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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. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side A of the third disc.

“The Woman in the Garden” - A recently dug up body is found in a vehicle. As Booth arrests the man driving a car a drive by shooting occurs, which is done to help the man being arrested escape. Bones find out that the victim was pregnant when killed. They find a garden where the body was likely buried, where they find another spot where another body was buried. They find the other body on a Senator’s property. The second body is the father of the other body. They find a bullet in this body, but it turns out he survived for years from that bullet and died of cancer. They find the man that was driving the vehicle and interview him in the hospital where Bones realizes he is the brother of the woman and not the murderer. He is also a gardener at the Senator’s. Bones beats up one of the gang members Booth brings in for questioning. Bones then reveals to Angela that last time she was in El Salvador she was held captive by similar gang members for three days. It turns out the woman was involved with the Senator’s son. They discover that the woman was murdered by having her head bashed against the son’s bed post. Bones and Angela use the holographic machine to find out that the woman’s head hit the bed post when being yanked off a ladder. Booth finds out that a hit has been put out on Bones probably for attacking the gang member brought in for questioning. Booth goes and confronts the gang member and threatens him with a gun put in his mouth to get him to take the hit off.

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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. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side B of the second disc.

“The Woman in the Car” - Bones has an uncomfortable interview with a Good Morning, D.C. anchor. Booth takes Bones to a scene with a burned body in a car that is suspected to be include a child that was kidnapped. Bones works on trying to identify the body to help identify if there was a child kidnapped and if so who it was. A Homeland Security agent comes to interview the employees at the Jeffersonian. They identify the body using immigration records. When Bones and Booth go to the husband’s house they end up encountering U.S. Marshals and learn that the husband is in the witness protection program. They find an ear in her mouth. Hodgins confronts the Security agent and finds out that they are not interested in interviewing him at all because they already have looked into him due to his cousin being appointed a job in some secret part of the government. It turns out that the Attorney General’s office lost the victim’s husband. Booth and Bones find him threatening the head of the company he is was to testify against. He will not testify unless Booth can get his son back. Booth receives the kid’s finger in an envelope with a note saying back off. When interviewing Bones the security person asks Bones about meeting a specific person and Bones calls someone she is supposed to call if ever asked about that person and the whole security review is suspended and the notes are to be destroyed. In the end Booth helps rescue the kid from his kidnappers.

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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. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side A of the second disc.

“The Man on Death Row” - The episode begins with Booth interviewing Bones to fill out a form to carry a gun. Bones denies her the weapon because of her shooting the unarmed guy in the first episode. A defense lawyer comes to see Booth to ask him to look at evidence again for a man on death row sentenced to die the next day. Booth asks Bones to help look into into the case. Bones thinks the fragments on a x-ray is not bone fragments as previously thought, so she has the the body unburied. They finally identify the DNA to a pubic hair from the lawyer she worked for. When they go to find the murder weapon they find two more bodies. Booth does not want to make the call about finding the bodies because it means the execution will be put on hold, although he thinks the guy killed the other two women as well. In the end they meet with the guy in jail again and when he tries to touch Bones she slams his hand against the table and agree that maybe she should not carry a gun.

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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. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side B of the first disc.

“A Boy in the Bush” - Bones is giving a lecture at American University and Booth shows up to take her to a field to find bones that were tipped off to in a 911 call. They think it could be a missing six year old. Zack wears a special thermal imaging suit to find the body. It turns out to be the missing boy. Interviewing the boy’s brothers Booth finds out that the boy was snatched from the mall and not the park. Booth realizes for the first time that Angela is a squint like the others in the lab. Angela begins to think about quitting and go back to her passion for art, which just is not the same when she is drawing dead people rather than how she used to draw naked men. It turns out that the boy was a foster child just like his brothers. Zack, Angela, and Booth realize that Hodgins is part of a very wealthy family that is the biggest donor to the Jeffersonian. Hodgins does not want to go to the benefit banquet because he does not want his secret to be out including not telling Bones. The younger brother is afraid to tell the truth, but Bones talks with him and has an unique moment of being able to relate with a person due to her own foster care experience. She gets him to talk and the neighbor is arrested for sexually assaulting and killing the boy. Booth gets Hodgins off the hook for the banquet by making it up that he is needed to analyze something for the FBI.

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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. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side A of the first disc.

