After an explosion occurs in a hotel garage, the Jeffersonian team must research the remains found at the crime scene in order to match them to the victim. The investigation only gets trickier when they discover that the man whom they thought was dead is actually alive. Meanwhile, Booth has to take on a desk assignment to get the department's budget approved in order to land a promotion, so Sweets is given a temporary partner, FBI Special Agent Olivia Sparling.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 8 Episode 3 of Bones resulted in a 2.10 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Bones Season 8 Episodes...

• s08e01 - The Future in the Past
• s08e02 - The Parents in the Divorce
• s08e03 - The Gunk in the Garage
• s08e04 - The Tiger in the Tale
• s08e05 - Method to the Madness
• s08e06 - The Patriot in Purgatory
• s08e07 - The Bod in the Pod
• s08e08 - The But In The Joke
• s08e09 - The Ghost in the Machine
• s08e10 - The Diamond in the Rough
• s08e11 - The Archeologist in the Cocoon
• s08e12 - The Corpse on the Canopy
• s08e13 - The Twist in the Plot
• s08e14 - The Doll in the Derby
• s08e15 - A Shot in the Dark
• s08e16 - The Friend in Need
• s08e17 - The Fact in the Fiction
• s08e18 - The Survivor in the Soap
• s08e19 - The Doom in the Gloom
• s08e20 - The Blood from the Stones
• s08e21 - The Maiden in the Mushrooms
• s08e22 - The Party in the Pants
• s08e23 - The Pathos in the Pathogens
• s08e24 - The Secret in the Siege

Bones Show Summary

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with cuddle investigations when 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, imposing lab director Dr. Daniel Goodman. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seely Booth, a former Army sniper who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes. Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally, but so far the chemistry between them has only played out in a fictionalized account in Brennan's lastest mystery novel.