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Bones Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
Pilot
Tue, Sep 13, 200542 mins
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.
Episode 2
The Man in the SUV
Tue, Sep 20, 200542 mins
Bones is called on to identify the body of a suicide bomber.
Episode 3
A Boy in a Tree
Tue, Sep 27, 200542 mins
Bones and Booth investigate the body of a teenager found hanging in a tree on the grounds of an exclusive private school.
Episode 4
The Man in the Bear
Tue, Nov 1, 200542 mins
After Bones confirms to Booth the hand found in a black bear is from a human male and was hand-sawed off days earlier, they are sent to the Flathead Indian reservation in fictional Aurora, Washington State. Dr. Denise Randall, a veterinarian, brought to Dr. Andrew Rigby most of the arm of the 18 to 25-old victim, on which Zach finds human bite-marks; not being cooked, that must make the cannibal sick. Aurora's sheriff Chris Scutter knows only of a missing hiker Ann Noyes. Ranger Sherman Rivers shows where he found the bear to harvest the excrement, which includes skin tattooed with an Indian Haida sun, which fits missing Richland college boy Adam Langer (aged 22), who has been missing for ten days, who, considering a career as a Ranger, visited Sherman, who flees into the woods, but only as bear poacher. Adam also took climbing lessons with Aurora's hunky private courier Charlie. The corpses of Adam and Ann -- missing the heart -- are found, shot in the head from up close, buried near a 'medicine wheel' made of stones, fit for a shaman ritual which requires two more bodies. Sherman points out Adam, Charlie -- and others -- were rivals for Denise. Zach discovers new bone markings.
Episode 5
A Boy in a Bush
Tue, Nov 8, 200543 mins
Looking for missing six year-old Charles Gregory Sanders, Zach's equipment finds in a suburban youth party field the badly degraded corpse of the barely four days dead boy. Autopsy, hard to do objectively on such a young kid, shows Charlie was drugged. Golden spoon-mother Margaret Sanders divorced Charlie's dad before his birth and has two teenage foster sons, brothers David and Shawn Cook. Booth quickly gains their confidence and guesses right David dated his girl-friend Leila at the mall and left younger Shawn with a friend in the park. Mall security recordings show unattended Charlie went to someone calling him. A hereditary bone defect proves Margeret isn't Charlie's biological mother, she illegally kept baby Nathan Downey from OD's junkie Janine, Booth arrests her for kidnapping. Video enhancement shows Charlie was killed by Shawn, who was abused by his dad. Bones shows atypical empathy for foster kids, due to her personal experience, which proves crucially useful after the Angelator (Angela's computer) simulates Charlie's ribs were crushed by an adult man... Meanwhile Jeffersonian director Daniel Goodman forces the team to attend a formal donors banquet, nightmarish torture for recluse Hodgins, who hides his industrialist family's immense wealth.
Episode 6
The Man in the Wall
Tue, Nov 15, 200542 mins
Just when Angela has finally managed to make Bones take a night off to visit Randall Hall's hip-hop club, her pedantic comments cause customers to pick a fight, in which she knocks over a wall behind which a mummified body is found next to a bag of speed- it's DC's missing rap disk jockey Roy Taylor, alias DJ Mount, who inhaled cocaine while trapped for weeks, which now renders both forensic experts accidentally high. Booth finds Mount's deadly music rival is Rulz DJ, working at that very club; father Taylor assures him his boy was a model student and clean. Autopsy shows Mount's fatal overdose was enforced upon him, also behind the wall is the belly-button marked 'luv Rulz', which the DL says is his ex Eve Warren's, who left him for Mount but left her daughter Maya with her brother George Warren weeks ago. Booth learns from an undercover FBI colleague that Halls is the second identity of a former (?) drug dealer and finds the sales-inducing prospect of some jail time is enough for Rulz to tell that Mount wanted to buy off his contract with Hall's studio. Eve's corpse is found in concrete under a new studio built for Rulz, but his cripple hand couldn't have killed Eve, who couldn't have asphyxiated Mount... Meanwhile the team speculates about Booth dating lawyer Tessa Jankow and planning a Caribbean holiday, but...
