The Woman in the Tunnel

The Woman in the Tunnel
Season 1
Episode 16
Air date	March 22, 2006
Production code	1AKY11
Written by	Greg Ball & Steve Blackman
Directed by	Joe Napolitano
Previous	Two Bodies in the Lab
Next	The Skull in the Desert

The Woman in the Tunnel is the sixteenth episode of the first season of Bones.

Summary

The body of a documentary film-maker is found at the bottom of a tunnel shaft beneath Washington, D.C. Brennan and Booth are introduced to an underground society, whose leader thinks he might be responsible for the victim's death.

Cast

Main Cast

• Temperance Brennan - Emily Deschanel
• Seeley Booth - David Boreanaz
• Jack Hodgins - T.J Thyne
• Angela Montenegro - Michaela Conlin
• Zack Addy - Eric Millegan
• Daniel Goodman - Jonathan Adams

Guest Cast

• Harold Overmeyer - Glenn Plummer
• Helen Bronson - Mary Mara
• Phil Garfield - David Denman
• Duke Daillel - Ryan Alosio
• Kyle Montrose - Brian Gross
• Michael Preston - Keith Pillow
• Marni Hunter - Fay Wolf

Featured Music

• Syntax - "Pride"

Notes

13 minutes into the episode, Angela and Brennan have a conversation in which Brennan is called an "Observer" - albeit, one that is not passive but is actively running after bad guys. During a reply, Brennan states that "every society has its fringe dwellers and every society fears its fringe dwellers, usually because they are the example of what happens when you fail in that society, but they are seldom dangerous in reality." The casual use of "Observer" and "Fringe" could be a nod to the 2008 show on the same network, Fringe, though its creation would be two years after this episode. Perhaps the writers unconsciously had another universe or two on their minds?

I don't know what that means

• When Booth and Dr. Goodman are talking about the game "Clue" after Booth says "Kyle hit the Duke with the candlestick in the crypt"

"Clue" is an old board game which players figure out the murder by determining a killer, a room in which the crime occurred and a murder weapon. The player wins by identifying all three facts (who dunnit, how kill, and where) correctly...for example s/he would probably say "Miss Scarlet stabbed Mr. Boddy (always a murder victim of this game) with the knife in the ballroom." So Booth's "Kyle hit the Duke with the candlestick in the crypt." was an allusion of "Clue" game.