Regular Cast
Emily Deschanel as Brennan
David Boreanaz as Booth
Eric Millegan as Zack
TJ Thyne as Dr. Hodgins
Michaela Conlin as Angela
Jonathan Adams as Dr. Goodman

Production
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS - Barry Josephson, Hart Hanson
WRITER - Hart Hanson
DIRECTOR - Greg Yaitanes

About The Show
From executive producers Barry Josephson (“Hide and Seek,” “Like Mike”) and Hart Hanson (“Joan of Arcadia,” “Judging Amy”) comes the darkly amusing drama BONES, inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs. Forensic anthropologist DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN (Emily Deschanel, “Boogeyman”), who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim’s bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless. Brennan’s equally brilliant colleagues at the Jeffersonian’s Medico-Legal Lab include earthy and bawdy ANGELA MONTENEGRO (Michaela Conlin, “The D.A.”), who’s created a unique way to render an original crime scene in a three-dimensional computer image; Brennan’s assistant, ZACK ADDY (Eric Millegan), a young prodigy whose genius IQ actually gets in the way of his finishing the several doctorates he has begun; “the bug guy,” DR. JACK HODGINS (TJ Thyne, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”), who’s an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby; and Brennan’s boss, imposing lab director DR. DANIEL GOODMAN (Jonathan Adams, “American Dreams”). Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent SEELEY BOOTH (David Boreanaz, “Angel”), a former Army sniper who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes. Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally, but so far the chemistry between them has only played out in a fictionalized account in Brennan’s latest mystery novel.

Season One

1. Sept 13, 2005: Pilot
   When a badly decomposed corpse is found during the routine cleaning of a pond in Arlington National Cemetery, FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth hijacks renowned forensic anthropologist (and best selling novelist), Dr. Temperance Brennan, to help identify the body. Brennan (or "Bones" as Booth likes to call her) has just arrived home from a two-month stint in Guatemala where she was identifying victims of genocide, and is in no mood to lend Booth a hand (she got burned the last time they worked together).  Brennan refuses to help Booth unless he promises her full participation in the case.  Reluctantly Booth agrees and their partnership is born.At the crime scene, Brennan makes a preliminary identification of the victim with the help of her assistant Zack Addy.  Brennan determines the body (mostly skeletonized) belongs to a woman between eighteen and twenty-three, race unknown.  Pelvic bone shape gives sex.  Epiphysis fusion gives age.  Brennan can tell from bursitis in the shoulder that the victim was a tennis player.Back at the Jeffersonian, Brennan argues with her boss, Dr. Daniel Goodman, about his assigning her to work with the FBI without her permission.  Goodman reminds her that the Jeffersonian is a federally funded agency and he can loan her out to other federal agencies as he sees fit.Inside Brennan's Medico-Legal Lab, Brennan examines the victims remains while the Squints (the other scientists from Brennan's lab) chat about Brennan's new book "Bred and the Bone." Dr. Jack Hodgins, an entomologist, tells Brennan that pond microbes accelerated the decomposition of the body.  He found three larval stages of Tricoptera and Chironimidae, which tell him the body was in the pond for one winter and two summers.  Hodgins has also found small bone fragments in the silt, which he guesses are rana temporaria, otherwise known as frog bones.  Brennan finds microscopic grit embedded in the skull fragments. She gives them to Hodgins to analyze.Brennan debrides the skull fragments and reassembles them, which takes her all night. 
   Meanwhile, Booth is called out before his boss, FBI Deputy Director Sam Cullen, for guaranteeing a squint a field role in an active murder investigation.  Cullen tells Booth that it's on him if anything goes wrong.At the Jeffersonian, Angela Montenegro, a forensic artist, using a computer program she's developed called the Angelator, does a three dimensional holographic reconstruction of the victim's skull, revealing the victim's identity as missing senate intern, Cleo Eller, the biggest missing person case of the decade.  We learn that Cleo Eller was an intern for Senator Bethlehem and that the rumor is they were having an affair. Brennan wants to confront the Senator.  Booth argues that the Senator is not the only suspect.  The Senator's aide, Ken Thompson, was Cleo's boyfriend.  There's also Cleo's stalker, Oliver Laurier, a speech writer who cracked under pressure and ended up in a loony bin.  Booth breaks it to Brennan – the case is big. Cullen's going to want to set up a special unit to investigate which means they're going to have do things by the book, cops on the street, squints in the lab.   Brennan blackmails Booth until he agrees to let her come with him into the field.Back at the lab, Hodgins identifies the particulates embedded in Cleo's skull as fragments of rolled steel (most likely from a sledgehammer), cement particles and diatomaceous earth.   Stab marks are found on Cleo's ribs, and distinctive damage has been done to her distal phalanges (the murderer whittled away her finger pads in an attempt to hide her identity).   By dissecting pupal casings, Hodgins determines that Cleo was taking lorazepam, chlordiazepoxide and Meclizine hydrochloride for depression. Brennan determines that the small bones found with Cleo's body aren't frog bones.  They're fetal bones.  Cleo Eller was pregnant!Hodgins, a paranoid conspiracy theorist, convinces Brennan that because a U.S. Senator who heads a commission on the FBI is involved, the powers that be will try to make this case disappear.  Brennan takes matters into her own hands and confronts the Senator without Booth's knowledge.  Her plan backfires and Booth is thrown off the case.  Brennan refuses to give up and with the help of the squints, uncovers that Cleo Eller's boyfriend, Ken Thompson, fearing the scandal with Cleo and Senator Bethlehem would derail his own career plans, killed the pregnant Cleo using a hammer on a cement floor sprinkled with diatomaceous earth.
    
