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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four double sided disc Bones Season 1 set. This is the wrap up of Side B of the fourth disc.

“The Soldier on the Grave” - A burned body is found on a gravestone in Arlington National Cemetery. At first it seems it is a war protester suicide, but the initial examination of the body proves that the man was a soldier and murdered before burned. The man was one of those saved by the person who was buried at the gravestone he was found at. As they look into who murdered the man Bones finds the war hero soldier’s autopsy was very incomplete and has the body exhumed. They discover he was killed by friendly fire. They begin to suspect the lawyer national guard soldier, but when they go to confront him again they find him having hung himself with a note saying he killed the man in friendly fire. However, he could not have murdered the burned man to cover up the truth, as he was out of town when that happened. The cover up of the incident goes farther with the soldier that died having killed a family of innocents in the incident that ended with him killed by friendly fire. One of the others in the unit killed and burned the man to keep him from telling the truth about the incident. In the end Booth opens up to Bones and tells her about being an army ranger and taking out a man at his son’s birthday party.

“The Woman in Limbo” - Booth tries to get Bones out to go to court as an expert witness. Before he can get her out of the lab Angela puts up a hologram of what a woman who’s skull was waiting to be identified looked like and Bones recognizes it as her mother. Booth finds out that Bones parents were living under assumed names since Bones was two years old. Booth goes to see her older brother to see if he remembers living under a different name (i.e. before they assumed the names Bones knew them as). The evidence points to Bones’ mother being buried in 1993, which is two years after her mom’s disappearance in 1991. Bones is annoyed that Booth brings her brother in. It turns out her parents changed their names because they were criminals (bank robbers) and she learns her real name was Joy. They find a man that Bones’ brother remembers there father telling him to be afraid of and is now in the witness protection program. He tells Bones that he was hit in the head the same night her mother and they were both hit by her father. Booth and her brother do not believe his story, as the school sticker was scrapped off her parents car so that the hit man (the guy in witness protection) could not find her and her brother. Booth believes the hit man killed her dad and left her mom with just the bash on her head that caused brain damage that did not kill her until 1993 and in that time her mom could not go back to her because she did not want to lead the hit man to Bones. Bones stops blaming her brother and makes up with him. The episode ends with Bones picking up a voice mail with her father saying to stop looking for him and Booth and her brother hearing the warning as well.

Special Feature: Bones Inspired by the Life of Forensic Anthropologist and Author Kathy Reichs - This is a featurette about the real forensic anthropologist and author that the show is somewhat based on and her helping as a consultant with the science and such being portrayed accurately.

Special Feature: Character Profiles - This is simply short character profiles of the main characters of the show, which really are not all that informative if you have seen the show, especially if you watch all the other discs first.