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Bones Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
The Future in the Past
Mon, Sep 17, 201244 mins
Max, Bones and baby Christine have been on the run for months since Christopher Pelant set her up for murder. Now they leave clues for Booth to realize the corpse they leave dug-up in his Virginia home small town is probably an early victim of Pelant's, the school counselor whose written recommendation was key in the IT genius's Stanford admission. Booth has a hard timing countering his buddy, Agent Hayes Flynn, in charge of arresting Bones. Despite childish emotive hostility from Angela's side, Bones' forensic interim, Dr. Clark Edison, helps clear the case which looks likely to end his contract. Pelant, now a children's computer introduction instructor, can't resist hacking, but a last surprise up his sleeve since childhood changes everything once more.
Episode 2
The Partners in the Divorce
Mon, Sep 24, 201243 mins
A successful divorce lawyer's corpse is found by hobos, after being burnt. Finn Abernathy and the regulars have a hard time finding out the exact, complex cause of death, involving a steep fall and heavy machinery. His last case, the Carmichael couple, seems back together, but there's more than meets the eye. Meanwhile Sweets rightly points out Booth and Bones can't just pretend everything is okay now they're rejoined with their baby, with Bones's learned domestic skills and their emotions shifted all over the place.
Episode 3
The Gunk in the Garage
Mon, Oct 1, 201244 mins
A man dies in a car explosion. After identifying the man, Booth and Brennan find he is still alive. Turns out, the two guys are twins who did not know of the other. Both men are browbeaten by their wives, one of which wanted her husband dead.
Episode 4
The Tiger in the Tale
Mon, Oct 8, 201244 mins
A car struggling to get out of deep mud 'unearths' a corpse, decomposing for a week, identified as Mr. Drew. The divorced former shopkeeper was one of foreman Juan Chiquez's day laborers on fairgrounds, notably hired for a show of legal, yet partially wild animals organized by well-reputed Eric Neilbling, whose claim all goes by the book doesn't stand up. Sweets starts regretting his plan to move in with Daisy as he realizes that implies greater expectations for a woman.
Episode 5
The Method in the Madness
Mon, Nov 5, 201244 mins
The team identify a woman's eviscerated body as a co-owner of a natural applesauce store. There is a symmetry to her incisions. Sweets has been living in his office since the breakup with Daisy so Booth invites him to stay with him and Bones.
Episode 6
The Patriot in Purgatory
Mon, Nov 12, 201244 mins
Brennan, intrigued by Phil Jackson's management style, pulls all her interns together as a team for a project worthy of the basketball coach's philosophy. She charges them with identifying remains that have been determined unidentifiable. For the team, however, it turns out that naming the bodies may be the easiest part of their task when one of them is from 9/11 and they must decide if he is a victim or perpetrator.
Episode 7
The Bod in the Pod
Mon, Nov 19, 201244 mins
The Jeffersonian team investigates the death of a crime scene cleanup expert whose remains are found mysteriously sealed in an impenetrable pod that washed up on the beach. Meanwhile, Angela and Hodgins learn that Cam is involved in a secret romance.
Episode 8
The But in the Joke
Mon, Nov 26, 201244 mins
An artist gluing his artwork on a billboard slips and falls with his glue on top of a corpse. The team has to separate the artist from the bones. Angela realizes the artist is a famous street painter. Bones takes up comedy to find suspects.
Episode 9
The Ghost in the Machine
Mon, Dec 3, 201243 mins
A teenage corpse, later identified as Colin Gibson, is found reburied in a hothouse. A wasp-nest in his cranium and rare birch material ultimately allow to Hodgins to provide hints for Booth to find his original burial place, a remote pump house. Colin was a fun-loving, enterprising, generally liked model student and individual athlete. The death cause seemingly renders his father a suspect, but no motive works out.
Episode 10
The Diamond in the Rough
Mon, Jan 14, 201344 mins
A young woman's corpse is found, mysteriously covered in what seem like diamonds. Typical wear and tear injuries suggest she was a dancer, soon identified from the missing persons database. She was participating in a TV show, so Booth, who paid his way through college being a ballroom dance instructor, goes undercover with Bones as his partner, who only imagines being up to it. Hodgins and Wendell invent a way to clean the corpse, without destroying the evidence, in search of the cause of death. Actually eliminating malicious poisoning as the cause of death, the victim and relevant contest persons are scrutinized.
Episode 11
The Archaeologist in the Cocoon
Mon, Jan 14, 201344 mins
A clumsy parachutist landing in a tree discovers a corpse covered in silk cocoon webs. It's identified as pseudo-scientific author and adventurer Sutton. He married Marina Tovah, whom he met on expedition in Chechenya, from where he brought Sapiens and Neanderthal bones found on a single site. Her excessively competitive attitude, marked by Sweets as an educational risk for Christine, hinders Dr. Clark Edison's examination, putting Hodgins in the middle. Booth looks for the Sutton's problems with violent in-laws, publisher and eccentric Texan expedition sponsor.
Episode 12
The Corpse on the Canopy
Mon, Jan 21, 201344 mins
After Hodgins and Angela were drugged and woke up to a bloody corpse hanging in the canopy of their bed and flower petals around their son Michael's crib, they are forced to believe that Pelant is back for revenge against Hodgins. Although Hodgins wants to go after Pelant directly, Booth knows it's best to work within the system and not go against protocol. Meanwhile, as the Jeffersonian team investigates the corpse, they discover the victim was a Special Forces agent working for the world's biggest supplier of mercenaries, and Angela and Hodgins decide to start an investigation without the rest of the Jeffersonian team for the sake of their family.