2. Sept 20, 2005: The Man in the SUV
   An SUV driven by a Middle Eastern man explodes in front of a busy Washington DC café. Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, Angela Montenegro, her reconstruction artist, and her assistant Zack Addy arrive at the scene. The Middle Eastern man is identified by Homeland Security as Hamid Masruk. Brennan is asked to confirm the identityEvidence shows that Masruk suffered from an unknown medical condition that produced lesions on his face. His brother Farid shares the condition, and tells Booth and Brennan that it is genetic.Back at the lab the squints reassemble the body. Zack debrides the flesh from the skeleton using dermestes maculates.Jack Hodgins, an entomologist who is also an expert in particulates, finds perchloratein Hamid’s clothes.Examining the debrided skeleton, Dr. Brennan looks for points of identification, comparing what she finds to Hamid’s medical records. She finds the skeleton’s texture of pubic symphysis is consistent with Masruk. Uneven growth patterns in the bone indicate malnourishment as a child. Evidence of multiple past fractures on the bottoms of the feet are consistent with methods of torture used in Afghanistan and with Masruk’s history. Dr. Brennan tells Zack to do a cranial reconstruction, but she is convinced this is Hamid Masruk.Zack runs into trouble reconstructing the skull. The ethmoid and sphenoid fragments won’t piece together. The integrity of the bone seems compromised. Brennan examines the skull and finds unusually soft bone tissue. She finds a disorganized trabecular pattern in the bone. She thinks Masruk may have suffered from a degenerative disease. She tells Hodgins to check for Paget’s disease and Lupus. He is negative for both. Brennan has them check for environmental contaminants. Hodgins and Zack find gypsum in the bones. It is non-toxic and wouldn’t damage the bones. It was probably used to insulate the explosives. They start to reconstruct the bomb, looking to identify what it was made from. Brennan finds microscopic fissures in the trabecular pattern of Hamid’s skull. This proves Hamid was exposed to a toxin before he died. She has Hodgins check the marrow but it’s degraded. Hodgins dissects the beetles that ate Hamid’s flesh and find traces of dioxin.He and Zack also tie the gypsum they found to a type of plaster used in pyrobar, a kind of fire-proof tile developed in 1903 by the United States Gypsum Company. By researching where in DC this tile was used, they are able to identify where the bomb was built, and thus the bomber, Hamid’s brother, Farid Masruk.
    
