BONES

SEASON 1
SEASON 2

Airs Next: FOX at Wednesday 8:00 PM (60 min.)

Status: Returning Series Premiered: September 13, 2005

Show Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure



From executive producers Barry Josephson and Hart Hanson comes the darkly amusing drama Bones, inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan, 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, who's created a unique way to render an original crime scene in a three-dimensional computer image; Brennan's assistant, Zack Addy, a young prodigy whose genius IQ actually gets in the way of his finishing the several doctorates he's begun; "the bug guy", Dr. Jack Hodgins, who's an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby; and Brennan's boss, imposing lab director Dr. Daniel Goodman. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seely Booth, 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 lastest mystery novel.

Cast

Jonathan Adams - Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1)
David Boreanaz - Special Agent Seeley Booth
Emily Deschanel - Dr. Temperance Brennan
Eric Millegan - Zack Addy
Michaela Conlin - Angela Montenegro
T.J. Thyne - Dr. Jack Hodgins
Tamara Taylor - Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2)

Stargazer in a Puddle (2-22)

The decomposed skeleton of a young woman is found in a shopping cart, but due to an aging disease she is reconstructed by Angela as an 80-year-old woman. Booth and Brennan investigate and are led to a former caretaker of the victim, but their lead is shaky and they have trouble finding out who would want to kill such an innocent young woman. Meanwhile, Max Keenan, Brennan's father, reappears with information from her past. Also, Hodgins and Angela walk down the aisle, but everything doesn't go as planned

Quotes

add » Angela: And this time, art made science her bitch. (edit) Angela's Dad: (to Hodgins) You should play it in the key of G Demolished. (edit) Christine Brennan: (From the videotape) Hi, Temperance, it's Mom, I don't know when or if you'll ever see this. I hope to put it in your hands myself, see you again, with my own eyes. This is a hard hard world, your father and I left you and Russ to save your lives. People would have killed you to get us. That's not what this is about. Today is your sixteenth birthday, I'm so sorry not to be there to tell you all the things that a mother should tell her daughter when she turns sixteen. And, I'm sorry not to give you this, it's a heirloom from my side of the family, and starting today it's yours. I don't know how long it will take me to get it to you, but I promise you I will. you're going to hear a lot of things about your parents, especially about your father. He is a good man. It was my insistence to leave you kids, Max would have kept us together, fought until the end, I'm not sure he'll ever forgive me for that. So please, Temperance, I need you to forgive me. And if you can't forgive me, I beg you honey, forgive your father, cause he is a very good man. Remember this, you were cherished in this world, adored. What I did to you may have been wrong, but I did it out of love. I did it out of love. (edit) (Booth punches Max in the face during his "arrest")
Max: Oh, hey, hey, that's good kid, you're throwin'. (Max punches Booth, who groans) What's the matter? Got a glass jaw?
Booth: You know what, you talk too much. (Punches Max)
Max: Right in the face, geez. (Doubled over) Time, time.
Booth: You had enough?
Max: Wait, I'm old.
Booth: There's no time outs during an arrest! (Max gets up and punches Booth. Booth returns with two punches. Max falls to the ground)
Max: Okay, I'm done, I'm done. It's over. I'm finished.
Booth: Let's go. (Takes out the cuffs to arrest Max, who punches him in the groin when he gets close)
Booth: (In pain) Oh, god that really hurts. (Falls to the ground next to Max) (edit) Zack: Booth?
Booth: Yeah?
Zack: Is there any sense in ducking when someone shoots at you.
Booth: Your body ducks whether you want to or not. (Suddenly figures out something is wrong) Why?
Zack: You can read this later, then explain it to everyone. (Hands him a letter from the White House)
Booth: Why me?
Zack: You know more about duty and honor than anyone else I know. (Booth looks touched) (edit)

