"Pilot" When a badly decomposed corpse is found during the routine cleaning of a pond in Arlington National Cemetery, FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth hijacks renowned forensic anthropologist (and best selling novelist), Dr. Temperance Brennan, to help identify the body.

1. "The Man In The S.U.V." An SUV driven by a Middle Eastern man explodes in front of a busy Washington DC café. Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, Angela Montenegro, her reconstruction artist, and her assistant Zack Addy arrive at the scene. The Middle Eastern man is identified by Homeland Security as Hamid Masruk. Brennan is asked to confirm the identity.

2. "A Boy In The Tree" The decomposed body of an adolescent boy is found hanging from a tree on the grounds of an exclusive East Coast prep school. By examining the tabanid maggots and the crematogaster ants that fed on the body, Dr. Jack Hodgins, the Squints entomologist, is able to determine that he died ten to fourteen days earlier.

3. "The Man In The Bear" When a routine necropsy of a black bear in rural Washington State turns up a human arm, FBI sends the case to Special Agent Seeley Booth in hopes of getting forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, to ID the victim. Uncomfortable with being at anyone's beck and call, Brennan is at first reluctant to go until she is ordered to do so by her boss, Dr. Goodman who feels, if for nothing else, it will get her out of the lab and into the world to "connect with other people." Brennan concedes. She examines the arm bones and is shocked to find kerf marks and residual cross-section striae - cut marks made by a saw on the bones. A person cut off this arm before the bear ate it.

4. "A Boy In A Bush" Dr. Temperance Brennan is giving a lecture to a group of anthropology students when Special Agent Seeley Booth shows up -- a six-year-old boy named Charlie Sanders has gone missing near a local mall and now someone has reported seeing human remains in an adjacent field. Booth needs Brennan's help to locate the remains and then determine if they are in fact those of their missing six-year-old.

5. "The Man In The Wall" Brennan and Angela party at a dance club called “The Bassment.” When Brennan comments about the music being “tribal,” comparing it to Indonesian Gamelan Music and Tibetan Throat Singers, a club patron starts an argument with her. Brennan and Angela get caught up in the melee and Brennan kicks someone into the wall, causing it to break open to reveal a mummified corpse and a stash of methamphetamine.

6. "A Man On Death Row" When condemned man Howard Epps is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection (in thirty-two hours) for the murder of seventeen-year-old April Wright, Epps’ attorney, Amy Morton, makes a last minute appeal to Booth (the man who arrested Epps) to re-examine the case. Booth believes Epps is guilty, but asks Brennan and her team of squints to do him a favor and give up their weekend plans to review the evidence in order to confirm Epps’ guilt.

7. "The Girl In The Fridge" While Brennan and Angela examine skeletal remains, a gift arrives for Brennan from former professor and beau, Michael Stires. He’s newly arrived in town with an offer to head up a university's anthropology department. The squints observe Brennan flirt awkwardly through a conversation when Booth arrives, interrupting the sexual tension with a gift of his own -- a refrigerator containing the partially liquefied remains of a decomposed skeleton.

8. "The Man In The Fallout Shelter" It’s Christmas party time at the Jeffersonian and Angela is trying to get a very reluctant Brennan to go. Just in time to save her from going, Booth shows up with a skeleton found in a 1950s fallout shelter. The skeleton has a gun in his hand and a hole in his head. Brennan takes the case while Angela drags Booth to the party with the other squints. Left alone, Brennan finds 2 tickets to Paris on the skeleton.

9. "Woman In The Car" An urgent Booth shows up on the set of the morning TV show, “Wake Up, DC!” to find Brennan , awkwardly navigating through a promo of her upcoming book, “Bred in the Bone.” He whisks her off to the crime scene where a body was found in a burning car. A child was kidnapped and may still be alive.

10. "The Woman At The Airport" We open up with Brennan and the squints examining the remains of what could possibly be the finest specimen ever discovered from the Iron Age Booth, in his usual style, shows up with a “sexy” Hollywood case: remains of a female were found scattered at Los Angeles International Airport. Brennan is less than eager to part with her Iron Age Warrior but Booth convinces Goodman that a high profile case would be good PR for the Institute. Once again, Booth prevails and Brennan is made to take the case.

11. "Woman In The Tunnel" In the bowels of Washington D.C., Booth, Brennan, and Zack rappel down a cavernous ventilation shaft. At the bottom, hidden beneath a frenzy of rats, they discover a pile of human remains. Brennan shoots off a few rounds from Booth’s pistol to scatter the vermin. She orders Zack to take pictures of the bones within a five meter radius before determining “The velocity of the fall was enough to shatter (the victim’s) body on impact. Tibias and fibulas are broken below the knees, vertebrae compressed and shattered…” The body is female, missing a jacket and shoes, evidence the woman’s clothing had been stripped. A man appears at the far end of the tunnel. Brennan calls to the shadowy figure and chases after him. He disappears into the maze of tubes.

