Boreanaz, who directed “The 2 hundredth within the tenth”, rejects the concept of the episode solely being a Hitchcock homage. As he informed interviewers on the time, he did not overview any Hitchcock movies earlier than taking pictures, nor did he attempt to emulate the director’s filming fashion (there aren’t any “Vertigo” dolly zooms, as an illustration).
The episode’s author, Stephen Nathan, was extra enthusiastic concerning the comparability in an interview with Collider; he names not solely “To Catch A Thief,” but in addition “The Man Who Knew Too A lot,” “Infamous,” and “North by Northwest” as influences. Certainly, there is a scene pulled proper from “North by Northwest” when Sales space is getting info from Aubrey (John Boyd), just for the latter to be stabbed within the again mid-sentence. Sales space pulls the bloody knife out and the gang assumes he is the assassin.
Then there’s the musical rating. Lots of Hitchcock’s Hollywood movies had been scored by Bernard Herrmann, with grand, sweeping orchestral compositions. “Bones” composer Sean Callery needed to throw out his playbook. “That is the equal of a whole rebooting of the collection, virtually like we had been doing a pilot episode,” he informed The Hollywood Reporter.
The episode opens with Sales space coming into a mansion for a heist, whereas Brennan follows behind him. There is not any dialogue, however the rating is timed to intensify the temper; like a real Bernard Herrmann composition, the rating is not any background participant. To get the sound correct, Callery needed to complement his digital composing with an actual orchestra: “I lobbied very strongly to at the least get a string part to play the rating for the episode, and I used to be fortunate sufficient that Fox discovered the assets so we had been in a position to get about 20 devices.”
