Bones Season 1 Episodes

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Season 1 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - Pilot

A dramatic series about a female forensic anthropologist who steps in to solve crimes when other crime solving methods have failed. Based on real life work of Kathy Reichs.

Episode 2 - The Man in the SUV

A car bomb explodes in front of a busy café, killing the driver and a number of the café's patrons, and injuring others. Since the car was registered to a prominent Middle Eastern man with U.S. government ties, Agent Booth calls Dr. Brennan into the case to help with the identification of the driver.

Episode 3 - A Boy in a Tree

When the decaying corpse of the Venezuelan Ambassador's son is found hanging from a tree on the campus of an exclusive private school, Dr. Temperance Brennan and Agent Seeley Booth are called in to investigate. The cause of death seems to be suicide, but both Brennan and Booth suspect there may be an alternative cause of death.

Episode 4 - The Man in the Bear

When a human arm is found inside the stomach of a black bear, Brennan and Booth travel to Washington state to investigate. They search a small town for clues and discover that ritualistic cannibalism is involved. After a symbol points to the suspect’s occupation, Brennan and Booth realize that there is sometimes more to an autopsy.

Episode 5 - A Boy in a Bush

Brennan determines that Charlie was sexually assaulted before he was murdered, which leads Booth to conclude they're on the hunt for a serial pedophile. When the prime suspect is eliminated, Booth and Brennan pay a heartbreaking visit to Charlie's mother, Margaret, to inform her that Charlie's killer is still on the loose.

Episode 6 - The Man in the Wall

When Brennan and Angela get caught in a melee in a dance club, Brennan kicks someone into a wall, which causes the wall to break open and reveal a mummified corpse and a meth stash.

Episode 7 - The Man On Death Row

Condemned man Howard Epps is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in 32 hours for the murder of 17-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 acknowledges that the case had a few loose ends.

Episode 8 - 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.

Episode 9 - The Man in the Fallout Shelter

A deadly virus forces Brennan, Booth & Jeffersonian team to be quarantined in the lab over Christmas.

Episode 10 - 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.

Episode 11 - The Woman in the Car

When a woman's burned body is found in a car with signs that her child was kidnapped, Brennan and Booth suspect the father, Carl Decker. But things get complicated when Decker turns out to be in the witness protection program. In two days he is scheduled to testify before a grand jury that his company has been sending defective body armor to Iraq.

Episode 12 - 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.

Episode 13 - The Woman in the Garden

Booth and Brennan investigate when a Salvadoran gang member is stopped with a dug-up corpse of a young woman in the trunk of his car.

Episode 14 - The Man On the Fairway

Brennan and Zack are called to the crash site of a small jet carrying Chinese diplomats and one mystery female passenger.

Episode 15 - Two Bodies in the Lab

When Brennan is about to meet an online date for the first time at a local restaurant, she only barely escapes being the target of a shooting and she and Booth are trying to track down her attempted killer.

Episode 16 - The Woman in the Tunnel

Brennan and Booth go under Washington, DC to investigate.

Episode 17 - The Skull in the Desert

While on vacation in the desert, Angela contacts Brennan to ask for her help in identifying a skull – she’s afraid it’s her boyfriend, Kirk, who left on a photo shoot and has been missing for several days.

Episode 18 - The Man with the Bone

When a dead body is found clutching a 300-year-old finger bone, Booth and Brennan’s investigation leads them to a dive site off the coast of Assateague Island where a pirate treasure may be buried.

Episode 19 - The Man in the Morgue

When Brennan wakes up in the bathroom of her New Orleans motel room, bloodied, beaten up and her earring ripped out of her ear, she doesn’t know what happened or how she got there, and discovers she’s lost an entire day of her life.

Episode 20 - The Graft in the Girl

Booth’s boss, FBI Deputy Director Sam Cullen, is anxiously awaiting information from doctors as to why his daughter Amy is dying of a rare form of lung cancer.

Episode 21 - The Soldier On the Grave

Booth and Brennan investigate the apparent suicide of a protester in Arlington National Cemetery.

Episode 22 - The Woman in Limbo

While trying to determine the identity of a Jane Doe, Brennan is shocked to learn the remains are those of her mother, who went missing with her father 15 years ago.



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