Bones: Season 2

2006 · 21 episodes · ★ 8.0

What Season 2 of Bones

The second season of Bones begins with changes in Temperance Brennan's professional life, as she gets a new boss and partner at the Jeffersonian Institute. While the team continues examining human remains to identify victims, the tension between the doctor and Special Agent Seeley Booth grows and their personal relationships grow more complicated. The cases take the pair to very different settings, from a train derailment to a forest full of witch legends. Hodgins and Angela join Brennan on many of the investigations. But a terrible conspiracy forces the protagonist to confront her difficult past.

21episodes

Aug 30, 2006premiered

May 16, 2007latest episode

15.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 The Titan on the Tracks
Aug 30, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 7.6
A train carrying a popular Senator is derailed by a car positioned on the tracks. Brennan works out why the dead body of a rich businessman was placed in the car, and the search continues for her father. The team has a new boss.
Directed by Tony Wharmby · Written by Hart Hanson · Starring Christine Estabrook, Ray Wise, Ann Cusack, Alex Hyde-White
2x02 Mother and Child in the Bay
Sep 6, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
When the remains of a young pregnant woman and fetus are found in the Delaware Bay and identified as a newlywed who disappeared a year earlier, the investigation is aimed toward her husband, but takes a surprising turn. Booth is upset that his ex-girlfriend is letting their son spend time with her new boyfriend.
Directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño · Written by Stephen Nathan · Starring Kate Norby, Bruce French, Jessica Capshaw, Jeff Austin
2x03 The Boy in the Shroud
Sep 13, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 8.1
When the body of a young man, who's been missing for nearly three weeks, is discovered, the investigation leads them to his girlfriend, who is a foster child. Bones becomes emotionally involved in the case since, she too, became a foster child after her parents disappeared.
Directing: Sanford Bookstaver · Writing: Gary Glasberg · Starring: Dylan McLaughlin, Leah Pipes, William Bumiller, Tara Karsian
2x04 The Blonde in the Game
Sep 20, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
After digging up the skeletal remains of a young girl, the investigation points to a convicted serial killer on death row. The team follows cryptic clues that lead to another body, an accomplice, and a victim who may still be alive.
Directing: Bryan Spicer · Writing: Noah Hawley · Starring: Tarah Paige, Gregory Scott Cummins, Heath Freeman, Jim Jansen
2x05 The Truth in the Lye
Sep 27, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
There are two suspects with the same motive when Booth and Brennan investigate the murder of a man found in a bathtub full of chemicals. They soon discover that he had two wives and a girlfriend.
Directing: Steven DePaul · Writing: Scott Williams · Starring: Keri Lynn Pratt, Lamont Thompson, Melinda McGraw, Jessica Capshaw
2x06 The Girl in Suite 2103
Oct 4, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 7.7
Booth and Brennan investigate a death due to an explosion in a Miami hotel. The clues lead to foreign diplomats with diplomatic immunity.
Directing: Karen Gaviola · Writing: Christopher Ambrose · Starring: Cerina Vincent, John Kassir, Carlos Lacámara, Bertila Damas
2x07 The Girl with the Curl
Nov 1, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
The team investigates the death of a 10-year-old beauty pageant star. The other contestants, their parents, and their siblings all become possible suspects. Hodgins and Angela go on a date that actually goes well, despite what everyone else predicted.
Directing: Thomas J. Wright · Writing: Karine Rosenthal · Starring: Kali Rocha, Kyle Gallner, Lisa Thornhill, Grace Caroline Currey
2x08 The Woman in the Sand
Nov 8, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
When the skeletal remains of a federal prosecutor who disappeared five years earlier are found in the desert outside Las Vegas, the team suspects it to be tied to the mob. Booth and Brennan go undercover as Vegas high-rollers in an attempt to uncover the mystery, Booth risks his life.
Directing: Kate Woods · Writing: Elizabeth Benjamin · Starring: Nelson Lee, Chad Todhunter, Bridgett Riley, John Marshall Jones
2x09 Aliens in a Spaceship
Nov 15, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.7
The bodies of twin boys, kidnapped five years earlier, are discovered. The investigation lead Booth and Brennan to a notorious kidnapper known as the Grave Digger. During the investigation, Brennan and Hodgins become the Grave Digger's next victims.
