Bones — Season 4
All 26 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
When Brennan and Booth go to London to guest-lecture at Oxford and Scotland Yard, local officials ask them to help investigate the murder of a young heiress; Angela's long-estranged husband returns.
- 02
Having solved the murder of a wealthy American's daughter, Brennan and Booth are persuaded to remain in London when one of their English colleagues is killed.
- 03
When the corpse of the host of a popular reality show is found partially decomposed in an outhouse, Brennan and Booth must separate the killer from many suspects; Booth discovers that Brennan juggles two relationships.
- 04
When Booth's son, Parker, finds a finger in a bird's nest, the team launches an investigation to find the rest of the body; Booth asks Sweets to psychoanalyze his son; Sweets confronts Hodgins about his attitude in the lab.
- 05
The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond
A teen discovers a dismembered, headless body in a pool of purple water; the team struggles to find enough evidence to locate a killer until getting insight from Zack, who studies the case at his psychiatric facility.
- 06
Booth and Brennan investigate when the remains of a disliked office manager are found in a building elevator shaft; Angela and Hodgins try to figure out their altered relationship.
- 07
Skeletal remains with remnants of breast implants are found in the Chesapeake Bay; when the body's lower half is discovered, the team realizes that initial assumptions about the victim may be wrong.
- 08
Booth and Brennan investigate when the remains of a renowned artist are found in an impounded junkyard car; a woman connected to Angela becomes a suspect in the case.
- 09
A con man misleads the team during a murder investigation; Booth's younger brother, Jared, takes a job at the Pentagon; Brennan agrees to go on a date with Jared to a White House function.
- 10
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.
- 11
Brennan and Booth investigate when a skull and other skeletal remains are found in a nationally protected wooded preserve; Brennan's recently acquitted father finds a job as a teacher.
- 12
Double Trouble in the Panhandle
A shallow grave holds the remains of conjoined twins; Booth and Brennan infiltrate a circus community after they discover that the twins were jugglers there.
- 13
A man and his son discover a frozen body in a pond; Booth gets advice from one of his hockey idols.
- 14
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.
- 15
The team investigates at a fantasy convention when a female science-fiction enthusiast is found murdered.
- 16
While bungee-jumping, a couple discover a corpse at the bottom of a gorge; the lab goes into lockdown when an unknown substance begins oozing from the cadaver.
- 17
The body of a pregnant 16-year-old athlete found buried in a mound of salt in a city de-icing truck leads Booth and Brennan to the discovery that many of her teammates are pregnant or have babies after a pregnancy pact.
- 18
Booth and Brennan are convinced the death was no accident after the half-eaten body of Cam's ex is found in the tiger cage at the zoo, leading the team to hypnotize one suspect to try to jog his memory.
- 19
Booth and Brennan investigate when pulverized human remains are found in a garbage bag; Angela's father seeks revenge on Hodgins.
- 20
The Cinderella in the Cardboard
A flattened body is discovered in a bale of compressed cardboard; Booth and Brennan get suspicious when they see Sweets' girlfriend with another man.
- 21
Booth and Brennan look for a killer and a motive when it is discovered that a human skeleton is being used as a prop for a death metal band.
- 22
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.
- 23
A friend of Booth's, Ken Nakamura, asks for help when his sister goes missing in Washington.
- 24
The body of a fraternity brother is discovered inside a rival school's mascot uniform; Booth tries to help his brother find a new job.
- 25
Brennan asks Booth to be the father of her child; Stewie Griffin offers the couple advice.
- 26
When a body is discovered at a popular nightclub, everyone is a suspect.
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