BONES: Exclusive Scoop on “The Monster in the Closet”

Them Bones, Them Bones

Remember that part earlier where we mentioned how Brennan’s guilt would send her into forensic overdrive searching for clues to the killer’s identity? In an interesting scene this Thursday we will see Brennan carefully reassembling, dressing and posing the bones of the latest victim —  just as the killer did — in an attempt to get inside his head.

When we last spoke to Michael Peterson, the Bones Showrunner spoke about this episode and this moment in particular saying:

“Episode 13 is pretty much our ‘Big Bad’ for the remainder of the season. We will be seeing that person again. That was one I wrote, and it was a story-line the show lends itself really well to because of Bones dealing with skeletal remains and so forth.

I’ve been re-watching a lot of Hitchcock, and Psycho in particular, and I was thinking about how people like that who live with remains and see them as being alive are actually very similar in a way to Brennan. It’s a unique perspective. We really wanted to look at the flip side of that coin — and to get a nice little bit of that creepy feel.

The inspiration for this little homage was an X-Files episode called “Home” which meant a lot to me. It was a big reason why I wanted to do TV. They did a great job in that episode of juxtaposing happy music with creepiness. We do a little homage to that in there also.”

But it’s not just Peterson who sees the similarities between Brennan’s careful and meticulous work and the show’s latest killer. It seems killer thinks so too.