Welcome to the Bones Forum! Videos, recent articles and much more! TVFanSpace.com is the best place online to discuss your favorite shows! Join us and share the space with your friends The show begins in the year 2005, and tells the story of a series of case files, solved weekly, by the unlikely alliance of Temperance "Bones" Brennan's forensic anthropology team at the Jeffersonian Institute (a thinly veiled allusion to the Smithsonian Institution) and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. By examining the human remains of the murder victims, Dr. Brennan and her team provide scientific expertise and an outsider's perspective to the world of criminal investigation to the FBI. In addition to the murder cases featured in each episode, the series explores the backgrounds and relationships of the major characters including the developing friendship and possibly romantic relationship between Brennan and Booth. The series has dark comedic undertones. The series, created by Hart Hanson, is very loosely based on the life[1] of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who is a producer on the show. Its title character, Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan is named after the protagonist of Reichs' crime novel series. Bones is a joint production by Josephson Entertainment, Far Field Productions and 20th Century Fox Television. The fourth season premiered on September 3, 2008 on Fox. In the UK, it aired on Sky1 on Thursdays, starting on September 25. The show was picked up for two more seasons, the fifth season premiered September 17, 2009 on Fox

Cast and Characters: Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Season 1–present): A forensic anthropologist working at the renowned Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as a best-selling crime novelist. She is a logical empiricist, and is very rational. Her intellectual brilliance enables her to do groundbreaking work, but her lack of social skills—due to her parents disappearing and her brother Russ deserting her when she was fifteen leaving her emotionally under-developed—provides most of the show's lighthearted humor (primarily through her catchphrase of "I don't know what that means" when someone makes a pop culture reference). David Boreanaz as Seeley Booth (Season 1–present): Brennan aids FBI Special Agent Booth in his investigations involving human remains that cannot be identified without Brennan's skills in forensic anthropology. In contrast to the other main characters, Booth has limited knowledge of science and is often used to provide a layman's translation of the scientific jargon-filled dialog. He also provides the dichotomy between science and emotion, as in one episode when Bones comments to Cam, "He can read people like you read pathology reports and I read bones." Booth is the intuitive humanist, known for his ability to guess people's motives or "posit a scenario", something that is a constant frustration and struggle to Brennan. He is a former U.S. Army Ranger and Special Forces sniper with at least 52 confirmed kills—he comments in the pilot that, having taken lives as a sniper, what he would like to do before he dies is catch at least that many murderers to make up for his past—and has an intense dislike of clowns. It is revealed in the Season Five episode "The Proof in the Pudding" that he is a descendant of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of 16th U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro (Season 1–present): A forensic artist at the Jeffersonian Institute and is Dr. Brennan's best friend. Angela is Dr. Brennan's team specialist in craniofacial reconstruction—helping to determine what their victims looked like before death to help determine their identity—and can generate holograms using her 3-dimensional graphics program (The Angelator) to simulate various virtual scenarios of a crime to help determine cause of death. She is open, friendly and caring, and constantly tries to draw Dr. Brennan out of the lab.

Eric Millegan as Dr. Zack Addy (Season 1–3; recurring afterward): Is introduced as Dr. Brennan's graduate student and assistant at the Jeffersonian Institute at the start of the series. In the second season, he receives his doctorate in Forensic Anthropology and Mechanical Engineering and becomes a professional forensic anthropologist. Zack is closer to the stereotypical geek than anyone else on the team. Although well-meaning, helpful and friendly, when a situation calls for social interaction or intuition, he is often lost. During the course of events leading up to the death of Howard Epps, Zack was almost killed when he unwittingly triggered a pressure sensor tied to a bomb affixed to the headless body of Caroline Epps, only to be saved by Booth. He is extremely intelligent; in episode 11 it is said that his IQ is significantly above 163 (which is already a genius level). He is also Hodgins' best friend, and lives in the upper part of Hodgins' garage. Zack was removed from his position on Dr. Brennan's team during the Gormogon episodes, where he was revealed to be the serial killer's apprentice, and is currently residing in an asylum (although it has since been determined that he is not as "crazy" as was initially assumed, Zack setting up his diagnosis so that he would go to the asylum as he felt he would do poorly in prison). Zack is also known as "Zacharoni", "Z-Man", and is "King of the Lab". In "The Pain in the Heart" episode, Dr. Saroyan's trophy recognizing Zack as "King of the Lab" is revealed.

T. J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins (Season 1–present): An entomologist who is also an expert on spores and minerals, but whose hobby is conspiracy theories. He is one of the more normal persons in the group, and helps teach Zack how to be socially normal. His family is extremely wealthy and are major sponsors of the Jeffersonian Institution; Hodgins wishes for this status to remain concealed from his bosses because he does not want to be seen as a superior (it eventually came out during an investigation, although nobody has allowed it to significantly impact their relationships with him).
Jonathan Adams as Dr. Daniel Goodman (Season 1): A former archaeologist turned administrator, who is also the director of the Jeffersonian Institute. He is a loving husband and father to a pair of five-year-old twin girls. His way of working leads Hodgins to think of him as subjective and long winded, and lacking the qualities of a pure scientist—such as his habit of speculating in depth about the historical remains they discover-, although the antagonism between the two develops into a friendly rivalry as the series progresses. He has not made any appearances beyond the first season. As of Episode 23 "The Titan on the Tracks" Dr. Goodman is said to be on a sabbatical.

Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2–present): Is the Head of the Forensic Division at Jeffersonian Institute and a pathologist. She was introduced in the first episode of the second season after being hired by Dr. Goodman while Dr. Brennan was on vacation. She was born in The Bronx and was a coroner in New York before taking up the position at the Jeffersonian. At the beginning of the second season, she and Dr. Brennan have an uneasy working relationship because of her being Dr. Brennan's superior and their different work styles, Brennan focusing more on the bones of their victims while Saroyan focused on the flesh. Dr. Saroyan had a romantic relationship with Booth prior to her joining the Jeffersonian, as well as a short relationship with him during the show which he broke off after she was nearly killed because of the machinations of serial killer Howard Epps. Following Season Four she has a teenage adopted daughter, Michelle, whom she adopted after Michelle's father was murdered because of her prior relationship with the man in question.

John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets (Season 3–present): A psychologist assigned to Booth and Brennan after Booth arrests her father because the FBI felt the potential conflict between them may affect their working relationship (although both insisted that it did not matter). He habitually tries to study the complex relationship between Booth and Brennan, which neither of them much enjoys, and even his interaction with other characters can be questionable (he was indirectly responsible for Hodgins and Angela breaking up prior to their wedding and once neglected to inform Brennan that Booth was undercover simply to study her reaction to the idea of Booth being dead). The character made his first appearance in the fourth episode of third season and his portrayer, John Francis Daley, became a main cast member from the ninth episode, "The Santa in the Slush", onwards.


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