Brennan receives some bones that she must identify, but is stunned when she finds that the remains are those of her mother. Brennan is hit hard by this discovery, and understandably so, since she never knew what happened to her parents after they disappea

Brennan and Booth go to investigate an apparent suicide in Arlington National Cemetery, but soon find out that it was murder and that the victim was a soldier who had served in Iraq. The investigation leads to a lot of unanswered questions about the milit

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.

Brennan takes a vacation down to New Orleans to help identify victims of Hurricane Katrina. While at her hotel, she wakes up the next morning bloody and beaten, with no memory of what happened. Booth comes down to try and help her figure out what happened

Booth and Brennan investigate a case involving a 300-year-old finger bone and a site where there might be pirate treasure. Hodgins is excited when he's able to leave the lab and help with the case, but his life is put in danger and it's up to Booth and Br

While on vacation, Angela finds a skull in the desert. She asks Brennan for help in identifying the skull because she is afraid it might be her boyfriend, who has gone missing with a local guide. The investigation leads the team through a violent boyfrien

The death of a documentary filmmaker sends Bones and Booth into the shadow world of tunnels underneath the city.

When Brennan decides to give on-line dating a try she ends up the target of a shooting at the local restaurant where she's meeting a date. The resulting investigation reveals that the shooter could be connected to any one of the two cases that she is work

Brennan and Zack 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

Booth and Brennan are called in to investigate when a dug up corpse is found in the back of a gang member's car. While he is being questioned, a drive-by shooting allows him to escape. Booth and Brennan follow the clues, which lead them to another empty g

Brennan and Booth investigate the origins of a decomposed body that's been found in a local alley fully dressed in an unorthodox costume. They determine it's the remains of a reclusive teen that they discover has a secret second life.

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.

Brennan and Booth investigate the body parts of a woman found near L.A. International Airport. Their probe is slowed by extensive cosmetic surgery the victim had done.

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, Zack accidentally releases a deadly fungus, that causes the team to be quarantined over Christmas.

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.

The attorney of a death row inmate asks for Booth's help to prove his innocence before he is executed. Booth agrees and asks Brennan and her team to help him out.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In the series premiere, Dr. Temperance Brennan (or "Bones" as she is often referred to as), a forensic anthropologist, is met with the task of uncovering the identity of a set of bones which have been deliberately hidden in a lake. However, after identify