Bones
A forensic anthropologist and her oddball team must work together with a no-nonsense federal agent in order to conduct a thorough investigation into a series of crimes involving unidentified human remains that were recently discovered.
- Metascore58
- 2005-2017
- 12 seasons
- Fox Network
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
A forensic anthropologist and her oddball team must work together with a no-nonsense federal agent in order to conduct a thorough investigation into a series of crimes involving unidentified human remains that were recently discovered.
Season 3 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2007 - 2008
Episode 1
The Widow's Son in the Windshield
Tue, Sep 25, 2007 42 mins
A skull hits the windshield of a moving car. Bones finds out that the victim was devoured by cannibals. As Booth finds a possible lead, he asks Bones to join him in the field, but she claims she's too busy searching for a replacement for Zack. Jack and Angela hire a Private Investigator to track down Angela's husband
Episode 2
Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van
Tue, Oct 2, 2007 42 mins
Because Booth arranged it, Bones visits her dad Max Keenan in jail, but shows him no sympathy. Dr. Jack Hodgins is excited by Special Agent Katherine Frost, but can't handle her potentially compromising proof. The fire-consumed body in an exploded car is identified as soccer mother Amy Nash. After reconstruction of the corpse they also found it to be an alias of June Harris, a member of Marxist US terrorist organization NLA, which supposedly directed its violent crimes against the military-economical complex. However, neither her husband Jeremy Nash, who learned only weeks earlier about her double identity, nor sheriff Sam Reilly, who handled a terrorist case against them for 30 years in vain, knew she had struck a plea bargain only days before. She was shot with bullets from the gun which was used in a terrorist attack which killed a cop, the father of young cop Danny Valenti. A reconstruction shows others did know and at least one tried to prevent the deal. Their extreme-left Attorny Leonard Huntzinger is found shot, staged as a suicide.
Episode 3
Death in the Saddle
Tue, Oct 9, 2007 42 mins
Boy scouts find the rotting corpse of Ed Milner in a Virginia wood, feet cut off 'surgically' and bound like a horse. It's a few miles from Lucky's sex club, The Ambassadora, where rich people discretely indulge their near-SM 'human pony' fetish. Mr. Ed's rider, Anne 'Annie Oakley' Marie Ostenback, MD, divulges widow Annie hides she found out the day of Ed's disappearance. She was tipped anonymously by British rider Calvin 'Thor' Johnson. Rider Tom Mularz, a National Guard deserter, was expelled, found out a butcher, that day. Hypnosis is Angela's only shot to find Berimbau.
Episode 4
The Secret in the Soil
Tue, Oct 23, 2007 42 mins
Students at a make-out wood stumble over a recently dumped body, first shot and boiled. It's Franklin Curtis (54), founder of an organic supermarket chain. A pesticide indicates he met Andrew Harding, a tobacco farmer he tried to force into organic production, even flirting with his wife. Autopsy shows his skin melted with another. Meanwhile FBI psychoanalyst Sweets must examine if Booth can keep working with Bones after arresting her dad. A pineapple plant bug points to Virginia farmer Lyndon Page's hothouse, or the compost plant it uses. There works Charlie Rogan, who dated daughter Kat Curtis. The second corpse is found and identified as Emma Billings.
Episode 5
Mummy in the Maze
Tue, Oct 30, 2007 42 mins
During a Halloween event, a child wanders through a maze and finds a mummy and passes out. Bones checks the mummy and finds that it is real. They soon discover another mummy. With a teenage girl missing, the team fears there may be a third victim.
Episode 6
Intern in the Incinerator
Tue, Nov 6, 2007 42 mins
When Jeffersonian workmen find a young female's fire-consumed body in the incinerator, the forensic pathology team soon concludes it was an institute collaborator, a young intern, and that it must be murder committed a few hours ago. Booth stay to help investigate, which lays bare several possible motives. Despite the apparent connection with the Gormogon serial killer, plausibly planted on purpose, more mundane motives among Jeffersonian staff are pursued systematically, even common crime one wouldn't expect among select scientists.
