Episode list for
"Bones" (2005)

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Episode Count: 80
Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Year: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | unknown

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date: 13 September 2005
FBI Agent Booth needs forensic anthropologist Dr. Brennan's help to solve the case of a decomposed body found in a pond in Arlington National Cemetery. She agrees to help if she is a full partner in the case.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Man in the SUV

Original Air Date: 20 September 2005
Bones is called on to identify the body of a suspected suicide car bomber.

Season 1, Episode 3: A Boy in a Tree

Original Air Date: 27 September 2005
Bones and Booth investigate the body of a teenager found hanging in a tree on the grounds of an exclusive private school.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Man in the Bear

Original Air Date: 1 November 2005
Bones and Booth travel to Washington to investigate an arm found in a dead black bear.

Season 1, Episode 5: A Boy in a Bush

Original Air Date: 8 November 2005
When a young boy goes missing from a mall, Bones is called in to determine if it is his body found in a nearby field.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Man in the Wall

Original Air Date: 15 November 2005
Bones and Angela's night out goes bad when Bones kicks someone into a wall and reveals a mummified corpse and a bag of methamphetamines.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Man on Death Row

Original Air Date: 22 November 2005
A condemned man's lawyer makes a last minute appeal to Bones and Booth to re-examine his case. After looking over the evidence, they determine that the man may not be guilty.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Girl in the Fridge

Original Air Date: 29 November 2005
Bones and Booth investigate a missing woman found in a fridge while Bones reconnects with her former professor.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Man in the Fallout Shelter

Original Air Date: 13 December 2005
While the gang is quarantined in the lab for Christmas, they search for clues to solve the mystery of a skeleton found in a fallout shelter.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Woman at the Airport

Original Air Date: 25 January 2006
Bones and Booth travel to Los Angeles to investigate a body found on a beach. The case leads them to call girls and plastic surgeons. Back in Washington, Hodgins and Goodman clash over a case.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Woman in the Car

Original Air Date: 1 February 2006
The completely burned corps of a woman in a car is identified as the estranged wife of genius Carl Decker, the crown witness against his employer KBC Systems, a criminally deficient USArmy supplier. Further traces show she bit a man's ear off and was tortured by electrocution; there also was a child with her- probably her and Carl's eight year-old son Donovan Decker, who is missing. The Jeffersonian team is security-screened by federal Agent Pickering, except Hodges who is furious to be considered 'too inoffensive' and already screened anyhow because of a relative's promotion in the State Department, until... Booth shows his weak flank as a protective father, determined to find and save Donovan at all cost, thanks to good work by Hodges and especially Zach, and deals with Carl's desperate move as well as cynical careerist Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Weeks who cares only for the company's trial...

Season 1, Episode 12: The Superhero in the Alley

Original Air Date: 8 February 2006
Bones and Booth investigate a body found in an alley that is dressed in a costume. The case leads them to a missing teen involved in comic books and a role playing game.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Woman in the Garden

Original Air Date: 15 February 2006
Bones and Booth investigate the body of a woman found in the car of a gang member. The case leads them to a dangerous Central American gang and a Senator.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Man on the Fairway

Original Air Date: 8 March 2006
Bones is told to investigate a plane crash involving Chinese delegates but she is more interested in bone fragments found that were not on the plane. The fragments led to a man whose father has been missing for five years.

Season 1, Episode 15: Two Bodies in the Lab

Original Air Date: 15 March 2006
Bones is shot at but manages to duck outside the restaurant where she was waiting for banker David Simmons, whom she only knew yet from a chat site. Booth personally guards her, also a chance to explore her home and private life a bit, while they try to work out which case made her so hated, even scarier as it looks someone slipped into the Smithsonian to doctor evidence, so the stress peeks, but the team's forensic excellence remains. The most recent cases are the murders of famous mob boss James Cugini, handled by Booth's FBI colleague Special Agent Jamie Kenton, and Penny Hamilton, a student, whose corps was devoured by dogs as an apparent addition to the sadistic MO of Kevin Hollings, a brilliant, slick but psychotic researcher, who wasn't even charged in a similar case which Booth failed to close years ago. Then Booth is wounded by a bomb in Bones' apartment...

Season 1, Episode 16: The Woman in the Tunnel

Original Air Date: 22 March 2006
The death of a documentary filmmaker sends Bones and Booth into the shadow world of tunnels underneath the city.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Skull in the Desert

Original Air Date: 29 March 2006
Brennan goes to help Angela when her boyfriend goes missing in the desert, and Booth gets in on the action when the sheriff won't cooperate.

Season 1, Episode 18: The Man with the Bone

Original Air Date: 5 April 2006
Booth and Brennan investigate a site where there might be pirate treasure.

Season 1, Episode 19: The Man in the Morgue

Original Air Date: 19 April 2006
Bones goes to New Orleans post-Katrina and becomes involved in Voodoo guided murder.