3. Sept 27, 2005: A Boy in a Tree
   The decomposed body of an adolescent boy is found hanging from a tree on the grounds of an exclusive East Coast prep school. By examining the tabanid maggots and the crematogaster ants that fed on the body, Dr. Jack Hodgins, the Squints entomologist, is able to determine that he died ten to fourteen days earlier.While examining the body, Dr. Brennan finds a cochlear implant in the victim’s ear. This tells her that the victim was deaf. By tracing the serial number on the device, she is able to identify the victim as Nestor Olivos.Brennan also establishes that Nestor’s hyoid bone is broken. As an adolescent Nestor’s hyoid should be flexible, unbreakable. How then did it come to be broken?By examining the Tabinid maggots’s pupal casing, Jack Hodgins determines that Nestor ingested a heavy dose of the drug Ketamine before he died. But did he take it voluntarily or was he drugged?The central mystery of the case is whether Nestor killed himself or was murdered. The question plagues the investigation, until Dr. Brennan realizes that the Ketamine, plus choking caused Nestor to regurgitate before he died. Stomach acids were trapped in the throat by the rope and weakened Nestor’s hyoid, allowing the weight of his body to break it. This plus non-forensic evidence gathered by Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth prove that Nestor was murdered.
    
4. 1 Nov 05 The Man in the Bear
   When a routine necropsy of a black bear in rural Washington State turns up a human arm, FBI sends the case to Special Agent Seeley Booth in hopes of getting forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, to ID the victim. Uncomfortable with being at anyone’s beck and call, Brennan is at first reluctant to go until she is ordered to do so by her boss, Dr. Goodman who feels, if for nothing else, it will get her out of the lab and into the world to “connect with other people.” Brennan concedes. She examines the arm bones and is shocked to find kerf marks and residual cross-section striae – cut marks made by a saw on the bones. A person cut off this arm before the bear ate it. Brennan and Booth make the trip to small town “Aurora” Washington (pop. 3826) to investigate, engaging the help of locals in a place where everyone knows everything about everybody. While Booth meets with the Sheriff Scutter, Brennan examines the bone fragments with local doctors and determines the arm belonged to a young male who was well muscled but the only person reported missing thus far is a woman – Ann Noyes. Sheriff Scutter, unimpressed by the FBI, immediately takes to Brennan, much to Booth’s annoyance. Brennan, however, is entirely unaware of the attention she is drawing as she engages the help of a flirty UPS guy, Charlie, to ship bone fragments back to her lab. Zack debrides them and finds unusual indentations. He satellites these images to Brennan and she ascertains that these are bite marks -- not from a bear, but from a human. Brennan realizes, to the horror of the local residents, they don't just have a killer in their town… they have a cannibal.Brennan realizes a cannibal would get sick with prion disease, and goes to confer with local doctor/coroner Dr. Andrew Rigby – a man who is also smitten with Brennan and eager to help. Unfortunately, he has not come across patients with such symptoms. Back at the lab, Hodgins examines the bear scat that Brennan shipped to him and finds in it a metacarpal, a sporocarp, and a layer of dermis with pigmentation marks in the microphage – a flap of skin with a tattoo. Angela artistically recreates the tattoo and realizes it’s a Haida Sun motif. With that piece of evidence, the Sheriff runs a new missing persons check and finds a match: Adam Langer, 22, missing 10 days from a nearby college. The Sheriff realizes he knows Adam – he used to come up to Aurora to visit Sherman Rivers, the town's Native American Park Ranger. When Booth and Brennan pay a visit to Ranger Rivers, he runs, escaping into the woods. Booth gives chase, but loses him when his flashlight dies leaving him in the dark.Brennan and the Sheriff search Ranger River's cabin and find a half-eaten apple and some strange looking meat. Brennan ships it all back to her lab. In the meantime, Hodgins has figured out that the sporocarp is a tuber gibbosum – an Oregon white truffle that only grows in symbiosis with Douglas fir trees. He shaves the truffle, finding boring dust produced by beetles. This means the tree the truffle grew on was infested. The next day, Booth, Brennan and the Sheriff are able to find Ranger Rivers in the woods -- he says he only ran because "Indians and the FBI don't mix.” Zack has figured out that the meat samples from Rivers’ cabin were all black bear and that the teeth marks on the apple don't match those on the bone fragments – he's not the cannibal (although he is a poacher). In exchange for getting off the hook for poaching, Ranger Rivers leads them to the infested stand of trees in the woods, where they find a perverse version of a Medicine Wheel and two dead bodies – Adam Langer and Ann Noyes, the missing hiker, who's also missing her heart.Brennan and Dr. Rigby do autopsies on the bodies, both of which were killed by gunshots to the head. Based on adipocere formation, Brennan estimates Ann Noyes has been dead for about a week. When Ranger Rivers reveals that Adam Langer had been seeing local veterinarian Dr. Denise Randall, Booth and Brennan pay her a visit, getting her to write into a block of dental medium so they can check her teeth marks -- but, as Brennan points out, even if she killed Adam Langer, why would she have killed Ann Noyes? And is she really a cannibal? They are more likely looking for someone who's clinically insane. Word gets around fast and everyone in town is speculating on the case; the men have Brennan in sight as she starts to realize just how good “connecting” with others can feel.Back at the lab, Zack examines photos of Ann Noyes's sternum and finds more tooth marks -- only these are made by a machine, not a person. He beams Brennan the images and she figures out they were made by a sternum spreader -- which is the clue that ultimately helps Booth and Brennan figure out the case and catch the cannibal.
    
