Just watched Bones, the episode called The Soldier on the Grave. Noticed something about David Boreanaz for the first time while he did that epi. He used a different voice, a different persona, voice, physically, emotionally. He performed anger, deep sadness, PTSD or memories from his time in Kosovo as a sniper. In order for him to be enraged and be able to cry as he does at the end, he assumed those characteristics. His voice is raspy, softer, sad, full of compassion, lacking the usual sense of humor. He's straight military, or reverts to it regularly as the story progresses.
He's still the FBI agent and he's a patriotic soldier who loved a basketball player and feels for another combatant back from Iraq. It's a tight quality in his voice, a set to his jaw that never goes away, a grief of his own, not verbalized until the end.
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