A brilliant forensic anthropologist and a skeptical FBI agent team up to solve murders by examining human remains. Their contrasting styles clash—but together, they uncover the truth buried in the bones.
Episode 1
Pilot
Sep 13, 2005
Pilot episode. After returning to Washington, D.C., renowned forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is called in by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth to aid an FBI investigation involving a set of bones found hidden in a lake.
Episode 2
The Man in the S.U.V.
Sep 20, 2005
When a man is killed driving an SUV registered to a Middle Eastern man, Dr. Brennan and her team find themselves tracking a terrorist.
Episode 3
A Boy in a Tree
Sep 27, 2005
When the decaying corpse of the Venezuelan Ambassador's son is found hanging from a tree on the campus of an exclusive private school, a simple suicide case quickly turns into a web of lies, sex and scandal involving the school's staff and students.
Episode 4
The Man in the Bear
Nov 1, 2005
Brennan and Booth travel to Washington to investigate a human arm that was found in the stomach of a black bear.
Episode 5
A Boy in a Bush
Nov 8, 2005
Booth asks Brennan to help locate and identify the remains of a six-year-old boy, Charlie, who went missing from a local park.
Episode 6
The Man in the Wall
Nov 15, 2005
When Brennan and Angela get caught in a fight 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
A Man on Death Row
Nov 22, 2005
A death row inmate asks for Booth's help to prove his innocence before he is scheduled to be executed. Booth agrees and asks Brennan and her team to help him out.
Episode 8
The Girl in the Fridge
Nov 29, 2005
Brennan is about to go out for dinner with her old professor and ex-lover when Booth asks her and her team to help identify the remains of a young woman found in a refrigerator.
Episode 9
The Man in the Fallout Shelter
Dec 13, 2005
Brennan and her team are brought in to identify the body of a man found in a fallout shelter. While cutting into the bones of the man, Zach accidentally releases a deadly fungus, causing the team to be quarantined over Christmas.
Episode 10
The Woman at the Airport
Jan 25, 2006
Brennan and Booth investigate the body parts of a woman found near L.A. International Airport. Their investigation is slowed due to extensive cosmetic surgery the victim had done.
Episode 11
The Woman in the Car
Feb 1, 2006
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.
Episode 12
The Superhero in the Alley
Feb 8, 2006
Brennan and Booth investigate the origins of a decomposed body that's been found in a local alley and determine it's the remains of a shy teen with an alter ego.
Episode 13
The Woman in the Garden
Feb 15, 2006
Booth and Brennan investigate when a dug up corpse is found in the back of a gang member's car. While being questioned, a drive-by shooting allows him to escape. Booth and Brennan follow the clues, which lead them to an empty grave and another body in a grave at a wealthy senator's house, where the gang member used to work.
Episode 14
The Man on the Fairway
Mar 8, 2006
Brennan and Zach investigate a small jet crash that was carrying some Chinese diplomats and a woman. At the crash site, Brennan finds some bone fragments that do not belong to any of the passengers, but might belong to a man who has been missing for five years. Although ordered to work only on the diplomats, Brennan and her team go rogue to try to discover the identity of the extra bones.
Episode 15
Two Bodies in the Lab
Mar 15, 2006
When Brennan decides to give online dating a try, she ends up the target of a shooting at the local restaurant where she's meeting her date. The resulting investigation reveals that the shooter could be connected to either of the two cases she's currently working on.
Episode 16
The Woman in the Tunnel
Mar 22, 2006
Brennan and Booth stumble upon a subterranean world of homeless people when they find the remains of a filmmaker in the ventilation shaft of an underground tunnel.
Episode 17
The Skull in the Desert
Mar 29, 2006
While on vacation, Angela's boyfriend goes missing . When a skull shows up, she asks Brennan for help in identification, concerned it might be her boyfriend or the female guide who went missing with him. The investigation leads the team to a violent boyfriend, the local sheriff and ultimately to a counterfeiting ring setup in the desert.
Episode 18
The Man with the Bone
Apr 5, 2006
A human finger bone found in the clutches of a drowning victim leads to a search for buried treasure.
Episode 19
The Man in the Morgue
Apr 19, 2006
A trip to New Orleans leaves Bones beaten, bloodied, and suspected of murder while plunged into the world of voodoo.
Episode 20
The Graft in the Girl
Apr 26, 2006
The team helps Deputy Director Sam Cullen's daughter, Amy, when she contracts a rare form of lung cancer after receiving a bone graft. Booth and Brennan learn she is not the only victim with this rare form of cancer.
Episode 21
The Soldier on the Grave
May 10, 2006
Brennan and Booth investigate an apparent suicide in Arlington National Cemetery, but soon discover it is a murder linked to a military cover-up.
Episode 22
The Woman in Limbo
May 17, 2006
Brennan receives some bones to identify, but is stunned when she discovers that the remains are those of her mother who disappeared when she was 15 years old. The determined date of her mother's death leaves Bones confused and angry.