5. 8 Nov 05 A Boy In a Bush
   Dr. Temperance Brennan is giving a lecture to a group of anthropology students when Special Agent Seeley Booth shows up -- a six-year-old boy named Charlie Sanders has gone missing near a local mall and now someone has reported seeing human remains in an adjacent field. Booth needs Brennan's help to locate the remains and then determine if they are in fact those of their missing six-year-old.Brennan, Booth, Zack and an army of searchers descend on this field. Using a thermal imager, Zack combs the landscape until he comes across a small, decomposed rib-cage teeming with bugs. It looks like they've found Charlie.Back in the lab, Brennan places the age of the victim between six and ten years old based on epiphyseal fusion. Zack indicates the victim died as a result of blunt force trauma and Hodgins determines he's only been dead between thirty-six and forty-eight hours. Brennan also points out the victim's clothes were found intact away from the body indicating he was likely sexually assaulted before he was killed. Angela struggles emotionally to complete a sketch of the victim that bears a striking resemblance to Charlie's "Missing Child" poster. "He's so small. That's all," she tells Brennan. Based on all this information, Brennan informs Booth this is Charlie Sanders and they are probably looking for a pedophile.Booth pays a visit to Charlie's mother, Margaret Sanders, who is being comforted by her neighbor, Ellie Nelson. Booth learns Margaret has two other foster sons, Shawn and David Cook, but Charlie was her only biological child. Margaret confirms that on the day Charlie disappeared he went to the park with his brothers. Just then, Ellie's son, Skyler, arrives with Shawn and David in tow. Margaret introduces them to Booth who bonds with the boys over a video game. As Booth leaves, he learns Charlie didn't disappear from the park as they originally thought, but from the local mall.Meanwhile, Goodman assembles Brennan, Angela, Hodgins and Zack to inform them of a banquet the Jeffersonian is holding to thank its patrons. He explains that attendance is not optional, but Hodgins is defiant as he snaps a rubber band on his wrist, he's not going.Brennan oversees Zack, who like Angela, is having trouble working on such "small" remains. Brennan advises him to pull back emotionally from the case, to not refer to the victim by name and to focus on the details. When Zack starts to focus, he notes greenstick fractures on ribs four, five, six and seven and that the sternum is snapped transversely from the tip to the xiphoid. He believes these injuries were caused by a blunt object striking the victim's chest. Brennan instructs Zack to smell the victim's mouth where he detects something other than the typical smell of decomposition.Hodgins tests Charlie's jaw in a vapor chamber filled with methyl oxide while Angela tries to get to the bottom of his rubber band snapping. Hodgins confirms it's an anger-management technique but won't say why going to this banquet upsets him so much. As a bluish residue forms on Charlie's teeth, all Hodgins will confirm is that the chemical they're dealing with is a halogen.Booth assembles Brennan and Angela to begin poring over surveillance footage from the mall. They quickly spot David and then Charlie but the image of Charlie's abductor is blocked from view. Brennan confronts Angela and asks her if she's thinking of leaving the Jeffersonian. Angela confides to her that this job is difficult for her and she's not sure what she's going to do – just needs some time.Brennan returns to her work where she tells Booth she found some abnormalities on Charlie's bones (similar to scoliosis) that are indicative of a hereditary genetic defect passed from mother to child called hypophosphatemia. When Booth and Brennan confront Margaret with this information, they learn that she is not Charlie's biological mother as she claimed. Margaret tells them she took Charlie to save him from the foster system after his mother died of a drug overdose, but that doesn't mean she had anything to do with his abduction and death. Brennan goes off on Booth when she learns he arrested Margaret for kidnapping, but Booth claims he had no choice. Brennan wants Booth to let her go so she, Shawn and David can continue to be a family but Booth says that's not going to happen.As Angela continues to work on isolating the image of Charlie's abductor in the surveillance footage, she learns from Zack that Hodgins' house is more like an estate – the guy is rich. Hearing this, Booth speculates he might be from the family by the same name behind the Cantilever Group. This organization is the single biggest donor to the Jeffersonian. Angela realizes this is the reason Hodgins doesn't want to go to the banquet. If he goes, he will be outed by his family's rich friends and his life at the Jeffersonian will be forever changed.Hodgins informs Brennan he's identified the chemical in Charlie's mouth as an extremely high concentration of fluoride just as news comes in that Angela's isolated a reflection of Charlie's abductor. The face they've been waiting to see turns out to be none other than Charlie's foster brother, Shawn. When Booth tries to question Shawn about what happened, the boy shuts down. It's not until Brennan realizes that the injury to Charlie's body was not caused by blunt force but by compression and that Shawn didn't weigh enough to be the killer, that Booth agrees to let her talk with him. Brennan draws upon her own experience as a child in the foster system to get Shawn to open up. In the end, he breaks down and whispers the name of Charlie's killer in Brennan's ear.With this information in hand, Brennan accompanies Booth to the Nelson home where they arrest Mr. Nelson for Charlie's sexual assault and murder. The fluoride found in Charlie's mouth was from an insecticide Mr. Nelson used in his trade as an exterminator. The pain of this whole event is only lessened when Booth arranges for the kidnapping charges against Margaret to be dropped. Brennan is heartened to see her reunited with Shawn and David – a family once again
    
