List of Bones characters
This is a list of fictional characters in the American television series Bones. The article deals with the series' main, recurring, and minor characters.
The series' main characters consists of the fictional Jeffersonian Institute's forensic anthropology department staff members Dr. Temperance Brennan, Dr. Camille Saroyan, Angela Montenegro, Dr. Jack Hodgins, and interns Zack Addy, Clark Edison, Wendall Bray, Arastoo Vaziri, Daisy Wick, and Vincent Nigel-Murray; FBI agents Seeley Booth, Dr. Lance Sweets, and James Aubrey; and Justice Department prosecutor Caroline Julian.
Character overview
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The following characters have been featured in the opening credits of the program.Temperance "Bones" Brennan
Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan works as a forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and is also a best-selling novelist. She is nicknamed "Bones" by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. Brennan and Booth work together on Federal Bureau of Investigation cases concerning recently found human remains. Although she is an expert in her field, Brennan is socially awkward and has limited knowledge about pop culture. Her birth name was Joy Keenan, while her brother's birth name was Kyle Keenan; their names were changed by their parents in an effort to protect them from enemies from their past. Brennan's parents left her and her older brother, known as Russ, when she was fifteen. She also thinks herself to be extremely rational. She is not usually the one to get the most emotionally attached to the cases and/or the people involved. She and Booth became a couple and have a daughter, Christine, and are later married. In the season 10 episode "The Eye in the Sky", she is revealed to be pregnant again. At the end of season 10, she and Booth quit the team, planning to move away. In the first episode of Season 11, six months have passed and Brennan has given birth to a son named Hank Booth II, after Seeley Booth's grandfather.Seeley Booth
FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth is the official liaison to the Jeffersonian. A decorated former Army sniper, he frequently consults with Dr. Brennan and her team in his investigations, where his warmth serves as a counter to Dr. Brennan's hard, objective and analytical approach. Booth has, however, shown little hesitation when required to risk his life for his friends, but expresses some reluctance in later seasons; when he's sent overseas in season 10, he states that he's not going to do so again, as he's worried about being killed in combat and leaving his son Parker without a father. At the end of Season 4, it is revealed Booth has a brain tumor causing him to hallucinate. In season 5, Booth admits to Dr. Saroyan that he is in love with Brennan. It is also revealed that he is a direct descendant of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth, a fact that upsets him greatly. In the season 6 finale it is revealed that Dr. Brennan was expecting Booth's child after they had spent the night together when both were suffering from the death of Vincent Nigel-Murray and slept together. Their daughter Christine was born in Season 7 and the couple marry in Season 9. Later in season 9, after his fighting against a corrupt government group, three corrupt FBI agents are sent to kill him as a warning to the others to stop the investigation. After that fails, he is framed, arrested and imprisoned for murdering the three agents, who were supposedly just there to serve a warrant for his arrest. In the opening episode of Season 10, Dr. Brennan effects his release, but the nightmare continues to escalate, leading to the death of their co-worker Sweets. Following the arrest of the conspirators, Booth remains traumatized and blames himself for Sweets' death. Later in season 10, he rekindled his old gambling habits to cope with his pain, which results in him being kicked out of his home by Brennan. After regaining her trust, he reevaluates his choices and decides that it would be best for his family if he retired from the FBI. He leaves the team along with Brennan, planning to pursue prior job offers. When Season 11 begins it is revealed that Booth now has a son named Hank Booth II, after his grandfather.Angela Montenegro
Angela Montenegro works as a forensic artist at the Jeffersonian Institute and is Brennan's best friend. She changed her name in her late teens, but only one girl, her double-ex, Roxie knows her real name. Angela is the squint squad's team specialist in craniofacial reconstruction and can generate holograms using her three-dimensional graphics program to simulate various scenarios of a crime. She is open, friendly and caring, and constantly tries to draw Dr. Brennan out of the lab. She is one of the few Squints known to get emotionally attached to cases, and Brennan later states that when she started working at the Jeffersonian, Angela had to party and have sex all the time to deal with the horror of her job. In the episode "The Man in the Fallout Shelter", it was revealed Angela's father is Billy Gibbons, a member of the band ZZ Top. Her middle name is supposedly "Pearly Gates", which is also the name of Billy Gibbons' 1959 Les Paul guitar. In season five, she marries Dr. Jack Hodgins while in jail for an outstanding warrant. During the ceremony, she whispers her real name to the justice of the peace, though it is never revealed to the viewers. In season 6, we learn that she is pregnant with her first child, a son, Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins, who was born during the season finale. Following the death of Sweets and Booth's arrest, Angela begins to get sick of the horror of her and her husband's jobs and begins thinking about quitting her job for good and moving her family to Paris. Although they do buy a house there, she ultimately decides to stay after Brennan and Booth leave the team. In "The Life in the Light" it was revealed that her actual name, as displayed on her passport, is Pooky Noodlin. She never changed it because her father implored her not to, as the name was very important to him.Jack Hodgins
Dr. Jack Hodgins is an entomologist, mineralogist and botanist, but conspiracy theories are his hobby. He is one of the more "normal" people in the group and tries to help teach Zack how to be socially competent.Hodgins' family was extremely wealthy, and he thought he was the last living heir of the Cantilever Group. Hodgins wants to keep his wealth a secret, as he wants to be treated like everyone else. In season 5, he marries Angela Montenegro while in jail for an eight-year-old warrant. His son with Angela, Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins, was born in the season 6 finale.