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In this episode, Bones gets a ring from her father. He tells her it belonged to her grandmother and Bones reveals that she never knew she had grandparents. Her father says that they had to lie about not having any family because they had changed their identities. But in Season 1, the episode "Boy in a Bush" Bones tells Booth that she was a foster child until her grandfather got her out. (edit) This is Brennan's mom's second appearance in the show and they were both season finales. (edit) In one shot at the wedding, as the harp music is playing and Booth is explaining how he arrested Brennan's Dad, you can see the harpist in the background, clearly not playing anymore. (edit) Angela getting married in Fiji was first mentioned in season one's "The Woman in the Car." (edit) When Brennan looks up at the sky through a window in Cynthia Cole's house, she sees a sky full of stars, and even a shooting star. There's no way that many stars would be visible in a large metropolitan area like Washington D.C

Allusions

add » Hodgins: I don't know what that means.

This is an allusion to the line that Dr. Brennan coined on the show when she is oblivious to a pop culture reference.

The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House (2-21)

Glowing bones are found in an old stone house, and Brennan and Booth are called in to investigate. They find that strangely, the bones are not radioactive and lack any other explanation for why they would be glowing. With the victim identified, the team sets off to figure out the murder mystery.

Quotes

add » (Booth and Brennan talk about catching Carlie's murder)
Brennan: We do this all the time, you know, I should be used to it. It shouldn't bother me.
Booth: No, it should. (looks at her for a while) Was she really gonna teach you how to cook?
Brennan: Yeah. I've always understood the basics of cooking, the physics of it, but Carlie said she was going to show me what it was really about. To her, she said, that it was a way of...well, she said loving, but then, she was prone to hyperbole.
Booth: Well, hey, I mean, that's what family dinners are all about, right? Those are some of my, my best memories. (edit) Brennan: You still torturing Hodgins?
Angela: He loves it.
Brennan: Just tell him "No." Put him out of his misery.
Angela (laughs lightly): What if I want to say "Yes"?
Brennan: You, get married?
Angela: Sometimes your brain just shuts off because you're in love. (edit) Cam: (after walking in on Angela and Hodgins making out again) Doesn't marriage destroy sex? Please, Angela, say yes! (edit) (Cam walks in on Hodgins and Angela kissing)
Cam: Oh good lord, you have to stop mounting each other in the office. (edit) Booth: You know, you should let me help.
Bones: No, cleaning up, you can do that. (Brings over a hot plate of the famous Macaroni)
Booth: (Sarcastically) Great- (Shocked and giddy) Wow, hee hee, mac and cheese, wow, Bones, this looks fantastic.
Bones: Yeah, really?
Booth: Yeah, I mean, you-you shouldn't have all this work just for me.
Bones: No, I mean, it wasn't that much.
Booth: (Takes a bite) Mmm, this is unbeliebvable.
Bones: You like it?
Booth: I'd like to be alone with it. (They both chuckle)
Bones: She told me I could go with my instincts, so I put in a little fresh ground nutmeg.
Booth: Well, she taught you well. (Really blown away) Thanks Bones.
Bones: (Brushing it off) Yeah, well, you know, you have to eat right?
Booth: Yeah, gotta eat, always gotta eat. (edit)

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GOOF: Different characters refer to Michaelson's character as either being in the Reserves or the National Guard. These are two different entities within the US Army. (edit) GOOF: When David Boreanaz is walking away from his conversation with T.J. Thyne's character about marriage, he is not looking, and runs into the edge of the partition, and you can see him jolt if you watch closely. (edit)

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Booth: Okay, what are we missing here?
Cam: The Stooges.

This is an allusion to the Three Stooges, a slapstick comedy trio, who made people laugh by essentially slapping each other and inflicting slight physical pain that was over exaggerated. (edit) Bones has a hard time with the victim because she had met her and had arranged to meet her again, saying that she's not used to knowing the victim. This isn't exactly true. In The Man in the Morgue, one of the victims is a coworker, in The Woman in Limbo the victim is her own mother, and in The Bodies in the Book a victim is her publisher. That's three seperate instances where she's known the victim

Spaceman in a Crater (2-20)

A mysterious dead man is found in a crater with his body flattened as if he had fallen from the sky. Brennan and Booth try to find out who the man was while Hodgins comes up with different conspiracy theories involving aliens. Booth and Brennan find out the man was an astronaut who was murdered, and a complicated murder case unfolds.