6. 15 Nov 05 The Man in the Wall
   Brennan and Angela party at a dance club called “The Bassment.”  When Brennan comments about the music being “tribal,” comparing it to Indonesian Gamelan Music and Tibetan Throat Singers, a club patron starts an argument with her. Brennan and Angela get caught up in the melee and Brennan kicks someone into the wall, causing it to break open to reveal a mummified corpse and a stash of methamphetamine.  Special Agent Patrick Furst is investigating, when Booth shows up with Tessa – they had been on a date when Booth got the call.  Booth notices Brennan is acting strangely.  Agent Furst informs him that Brennan and Angela are “stoned” – when the wall split a cloud of methamphetamine dust covered the dance floor. Brennan, high as a kite, announces that she is thrilled to be working on her “first modern mummy.”Back at the lab, Brennan has determined that the victim OD’d. He died of asphyxiation from inhaling meth powder. It appears the victim was trying to squeeze through the narrow space inside the wall when a bag of meth burst open, coating the alveoli in his lungs making breathing impossible. Hodgins indicates that judging from the acrid mites in the victim’s ears, it appears the body has been inside the wall six weeks.Brennan re-hydrates the mummy’s hands to get fingerprints. Brennan apologizes for ruining Booth’s date. Booth divulges that he and Tessa were planning their first vacation together.  Booth matches the victim’s prints to Roy Taylor (a.k.a DJ Mount). Angela tells Brennan that Roy Taylor was one of the best DJ’s in DC and that when he disappeared he was just starting to break. At the FBI Booth speaks with the owner of The Bassment, Randall Hall, accompanied by his bodyguard.  Hall paints a picture of DJ Mount as someone who, like many of the young artists Hall’s record label works with, grew up on the street and had trouble with drugs and the law.  Booth wonders if Mount had any rivals. Hall dismisses his bodyguard and reveals that DJ Mount, indeed, had a growing rivalry with another DJ from the club, Simon Rulz.Brennan returns to the club with Zack.  Inside the wall, Brennan finds footprints in the dirt indicating someone was on the other side of DJ Mount.  She also finds dried blood smears on the wall and what looks like a jeweled earring, meaning someone else was inside the wall with Mount.At the lab, Angela points out that the earring is actually a belly button ring. Hodgins has pulled particulates from DJ Mount’s re-hydrated eyeballs and found low-density polyethylene residue and methamphetamine crystals. Polyethylene is from plastic bags.  Based on the damage to the inside of DJ Mount’s lips Brennan determines that DJ Mount was murdered when someone smothered him by pushing a plastic bag of meth crystals up against his face.  Booth thinks it may have been the owner of the belly ring.  Just then Angela enlarges an image of the belly ring and finds an inscription – “Luv Rulz.”  Booth and Brennan pay a visit to Simon Rulz at his music studio.  They learn Mount dissed Rulz on one of his tracks.  Booth wonders if Rulz’s girlfriend helped him get back at Mount.  Rulz says the girl he gave the belly ring to, Eve Warren, wasn’t his woman anymore. He mentions that Eve has a daughter her brother is raising. Brennan notices Simon Rulz’s hand is injured. He got shot through the wrist a few years ago. It shattered the lower radius and pisiform, damaging the nerves in his hand.  Rulz tells them Eve had a taste for meth and suggests she was ripping Mount off for it. At the lab, Zack has discovered damage to the facet joint and foramen on C-4 on the right side of DJ Mount’s neck – that suggests his head was forced that way. There is also a slight depression on his skull, barley discernible – which could be congenital or a bone anomaly. Booth and Brennan meet Eve Warren’s brother George at his Krump dance studio. George tells them that Eve dropped off her daughter Maya about six weeks ago. He says Eve left some money and that he hasn’t seen her since. George reveals Eve had problems, drugs, hanging out with the wrong people. He’s very protective of Maya, says he’s not going to let anything happen to her.  He tells Booth and Brennan that Eve said she loved Mount. That he had promised to give her and Maya a good life. Booth trades George for some of the money Eve left behind.At the lab, Hodgins has tested the money Eve left behind for her brother and found that it contains the same meth as was found inside the wall.  