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Take heed,
young Squintern. The bugs know best. Okay, I'll bite-- how? Well, I ran some threads
from our headless friend's uniform through
the mass spec. It turns out
that the dye came from Cochineal beetles. They had to crush
thousands of these guys in order to make enough dye
for a single coat. That sounds pretty
labor intensive. Yeah, it is,
and therefore, expensive. Which means that
this headless corpse was a high-ranking
British officer. Why was this one buried under a
church in the middle of nowhere?
young Squintern. The bugs know best. Okay, I'll bite-- how? Well, I ran some threads
from our headless friend's uniform through
the mass spec. It turns out
that the dye came from Cochineal beetles. They had to crush
thousands of these guys in order to make enough dye
for a single coat. That sounds pretty
labor intensive. Yeah, it is,
and therefore, expensive. Which means that
this headless corpse was a high-ranking
British officer. Why was this one buried under a
church in the middle of nowhere?
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Take heed,
young Squintern.
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The bugs know best.
00:00:04.408 --> 00:00:06.242
Okay, I'll bite-- how?
00:00:06.277 --> 00:00:08.647
Well, I ran some threads
from our headless friend's
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uniform through
the mass spec.
00:00:10.687 --> 00:00:12.522
It turns out
that the dye came
00:00:12.557 --> 00:00:13.958
from Cochineal beetles.
00:00:13.993 --> 00:00:15.495
They had to crush
thousands of these guys
00:00:15.053 --> 00:00:17.866
in order to make enough dye
for a single coat.
00:00:17.901 --> 00:00:19.087
That sounds pretty
labor intensive.
00:00:19.905 --> 00:00:21.205
Yeah, it is,
and therefore, expensive.
00:00:21.241 --> 00:00:23.109
Which means that
this headless corpse
00:00:23.144 --> 00:00:25.481
was a high-ranking
British officer.
00:00:25.517 --> 00:00:28.854
Why was this one buried under a
church in the middle of nowhere?
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Movie Summary
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and cocky F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth build a team to investigate murders. Quite often, there isn't more to examine than rotten flesh or mere bones.