Quotes

add » Brennan: I bet if you told the agency you're going to identify Colonel Howard to the press they'd be a little more cooperative.
Booth: Yeah. You know, I've been a wonderful influence on you.
Brennan: Actually I learned that move from Cam. (edit) (At restaurant, Jack pushes small velvet box across the table to Angela)
Jack: I believe that if two people care enough for each other, the rest of the world disappears to them. I feel that when I'm with you. (Angela opens the box to reveal a diamond engagement ring) I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life. Angela Montenegro, will you marry me? (edit) Booth: You eat yet?
Bones: I said I’d wait…how did you know that James would tell me?
Booth: Well, man loves his wife. May not be strong but, he has a conscience.
Bones: See, I…I can’t tell that stuff.
Booth: And I can’t tell the difference between coral and bone, so, guess we make a great pair. (Rushing) Hey, speaking of marriage, Hodgins is going to propose to Angela tonight.
Bones: Hmm.
Booth: What?
Bones: I guess right now it looks to me like marriage is having someone who’ll slap your enemies and then toss their dead bodies out of airplanes.
Booth: Try not to mention that to Angela. (edit) Hodgins: (Confused after Angela’s refusal) I don’t know whether I should laugh, cry or punch out the sommelier. (edit) Hodgins: (After Angela has turned down his proposal) But you love me?
Angela: More than you know. (edit)

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At one point Bones refers to "a thousand RPMs". Any scientist would know that RPM is already a plural. (edit) At the very beginning of the episode there are two cows facing the camera. The cow on the right has some short rope tied around both of it's front hoofs which you can see when it picks up it's left hoof to complete it's turn but it cant because of the rope tied to it's other hoof. Presumably they did this to keep the cow facing the correct direction during the shot. (edit) Goof: When Bones says she learned the blackmail trick from Cam, this is wrong. She used the EXACT same trick in the pilot to get Booth to take her in the field when she threatened to tell the press that they found Cleo Eller, and that was long before she knew Cam. (edit)

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Cam (to Zack) Igor!

Igor is the usual name of a stock character who is the assistant to a mad scientist. Originally from the 1939 movie Son of Frankenstein. (edit) Booth: Broadsword?! Where do you people come up with this stuff?

This could be an inside joke, considering the many times David Boreanaz used a broadsword in Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (edit) Zack: Little green men?
Hodgins: Grey. They're grey, not green. Grey.

This is an allusion to The X-Files and the long Moulder's quest to convince everyone that aliens are grey (let alone convince them they exist).

alternatively it could be seen as a allusion to Stargate SG-1 where the "little green men" are grey.... and asgard. (edit) Booth: Broadsword, like King Arthur?

This is an allusion to King Arthur, who is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship both in war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of legends known as the Matter of Britain. He was said to be born in the 5th century. There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed, or whether he is a mythic figure who has been given a historicised setting. (edit) Booth: (sarcastically) Come on, four hits simultaneously with a broadsword? What, was he attacked by the Knights of the Round Table?

This is an allusion to the Knights of the Round Table who were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle The Matter of Britain. The table at which they met was created to have no head or foot, representing the equality of all the members.

Player Under Pressure (2-19)

All team members are working to identify the bones from a college athlete who suffered a lot of fractures. After the body is identified they talk to his sister and somebody who acted as a sort of an advisor for the deceased. Angela and Hodgins have an important talk. Zack is overwhelmed by having to reconstruct the crushed bones to form a skeleton.