Brennan and Angela show Booth a rendering of the crime scene.  Angela simulates a scenario on the computer that proves Eve Warren could not have killed DJ Mount.  Eve and DJ Mount were traveling through the wall sideways. Eve was on Mount’s left, traveling ahead of him. Mount’s neck was twisted to the right, behind himself. This tells them there was a third person in the wall that surprised them. Mount’s body blocked the way for this person to reach Eve, which is why she was able to escape. This third person is the one who killed Mount. Booth is at the FBI with Randall Hall’s bodyguard. Booth has figured out that the bodyguard is some kind of undercover cop. His name is Special Agent Robert Oakes and he’s been working undercover for the FBI looking for links between the urban music world and the record industry. Oakes tells Booth Randall Hall’s real name is Terrence Baskin, who racked up a lot of bodies when he ran the Naylor Road Crew. FBI knows Hall is moving meth through the club, but they can’t get enough to touch. Informants get killed or disappear. Oakes reveals that the night Mount went missing Hall got ripped off for a mountain of meth and cash. Hall looks like a he’s behind the killing. At The Bassment, Booth and Brennan face Hall, who tells them he is a hundred percent clean now.  Hall denies killing Mount and claims Mount was just starting to make him money.  Again he points the finger at Simon Rulz, telling them the rivalry between Mount and Rulz was indeed strong enough to lead to murder. He suggests they might want to check out the new music studio Rulz built for himself. He tells them Eve’s missing, and that Rulz poured the cement for the studio the day after she and Mount disappeared. Booth and Brennan, with Tutti, a cadaver dog, execute a search warrant on Simon Rulz’s music studio. Tutti starts barking wildly, she’s found something under the cement. Brennan tells Booth to get a jackhammer.Back at the lab, dental records confirm the body found is Eve Warren.  Up in the lounge, Tessa has brought Booth a change of clothes. Angela and Tessa talk about Booth and Tessa’s upcoming vacation to Jamaica.  Angela scares Tessa off when she suggests they are so ready for the Pre-Shacking Up Test Vacation.  Brennan shows up and tells Booth that Eve Warren was killed by the same method as Mount, meth overdose.  Brennan also tells Booth that she doesn’t think Simon Rulz killed Eve, despite her being buried underneath his studio. Why?  Because Eve Warren’s wrist is broken. Using the Angelator, Brennan and Angela show Booth how Eve was killed.  She was taken from behind and smashed into the wall. Her skull shows damage to the infraorbital and supraorbital margins and the zygomatic process.  A bag of crystal meth was then ground into her face. Her right arm was twisted behind her separating her ulna from the scaphoid and trapezium. The person who killed her had to have the strength to use both of their arms in the attack. The significant nerve damage to Simon Rulz’s wrist rules him out as a suspect. At the FBI Booth and Brennan interrogate Simon Rulz who finally gives up that Mount got killed because he was going to leave Bassment Records.  All he needed was money to buy himself back. Rulz tells them Eve couldn’t kill anybody and that Randall Hall built him a new music studio the day after Mount and Eve went missing. That’s all the information Rulz can give, otherwise he says he’ll end up a dried out mummy in a wall too. At the lab, Zack finds a mark on Eve Warren’s manubrium that matches the mark they found on DJ Mount’s skull. Brennan determines the mark was caused by something external.  Booth is now convinced that Eve Warren was a woman in love who ripped off Randall Hall so she and Mount could start a new life together. He believes that Randall Hall killed them.  Booth and Brennan arrive at The Bassment and confront Randall Hall. Hall denies killing DJ Mount and Eve Warren.  Booth pushes Hall’s buttons and Hall pokes him with his cane.  Brennan sees the tip of Hall’s cane, realizes she may be looking at the murder weapon and tells Booth to arrest Hall and seize the cane as evidence.  At the lab, Zack and Hodgins match a mark from the end of Randal Hall’s cane to the marks on DJ Mount’s skull and Eve Warren’s manubium. Brennan finds out from Angela that Tessa freaked out and has bagged on her vacation with Booth vacation to Jamaica
    