Episode 7
Boy in the Time Capsule
Tue, Nov 13, 2007 42 mins
When Foothill High school's time capsule of 1987 is opened, it's industrial waterproof seal laid by class nerd Gil Bates is found broken, there is lots of decomposed material and a skull, soon identified as classmate Roger Dillon. His father, an abusive drunk, refused to help him financially and never noticed his disappearance (20 years). Booth and Bones question the other classmates and the team finds out about the content of the time capsule. This produces several potential motives, such as drug pushing, a computer game which could have made a fortune had it been released, a mean fake yearbook. From hereditary traits it appears Roger has an illegitimate biological son, Alex Stinson, with lacrosse captain Terry Stinson's current wife, then head cheerleader and tutored by him. While the sleuths reminisce their own schooldays, Dr. Lance Sweets eagerly accepts to do suspect profiling if Booth and Bones tell each-other embarrassing anecdotes. Forensics still come up with a surprise twist.
Episode 8
The Knight on the Grid
Tue, Nov 20, 2007 42 mins
Construction workers find a rat-eaten, naked, stabbed body. The knee-caps were surgically removed, and sent by mail to Bones, loaded with Gormogon (extinct secret cannibalistic society) clues. It's Douglas Cooper, vicar-general of Washington D.C.'s archbishop Stephen Wallace, on sabbatical to write an esoteric book on pagan rites and early Christianity. The anti-masonic Gormogon symbolism spells an incredibly complex clues cascade Zach relishes in, and reveals the work of a second, much older killer, who apprenticed the dead one. Booth brings in Sweets, who proves smart and helpful in the ensuing, dangerous battle of wits.
Episode 9
The Santa in the Slush
Tue, Nov 27, 2007 42 mins
Elves find a rat-eaten Santa, skull smashed. The victim was the city's only permanent, obsessively devote Santa, Kris Kringle, who lived above a toy shop. Still, their was a criminal side to his generosity. Booth's mood is already miserable as Parker must spend this Christmas with his mother and her Coastguard friend. Prosecutor Christine's prank, in exchange for allowing a Brennan prison Christmas reunion, actually helps cheer everyone up.
Episode 10
The Man in the Mud
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 42 mins
Booth and Brennan investigate the death of a motorcycle 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.
Episode 11
Player Under Pressure
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 42 mins
Atlantic State University's basketball star's corpse is found crushed in the grandstand, but that's not the cause of death. Suspects include his team spot successor Colby Page and his girlfriend Celeste, daughter of former star player and present campus security chief Jack Cutler, mentor George Francis who supplied steroids, simpleton teammate but womanizing rival Ed Dekker, ambitious but cancer-terminal coach Morse, vindictive tutor and dumped girlfriend Justine Berry.
Episode 12
The Baby in the Bough
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 42 mins
Brennen and Booth investigate the charred body of a young woman found in a car which leads to the discovery of the murder victim's infant baby who inadvertently swallows a piece of evidence and Brennen is forced to look after the baby which is a real charm for Angela, Zach, Jack, Camille, and the rest of the Jeffersonian staff, but not to Brennen.
Episode 13
The Verdict in the Story
Mon, May 5, 2008 42 mins
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.
Episode 14
The Wannabe in the Weeds
Mon, May 12, 2008 42 mins
A man's corpse is found in a field, totally torn-up in an agricultural harvest shredder, later identified as Tommy Sour. He was reported missing by his neighbor, an artist whom his incessant noise annoyed terribly. Tommy was a fitness instructor in a gym, and an amateur singer in a night-club, which spurs Zach to demonstrate his own unknown vocal talent. In both scenes Tommy made enemies, providing both suspects with motives and theories for the prior decapitation murder-weapon, some sort of metal string. Tommy also was romantically stalked by a gym client (Pam), according to shrink Sweets a potential killer, who alas turns her 'favor' upon Booth after a single touch from the studly interrogator. Alibis keep crossing those theories, until a kinky variation hits the nail, and alas something else hits an unintentional target.
Episode 15
The Pain in the Heart
Mon, May 19, 2008 42 mins
Shot by his 'stalker', Booth is buried with military honor. Later he gets slapped and verbally persecuted into his bath by Bones for being alive without telling her, as a trap for a criminal who vowed revenge. Sweets is disappointed the team ignores his fine TV interviews. A boiled mandible from the next Gormogon victim is found. Its forensics go spectacularly wrong, literally exploding. Zach's hands are permanently damaged -finally bringing the team to show affection- but so is the case's evidence. Sweets' profile points to Hodgins, Saroyan's 'police gut' to Sweets, as both had opportunity, no outsider.