Quotes

add » Bones: How did he get into college?
Booth: Basketball. (edit)

The Killer in the Concrete (2-18)

Booth and Brennan investigate the case of a partial skeleton found in cement. Booth thinks a member of a crime family - Hugh Kennedy - is to blame, but when he hears word that Hugh was burnt to death in a car things get more complicated. Booth finds out that Hugh is actually alive, but then gets kidnapped by him. Brennan must now find Booth before he is hurt, but this is harder to do than she thinks, and she ends up going to great lengths to get Booth back safely.

Quotes

add » (Booth, Brennan and Cam talking about Icepick's amputated leg)
Cam: (to Booth) Was she pretty?
Brennan: Icepick is a male.
Cam: I mean the bounty hunter who gave Booth the slip.
Booth: You know, she didn't get away because she was pretty.
Brennan: (smiling and teasing) She was a she?
Booth: No, she was a - Oh, god! (grabs his jaw in pain)
Cam: What's wrong with your mouth?
Brennan: I'm guessing the anterior (holds out her hand to touch his jaw but Booth slaps her hand away) molar on the left side is infected. The leg was surgically amputated.
Cam: Go to a dentist.
Brennan: He's afraid of the dentist. (edit) Veleska Miller: A guy like you must be going crazy in the FBI.
Booth: What kind of guy is that exactly?
Veleska Miller: I'm a bounty hunter, sport, I read people fast or I die. You are not standard government issue. (edit) Booth: As a friend of mine likes to say, don't jump to conclusions until all the evidence is in.
Brennan: If the facts are in then it's not jumping to conclusions, so I never said that.
Booth: I never said that the friend is you. (edit) Zack: (to Cam) I'm with you. I'm with you not ahead of you. (edit) Bones: Why didn't you just, just tell them about Kennedy?
Booth: You know, I needed to give you time to find me. I've been tortured worse. (edit)

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Goof: At the end in the diner, Booth puts the dolphin down on the table before they sing and takes a drink from his cup. When the camera pans out, after they sing, he has the dolphin back in his hand and puts it down again, showing a goof in continuity. (edit) It is revealed that one of the cars that Hodgins drives is a fast Italian car. (edit) The end conversation with Booth and Bones in the diner is much like the conversation in the church at the end of "Aliens in a Spaceship". However, the roles have been reversed. Instead of Booth saving Bones as in that episode, Bones found and saved Booth. This marks a balance in their partnership. (edit)

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When Booth was tortured, we could see that he had a wound on his forehead but towards the end of the episode when they were singing the wound was gone. (edit) When Booth said "I've been tortured worse," it could be an allusion to all the torturing that he went through in both Buffy and Angel.

It could also be a reference to the old wounds Bones identified in series one "two bodies in the lab". While a sniper he was tortures and had his feet broken with pipes. (edit) Booth: I had to give you time to find me.

This is an allusion to Booth having the same faith in Bones that she had in him in the episode "Aliens in a Spaceship". During that episode, when Bones and Hodgins were trapped, she knew that Booth would find them.

The Priest in the Churchyard (2-17)

A water main bursts in the middle of a cemetery, leaving lots of coffins to litter the grounds. Brennan is called in to identify the remains so they can be reburied. When she finds the remains that have only been there for five years after being told no one was buried their in fifty years.

Booth decides to bring Brennan to see his shrink so that they can work on getting their relationship back on track.

Things get intense between Hodgins and Angela, when Hodgins makes a bold move.