7. 22 Nov 05 The Man on Death Row
   When condemned man Howard Epps is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection (in thirty-two hours) for the murder of seventeen-year-old April Wright, Epps’ attorney, Amy Morton, makes a last minute appeal to Booth (the man who arrested Epps) to re-examine the case.  Booth believes Epps is guilty, but asks Brennan and her team of squints to do him a favor and give up their weekend plans to review the evidence in order to confirm Epps’ guilt. Brennan and her team consider the evidence in the case which include compound fractures of the trapezium, scaphoid and the base of the radius consistent with defensive wounds and that April’s skull was smashed six to eight times with a narrow cylindrical object that matches a tire iron missing from her car.  They also consider a pubic hair which was never accounted for at trial, a scrap of paper with a telephone number written in April’s handwriting, evidence that April had consensual sex shortly before her death and particles lodged between April’s right triquetral and the capitate that Brennan believes (through texture analysis) are not bone fragments at all.Just as Zack discovers that the telephone number found in April’s car is not a phone number but a numerical code for the location they believe April met her killer, Brennan finds a small shard of bone among April’s clothing.  Hodgins magnifies it and reveals it is not bone, but aggregate gravel.  This discovery is odd because there was no gravel where April Wright’s body was found, only grass leading to the conclusion that April must have been killed somewhere else before her body was dumped.While Brennan and Amy manage to convince a Judge to issue a warrant to exhume April’s body, Booth meets with April’s parents and their attorney, David Ross.  Upon hearing the news that there’s new evidence in the case that might spare Epps’ life, April’s father has to usher his emotionally distraught wife from the room.  Left alone with David Ross, Booth discovers that David Ross and April may have been having an affair and, despite his adamant denial, he may in fact be their killer. With warrant in hand, Brennan exhumes April’s body but her examination does not turn up any definitive evidence to stay Epps’ execution.  Epps is counting down the last hours of his life when Hodgins suddenly identifies pollen (from Smooth Cord Grass) combined with traces of anthracene and fluoranthene on slivers of the tire iron used to kill April.  This allows Brennan and Booth to conclude that whomever killed April, did it in a marshy area near a particular chemical plant.Armed with this information, Brennan and her team locate four areas close to the plant that contains this type of pollen.  Using GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar Units), they comb the ground looking for the murder weapon and not only stumble upon the tire iron but also the bodies of two other young, female victims.  Suddenly, the picture becomes clear -- the only person who could be responsible for these murders is not Ross but Epps.  The presence of new evidence in the case is going to result in the stay of his execution.  Epps used Brennan, Booth and Amy to save himself… a  guilty man
    
