BONES SYNOPSIS

Bones was inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs. It centres around Dr. Temperence Brennan (a brilliant, but lonely, forensic anthropologist) who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and Special Agent Seely Booth ( a former Army sniper). Dr. Brennan writes novels as a sideline but she also has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Consequently, she is approached by the ambitious FBI agent Seely, to help the bureau solve a series of unsolved crimes by identifying the long-dead bodies of missing persons by their bone structure. Often the remains are so badly decomposed, burned, or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Brennan's equally brilliant colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab include earthy and bawdy Angela Montenegro, who's created a unique way to render an original crime scene in a three-dimensional computer image; Brennan's assistant, Zack Addy, a young prodigy whose genius IQ actually gets in the way of his finishing the several doctorates he's begun; "the bug guy", Dr. Jack Hodgins, who's an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby; and Brennan's boss, the imposing lab director, Dr. Daniel Goodman.

Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally, but so far the chemistry between them has only played out in a fictionalised account in Brennan's lastest mystery novel.

Bones stars Emily Deschanel as Brennan, David Boreanaz as Booth, Eric Millegan as Zack, TJ Thyne as Dr. Hodgins, Michaela Conlin as Angela and Jonathan Adams as Dr. Goodman.