1.1: Pilot (Original Airdate 13/09/05)
Writer: Hart Hanson
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Dr. Temperance Brennan 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.
1.2: The Man In The S.U.V.
Writer: Stephen Nathan
Director: Allan Kroeker
When a man is killed driving an SUV registered to a Middle Eastern man, Dr. Brennan and her team find themselves tracking
a terrorist.
1.3: A Boy in the Tree
Writer: Hart Hanson
Director: Patrick Norris
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.
1.4: The Man In The Bear
Writer: Laura Wolner
Director: Allan Kroeker
Brennan and Booth travel to Washington to investigate a human arm that was found in the stomach of a black bear.
1.5: A Boy In A Bush
Writer: Steve Blackman, Greg Ball
Director: Jesus Salvador Trevino
Booth asks Brennan to help locate and identify the remains of a six-year-old boy, Charlie, who went missing from a local
park.
1.6: The Man In The Wall
Writer: Elizabeth Benjamin
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
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.
1.7: A Man On Death Row
Writer: Noah Hawley
Director: David Jones
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.
1.8: The Girl In The Fridge
Writer: Dana Coen
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
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.
1.9: The Man In The Fallout Shelter
Writer: Hart Hanson
Director: Greg Yaitanes
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 accidently releases a deadly fungus, that causes the team to be quarantined over Christmas.
1.10: The Woman At The Airport
Writer: Teresa Lin
Director: Greg Yaitanes
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.
1.11: The Woman In The Car
Writer: Noah Hawley
Director: Dwight Little
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.
1.12: The Superhero In The Alley
Writer: Elizabeth Benjamin
Director: James Whitmore
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 friendless teen.
1.13: The Woman In The Garden
Writer: Laura Wolner
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
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 grave as well as a wealthy senator's house, where the gang member used to work.
1.14: The Man On The Fairway
Writer: Steve Blackman
Director: Tony Wharmby
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. Dr. Goodman orders the team to work solely on the Chinese diplomat case, but Brennan decides to go behind
his back to investigate the bone fragments.
1.15: Two Bodies In The Lab
Writer: Stephen Nathan
Director: Allan Kroeker
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 working on.
1.16: The Woman In The Tunnel
Writer: Greg Ball, Steve Blackman
Director: Joe Napolitano
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.
1.17: The Skull In The Desert
Writer: Jeff Rake
Director: Donna Deitch
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 boyfriend, the local sheriff and ultimately to a counterfeiting ring setup in the desert.
1.18: The Man With The Bone
Writer: Craig Silverstein
Director: Jesus Trevino
Booth and Brennan investigate a site where there might be pirate treasure.
1.19: The Man In The Morgue
Writer: Noah Hawley, Elizabeth Benjamin
Director: James Whitmore
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. When the local medical examiner is found murdered, Brennan becomes the suspect.
Their investigation leads them into the world of voodoo.
1.20: The Graft In The Girl
Writer: Laura Wolner, Greg Ball
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
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.
1.21: The Soldier On The Grave
Writer: Stephen Nathan
Director: Jonathan Pontell
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 military unit of the victim, with all clues pointing to a cover-up. Booth meanwhile recalls his shady past as a
sniper in the military and the horrors of war.
1.22: The Woman In Limbo
Writer: Hart Hanson
Director: Jesus Trevino
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
