The best episodes of Bones
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- 01
When Max goes on trial for the murder of FBI Deputy Director Robert Kirby, all the team members but Brennan are called as expert witnesses for the prosecution.
- 02
Booth and Brennan search for a killer who buries his victims alive and leaves them to die if ransom demands are not met.
- 03
The Jeffersonian team are essentially kidnapped when a mysterious Mr White arrives with a set of remains. The team is told they need to discover the cause of death, but their findings lead the team to suspect they are investigating one of the most famous presidential assassinations in history.
- 04
Brennan and Booth investigate a young beauty queen's remains that are discovered at a water filtration plant; Hodgins asks Angela out on a date, which she accepts.
- 05
Brennan and Booth investigate the case of a mutilated body found on the roof of a federal building; Brennan hears from her long-lost father.
- 06
When mummified remains are found at Halloween attractions, Brennan and Booth realize that they must find the killer by Halloween or there will be another death.
- 07
After construction workers find an archbishop's body with the kneecaps surgically removed, the team returns to the case of the Widow's Son serial killer.
- 08
Three days before Christmas the body of a bearded man in a tailor-made Santa outfit turns up in a sewer; Brennan visits her father in prison and plots a nontraditional holiday reunion.
- 09
The Parts in the Sum of the Whole
With Sweets finishing his book on their partnership, Brennan and Booth take the opportunity to set the record straight and recount the facts of the first case they worked together.
- 10
15-year-old Jane Doe, who is hearing impaired and unable to communicate, is found on the streets covered in blood and wielding a knife, leading the team to believe she is responsible for a recent murder. Meanwhile, Angela keeps Hodgins in the dark regarding the details of her pregnancy.
- 11
The Man in the Fallout Shelter
The Jeffersonian Christmas party is interrupted when Booth arrives with the remains of a body from the 1950s recently discovered in an old fallout shelter. The team is then quarantined inside the lab after they are inadvertently exposed to Valley Fever.
- 12
A body Brennan and Booth think is that of Brennan's incarcerated adversary, serial killer Howard Epps, is burned beyond recognition.
- 13
After a woman's car is run off the road, only her baby survives; Booth and Brennan go to the woman's hometown to investigate.
- 14
An aspiring singer is murdered and, as Brennan and Booth investigate the musician's fans and foes, one obsessed woman transfers her affections to Booth.
- 15
A human jawbone found at the Jeffersonian alerts Brennan and the team that the Gormogon serial killer has struck again; a lab explosion lands Zack in the hospital; Gormogon's silver skeleton disappears from the vault.
- 16
While en route to China to identify prehistoric anthropological remains, Booth and Brennan are called upon to solve a murder in midair when the flight attendant discovers a fully cooked human body in the plane's microwave.
- 17
Brennan and the team get a phone call from the Grave Digger, who informs them that Booth has been buried alive with only 24 hours of oxygen.
- 18
Brennan asks Booth to be the father of her child; Stewie Griffin offers the couple advice.
- 19
When sniper-on-the-loose Jacob Broadsky claims another victim, Booth becomes more determined than ever to catch his elusive foe. After a bullet meant for Booth strikes an innocent victim, Booth makes it his mission to catch Broadsky once and for all.
- 20
The skeletal remains of a federal prosecutor, who disappeared five years earlier, are discovered in the desert outside Las Vegas; an anonymous lead takes Booth and Brennan to the world of gambling and underground ultimate fighting.
- 21
The Double Death of the Dearly Departed
Brennan is suspicious when a Jeffersonian co-worker dies of heart failure; Cam tries to get her newly adopted teenager to stop smoking.
- 22
The trial of The Gravedigger hits close to home for members of the team, and everyone at the Jeffersonian must work overtime to uncover the forensic evidence to elicit a conviction.
- 23
The city anxiously anticipates the arrival of Heather Taffet, more notoriously known as "The Gravedigger," for her final appeal after being sentenced to death for a kidnap-murder and a series of similar coldblooded crimes. But when a bullet targeted at The Gravedigger is fired from a distance and hits her, the Jeffersonian team is tasked to piece together the sniper's precise location as well as identify the suspect and his motives. Meanwhile, Sweets attempts to put on a brave face after being caught in the firestorm just moments following a chilly encounter with The Gravedigger.
- 24
A severe blizzard causes a city-wide blackout, adding to the obstacles the team must overcome in order to solve a murder case that could be linked to a potential viral outbreak. Booth and Brennan have a conversation about their relationship while trapped in an elevator, and Angela and Hodgins get worrisome news about the health of their unborn baby
- 25
Booth and Brennan probe what appears to be a case of jealousy and insurance money when a man is found dead at a construction site, but new clues send them in a different direction.
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