Bones/Pilot

Pilot
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	September 13, 2005
Production Number	1AKY79
Written by	Hart Hanson
Directed by	Greg Yaitanes
Stream
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Bones — Season One

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Pilot is the first episode of the first season of Bones.

Starring: Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan), David Boreanaz (FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), Eric Millegan (Zack Addy), TJ Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Jonathan Adams (Dr. Daniel Goodman)

Guest Starring: Sam Trammell (Ken Thompson), Chris Conner (Oliver Laurier), Larry Poindexter (Senator Bethlehem), Tyrees Allen (Ted Eller), Bonita Friedericy (Sharon Eller), Dominic Fumusa (Peter St. James), Dave Roberson (DHS Agent Bennett Gibson)

Co-Starring: Naja Hill (Cleo Hill), John Sterling Carter (FBI Director), Katherine Ann McGregor (Mrs. Bethlehem), Charles Janasz (Reverend), Damian T. Raven (Uniformed Security), Yun Choi (FBI Agent #1), Jeff Witzke (FBI Agent #2), Mary Sue Perry (Customs Agent), Billy Briggs (Airport Clerk)

Plot Overview

A decomposed body is found in a lake in Washington. It is identified as belonging to a girl who had interned for a Senator before her disappearance three years before. Brennan and Booth discover that she had been sexually involved with the Senator, and that she had allegedly had a "stalker".

Spoiler:

However it turns out that the Senator's aide, ostensibly her boyfriend, murdered her when she became pregnant: not because of jealousy, but because he feared that his job would be lost along with that of the Senator when the story emerged.

He then planted evidence which pointed at both the "stalker" and the victim's father. However Brennan tracks him down just as he is about to destroy vital evidence and shoots him in the leg to stop him.