Directing: Craig Ross Jr. · Writing: Janet Tamaro · Starring: Benito Martinez, Charles Mesure, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Julie Ann Emery
2x10 The Headless Witch in the Woods
Nov 29, 2006 · 44 min · ★ 7.8
While investigating the death of a film student who was working on a documentary about the legend of a headless witch who haunted the woods in the 1700s, Brennan develops a strong bond with the victim's brother.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Karine Rosenthal, Stephen Nathan · Starring: Kristoffer Polaha, Joshua Leonard, Jake Richardson, Michael Trevino
2x11 Judas on a Pole
Dec 13, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
Booth and Brennan are called to the scene where a man's body was found hung like a scarecrow, gutted, and burned on the roof of a building used by the FBI to hide witnesses.
Directed by David Duchovny · Written by Hart Hanson · Starring Ryan O'Neal, Patricia Belcher, Barbara Williams, Madison Mason
2x12 The Man in the Cell
Jan 31, 2007 · 44 min · ★ 8.4
The notorious serial killer, Howard Epps, sets his prison cell on fire as part of a daring prison escape. Brennan is his target and her entire team is placed in danger.
Directing: Jesús Salvador Treviño · Writing: Noah Hawley · Starring: Giovannie Espiritu, Kathy Lamkin, Janet Tamaro, Heath Freeman
2x13 The Girl in the Gator
Feb 7, 2007 · 44 min · ★ 7.8
Brennan has to work with another agent while Booth needs to see a therapist. The duo investigate the death of a college freshman, who took part in a 'Girls Gone Wild' type of video.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: Scott Williams · Starring: Kelly Kruger, Alex Winter, Eddie McClintock, John Maynard
2x14 The Man in the Mansion
Feb 14, 2007 · 44 min · ★ 8.1
Booth and Brennan investigate the death of Terence Bancroft, one of the Jeffersonian's major donors, found dead at his home. Hodgins' relationship with the wife of the deceased years earlier, compromises the case.
Directing: Dwight H. Little · Writing: Christopher Ambrose · Starring: Patricia Belcher, Peter Parros, Erin Torpey, Ernie Hudson
2x15 Bodies in the Book
Mar 14, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
Brennan and Booth have to solve three murders that are identical to the murders in Brennan's new bestselling book.
Directing: Craig Ross Jr. · Writing: Karine Rosenthal · Starring: Jonathan Slavin, Colby French, Steve Braun, Darby Stanchfield
2x16 The Boneless Bride in the River
Mar 21, 2007 · 44 min · ★ 7.8
The team investigate the death of an Asian woman found without any bones left in her body.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Gary Glasberg · Starring: Michael Paul Chan, Deborah Theaker, Eric Stonestreet, Eddie McClintock
2x17 The Priest in the Churchyard
Mar 28, 2007 · 44 min · ★ 7.8
A broken water main uproots multiple coffins in an old graveyard. When the team is brought in to identify the bodies for re-interment, they discover a newer skeleton that should not be in the graveyard, which has not been used for 50 years.
Directing: Scott Lautanen · Writing: Lyla Oliver · Starring: George Coe, Wendy Braun, Soren Fulton, David Burke
2x18 The Killer in the Concrete
Apr 4, 2007 · 44 min · ★ 8.2
Booth and Brennan investigate the case of a partial skeleton found in cement. Booth thinks a member of a crime family is responsible.
Directed by Jeff Woolnough · Written by Dean Widenmann · Starring Ryan O'Neal, Derek Webster, Tom Everett, Phillip Rhys
2x19 Spaceman in a Crater
May 2, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
Brennan and Booth are called to the scene where a dead man has been found in a crater. The investigation leads them to the National Space Agency.
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc · Written by Elizabeth Benjamin · Starring Andrea Thompson, Glenn Morshower, Ian Anthony Dale, E.J. Callahan
2x20 The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House
May 9, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
The team investigate a glowing body. Hodgins proposes to Angela -- several times.
Directing: Caleb Deschanel · Writing: Stephen Nathan · Starring: A.J. Buckley, Brian Hallisay, Hillary Tuck, Elizabeth Bond
2x21 Stargazer in a Puddle Season Finale
May 16, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
When Angela draws the face of an old woman to go with the decomposed skeleton of someone much younger, they soon learn the victim had Progeria, an aging disease. Booth and Brennan investigate to discover who would want to kill such a fragile person. Meanwhile, Hodgins and Angela's walk down the aisle doesn't go as planned.
Directed by Tony Wharmby · Written by Hart Hanson · Starring Ryan O'Neal, Patricia Belcher, Eric Stonestreet, Roxanne Hart