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‘Bones’ Season 9, Episode 8: ‘The Dude in the Dam’

Posted byBy ABS Contributor | Published on: | Updated on March 25, 2016 CommentsComments (0)

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On this week’s “Bones” season 9, episode 8: “The Dude in the Dam,” the Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of Sean Nolan, a failed model whose body is found intertwined in a beaver dam. The team soon discovers that Nolan’s fruitless modeling career left his sperm donations as his only source of income.

However, when the team learns that he falsified records, they start to suspect anyone who was jilted by his donations. Meanwhile, Brennan struggles with social niceties and tact when she is drawn into a feud with author Tess Brown (guest star Nora Dunn) and Hodgins gets in touch with his motherly instincts when he plays host to a fly larva.

“Bones” is an American crime comedy-drama television series currently in its eighth season. It premiered on the Fox network on Sept. 13, 2005. The show is based on real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs’ Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz).

When the standard methods of identifying a body are useless – when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed – law enforcement calls on Brennan ‘Bones’ for her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the victim’s bones. While most people can’t handle Brennan’s intelligence, her drive for the truth or the way she flings herself headlong into every investigation is an exception.

“Bones” season 9, episode 8: “The Dude in the Dam,” airs Monday, Nov. 11, 8:00PM ET on Fox. “Bones” spoiler videos below:

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