Episode 7
The Man on Death Row
Tue, Nov 22, 200543 mins
An old acquaintance of Booth's, defense attorney Amy Morton, persuades him to ask a favor of Bones. The team examines the forensics of her new client Howard Epps, who is on death row with two days left after a failed final appeal. Anomalies, notably on the victim's remains, reveal alternative suspect David Ross, who admits having had consensual sex with the victim. Booth and Bones persuade FBI Deputy Director Sam Cullen and Judge Cohen to give them time and means to pursue every possibility, but they ultimately unearth another grueling reality...
Episode 8
The Girl in the Fridge
Tue, Nov 29, 200543 mins
A decayed corpse found inside a fridge on a dump-site fits the description of missing girl Maggie Schilling, whose rich parents feel guilty for failing to give her personal attention before her kidnapping. Booth shifts the new fridge in her friends Scott and Mary Costello's apartment and thus finds they're an SM couple which explains the traces of handcuff-caused wrist fractures. Bones is delighted by a visit from her former lover and forensics professor Michael Stires, who is considering a job at Washington University. They enjoy jousting about the evidence and sharing her bed 'without strings', until Booth warns her Stires is also the expert employed by the Costellos' defense. At the trial, Bones is her usual arrogant, unintelligibly jargon-clouded self, which antagonizes every jury member despite rude but correct warnings from the US District Attorney's jury consultant. After a convincing but rather misleading performance from Dr. Stires, Booth gives the District Attorney the key to helping the jury learns what the cold, empirical Bones is about...
Episode 9
The Man in the Fallout Shelter
Tue, Dec 13, 200543 mins
Two days before Christmas Angela, who is dressed as an elf, wants everybody to join her for a Chistmas party. Bones seizes her only chance of escape when Booth gives her the kind of present he knows she likes. The present: a 50 year old corpse found in the atomic fallout shelter of a building where Congress lodges guests! When the bones are sawed open, a fungus causing life-threatening valley disease is unknowingly released. Hodgins takes his mask off to drink eggnog and everybody is subsequently quarantined indefinitely. They learns more about each other's personal backgrounds, notably that Booth has a 4 year old son, Parker, but no parental rights and Bones' parents disappeared on Chistmas Eve. Angela is determined to celebrate Christmas even though she's locked-up and exchanges hand-made gifts, with her relatives coming visit her behind glass. Meanwhile the corpse is fairly easily identified as a white-collar white man Lionel, who hoped to get married in Paris to his -illegal- girlfriend Ivy from the proceeds of his valuable coin collection, but was robbed and murdered by the buyer.
Episode 10
The Woman at the Airport
Wed, Jan 25, 200642 mins
Bones was to authenticate a rare Iron Age find, but as usual moans about it's 'urgency' when told to accompany Booth to Hollywood to investigate some coyote-nibbled human remains found around Los Angeles Airport. Upon arriving in LA they meet up with Special Agent Tricia Finn, a would be script-writer obsessed with the possible filming of Bones's book. Meanwhile back at the Jeffersonian, Dr. Goodman, steps away from his management role to return to his archaeologist roots to head up the authentication of the Iron Age man but terribly annoys Hodgins with his theatrical methods. Some details about the location of the find do not match the results from the skeleton analysis and causes Dr. Goodman to refuse to definitively authenticate the find. The LAX skull clearly belongs to a woman who had plastic surgery which keeps Angela from being able to reconstruct the victims features. The only lead, an illegal breast implant points them toward plastic surgeon Dr. Kostov who reported the shipment stolen. A meeting with escort madame, Ivana Bardu, provides Booth and Bones with the name of their victim hooker Sandra aka 'Rachel LaChance', who vaguely fits one of Angela's reconstruction attempts, so Booth 'orders' her best friend Leslie Snow. Leslie provides them with the name of an old boyfriend of Rachel's, beach volleyball-playing actor-barman Nick Hudson who tells them of her surgery addiction. Zach finds the murder weapon fits only the invention of L.A. plastic surgeon Dr. Henry Atlas, who had a peculiar relationship with Sandra under a third name, but...
Episode 11
The Woman in the Car
Wed, Feb 1, 200643 mins
The completely burned corpse 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 US Army 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 Hodgins 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 Hodgins 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...
