The Hurt Locker ceremony, it won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Bigelow (the first woman to win this award), and Best Original Screenplay for Boal. "The Hurt Locker" is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004. The director Kathryn Bigelow was familiar with Boal's work before his experiences, having adapted one of his "Playboy" articles as the short-lived television series "The Inside" in 2002. When Boal was embedded with the squad, he accompanied its members 10 to 15 times a
The Hurt Locker, Part One Jane Hayward, Noah Guthrie as Roderick, Billy Lewis Jr. as Mason McCarthy, and Laura Dreyfuss as Madison McCarthy. Harry Hamlin appears as Walter, the date of Kurt, and Trilby Glover appears as an unnamed secretary for Abigail. The episode features four musical cover versions. "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks is performed by Lynch. "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton is performed by Michele and Overstreet. "Rock Lobster" by The B-52's and "Whip It" by Devo are both performed by George with the members of Vocal Adrenaline. Accompanying the music from this episode, the EP "Glee: The Music, The Hurt Locker, Part