8. 29 Nov 05 The Girl in the Fridge
   Brennan’s former forensic anthropology professor – and ex-lover – Dr. Michael Stires, surprises her with a visit to her lab at the Jeffersonian while in town to interview for a job. While they make plans to have dinner together that evening, Booth wheels in a soiled refrigerator, revealing the decomposed remains of a young woman inside. As Brennan and her team go to work to uncover clues as to what may have happened Booth discovers an old ransom note sent to the girl’s parents shortly after she disappeared. Booth and Brennan determine the supposed kidnapping was a hoax and Booth makes an arrest in the case. When Bones is called in as an expert witness, she is shocked to discover the defense has brought in an expert of their own.
    
9. 13 Dec 05  The Man In The Fallout Shelter
   Construction workers find a skeleton in an old fallout shelter from the 1950s and the Jeffersonian is brought in to help identify the remains. When Zack cuts into the bone, he accidentally releases spores of the deadly fungus Valley Fever, causing the team to be quarantined in the lab over Christmas. While everyone tries to maintain the holiday spirit, Brennan buckles down to solve the mystery of the fallout shelter. Booth and Brennan’s team are reminded that this is a rough time of year for Brennan, since her parents went missing right before Christmas when she was a kid. As Brennan works to bring closure to the family of the missing man – something she has yet to receive about her own parents – the time spent together in the lab provides the catalyst for revealing information about all of them.
    
10. 25 Jan 06 The Woman at the Airport
    Dr. Temperance Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth travel to Los Angeles to determine the identity of a woman whose body parts were found near Los Angeles International Airport. With Booth at the wheel of their convertible rental car, they are assisted on the L.A. end of the case by young FBI Agent Tricia Finn, who is a little too eager to help. Agent Finn knows Brennan's books inside and out and mentions reading in an entertainment industry trade paper that the film rights to Brennan's latest book were bought by producer/director Penny Marshall. When Brennan and Marshall meet face to face on the set of "Entertainment Tonight," both Marshall and ET's Jann Carl are impressed and a little taken aback by Brennan's dedication to her latest case. Brennan's skills are put to the test when she realizes the victim's identity is hidden by previous extensive plastic surgery.
     
11. 1 Feb 06 The Woman in the Tunnel
    When the remains of a young documentary filmmaker are found in a ventilation shaft in an underground Washington, DC, tunnel, Brennan and Booth must venture into the maze of tunnels beneath the city and are surprised to discover a world of homeless shelters underground. Clues lead them to suspect that a man living underground was involved with the murder, but instead he gives them valuable information about the purpose of the victim’s underground project. When a valuable artifact is found among the victim’s possessions, the entire Jeffersonian team joins in the investigation to learn why the victim was in the maze of tunnels and what she found down there that led to her murder.
     
12. 8 Feb 06 The Superhero in the Alley
    FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth enlists Dr. Temperance Brennan's help when a decomposed body is found in a local alley and the cause of death is unknown. As Brennan tries to assess if a murder has been committed, the details of the case draw her in deeper, and she's determined to help Booth find the teen's killer. As their investigation reveals the body is that of a teenage boy who had only comic books for friends, Brennan finds she may have more in common with the lone teenager than she thought.
     
13. 15 Feb 06 The Woman in the Garden
    Booth and Brennan investigate when an El Salvadoran gang member is stopped with a dug-up corpse of a young woman in the trunk of his car. While he's being questioned, a drive-by shooting at the site gives the suspect a chance to escape. Booth and Brennan are able to find where the woman was buried – a soon-to-be-excavated community garden – but when they investigate her vacant grave, they find a second empty grave as well. Clues lead them to a wealthy senator's house where the gang member worked, and the investigation gets more complicated as nobody is willing to offer up the truth.