Episode 12
The Superhero in the Alley
Wed, Feb 8, 200641 mins
Bones happily postpones her stress research contribution to a 9,600 year old Chinese find to help Booth prevent embarrassment to the FBI after the discovery of a boy in rubber costume, despite maggot-consumption, found to be smashed to death before he was pushed from a roof to stage a suicide. He's identified as 17 year-old nerd Warren Granger, who had no social life except Yasutani the Terrible's loony 'clan' of comics superhero fans role-playing self-invented characters in costumes. Warren designed and drew his own superhero comic, in which he starred with fellow member Abigail Zealey alias 'Blue'; the director studies his psychology from the story-text. While 'research reading' introduces Zack to the fantasy world of comics, the sleuths examine the presumably fatal fantasies and teenage group dynamics...
Episode 13
The Woman in the Garden
Wed, Feb 15, 200642 mins
In a Salvadorian barrio, a routine car check finds a recently dug-up, decomposed pregnant Central American body in a Mara Muerte gang member's car-boot, with a crushed skull; nobody is talking to the police, a car shoots at Booth and Bones so the gang driver can make a run for it. Booth questions gang leader Miguel Villeda. Plant traces make them search the barrio's communal vegetable garden, where it was indeed buried, with another body. A rare flowering pond plant trace points to Senator Alan Corman, a known supporter of oppressive Central American right-wing regimes which use death-squads. His son Logan, a landscaping architecture student, recognizes the gang driver's robot photo as Jose Vargas, a nice family-man and irregular gardener. The second body is found buried near the senator's pond; it's a year old, a Hispanic sixty-ish male shot with a military-type weapon, like death squads prefer, but he survived that wound and is the Salvadoran woman's father as indicated by the same hereditary defect which shows Jose is the woman's brother...
Episode 14
The Man on the Fairway
Wed, Mar 8, 200642 mins
Zack Addy expresses regret that it's the third case in a row he and Bones must handle without Special Agent Seeley Booth when they are called to the site of a crashed private jet which carried State Department staff and two Chinese cultural attachés (often a spy cover.) The FAA and NTSB classify the crash on a golf-course as an accident, but there is one charcoaled body more than on the passenger list, plus bone fragments of yet another person at the crash site, with cut marks consistent with amputation. Jeffersonian director Dr. Daniel Goodman accepts orders to concentrate only on identifying the sixth passenger; Bones insists to Booth the seventh man is the only possible murder victim. To the amazement of both, Jesse Kane, a reputed expert on missing persons and aspects of police work, approaches them, claiming the bone fragments are probably from his father, rich stockbroker Max Kane, whose disappearance five years earlier on the way to his cottage started Jesse's quest for such cases. He hands Bones his research notes, which suggest Max's much-younger girlfriend, Karen Anderson, as a suspect. The sixth passenger is identified as a white girl in her twenties, on drugs and with foot fetishist marks, while the Chinese were drunk and on Viagra. Karen still lives in Max's house, with a new partner but with access to his fortune for another two years or until he's legally declared dead, but reports Jesse hadn't spoken to Max for two years prior to his disappearance, having been cut off financially as a lazy NYU party animal. Continuing their investigation behind Goodman's back, much to good boy Zack's horror, the team finds the bone fragments fit Max. The body had been frozen, dismembered mechanically using a wood-chipper and spread out over the golf course. Jesse suggests Bones should open her own investigation into her missing parents. Booth finds the wood-chipper in the city's greens department and only one of its two operators, Ray Sparks, is an ex-con...
Episode 15
Two Bodies in the Lab
Wed, Mar 15, 200643 mins
Bones tries on-line dating but she is shot at on her way to the date. She and Booth try to determine if the shooting is because of a mob boss's body found in the ocean or a tortured and mutilated woman's body found in a warehouse. Booth wonders if the person shooting at Bones is her date.
Episode 16
The Woman in the Tunnel
Wed, Mar 22, 200643 mins
A woman's body is found down a very deep sewage shaft, largely devoured by rats; a homeless man rushes away in the dark. It was solo-documentary film-maker Marti Hunter, 24, whose fiancé Phil Garfield was used to her disappearing during work. Her footage on the tunnel system shows shelter social worker Helen Bronson with the fleeing black man, Harold Overmeyer, the 'mayor of moll town' among the tunnel dwellers. He gets arrested when they find Marni's camera and bloody clothes in his possession. He was a soldier but left when a kid was killed during a mission. Harold says that Marni died after he gave her something and warned her. Her skull was smashed in by a single blow with a sharp weapon, and she had a 19th century vault seal, used to store cultural and intrinsic treasures. Her fiancé knew she once was romantic with one of the climbers who taught her how to use their equipment. Diamond powder indicates that Marni was in a Civil war tunnel.
