Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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- Seasons
- 12
- Episodes aired
- 246
- Latest aired
- S12E12
- Total runtime
- 7d 9h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 2005 – May 2006 22 episodes
- Season 2 August 2006 – May 2007 21 episodes
- Season 3 September 2007 – May 2008 15 episodes
- Season 4 September 2008 – May 2009 26 episodes
- Season 5 September 2009 – May 2010 22 episodes
- Season 6 September 2010 – May 2011 23 episodes
- Season 7 November 2011 – May 2012 13 episodes
- Season 8 September 2012 – April 2013 24 episodes
- Season 9 September 2013 – May 2014 24 episodes
- Season 10 September 2014 – June 2015 22 episodes
- Season 11 October 2015 – July 2016 22 episodes
- Season 12 January 2017 – March 2017 12 episodes
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S01E01 Pilot
September 13 · 44min find the promo
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Pilot episode. After returning to Washington, D.C., renowned forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is called in by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth to aid an FBI investigation involving a set of bones found hidden in a lake.
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S01E02 The Man in the S.U.V.
September 20 · 44min find the promo
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When a man is killed driving an SUV registered to a Middle Eastern man, Dr. Brennan and her team find themselves tracking a terrorist.
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S01E03 A Boy in a Tree
September 27 · 43min find the promo
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When the decaying corpse of the Venezuelan Ambassador's son is found hanging from a tree on the campus of an exclusive private school, a simple suicide case quickly turns into a web of lies, sex and scandal involving the school's staff and students.
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S01E04 The Man in the Bear
November 1 · 43min find the promo
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Brennan and Booth travel to Washington to investigate a human arm that was found in the stomach of a black bear.
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S01E05 A Boy in a Bush
November 8 · 44min find the promo
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Booth asks Brennan to help locate and identify the remains of a six-year-old boy, Charlie, who went missing from a local park.
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S01E06 The Man in the Wall
November 15 · 43min find the promo
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When Brennan and Angela get caught in a fight in a dance club, Brennan kicks someone into a wall, which causes the wall to break open and reveal a mummified corpse and a meth stash.
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S01E07 A Man on Death Row
November 22 · 44min find the promo
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A death row inmate asks for Booth's help to prove his innocence before he is scheduled to be executed. Booth agrees and asks Brennan and her team to help him out.
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S01E08 The Girl in the Fridge
November 29 · 44min find the promo
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Brennan is about to go out for dinner with her old professor and ex-lover when Booth asks her and her team to help identify the remains of a young woman found in a refrigerator.
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S01E09 The Man in the Fallout Shelter
December 13 · 44min find the promo
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Brennan and her team are brought in to identify the body of a man found in a fallout shelter. While cutting into the bones of the man, Zach accidentally releases a deadly fungus, causing the team to be quarantined over Christmas.
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S01E10 The Woman at the Airport
January 25 · 44min find the promo
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Brennan and Booth investigate the body parts of a woman found near L.A. International Airport. Their investigation is slowed due to extensive cosmetic surgery the victim had done.
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S01E11 The Woman in the Car
February 1 · 44min find the promo
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When a woman’s burned body is found in a car with signs that her child was kidnapped, Brennan and Booth suspect the father, Carl Decker. But things get complicated when Decker turns out to be in the Witness Protection program.
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S01E12 The Superhero in the Alley
February 8 · 42min find the promo
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Brennan and Booth investigate the origins of a decomposed body that's been found in a local alley and determine it's the remains of a shy teen with an alter ego.
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S01E13 The Woman in the Garden
February 15 · 43min find the promo
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Booth and Brennan investigate when a dug up corpse is found in the back of a gang member's car. While being questioned, a drive-by shooting allows him to escape. Booth and Brennan follow the clues, which lead them to an empty grave and another body in a grave at a wealthy senator's house, where the gang member used to work.
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S01E14 The Man on the Fairway
March 8 · 44min find the promo
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Brennan and Zach investigate a small jet crash that was carrying some Chinese diplomats and a woman. At the crash site, Brennan finds some bone fragments that do not belong to any of the passengers, but might belong to a man who has been missing for five years. Although ordered to work only on the diplomats, Brennan and her team go rogue to try to discover the identity of the extra bones.
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S01E15 Two Bodies in the Lab
March 15 · 44min find the promo
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When Brennan decides to give online dating a try, she ends up the target of a shooting at the local restaurant where she's meeting her date. The resulting investigation reveals that the shooter could be connected to either of the two cases she's currently working on.
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S01E16 The Woman in the Tunnel
March 22 · 44min find the promo
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Brennan and Booth stumble upon a subterranean world of homeless people when they find the remains of a filmmaker in the ventilation shaft of an underground tunnel.
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S01E17 The Skull in the Desert
March 29 · 44min find the promo
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While on vacation, Angela's boyfriend goes missing . When a skull shows up, she asks Brennan for help in identification, concerned it might be her boyfriend or the female guide who went missing with him. The investigation leads the team to a violent boyfriend, the local sheriff and ultimately to a counterfeiting ring setup in the desert.
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S01E18 The Man with the Bone
April 5 · 43min find the promo
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A human finger bone found in the clutches of a drowning victim leads to a search for buried treasure.
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S01E19 The Man in the Morgue
April 19 · 43min find the promo
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A trip to New Orleans leaves Bones beaten, bloodied, and suspected of murder while plunged into the world of voodoo.
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S01E20 The Graft in the Girl
April 26 · 43min find the promo
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The team helps Deputy Director Sam Cullen's daughter, Amy, when she contracts a rare form of lung cancer after receiving a bone graft. Booth and Brennan learn she is not the only victim with this rare form of cancer.
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S01E21 The Soldier on the Grave
May 10 · 44min find the promo
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Brennan and Booth investigate an apparent suicide in Arlington National Cemetery, but soon discover it is a murder linked to a military cover-up.
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S01E22 The Woman in Limbo
May 17 · 43min find the promo
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Brennan receives some bones to identify, but is stunned when she discovers that the remains are those of her mother who disappeared when she was 15 years old. The determined date of her mother's death leaves Bones confused and angry.