“Pilot” - This episode begins with Angela in the airport trying to find the incoming of a flight from Guatemala. It turns out that she is picking up Dr. Bones. Bones ends up attacking a Homeland Security officer that she thinks is following her. It turns out to have been a set up by FBI agent Booth to rescue her. He needs her to help in a case involving a body found in Arlington National Cemetery. Booth gets permission to take Bones out in the field, which is the role in the investigation that Bones required if she was to help him again. Bones takes a bat to a television being carried by who turns out to be Peter, who is her ex-boyfriend. Using holographic recreation they discover that it is a woman that had an affair with a Senator. Booth now does not want Bones to be involved in the investigation, but she sort of blackmails him into still allowing her to be part of it. They find out that the woman was pregnant when killed. Bones begins to realize that she best relates with dead people and cannot relate with the living. Bones gets DNA from the Senator by taking his gum and attacking a man that tried to get it from her. Booth and Bones search the stalker’s house. The find a sledge hammer in the Senator’s house, but not the possible crime scene. Bones realizes that it is the Senator’s aide that did it and she goes to confront him and shoots him in the leg before Booth gets there. In the end Bones reveals to Booth about her parents disappearing when she was 15 and Booth tells her that he took a lot of lives as an army sniper and would like to catch at least that many murderers.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 3.

“Three Stories” - House’s ex-girlfriend Stacy comes to see him to ask House to take on her husband as a case. House gives a lecture because another doctor is sick. He comes up with three cases involving leg pain. One is a farmer with pain in his leg. The class fails at first because they do not first come up with the idea of looking at the leg. A snake bite wound is found on the leg. The second is a 16-year-old female volleyball player. The patient has tendonitis and it leads them to a nodule. The third is a male golfer that wants pain meds. A rattlesnake is found by Chase and Foreman on the farm and Cameron gives the farmer the antivenom. The man then has an allergic reaction. The volleyball player also has a thyroid condition. It turns out they were wrong about what type of snake bit the farmer. So, they give them the antivenom for another snake common in New Jersey. The drug addict golfer comes back saying his leg hurts. They do a urine test by putting a catheter in, which supposedly proves that he really is sick and not just an addict. The volleyball player is not responding to treatment. She is hypersensitive to touch while Cameron is trying to draw blood. Nothing is working for the farmer. The drug addict has blood in his urine. The farmer wants to go home now that he knows he is dying and worries about his dog. It turns out that it was his dog that bit him. Back to the man with leg pain with blood in his urine. The students cannot figure out the brown in the urine is for and Cameron pops in and suggest muscle death. He then slips back to the girl getting an MRI because the case with the man was not treated for muscle death until three days later when the patient suggested muscle death (i.e. this is House’s personal story). Bone cancer is found in the girl’s leg and they might have to amputate the leg. The farmer also might have to have the leg removed because of the flesh eating disease from the dog bite. House also gets the diagnosis they might have to lose his leg, but he refuses to lose his leg. He has them do a by pass instead of amputation. The by pass and muscle death being left led to the pain he might have for the rest of his life. House predicts his going into cardiac arrest. House’s ex tries to convince him to give up his leg. He asks to be put in a chemically induced coma to sleep through the worst of the pain. Once in a coma it is her call as his medical proxy. She gives the okay to have the muscle death removed as the middle ground option. In the end he calls his ex and says he will take a look at her husband the next day.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side A of Disc 3.

“Role Model” - An African American Senator running for President vomits and collapses after a speech. Volger asks House to do a talk about a new drug being much better and to diagnosis the Senator or fire one of his team. While looking at the Senator Foreman notices that the Senator lacks reflexes when they tap his knee. Thus the issue appears to be in his brain. The Senator begins to stutter. They think that he has AIDS, but the Senator refuses that diagnosis. The test confirms he has AIDS. The anti-retrovirals are not working, though. It turns out the first AIDS test was a false positive. The Senator’s breathing than seriously fails. It seems that he has some sort of fungus. House finds out that when the Senator was younger he had a seizure when he was 6 and was on meds for the seizures until he was 10. The med is know to have caused a disease, which House thinks presented itself with the recent stress of the campaign. When House gets up to do the speech to promote the new drug, he says the drug is pretty much the same as the old version and not that much better. Cameron then decides to leave, so House does not have to choose who to fire.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 2.

