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 identifying the bones, imprisoning the murderer turns out to be a politically sticky business. Bones gets help from FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, who convinces his boss to let Bones be his partner, since she’s an expert in her field.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.