Good news, Bones fans: We’re going back in time!
Last month, I told you that Bones producers were considering rewinding the clock back to Booth and Brennan’s first assignment together for the show’s milestone 100th episode this spring. Well, I’m happy to report that the time-tripping story has been given the green light!
“We’ll be there for the first time those two personalities clashed,” confirms exec producer Stephen Nathan. “Events will conspire to make them come out of the case hating each other and vowing that they will never work together again.”
Wait, there’s more. “We’ll also see the introduction of Angela and the genesis of her friendship with Brennan,” Nathan adds. “And we’ll try and work in a Smurf reference, of course. They certainly have been absent from season 5 so far.”
A Booth/Brennan origin story and a shout-out to my beloved blue buddies? Is it my birthday?!*
* No, it just feels like it. My birthday is February 23. Registry info is forthcoming.
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does this also mean a return visit from Zach???? because he would have been Brennan’s grad student back then…
meaning, also, a Cam-less episode… possible former Jeffersonian director… possible former FBI boss… and a return of Jack’s crazy hair and beard and messy dressing…
ooh, the possibilities!
And does this mean a return of the karate chopping Bones, who could take out any guy who got too close? I miss that about her.
Wow. If we’re going back to the time where Brennan kicks the asses of men, and Brennan hates Booth’s guts.. Well, I’m interested. Although, I’m going to miss Cam and the interns..
We all loved karate-chopping Bones. Those were the days…
Karate-chopping Bones was my least favourite thing about the character and the series; kicking the ass of Adam Baldwin? I call bullshit. She was even more of a Mary-Sue at the beginning of the series than she is now. Now if we could go back to when Booth was less of a frat-boy…
it feels like my birthday too!!! and my birthday is a week after halloween, just so you know
Mine is on the 4th. Happy upcoming birthday to us both!
mine is on the 6
This is just completely made my day!! Thanks for the info Michael!
good move by hart! only a few shows in a drama/mystery series make it this far and im glad that BONES has made it!! having a flashback is incredible for the 100th episode!
Sounds like an instant classic in the making. Though it will be a shock to see Booth and Boones not be friends. Kinda like watching early season 1 episodes on TNT.
But that’s the attraction, no? I think the earlier seasons are where it all blossomed from. That non-friend thing definitely contributed to how they are now
i see seaon 2 and whata a atraction , my sister (how is’t watching the shiw) said that ” are those guy’s togheter ? beacuse they look and speak like one…I just laughing at her and said that she must see the other season too(1,3,4 and now 5) hope you guy’s can read this beacuse I’m sleepy
Zach better be in this episode or it just ruins the whole thing
I would really prefer a flash-forward with Booth and Brennan getting together with a lot of kids. Yes, I am a shipper.
:] awww..I second that motion! Especially @ the Bones doing her “dancing phalanges!” bit :]
great idea! And with kids of Hodgins and Angela in the same sandbox, while we are at it!
I second you on that. I miss Angela and HOdgins not being together. They have to find that jerk and get her divorced.
thanks mike
Sound exciting! Since we(me and my family) actually didn’t start watching Bones at the very beginning, we started watching it sometime around season one or maybe two…so this will be good to see where it all started. Because now this is definitely one of my favorite shows!
I’m with you! I was a latecomer to the show and would love to see that ‘kick-off’ moment.
Yeah…. I was about to say everything Jess said in the first comment here. So… Hurray for Jess knowing all the right questions to ask!
this could potentially also mean a visit from Dr. Goodman, Jonathan Adams, correct?
Apparently in the books Booth didn’t exist. WTF?!
The books are set when Dr. Brennan is in her 40’s (I believe) and working between Charlotte and Montreal. The guy in those books, Detective Andrew Ryan, is Booth-esque.
In the books (which were written before the show was even an idea), Tempe is a late 40’s divorced mother of a college age daughter. She works and teaches in Charlotte, NC, and is a consultant who works in Montreal. Detective Ryan is a Quebecois. (In my mind he is played by Sean Bean.)
Kathy Reichs, the real-life forensic anthropologist, and the creator of the characters, says that, although they are really separate, that you can think of the TV Tempe as a younger version ofte book one.