“Cursed” - A boy thinks he is dying after his friends scaring him with a ouiji board. The boy’s symptoms are pneumonia and rash. The boy confides in Chase about the ouiji incident and Chase suspects the problem might be mold in the attic they did the ouiji board thing in. Chase’s father suddenly shows up and Chase blows him off. In the insulation of the house they find anthrax. They treat him for anthrax and they have trouble getting a tube in. Foreman is convinced he should tube him, while Cuddy says trache him and Chase almost does it. House involves Chase’s father (also a doctor) in the differential diagnosis and they eliminate anthrax. As they are about to treat for something else the rash has changed to make it seem like it is anthrax. It seems it might be anthrax and something else. A rash breaks out on the boy’s back and they are back to having no idea what it is. House realizes that Chase’s father has stage four lung cancer. The boy starts to have paralysis. House suspects that the boy’s father was secretly in Asia for two years. This leads him to thinking it is leprosy. In the end Chase hugs his father before he leaves to go home to Australia, but Chase still does not know his father is dying.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side A of Disc 2.

“DNR” - A jazz musician has trouble breathing while playing his horn. Foreman is given the case of musician’s pneumonia because he did his residency with the musician’s primary doctor. House wants to treat the 2-year-old paralysis the patient has that has been ruled ALS. The man decides he wants to sign a DNR. The team refuses to revive the man, except House comes in and bags him. A restraining order is brought against House and House goes to court to allow life support to continue. The court allows life support to continue, so House can face his accuser that resulted in the restraining order. They drop the restraining order in order to pull the plug. The breathing tube is removed and he is able to breathe on his own. A clot is found and they decide to go in to pull it out, as he will either die or keep his hand movement, which to him is a win win situation. The clot is successfully removed. He wakes up with the paralysis gone. House has him takes him off of all the drugs we gave him in order to try to figure out what is helping. He gets worse and they reintroduce the first drug they used. They find out the problem is swelling around the spine and remove it and the paralysis is cured.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 1.

“Damned if You Do” - Cuddy makes House see a patient in the clinic. The patient is a nun. He thinks it is simple dermatitis, but when he gives her the medicine she has an asthma attack. She then goes into cardiac arrest and Cuddy and Foreman think it could have been because of House gave her too much epi to control the asthma attack. The nun hallucinates and seizes while in the MRI. The patient keeps getting worse and it seems to be due to the treatment. Cuddy takes House off the case. House goes to the monastery to talk to the mother nun to learn about the sick nun’s past. He learns that the nun was a troubled teen including having a failed pregnancy. House brings the tea from the monastery to Cuddy because it could have caused the symptoms. There still is an original allergen that they have to track down. It is revealed that Chase studied in Seminary School when he prays with the nun. The nun goes into shock in the clean room. The nun wants to check out and go back to the monastery. House goes to talk to her to get her to stay. House believes that there is something inside the nun’s body causing the allergic reactions. They find that there is a copper cross birth control IED inside her causing the allergic reactions.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side A of Disc 1.

“Pilot” - A teacher collapses in a seizure in front of her class. Wilson tries to convince House to take the case by saying it is his cousin. House thinks it is too boring of a case and is probably just brain cancer. Talking with his team House says they are doctors to treat illnesses and not patients and that he does not see patients because they lie and so he does not have to lie. Cuddy approaches House about not doing his job (i.e. clinic hours and being six years behind on his duties). After she pulls his authorization for doing things like MRIs he folds to doing clinic hours, although he does not plan on being caught up until 2054. The patient goes into anaphylactic shock while they are doing the MRI. The patient loses her eyesight before having another seizure. House decides to have them stop all treatment in order to figure out how fast she is dying to figure out what of there three theories might be right. Cameron and Foreman break into the patient’s house to see if they can find anything that might explain her illness. Foreman realizes that Wilson lied about the patient being his cousin. House suspects that the patient has a tape worm. The patient does not want any more treatment and would rather go home to die. When he goes to try to convince the patient to do the tape worm treatment he ends up explaining that his leg got the way it is due to an infarction. Chase comes up with the idea to X-Ray her to find a worm and convince her that there is one in her brain, too. They find one in the leg and she agrees to take the pills. In the end House explains his reason for hiring Cameron was she was pretty, Foreman for his criminal record (just theft, I think), and Chase because his father made a call.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. This is the wrap up of the sixth and final disc.

