Bones: Season 1

2005 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.9

What Season 1 of Bones

Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C., a forensic laboratory that collaborates with the FBI. Leading a team of scientists, she examines human remains to identify victims and find clues. When FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth needs her help, the two clash. She brings science, while he relies on his intuition and FBI police methods. They also disagree about science and faith. Each episode presents a new murder case, but the season focuses on the characters' pasts and the romantic tension between the two leads.

22episodes

Sep 13, 2005premiered

May 17, 2006latest episode

16 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Sep 13, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Greg Yaitanes · Writing: Hart Hanson · Starring: Larry Poindexter, Tyrees Allen, Sam Trammell, John M. Jackson
1x02 The Man in the S.U.V.
Sep 20, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 7.5
When a man is killed driving an SUV registered to a Middle Eastern man, Dr. Brennan and her team find themselves tracking a terrorist.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: Stephen Nathan · Starring: Anne Dudek, José Zúñiga, Bahar Soomekh, Federico Dordei
1x03 A Boy in a Tree
Sep 27, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
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.
Directing: Patrick R. Norris · Writing: Hart Hanson · Starring: José Zúñiga, Toby Hemingway, Mark Totty, Chris Conner
1x04 The Man in the Bear
Nov 1, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
Brennan and Booth travel to Washington to investigate a human arm that was found in the stomach of a black bear.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: Laura Wolner · Starring: Alex Carter, K.D. Aubert, Marguerite MacIntyre, Rusty Joiner
1x05 A Boy in a Bush
Nov 8, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 8.1
Booth asks Brennan to help locate and identify the remains of a six-year-old boy, Charlie, who went missing from a local park.
Directing: Jesús Salvador Treviño · Writing: Steve Blackman, Greg Ball · Starring: Evan Ellingson, Paul Butcher, Natacha Roi, Michelle Anne Johnson
1x06 The Man in the Wall
Nov 15, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Tawnia McKiernan · Writing: Elizabeth Benjamin · Starring: Anne Dudek, Laz Alonso, Robert Gossett, Morris Chestnut
1x07 A Man on Death Row
Nov 22, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 7.8
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.
Directing: David Hugh Jones · Writing: Noah Hawley · Starring: Jeffrey Nordling, John M. Jackson, Sarayu Blue, Rachelle Lefevre
1x08 The Girl in the Fridge
Nov 29, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Sanford Bookstaver · Writing: Dana Coen · Starring: Josh Hopkins, Alicia Coppola, Leonard Roberts, Rachel Miner
1x09 The Man in the Fallout Shelter
Dec 13, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: Greg Yaitanes · Writing: Hart Hanson · Starring: Margaret Avery, Jim Ortlieb, Christina R. Copeland, Heavy D
1x10 The Woman at the Airport
Jan 25, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Greg Yaitanes · Writing: Teresa Lin · Starring: Harry Groener, Marika Domińczyk, Penny Marshall, Michael B. Silver
1x11 The Woman in the Car
Feb 1, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: Dwight H. Little · Writing: Noah Hawley · Starring: Lawrence Pressman, Željko Ivanek, Jake Cherry, John M. Jackson
1x12 The Superhero in the Alley
Feb 8, 2006 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Elizabeth Benjamin · Starring: Aaron Paul, Ivar Brogger, John M. Jackson, Adriana DeMeo
1x13 The Woman in the Garden
Feb 15, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Sanford Bookstaver · Writing: Laura Wolner · Starring: Jose Pablo Cantillo, Emilio Rivera, Matt Barr, Robert LaSardo
1x14 The Man on the Fairway
Mar 8, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Steve Blackman · Starring: Christina Chambers, Dana Cuomo, Shashawnee Hall, Michael E. Rodgers
1x15 Two Bodies in the Lab
Mar 15, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: Stephen Nathan · Starring: Greg Ellis, Adam Baldwin, Ron Marasco, Coby Ryan McLaughlin
1x16 The Woman in the Tunnel
Mar 22, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: Joe Napolitano · Writing: Steve Blackman, Greg Ball · Starring: David Denman, Glenn Plummer, Mary Mara, Ryan Alosio
1x17 The Skull in the Desert
Mar 29, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Donna Deitch · Writing: Jeff Rake · Starring: Clayton Rohner, Brent Briscoe, James Parks, Mercedes Colon
1x18 The Man with the Bone
Apr 5, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
A human finger bone found in the clutches of a drowning victim leads to a search for buried treasure.
Directing: Jesús Salvador Treviño · Writing: Craig Silverstein · Starring: Robert Foxworth, Rodney Rowland, John M. Jackson, Cullen Douglas
1x19 The Man in the Morgue
Apr 19, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
A trip to New Orleans leaves Bones beaten, bloodied, and suspected of murder while plunged into the world of voodoo.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Noah Hawley, Elizabeth Benjamin · Starring: Patricia Belcher, Michelle Hurd, Giancarlo Esposito, Colby Donaldson
1x20 The Graft in the Girl
Apr 26, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: Sanford Bookstaver · Writing: Laura Wolner, Greg Ball · Starring: Alexandra Krosney, Mark Harelik, John M. Jackson, Matt Winston
1x21 The Soldier on the Grave
May 10, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 7.3
Brennan and Booth investigate an apparent suicide in Arlington National Cemetery, but soon discover it is a murder linked to a military cover-up.
Directing: Jonathan Pontell · Writing: Stephen Nathan · Starring: Mitch Longley, Kirk B.R. Woller, Matt Battaglia, Aldis Hodge
1x22 The Woman in Limbo Season Finale
May 17, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
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.
Directing: Jesús Salvador Treviño · Writing: Hart Hanson · Starring: Dee Wallace, Ewan Chung, Pat Skipper, Coby Ryan McLaughlin