Bones - Season 7, Episode 6 (Review)


The Crack in the Code
Episode Summary














Bad Things - So Many Bad Things - Wrong with This Episode
  • The police work is... odd.  





Auz said…
I thought Booth found the laser pointer in the blind spot.

And I assume Pillant couldn't order one from Amazon becuase of the whole banned from computers and the Internet thing :)

The bone carving scanning that caused a virus is completely insane though. Anything even remotely possible - like, say, drawing an exact square - would stumble on what resolution the scan was at or what angle the bone was held.
Anonymous said…
" I want to know why Pillant couldn't just, you know, order a laser pointer from Amazon. I think felons can still have laser pointers."

Echoing what Auz said, but also, if you remember, Pillant has tons of parts to random things in his house. So he had all the pieces to create a 'hidden' lazer pointer himself.
Anonymous said…
Everything you pointed out I was very upset with when I watched the episode. My goodness if Pillant is such a super hacker he could have written a program that tells the monitoring system every 38 seconds the unit is still on his leg. Then the fractal code, that was absurd. I can't remember where I read that the next show will be the last, Brennen and Booth disappears (or shes kidnapped by (?), I guess the "Blue Moon" curse is still alive? I Hope not but 7 seasons and Emily a mom now. The cast members including David are working in movies or The Finder? All conjecture on my part but I feel Bones has come to the end of its life-too bad I really enjoy it.
Anonymous said…
Hi, just found your site after searching for the plot of the latest Bones episode, and I'm glad I found it.

You really clarify scientific details (which TVs highly lack) in a very concise way. I love reading the background on the methods they used in Bones, especially how they're not 100% correct.

Btw, I'm a Math BA and the only thing a fractal was able to do to me was give me a Math High.

Hope you'll write more of these clever reviews! =)
Pasi said…

I'm a year or two late BUT ...


I have to dispute this. If your software is badly written, malformed input can be used to run malicious code on your computer. Data from scan is really not that different from say, a video file from the internet. And if your video player was vulnerable, cleverly constructed video file could be used to trigger, for example, a buffer overflow and then do nasty things.

It's far-fetched but it is viable. At least far more viable than a lot of the other computer stuff in the show.
Unknown said…
I found this link after bones s10 e22. So I agree to what @Pasi said in that it is feasible however unlikely. So a scanner or camera takes data from light it receives. Now in essence, you can write a program on that, but it would have to be binary code, and be an enormous amount of 1's and 0's. But think punch cards. The idea is essential the same thing. (Sorry I am trying to explain a very complicated thing as simple as possible).
As for computer set on fire due to overheating. That is a very destined possibility, even the most accurate computer related thing they have yet done. It is however not as simple as microchips overheating as you stated. So lets do a bit of overclocking. Push the vaultage up by .2 and tweak the frequency. Now they clearly run a mainframe there, thus multiple computers connected to form one whole. By the looks of it, They run all the computers in the mainframe from one power supply. So if literally burning the micro chips out (I have done so in the past, set a whole motherboard on fire) is not enough, you actually drain the power supply, now I have had many occasions where I had to fix computers that had their power supply catching fire due to overloading. Appreciate your comments on the things they did wrong, but for me, as a multimedia specialist, There is reason behind this. I you ask, I will explain this theory in more detail.
Anonymous said…
I'm about 8 years too late, but maybe someone still reads this :D

Am I the only person here, who thinks it's absolutely ridiculous that 1.Brennan would love the ruin Booth wants to buy and
2.They could get it fixed and renovated within 6 weeks (they mention before, that her due date is in 6 weeks) with help of an intern?
Also, as far as I remember, don't they end up living in a super modern, huge villa?

I'm not a scientist or highly educated, but even for me, Bones is just full of WTF moments every single episode. I still love it though, that's why I'm rewatching all the seasons a second time now, always followed by your review of an episode :)

Also, as a new mom myself, I can confirm that the pregnancy, birth and child-related scenes are just incredibly bad and super unrealistic. It's like you said, it seems like none of the writers has children.

Anyway, Thank you so much for these reviews, I enjoy reading and learning from them! :)

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