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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...
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Season 1

  • Pilot
    7.6/102,129 votes
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    Pilot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2005

    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.

    Director: Greg Yaitanes

    Writer: Hart Hanson

  • The Man in the S.U.V.
    7.3/101,657 votes
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    The Man in the S.U.V.

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2005

    When a man is killed driving an SUV registered to a Middle Eastern man, Dr. Brennan and her team find themselves tracking a terrorist.

    Director: Allan Kroeker

    Writer: Stephen Nathan

  • A Boy in a Tree
    7.5/101,569 votes
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    A Boy in a Tree

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2005

    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.

    Director: Patrick R. Norris

    Writer: Hart Hanson

  • The Man in the Bear
    7.8/101,564 votes
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    The Man in the Bear

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/2005

    Brennan and Booth travel to Washington to investigate a human arm that was found in the stomach of a black bear.

    Director: Allan Kroeker

    Writer: Laura Wolner

  • A Boy in a Bush
    7.8/101,523 votes
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    A Boy in a Bush

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/2005

    Booth asks Brennan to help locate and identify the remains of a six-year-old boy, Charlie, who went missing from a local park.

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: Steve Blackman, Greg Ball

  • The Man in the Wall
    7.4/101,431 votes
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    The Man in the Wall

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/2005

    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.

    Director: Tawnia McKiernan

    Writer: Elizabeth Benjamin

  • A Man on Death Row
    8.1/101,514 votes
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    A Man on Death Row

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2005

    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.

    Director: David Hugh Jones

    Writer: Noah Hawley

  • The Girl in the Fridge
    7.9/101,444 votes
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    The Girl in the Fridge

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2005

    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.

    Director: Sanford Bookstaver

    Writer: Dana Coen

  • The Man in the Fallout Shelter
    8.6/101,907 votes
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    The Man in the Fallout Shelter

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2005

    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.

    Director: Greg Yaitanes

    Writer: Hart Hanson

  • The Woman at the Airport
    7.5/101,355 votes
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    The Woman at the Airport

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/25/2006

    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.

    Director: Greg Yaitanes

    Writer: Teresa Lin

  • The Woman in the Car
    7.7/101,336 votes
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    The Woman in the Car

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/1/2006

    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.

    Director: Dwight H. Little

    Writer: Noah Hawley

  • The Superhero in the Alley
    7.7/101,506 votes
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    The Superhero in the Alley

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/8/2006

    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.

    Director: James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer: Elizabeth Benjamin

  • The Woman in the Garden
    7.5/101,273 votes
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    The Woman in the Garden

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/15/2006

    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.

    Director: Sanford Bookstaver

    Writer: Laura Wolner

  • The Man on the Fairway
    7.5/101,245 votes
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    The Man on the Fairway

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/8/2006

    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.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Steve Blackman

  • Two Bodies in the Lab
    8.4/101,616 votes
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    Two Bodies in the Lab

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/15/2006

    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.

    Director: Allan Kroeker

    Writer: Stephen Nathan

  • The Woman in the Tunnel
    7.6/101,258 votes
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    The Woman in the Tunnel

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/22/2006

    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.

    Director: Joe Napolitano

    Writer: Steve Blackman, Greg Ball

  • The Skull in the Desert
    7.5/101,334 votes
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    The Skull in the Desert

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/29/2006

    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.

    Director: Donna Deitch

    Writer: Jeff Rake

  • The Man with the Bone
    7.5/101,262 votes
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    The Man with the Bone

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/5/2006

    A human finger bone found in the clutches of a drowning victim leads to a search for buried treasure.

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • The Man in the Morgue
    8.0/101,424 votes
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    The Man in the Morgue

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/19/2006

    A trip to New Orleans leaves Bones beaten, bloodied, and suspected of murder while plunged into the world of voodoo.

    Director: James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer: Elizabeth Benjamin, Noah Hawley

  • The Graft in the Girl
    8.2/101,391 votes
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    The Graft in the Girl

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/2006

    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.

    Director: Sanford Bookstaver

    Writer: Greg Ball, Laura Wolner

  • The Soldier on the Grave
    7.5/101,302 votes
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    The Soldier on the Grave

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2006

    Brennan and Booth investigate an apparent suicide in Arlington National Cemetery, but soon discover it is a murder linked to a military cover-up.

    Director: Jonathan Pontell

    Writer: Stephen Nathan

  • The Woman in Limbo
    8.7/101,546 votes
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    The Woman in Limbo

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2006

    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.

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: Hart Hanson