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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S04E01 Yanks in the U.K. (1)
September 3 · 44min find the promo
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Season four begins all the way in England, with Booth speaking at Scotland Yard and Brennan guest-lecturing at the prestigious Oxford University. Knowing of Booth and Brennan's expertise in their respective fields, local officials ask for their help with a high-profile murder investigation that involves a British heiress.
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S04E02 Yanks in the U.K. (2)
September 3 · 43min find the promo
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With the case of the murdered heiress solved, Booth and Brennan prepare to head back home, but are shocked to learn of another murder - and this time it's someone they know. Meanwhile, with Birimbau unexpectedly coming back into Angela's life, things get complicated between her and Hodgins.
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S04E03 The Man in the Outhouse
September 10 · 44min find the promo
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The body of the host of a popular reality TV show is found partially decomposed in an outhouse, and Booth and Brennan must find out who the killer is. Meanwhile, Booth learns that Brennan is juggling two relationships.
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S04E04 The Finger in the Nest
September 17 · 43min find the promo
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Parker, Booth's son, discovers a corpse's finger in a bird's nest, causing the team to launch an investigation to try to find the rest of the body. After finding the corpse, the team discovers that the death was caused by a dog, leading them to an illegal dog fighting ring and a search for the killer dog and its owner.
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S04E05 The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond
September 24 · 43min find the promo
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The pieces of a dismembered body are found lying in a purple pool of water, except the head is missing. The team finds that the body belongs to Jared Addison, a science fiction writer who had several mental problems. With Sweets' help, several suspects are hunted down, however the team has trouble finding enough evidence with the victim's head still missing.
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S04E06 The Crank in the Shaft
October 1 · 44min find the promo
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The remains of a despised office manager are discovered in an elevator shaft, and Booth and Brennan must figure out which employee killed him. After some investigating, they find that the manager had more than a fair share of complaints on file. Meanwhile, Angela and Hodgins try to make peace in the lab after their break-up.
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S04E07 The He in the She
October 8 · 42min find the promo
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Booth and Brennan go to investigate a body found in the Chesapeake Bay. After arriving, they find only the upper torso, giving the team little to work with other than remnants of the victim's breast implants. Brennan and Booth are led to a small church in Maryland, where they find that the victim was a pastor. When the team finds the lower half of the body, they learn that their initial assumptions may not been incorrect.
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S04E08 The Skull in the Sculpture
November 5 · 44min find the promo
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When the smashed remains of a well known artist are found in an impounded junkyard car, Booth and Brennan are on the case to find out if foul play is to blame for his death. With suspects ranging from the artist’s rival to his own assistant, the team must race against the clock to find evidence of murder before the car is relinquished and put on exhibit as the sculptor’s ultimate display of self-sacrifice for the sake of his art.
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S04E09 The Con Man in the Meth Lab
November 12 · 44min find the promo
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Booth’s Brother Jared Booth and Brennan investigate the scene where a body was uncovered during a botched practice police raid. The team identifies the body as a struggling inventor’s father who had recently reunited with his son. But when a second body surfaces, the team is led on a trail of deception to find out who was the actual con-man in the inventor’s life. Clark Edison returns to the lab, and he and Hodgins work on piecing together blueprints from one of the inventor’s potentially valuable inventions. Meanwhile, Brennan likes Booth's brother and goes out on a date with him. She learns a thing or too about Booth's past while out on the date.
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S04E10 The Passenger in the Oven
November 19 · 44min find the promo
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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.
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S04E11 The Bone That Blew
November 26 · 43min find the promo
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Brennan's father Max lands a teaching position at the Jeffersonian. When he ends up helping out with the murder case at hand, Brennan is noticeably bothered by his sudden presence in her professional life.
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S04E12 Double Trouble in the Panhandle
January 22 · 44min find the promo
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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.
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S04E13 Fire in the Ice
January 22 · 44min find the promo
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When a volunteer fireman is murdered at an ice rink, Booth and Brennan begin the investigation, but Booth must excuse himself due to a conflict of interest. When details come to light, Booth becomes a suspect in the homicide.
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S04E14 The Hero in the Hold
February 5 · 44min find the promo
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While trapped and trying to escape from a ship in the middle of the ocean, Booth is haunted by strange hallucinations.
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S04E15 The Princess and the Pear
February 19 · 44min find the promo
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The team investigates a sci-fi convention when a woman in a medieval princess dress is found murdered. With Booth's back injured, Agent Payton Perotta steps in once again to help
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S04E16 The Bones That Foam
March 12 · 44min find the promo
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When newlyweds encounter a corpse while bungee-jumping off of a bridge, Brennan and Booth are sent to investigate. After determine the cause of death was not suicide, the team at the Jeffersonian discover an unknown substance coming from the body. This sends the lab into lockdown and have only 24 hours to uncover the murderer before the body disintegrates.
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S04E17 The Salt in the Wounds
March 19 · 44min find the promo
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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.
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S04E18 The Doctor in the Den
April 2 · 44min find the promo
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When the half-eaten body of Cam's former fiancee is found in the tiger cage at the zoo, Booth and Brennan uncover that his death was far from accidental. Now the team must put the pieces of the fiancee's final day back together, including hypnotizing a suspect in order to spark his memory.
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S04E19 The Science in the Physicist
April 9 · 43min find the promo
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Booth and Brennan are sent to investigate when human remains are found during a photo shoot. When the team uncovers a meteorite in the victim's ear, they are led to the Collar Institute of Science in D.C.
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S04E20 The Cinderella in the Cardboard
April 15 · 44min find the promo
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Booth and Brennan are called when an image of the Virgin Mary is found in a bale of compressed cardboard.
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S04E21 Mayhem on a Cross
April 16 · 44min find the promo
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When it is discovered that a stage prop used by a Norwegian death metal band is in fact a real human skeleton, the remains are sent to the Jeffersonian when authorities determine the victim was an American citizen.
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S04E22 The Double Death of the Dearly Departed
April 20 · 43min find the promo
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When a Jeffersonian coworker dies of heart failure, the entire team goes to the wake where, upon viewing the body, Brennan realizes the death was no accident.
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S04E23 The Girl in the Mask
April 23 · 43min find the promo
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Booth's detective friend from Tokyo, Ken Nakamura, calls him when his sister, Sachi, goes missing while in Washington, D.C. With Brennan, Booth investigates her disappearance.
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S04E24 The Beaver in the Otter
April 30 · 43min find the promo
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When a human body is found inside the strung up Otter mascot uniform of a rival school, Brennan and Booth investigate whether the body inside the costume was dead beforehand, or killed during a Middlesex University bonfire event. The body is identified as Jimmy “Beaver” Bouvier, a fraternity brother at Middlesex University. When Brennan and Booth question his fraternity brothers, they learn that Beaver had a money-making operation on the side and was making a killing of his own. Meanwhile, Booth offers to help his brother Jared find a new job after being dishonorably discharged from the Navy.
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S04E25 The Critic in the Cabernet
May 7 · 44min find the promo
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The team is on the case when human remains are found inside a barrel of wine during a wine tasting. When the victim turns out to be a wine critic whose scathing reviews were capable of sending a vineyard to its ruin, everyone from the winery's owner to the victim's own wife becomes a suspect.
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S04E26 The End in the Beginning
May 14 · 44min find the promo
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In the season finale, a dead body is found at a club called "The Lab." The team has to do some unexpected and unusual things that have to do with this club. Brennan and Booth may become a couple.