12. "Superhero In The Alley" We open up with NEWS ANCHORS reporting on a horrific skeleton found dressed in a superhero costume. Cullen explains to Booth that media attention made government officials nervous so FBI is to take care of it before Halloween hits. It’s now Booth’s responsibility and he calls Bones in. Brennan arrives on the scene, investigates the victim’s skeleton but unable to determine just yet whether it was suicide or murder.

13. "Woman In The Garden" Brennan and Booth are called to an El Salvadaoran neighborhood on the outskirts of Washington D.C., after police apprehended JOSE VARGAS, a Latino Mara Muerte gang member. Upon routine inspection of Jose’s trunk, they discover the unearthed remains of a female body. Numerous attempts by Brennan to communicate with Jose and the crowd about the location of the burial site prove futile. A black sedan speeds down the street with gang members opening fire on local law enforcement, as well as Booth, Brennan and Jose. Jose takes the opportunity to flee. A foot chase ensues, and Booth comes up empty as the suspect escapes over a chain link fence.

14. "The Man On The Fairway" On a golf course near Virginia Beach, Brennan and Zack pull up to the scene of a small plane crash. As members of the local fire department and F.A.A. investigate the wreckage, IAN DYSON of the NTSB informs Brennan and Zack that the private plane was a State Department flight, “with a bunch of V.I.P.’s on board.” Due to the absence of Booth as their F.B.I. intermediary, Zack assumes an elitist role, condescending to the investigators at the scene. They discover “two skulls” from various fragments, bringing the death count to six, including the pilot and co-pilot. The bodies appear consistent with the composition of standard plane crash victims, “burned to a crisp” while “burst fractures of lower thoracic and lumbar vertebrae” appear “consistent with injuries caused by the vertical impact of the falling aircraft” That is, until Brennan unearths a “femur fragment” with “no charring remains.” One of the victims was not aboard the doomed flight.

15. "Two Bodies In The Lab" Brennan converses with an anonymous man from an internet dating web site. They exchange cute quips about each other’s physical appearances before setting a date to meet at a local restaurant. Goodman interrupts her virtual romance to inform her of a top priority “delivery.”

16. "The Man With The Bone" Booth and Brennan walk the cold, lonely hallway of the FBI morgue. They meet with HARRY TEPPER, a Medical Examiner residing over a naked corpse. The body, identified as TED MACY, was found in a national park. The victim expired from an accidental drowning. Brennan questions why she was called – after all, she doesn’t “do skin.” Booth explains, “I didn’t bring you to examine the body. I want you to look at what they found in his hand.” The examiner reveals a finger bone, steeped in a lethal cleansing solution. Brennan emasculates the examiner for his shoddy preservation techniques, “You’ve removed particulates and trace elements that could potentially lead us to his killer. Is this your first day on the job?”

17. "The Skull in the Desert" Zack and Brennan examine a rib cage on the forensic platform while Hodgins distracts himself with pictures of Angela’s desert vacation. He stops on one photo of Angela relaxing in the arms of a man on a sun-kissed ridge. Brennan explains that Angela has a “boyfriend” for three weeks every year (Sc.1 / Pg. 2). His name is KIRK PERSINGER. Zack clicks on a videolink and Angela appears in her resort room. She asks to speak with Brennan in private.

18. "The Man In The Morgue" DR. BRENNAN has come to New Orleans offering her talents to identify the bodies found in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Operating in a makeshift morgue within a church, Brennan is working on what seems to be an endless task of identifying bodies that have unearthed from cemeteries. The makeshift morgue is split into three areas: an open area where autopsies and identification takes place, a small cold room holding identified bodies, and a much larger cold room where unidentified bodies are stacked high in boxes and body bags.

19. "The Graft in the Girl" BRENNAN, BOOTH, and ANGELA arrive at Washington General Hospital to present lab results to DEPUTY DIRECTOR CULLEN. They are meeting Cullen at the hospital because his daughter has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, or lung cancer. When told this, Brennan notes how extremely rare cancer is for someone of Cullen’s daughter’s age. Booth doesn’t want her digging her nose into Cullen’s business.

20. "The Soldier on the Grave" Brennan and Booth arrive at a cemetery where a charred body was found on the grave of deceased soldier Charlie Kent on the one-year anniversary of his death. Charlie, a former NBA hopeful, was killed while serving in Iraq. Agent Booth is troubled by strong memories of his time in the service.

21. "The Woman in Limbo" 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 disappeared 15 years ago. An investigation is opened by Booth into the case, for the first time ever. Brennan is shocked with evidence that her parents might not be the people she thought they were, and she must come to grips with these new details from her parents' past as well as her own..