Season 1, Episode 20: The Graft in the Girl

Original Air Date: 26 April 2006
While examining a young girl's cancer, Brennan and Booth uncover a bone-smuggling ring.

Season 1, Episode 21: The Soldier on the Grave

Original Air Date: 10 May 2006
Booth and Brennan's investigation into the apparent suicide of a protester in Arlington National Cemetery may lead to a major military scandal.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Woman in Limbo

Original Air Date: 17 May 2006
Even cool, together Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan is unable to go testify in court when she sees a facial reconstruction from a skull in a mass grave is her mother Christine Brennan, officially missing like her father, a science teacher, for years. Now Booth can finally start an official investigation, as mother, an accountant, had been giving evidence in high-profile tax evasion cases and Temperance's elder brother Russ, who deserted her, is on parole after convictions for a shop in stolen car parts. Now Booth finds Bones' parents had assumed the late Matthew Brennan's identity in 1978. However she was buried with a movie ticket for the 1993 movie The Fugitive, released two years after her disappearance. When Booth finds the parents were really Max and Ruth Keenan and had a federal criminal record as bank robbery strong box specialists, Russ, who was seven, admits his real name is Kyle, hers Joy. So why did mother 'Brennan' disappear, abandoning her kids for two years, and who killed her? The parents' abandoned car has blood of Russ, Bones, mother and another man. Booth finds the robbers gang survivor in witness protection, now a pig farmer, who admits a terrible twist, which at least makes closure possible...

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: The Titan on the Tracks

Original Air Date: 30 August 2006
An investigation into a train wreck that claimed three lives, one of them a U.S. senator. In other events, Brennan clashes with the new boss, Dr. Camille Saroyan, who has a romantic history with Booth.

Season 2, Episode 2: Mother and Child in the Bay

Original Air Date: 20 September 2006
Booth seeks out the husband of a missing pregnant woman after her remains wash up onshore, but the suspect disappears. Meanwhile, Bones continues to clash with Cam, and Booth gets a visit from his ex.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Boy in the Shroud

Original Air Date: 13 September 2006
When a tractor-trailer collides with a garbage truck, the skeleton of a 17-year old boy is found in the trash. A facial imprint from a shroud that wrapped the body helps identify the victim as a suburban honor student.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Blonde in the Game

Original Air Date: 20 November 2006
A serial killer reaches out from prison in a deadly game involving Bones and Booth.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Truth in the Lye

Original Air Date: 27 September 2006
A body is found in a tub filled with lye, and Booth reconnects with his past.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 21

11:00 PM

TNT

Season 2, Episode 6: The Girl in Suite 2103

Original Air Date: 4 October 2006
An explosion at a hotel has the team exploring drug cartel connections and struggling with diplomatic immunity.

Next US airings:

Tue. July 22

10:00 PM

TNT

Season 2, Episode 7: The Girl with the Curl

Original Air Date: 1 November 2006
When a girl's body is identified as a missing pageant queen, the investigation focuses on her parents.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 28

11:00 PM

TNT

Season 2, Episode 8: The Woman in the Sand

Original Air Date: 8 November 2006
A trip to Vegas to identify a body is complicated when a more recent body is found nearby.

Next US airings:

Tue. July 29

10:00 PM

TNT

Season 2, Episode 9: Aliens in a Spaceship

Original Air Date: 15 November 2006
When Hodgins and Brennan are buried alive, it's a race against time and a kidnapper who doesn't negotiate.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Headless Witch in the Woods

Original Air Date: 29 November 2006
The headless skeleton of a young man is found in a state forest. Brennan and Booth's investigation becomes entangled in the local legend of a woman who was decapitated as a witch in the 1780s and is said to still haunt the forest.

Season 2, Episode 11: Judas on a Pole

Original Air Date: 13 December 2006
An ex-FBI agent is crucified and torched on top of a hotel with a message inside his throat which re-opens a case from the 70s that sent an innocent man to prison. The case has ties that go deep inside the FBI, endangering Bones and her brother Russ, and risking Booth's career. Bones receives a visit from an old friend of their father Max Keenan, who is holding back a secret. Elsewhere Zack defends his dissertation to earn his doctorate, and worries he may not be hired at the institute as he is "cute, but a jury won't take you seriously".

Season 2, Episode 12: The Man in the Cell

Original Air Date: 31 January 2007
After Howard Epps orchestrates an escape from his penitentiary, he starts picking off the Jeffersonian team one by one and taunting Brennan with clues to save them.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Girl in the Gator

Original Air Date: 7 February 2007
A girl's arm found in an alligator sends the investigation to a video sleaze king and a rabid Christian. Meanwhile Booth who's been ordered to a psychiatrist after an incident with his gun, so Bones gets another FBI partner, Tim 'Sully' Sullivan.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Man in the Mansion

Original Air Date: 14 February 2007
Hodgins' lapse in judgment may cause a murderer to be set free, Brennan explores the world of dating, and Booth continues his therapy.