In season 8, episode 12, Hodgins loses his entire fortune to Christopher Pelant. Pelant seizes control of a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
and aims it at a girls' school in the Afghan province of Kandahar while simultaneously draining all of Hodgins' financial accounts. He uses the same computer network to do both, forcing Hodgins to choose between saving the school or preserving his fortune, and Hodgins chooses to save the lives of the girls.
Towards the end of season 8, Hodgins and one of Brennan's interns, Finn Abernathy, find the lost recipe for Finn's grandmother's hot sauce, and together they successfully market the product. Hodgins thus recovers some of his fortune.
In season 9, we learn more about Hodgins' family, as he discovers he is not an only child. Hodgins chooses to find a way to help his new family member financially, even though Hodgins has lost his family's fortune.
In the season 10 episode "The Eye in the Sky", Hodgins independently creates a shatterproof material after destroying multiple glass beakers during an experiment. During the following episode, he becomes a millionaire again after selling his material to a major company. To make Angela happy, he buys them a house in Paris, but later she convinces him that she's happy where they are. They decide to stay and keep doing what they love at the Jeffersonian. In the episode "The Next in the Last" Hodgins regains the money Pelant stole, but decides to donate it all to charities.
Season 11 saw a major setback for Hodgins in the episode "The Doom in the Boom" when he is one of several people injured by a booby-trapped corpse's explosion. He seemingly has only minor injuries, but later suddenly loses the use of his legs. From this point on in the series, he uses a wheelchair.
Camille Saroyan
Dr. Camille Saroyan, always called Cam except by Agent Booth, is a forensic pathologist and the Head of the Forensic Division at Jeffersonian Institute. She was born and raised in The Bronx and used to be a coroner in New York, although she does not have a noticeable New York accent. In Season 8, while investigating a possible victim of the September 11 attacks, she stated that she signed 900 death certificates that day. During the time frame between the end of Season 1 and beginning of Season 2, she was appointed as Dr. Goodman's replacement. When asked by Booth why she took the job, she said that she wanted a change of scenery. When the team briefly breaks up for a year-long sabbatical between Seasons 5 and 6, she was appointed a federal coroner but returns to the Jeffersonian when the team is reunited.Dr. Goodman appeared only as an administrator, but Cam is a full member of Booth and Brennan's team, handling bodies with flesh still intact. She was introduced Season 2, Episode 1, after being hired by Dr. Goodman while Dr. Brennan was on vacation. At first, she and the team have an uneasy working relationship because she is a hands-on manager and insists on being kept informed at all times, but in the episode "The Boy in the Shroud" they talk out their differences. Brennan acknowledges Cam's expertise as a pathologist and coroner, and that Cam's interpersonal skills make her an ideal "boss" after she witnesses Cam defend the team's credibility to an attorney. Cam had a romantic relationship with Booth when she was still in New York, which was briefly rekindled in season 2, until Booth decided that his "high risk" life put anyone close to him in danger. It is not explained how she knew the Booth brothers, as they were from Pennsylvania and she from New York. In season 4, Cam adopted Michelle Welton, the teenage daughter of her former fiancé, whose death was being investigated by the Jeffersonian team. In the Season 8 episode "The Bod in the Pod", it is revealed she is in a romantic relationship with intern Arastoo Vaziri. Cam and Arastoo keep their relationship secret from all but Hodgins and Angela until the episode "The Survivor in the Soap", where Cam tells their colleagues out of professional courtesy, and in "The Pathos in the Pathogen", where she openly admits to being deeply in love with Arastoo when his life is threatened with an altered strain of virus. In season 10, Arastoo begins talking about marriage, which Cam avoids out of fear and refuses to consider. She becomes paranoid with worry when Arastoo has to go back to his home country to visit his dying brother, convinced that something bad will happen to him. She later goes to the Middle East with Booth to solve a murder so he can be freed from imprisonment. During the season 10 finale, she cries profusely and states that everyone is leaving the Jeffersonian, and she does not want things to change.
During an investigation, Cam primarily deals with evidence pertaining to flesh, tissue, and bodily fluids. Using her experience as a coroner, she sometimes provides insight into possible causes of death whenever Dr. Brennan's empirical approach hits a dead end.