skull. Zack finds that the ethmoid and sphenoid fragments do not fit together, which Brennan suspects is due to a degenerative disease.

However, it was not from Paget's disease or Lupus as she had first suspected but from gypsum, an environmental contaminant which Zack and Dr. Jack Hodgins found. They determine that the gypsum found was probably used to insulate the bomb that had exploded. After Brennan finds microscopic fissures in the trabecular pattern of Hamid's skull, Hodgins was able to find the cause - Hamid was exposed to dioxins.


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