Episode 17
The Skull in the Desert
Wed, Mar 29, 200643 mins
Angela Montenegro, on vacation in the Navajo desert reservation, asks Brennan to come over alone: someone left a human skull with the local sheriff Ben Dawes. She she fears that it may be her long-time, long-distance boy friend Kirk Persinger, who went missing with his female guide Dhani Webber, the sheriff's sister. She finds a bullet-wound and convinces Booth to investigate, unofficially. The skull is Kirk's and has traces of the local drug peyote, according to Angela supplied for ritual use only by local artist Wayne Kellogg, who won't divulge the secret traditional plantation sites, and identifiable bite marks from a coyote. Then Alex is found at home, beaten to pulp, probably by fellow Navajos for selling peyote to outsiders, and Kirk's bones plus camera with film in the wilderness. Atypical engraving plates Bones noticed at Kellogg's place lead to a surprising crime connection.
Episode 18
The Man with the Bone
Wed, Apr 5, 200642 mins
After a dead body is found near a 300 year old finger bone, Booth and Brennan investigate the site, which might be hiding pirate treasure.
Episode 19
The Man in the Morgue
Wed, Apr 19, 200642 mins
After hurricane Katrina, Bones spends her free days in devastated New Orleans helping to identify unearthed corpses, but wakes up in a puddle of blood with amnesia about a whole day, after a dinner with black orderly Sam Potter, a voodoo practitioner. Booth flies to her rescue; they find the "gris-gris", a chicken leg-preparation made by the black voodoo practiced by the evil red sect, found in the mouth of John Doe 361, whose X-rays she had sent to the Smithsonian (where Zack concludes he was murdered by bullet and/or crushing), was purchased from the last supplier by Dr. Grahama Legiere, whom she was helping. Then they find Legiere murdered bloodily. The unamused local police arrests Bones, Booth gets a local prosecutor to defend her. Soon more voodoo corpses appear...
Episode 20
The Graft in the Girl
Wed, Apr 26, 200642 mins
When Booth brings Bones to the hospital to show FBI Deputy Director Sam Cullen some work on another case at the sickbed of his young daughter Amy, who has a terminal bone cancer which is rare, specially for her age, she quickly finds the cancer stems not from asbestos as usual, but from a bone graft after a bad fracture. The team establishes after a biopsy that the donor's anonymous file was clearly a fake, aged over 60 instead of 25 and already terminal: homicidal negligence or worse. The director won't order an investigation as technically the case is outside FBI jurisdiction. The supposedly supplying firm Biotech doesn't exist anymore since before Amy's case, so they trace the surgeon, doctor Ogden's other risk patients; Kelly Demarco is indeed dead, from the same bone disease transfer, soon over a dozen victims are found, from several states, making the case a serial killing. Ogden was fired from a private clinic. They try to trace the donor's identities to find the real organ traders... .
Episode 21
The Soldier on the Grave
Wed, May 10, 200643 mins
When Brennan and her team investigate the apparent suicide of a protester in Arlington National Cemetery, they discover it wasn't suicide but the murder of a soldier who served in Iraq. As Booth and Brennan pursue the murder investigation and interrogate the American soldiers the victim served with in Iraq, their investigation leads to many unanswered questions about the victim's military unit in Iraq and the actions they took while on patrol there. As more information about the case is uncovered, the clues indicate a potential military cover-up. The case brings back many memories for Booth of the horrors of war and elements of his own 'shady' past as a sniper are revealed.
Episode 22
The Woman in Limbo
Wed, May 17, 200642 mins
Brennan finds her mother's bones and discovers that she did not die when she disappeared. Booth reopens the case and the whole team searches for her mother's killers... from pig farmers to their very own Witness Protection Program. Brennan also reunites with her estranged brother who seems to know more than he said. Brennan also comes across an unexpected person.
