The Muscle In The Road Analysis

Bones is a television show based on solving murder mysteries by identifying out of place markings on the human skeleton. The episode “The Bump in the Road” is about body found in the middle of the highway and the efforts that are gone through to find the murderer. By watching an episode of Bones, “The Bump in the Road”, I was able to recognize the bones talked about in the episode, and even the anatomical landmarks on those bones. During this episode of Bones, the team of experts was trying to determine how a body ended up on a highway. Dr. Bones and her team started by piecing the skeleton remains back together in order to find out the cause of death. The skeleton had not only been attacked before its death, but it had been dragged behind a semi-truck. Once Dr. Bones was able to determine whose body it was, they started questioning suspects. They didn’t find her murderer until they figured out her last place before death, a …show more content…
Bones and her team of experts were determining their murderer, I was able to recognize the bones, and bone features that they were talking about. When first assembling the body, they noticed that it was a female due to the size of the femoral head. I was able to relate to this due to the fact that I could recall that smaller femurs are found in females, and larger femurs are found in males. The body was also attacked in the head before her death, which led to Dr. Bones talking about various markings on the skull for a good part of the episode. By being able to understand exactly where the frontal and parietal bones are found in the skull I was able to know where exactly the murderer hit the body. Also, due to the fact that I had learned about the bones in Anatomy and Physiology, I knew exactly where the bones were located on the body, and was able to understand how they were piecing the body back together. By knowing more about the skeleton, I was able to actually understand what they were talking about in the