Quotes

add » Angela: All right, listen up, Monty Python. You got it right with Hodgins and I, that's fine. But we both know that you are full of it on the other thing.
Gordon: (faking surprise) I have no idea to what you refer.
Angela: Brennan didn't run off with Sully because she cannot live a life without focus. She stayed because of Booth.
Gordon: Ah, now you're projecting Miss Montenegro. Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan are not you and Dr. Hodgings. I stand by my diagnosis.
Angela: You stand by the FBI. Your first priority is to get agents back into the field. Solving murders.
Gordon: (amused and guilty) Your romanticism is endearing, but as the bard says, "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends".
Angela: He also says, "Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know." (edit) Angela: So, things are all right?
Brennan: According to the psychiatrist we were both concerned that Booth was the real reason that I didn't run off with Sully.
Angela: (incredulously) It wasn't?
Brennan: No. It's because I'm currently unable to live a life without tangible focus, so, you know, sailing around paradise with a man I adore.
Angela: (even more incredulously) Well, you believe that? (edit) Gordon: You're both afraid that the reason Dr. Brennan didn't sail off into the sunset with her boyfriend Sully might have been because of her ties to Agent Booth.
(Booth and Brennan look at each other guiltily proving Gordon is right)
Gordon: You are both quite wrong. (Both Booth and Brennan look very surprised)
Brennan: Why didn't I go with Sully?
Booth: How's he supposed to know?
Brennan: Sully is perfect. We communicated well, the sex was incredible. He invited me to sail around the South Seas in a beautiul yacht for a year. I mean, why would anyone turn that down?
Gordon: In my opinion, you are unable to lead a purposeless life at this stage of your psycho-social development, which by the way is an issue you should address, because a certain amount of purposelessness is necessary to lead a full life.
Brennan: I hate psychology.
Booth: You don't like it because he's saying that all this tension between me and you is your fault.
Gordon: On the contrary. If anything, yours is more pronounced given that your behaviour has been affected by what turns out to be a quite irrational fear of being responsible for somebody else's destiny.
Brennan: That makes sense.
Booth: Oh, now you like psychology.
Brennan: I think you'll both be able to work together just fine. (edit) Brennan: I have no intuition.
Booth: None. Zilch.
Brennan: You have no analytical skills. You're all about emotion and feeling. They say that means you have a well developed feminine side.
Booth: Who says that?
Brennan: Psychologists. What? You're the one who believes in them.
Booth: Let's just stick to the case. (edit) Brennan: (In the interrogation room) Booth kicked me out of here.
Gordon: For you to say "kicked out" means that you have acquiesceded the idea that this is his domain.
Brennan: Domain. Yes, he's good at questioning people, he can tell when they're lying.
Gordon: Can you?
Brennan: I've learned a lot from him about people.
Gordon: But.
Brennan: It's not that Booth has a sixth sense. There is demonstrably no sixth sense to have. Obviously he reads minutiae of body language, pupil dilation.
Gordon: Yes, you don't sound very satisfied with your own argument there.
Brennan: Booth likes to say that "There are more things in heaven and earth, Bones, than are dreamt of in your science". That's a bastardization of a writer named Shakespeare from a play called Hamlet.
Gordon: Yes, yes, I was, I was aware of that. So, if you're so uncomfortable here why come?
Brennan: Because something goes on in here. He does something.
Gordon: And you wanna find out what it is. Dissect it so that you can do it yourself.
Brennan: Yes.
Gordon: So that you can do it without Booth. So that you won't need him anymore.
Brennan: No!
Gordon: No?
Brennan: No. I just want to observe.
Gordon: Surely if you want to observe you can do that on the other side of the mirror there insetad of insisting on being in this room, with him, out of your element.
Brennan: Observation isn't just seeing Dr. Wyatt, it's experiencing. Ideally, I'd prefer being inside Booth's head. Seeing and feeling things the way he does. Then maybe I'd understand.
Gordon: Be one with him.
Brennan: In a scientific sense.
(Gordon nods incredulously) (edit)

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[b]Angela[/b]: All right, listen up, Monty Python.

[b]Monty Python[/b] is the name of a British comedy troupe that was popular in the late 1960s and 1970s for its irreverent, fast-paced television series. One of the most distinctive actors is John Cleese, who has a particular English accent, which is probably what Angela is reffering to. (edit) Angela: He also says, "Journeys end in lovers meeting, every wise man's son doth know."

This is from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or, What You Will, Act II, Scene III. (edit) Gordon: "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains... "

This is a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene I.