Episode 13
The Twist in the Plot
Mon, Jan 28, 201344 mins
The Jeffersonian team investigates the remains of two bodies that were found at the same burial plot: one of a female cancer patient; the other, the doula who was guiding her through her grieving process with the illness. Meanwhile, with a spotlight on the case, Brennan and Booth start discussing their individual choices for after-death arrangements. Also, Daisy Wick returns for her first case after her break-up with Sweets.
Episode 14
The Doll in the Derby
Mon, Feb 4, 201346 mins
The dismembered body of a roller derby skater means Angela goes undercover at the rink to find more clues to the woman's murder. Elsewhere, Cam worries over the sheer number of doctor appointments Booth is going to, and presses him for details.
Episode 15
The Shot in the Dark
Mon, Feb 11, 201344 mins
When Brennan is shot while working late at the Jeffersonian lab, she is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. While at the hospital, she struggles with visions of her mother that defy her usual logic. Meanwhile all evidence suggests that Brennan's attacker may be linked to the Jeffersonian.
Episode 16
The Friend in Need
Mon, Feb 18, 201342 mins
The Jeffersonian team investigates the remains of a 15-year-old boy. Although his mother and few close friends saw him as intelligent with poor social skills, the team discovers that this seemingly innocent boy was actually involved in illegal activity and had attended a high school party two weeks prior where drugs were present. The investigation takes an ugly turn when an underage girl confesses to being raped and the deceased boy's reputation is compromised. Meanwhile, with the case's spotlight on deception, intern Finn Abernathy contemplates telling Cam that her daughter Michelle is in town visiting for the weekend.
Episode 17
The Fact in the Fiction
Mon, Feb 25, 201343 mins
When extremely educated new intern Dr. Oliver Wells starts working at the Jeffersonian, his quick-learning, enthusiastic personality challenges Brennan as he gets under her skin with his eccentric but undeniable observations, causing her to try to be more open-minded about many scientific questions. Meanwhile, Booth worries she may have gone too far when she accepts the possibility of time travel as a factor in a murder investigation.
Episode 18
The Survivor in the Soap
Mon, Mar 4, 201341 mins
The Jeffersonian team investigates the death of Symchay Conteh, a young man whose remains were found in a barrel at a hazardous waste disposal facility. They discover that the victim was an immigrant from Sierra Leone working numerous part-time jobs in order to make ends meet Meanwhile, as the team gets deeper into the investigation, Cam and Arastoo find it even more difficult to keep their relationship a secret and Brennan and Booth try to decide on a vacation destination.
Episode 19
The Doom in the Gloom
Mon, Mar 18, 201344 mins
When the Jeffersonian team investigates the death of a former Marine sergeant whose remains were found burned to a crisp, they discover that she was discharged after a fist fight with another Marine. When Booth and Sweets go to question the other Marine involved in the altercation, they learn that Deanna was obsessed with the idea of the apocalypse, which leads the team to a following of doomsday preppers who become key suspects in her death. Meanwhile, Sweets thinks he has landed his dream apartment but Brennan and Booth are not convinced that he will actually move out.
Episode 20
The Blood from the Stones
Mon, Mar 25, 201344 mins
An undercover police officer, who was investigating a string of ATM robberies, turns up dead in a van with a bag of diamonds found inside his mutilated body. So the Jeffersonian team must figure out whether or not the ATM robbers are also murderers, or if the cop was crooked. Meanwhile, Brennan is the subject of a documentary commissioned to raise funds for the Jeffersonian, and she struggles to be likeable on camera.
Episode 21
The Maiden in the Mushrooms
Mon, Apr 1, 201345 mins
The Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of a TV producer. Meanwhile, Brennan has trouble accepting the fact that Christine might be an "average" child, when her daughter gets accused of biting another classmate. Then, Hodgins uses all of his tools at the Jeffersonian to chemically recreate Finn's (guest star Luke Kleintank) special hot sauce.
Episode 22
The Party in the Pants
Mon, Apr 15, 201344 mins
The Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of Jack Spindler, a successful employee at a brokerage firm by day, but a stripper by night. When the team learns how Spindler's moonlighting affected his personal life, they start to question the people closest to him, including his stripper friend, Storm. Meanwhile, Booth's mother shows up after a 24-year absence in his life and makes a special request of him.
Episode 23
The Pathos in the Pathogens
Mon, Apr 22, 201343 mins
The Jeffersonian team rushes to prevent a viral outbreak while investigating the murder of journalist Mia Garrett after her infected body is found at a biohazard facility. When the mutated virus that killed Mia infects Jeffersonian intern Arastoo Vaziri, their only chance of saving him is by solving the murder. Tension and passion build as the team races against the clock to find the killer - and the cure.
Episode 24
The Secret in the Siege
Mon, Apr 29, 201344 mins
When evil tech genius Christopher Pelant returns to toy with the Jeffersonian team in their newest investigation, they discover that the string of murders that have been occurring are tied to FBI agents close to Booth. Meanwhile, as the investigation unfolds, Sweets realizes that the evidence seems all too familiar to him and Brennan starts evaluating her relationship with Booth when signs begin to point to him as a potential target of Pelant's.