Personally, I just enjoy them both as separate things.
Totally agree. I love the books and I’m not disappointed that the series is differnt. I love them both.
Agreed. I started the books from watching the show, but consider them as two different things. Though I have noticed a couple references to the books from the show; an episode was dedicated to a girl who had basically been eaten by dogs. Ring any bells?
Also, whenever I think of Andrew Ryan, it brings me back to Eddie McClintock (Sully). It’d be fun to see him and Booth go head to head again. D
I’m confused– I thought the pilot was the first time they were working together? Brennan did some kind of blackmail thing to get Booth to take her along on the case because she wanted to get out of the lab, and they didn’t like each other at all. Am I making this up, or are the producers going to rewrite history?
Nope in the pilot they mentioned they had done like one or two other cases together. bring back Dr. Goodman and Zack!
The pilot was the first time she got him to take her into the field. They spoke as if they had worked cases before, but she was restricted to the lab.
I will concur with Ryan and nml81, in the pilot she wanted to be in the field with booth. my impression was that she had helped on several cases, at least 10 (just a number that ‘feel good’ for me).
Yay!!! Good news to get me through a boring workday!! Thanks Michael!!!
Sooooooo excited! I hope we get some Booth/Pete interaction, that would be fun!
Sounds exciting. Given in the pilot we know they came into the case hating each other or Brennan refusing to work with him. And he needed to stop her at the airport to get her to co-operate with a homeland inspection stop. This could be very promising. And unique. It will be interesting to see a episode so many years down the line that has them clashing in such way that is very different from their present interaction. I LOVE it.
yay!!!!!!!!!
eeeekkkk!!!! AWESOME! Can’t wait to see this. Made my day!
Also bring Sid back for the Episode!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
Love this idea!
Is it my birthday? Hell yes, it is! No, seriously, it is. I bailed on Bones last year, but this episode will be worth watching. Zach and Dr. Goodman better be in it! Is TJ gonna have to grow his hair out again? Will Angela be non-annoying? And best of all NO SWEETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoa! Awesome news! This is also the episode David is going to direct, making it a double delight!
HOORAY!!
and if they do mention the smurfs, i will think of you mike.
Soooo happy, of course! But as some others have mentioned, I hope beyond hope they can bring back Eric Millegan and Jonathan Adams. Oooh! And Booth’s original boss. But they’re far away and expensive to have guest star, so who knows? No Tamara Taylor or John Francis Daley, which is sad, unless they incorporate them some other way–perhaps flash back to what they were doing at the time in their own lives. Wow. B&B feud. Brennan and Angela meet. Brennan is a total lab rat. Hodgins and Angela have not yet had their romance. No one knows Booth has a kid. And on and on and on. And David is directing! This is gonna be fun!
Agreed… and wow! As you mentioned, yes, there are a lot of things, thinking back now, that are unadressed and in the shadows of Season 1, when we didn’t know too much about our lead characters, and just a huge difference in who their characters are today. This episode is sounding more and more interesting!
I agree with the comments that it would be great to see Zack again. Our site does Bones, Supernatural, and Dollhouse recaps if you want to say hello at Mile High Horrors
The idea of flashing back to the B&B conflict was the best idea ever, but also including how Bones and Angela met is just sweetening the deal. I’m really glad they’re doing this.
Zach absolutely needs to be there and it would be great to see Goodman, too! Would it be too much to hope for Sid and Wong Foo’s? So excited!
I liked early season 1, so if we take the characterization back to that point, I’m sure it’ll be good.
At the very least, it sounds like it’ll be less mind-numbing than the AU mess that was last season’s finale.
I believe that this has the potential to be an excellent episode, and I’m totally looking forward to it. It’s a brilliant oppurtunity that they’re given; to go back in time and re-visit Brennan and Booth’s first meeting together. I’m sure that myself, alike many others, are and have always been quite curious to see what this dynamic duo’s first encounter was like. On top of the fact (no pun intended…) of B&B’s first meet, we also get to see a bit of Angela & Brennan’s friendship beginning its course… this episode has the potential to be excellent, if you will, and I’m really looking forward to it!