“Split Decision” - Some teenagers find a dead body when doing a human slingshot stunt. The body has a hole in it with a wood piece through it, but Ducky does not think the wood formed the hole. The hole was created by an anti-tank missile. In autopsy Palmer (I think this is his first appearance in NCIS) annoys Ducky by repeating everything Ducky says into a recorder and then his cell phone continuously ringing. Tony is surprised that Gibbs lets McGee use his computer (remember McGee is not a true member of the team until the second season). The dead marine was a staff sargeant in charge of weapons inventory at Quantico and was also a boxer. Tony and Kate search the marine’s apartment. Kate finds the harddrive of his computer has been reformatted. Abby is able to get the data back from the harddrive. Tony goes undercover to a pawn shop as a weapons dealer, as they suspect that the dead marine was selling weapons to the pawn shop. The woman at the pawn shop is suspicious and as she is getting the money to buy the weapons he identifies himself as NCIS and she identifies herself as ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms). Gibbs has Abby make him an arms dealer cover id. Gibbs and the ATF agent meet up with the militia group that was buying the weapons by pretending to be an arms dealer. The militia gets mad when the guns do not work and shoot Gibbs in the chest. The ATF agent then makes a call and Kate and McGee arrest a woman boxer that worked with the marine. Gibbs being shot was a set up with the militia men helping them also get the ATF agent, as she was also involved in the selling of the weapons.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of the fifth disc.

“The Truth is Out There” - A petty officer’s body is found having fell through the ceiling in a night club. The teen that found the body is the owner of the moving night club the body was found at. When they go to interview him at his school, the teen beams the contact info for the doorman to Kate’s PDA. Searching the petty officer’s room they find cash in his stereo speakers. Gibbs and Abby have an interesting conversation about fetishes to try to explain the latex and baby powder found on the man. The petty officer was killed by being run down with a car. Kate and Tony bring in the four that went to the night club with the petty officer. Gibbs interviews them and the tell them that the petty officer left the club with a girl. Tony and Kate interview the bouncer and learn that the petty officer never left the club and it was one of his friends that left with a girl. They suspect the Master Chief was getting kickbacks from a contract and the petty officer was blackmailing him to keep it secret and that explains the money found in the stereo. In a abandoned lot they find evidence that the three along with the petty officer filmed the Wong making out with a call girl they set him up with. They find out that the petty officer was run over by Wong when the petty officer pranked him dressed up as an alien. The call girl messes up the story of it being an accident by saying that Wong knew it was his friend. The episode ends with Gibbs sitting and watching the search trying to identify who Ari is.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of the fourth disc.

“One Shot, One Kill” - A Marine recruiter is shot by a sniper. Kate and Tony end up looking for the bullet in a doll warehouse next door. The bullet ends up being in a doll head in a shipment that recently left. Gibbs and Tony go to an abandoned building to find the sniper nest. It turns out to be a place with no windows and the sniper only removed the one brick he needed to. While they interview a possible Marine sniper suspect another Marine recruiter was shot. The FBI and NCIS have jurisdiction issues with the second murder taking place in a second state. Tony and Gibbs create a distraction while Kate gets the bullet out of the wall and then they leave the scene to the FBI to deal with. Before leaving the scene, though, Gibbs finds a feather that seems to be the snipers signature. Tony and Kate go back to the first crime scene and find another feather. Gibbs and Kate go undercover taking over one of the recruitment offices. It turns out to be the water delivery guy. They figure out a little too late, though, and the sniper fires, but the new glass they put in is bulletproof and also special technology that located the sniper’s nest. Tony corners the sniper in the alley and ends up shooting the sniper before the FBI takes over again.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of the third disc.

“Marine Down” - This episode begins with a marine’s wife getting a phone call from her husband while mourning his death after his funeral. Tony and Kate practice at hostage situation shooting. Gibbs tapes Tony’s hat and Kate’s palm pilot to the hostage image and both end up with bullets through their items they really care about. The team ends up looking into the death of the marine that called and the other marine that supposedly died with him. An imposter commanding officer tells them that the two were murdered by a prostitute. Kate ends up sketching the imposter after Tony and her cannot agree when they try to create the likeness using software with Abby. Tony then finds her sketches of him and Abby in her sketchbook. A tape of the believed to be dead marine leaving a message on a friend’s answering machine is found and proves to be him. However, when they open the casket it ends up being the dead marine. Ducky has trouble telling when and how the marine died. The same imposter poses as Tony and interrogates the other dead marine’s wife. It turns out the imposter is a CIA agent. It turns out that the CIA agent took the money for the two marines ransom and was involved in a cover up. Kate, Tony, and Gibbs fly on a cargo plane to Colombia to hopefully find the other marine still alive. To rescue the marine Kate and Tony end up having to shoot the CIA agent while missing the marine hostage much like the beginning scenes of them practicing and again Tony hits the hostage’s ear, but at least they save him. In the end Gibbs gets into the convertible driven by the mysterious redhead that I do not think we ever find out about who she really is before she just stops appearing in the show.

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