Season 2, Episode 15: Bodies in the Book

Original Air Date: 14 March 2007
Just as Temperance is preparing to publicize her latest book, bodies start showing up that are eerily similar to the victims in her mystery novel.

Season 2, Episode 16: The Boneless Bride in the River

Original Air Date: 21 March 2007
Bones is called back from vacation - several times - after a boneless body is found, and Sully has a proposition.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Priest in the Churchyard

Original Air Date: 28 March 2007
When Booth and Brennan keep butting heads in a case involving a Catholic church, he convinces her to see Dr. Wyatt with him, and Hodgins suggest a change in his and Angela's relationship.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Killer in the Concrete

Original Air Date: 4 April 2007
Booth's investigation into a presumed dead hit man turns quite dangerous, and Brennan ends up turning to an unlikely source for help.

Season 2, Episode 19: Spaceman in a Crater

Original Air Date: 2 May 2007
Bones and her team must determine how a man was flattened in a pasture when his injuries don't coincide with the theory of the crime; Hodgins tries again.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Glowing Bones in 'The Old Stone House'

Original Air Date: 9 May 2007
Homeland security asks Bones to examine some remains, thinking they're radioactive, and although the site is cleared two questions remain: why was an up and coming chef murdered, and why are the bones still glowing?

Season 2, Episode 21: Stargazer in a Puddle

Original Air Date: 16 May 2007
As the wedding approaches, the team investigates the life/death of a little girl. Bones's father shows up, with an heirloom and a message from her mother.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: The Widow's Son in the Windshield

Original Air Date: 25 September 2007
Bones reluctantly searches for a replacement for Zack. A skull is tossed off a highway overpass and hits a vehicle. There is evidence the victim was eaten by a cannibal.

Season 3, Episode 2: Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van

Original Air Date: 2 October 2007
A soccer mom dies as her car explodes, leading the team to discover that she was a murder suspect wanted for 30 years.

Season 3, Episode 3: Death in the Saddle

Original Air Date: 9 October 2007
A body with equine markings sends Booth and Bones into a world of fetishism, and Angela agrees to undergo hypnosis to get the name of her husband.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Secret in the Soil

Original Air Date: 23 October 2007
A charred body leads to a philandering organic farming magnate.

Season 3, Episode 5: Mummy in the Maze

Original Air Date: 30 October 2007
The discovery of two mummified girls has Booth and Bones checking a fun house, a Halloween maze and a church charity for clues that may lead them to a missing girl whose parents believe she's dead.

Season 3, Episode 6: Intern in the Incinerator

Original Air Date: 6 November 2007
One of the Jeffersonian's interns is found in the incinerator, and most of the institute believes it's the work of the Gormogon serial killer.

Season 3, Episode 7: Boy in the Time Capsule

Original Air Date: 13 November 2007
A 20-year-old body is found when a time capsule is opened, and focus turns towards the victim's fellow high school students.

Season 3, Episode 8: The Knight on the Grid

Original Air Date: 20 November 2007
The Gormogon killer strikes again, and his next play is a little close to home. Russ returns to face a parole violation when his stepdaughter takes ill.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 21

8:00 PM

Fox

Season 3, Episode 9: The Santa in the Slush

Original Air Date: 11 December 2007
Brennan and Booth investigate the death of a Santa as Bones tries to give her father the Christmas he's always dreamed of, and Booth comes to terms with not spending the holiday with Parker.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Man in the Mud

Original Air Date: 14 April 2008
Booth and Brennan investigate the death of a Motocross racer, and when another seeming accident occurs on the track attention turns to the team owners and a reporter, meanwhile Dr. Sweets manipulates them into a "social outing" with him and his girlfriend.

Season 3, Episode 11: Player Under Pressure

Original Air Date: 21 April 2008
The body of a star athlete is found behind the bleachers at Atlantic State University gymnasium.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 28

8:00 PM

Fox

Season 3, Episode 12: The Baby in the Bough

Original Air Date: 28 April 2008
Miraculously surviving a suspicious car accident that kills its mother, a baby is left with Booth and Bones who care for the infant while investigating the crime.

Season 3, Episode 13: The Verdict in the Story

Original Air Date: 5 May 2008
Brennan's father Max goes on trial for the alleged murder of FBI Deputy Director Robert Kirby, requiring everyone on the Jeffersonian team but Brennan to testify for the prosecution. Brennan, the forensics advisor for the defense, desperately tries to prove her father's innocence. Meanwhile, Booth requires the assistance of therapist Dr. Lance Sweets to help with his partnership with Brennan.

Season 3, Episode 14: The Wannabe in the Weeds

Original Air Date: 12 May 2008
Brennan and Booth investigate the murder of aspiring singer, and Booth attracts a groupie.

Season 3, Episode 15: The Pain in the Heart

Original Air Date: 19 May 2008
Heartbreak hits the Squint Squad as they deal with the aftermath of the shooting and finally Gormogon and his Apprentice are revealed.

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