Bones: Season 2

Season 2 overview

The season opens with investigations involving substituted bodies, missing people, secret families, and serial-killer clues. Personal and professional tensions develop alongside increasingly deceptive crime scenes.

Key story beats

  1. Train Wreck Substitution — Investigators discover that an apparent suicide victim is actually a different person, while the presumed dead businessman is found alive in a hospital.
  2. Bay Discovery — The remains of a missing pregnant woman and her unborn baby wash ashore, and her missing husband becomes an immediate suspect.
  3. Shrouded Boy Identified — A young man found wrapped in a shroud is identified, while the investigation creates tension over the treatment of his foster-system girlfriend as a suspect.
  4. Serial Killer Clues — The remains of a young girl are linked to a convicted serial killer, whose clues point toward another recent victim and a possible accomplice.
  5. Chemical Murder — A body dissolving in corrosive chemicals reveals that the victim maintained two families, complicating the apparent jealousy and insurance motive.
  6. Hotel Explosion — An explosion kills and injures people at a Miami hotel. The initial theory involves a Colombian drug cartel and a surviving judicial representative.
  7. Beauty Queen Murder — The remains of a young beauty queen lead investigators from her family to her dance school, where additional suspects emerge.
  8. Undercover Fight Circuit — The investigation into a murdered federal prosecutor and a female boxer moves undercover into an underground fight circuit.
  9. Buried Alive — Two kidnapped teenage boys are found buried alive in a capsule. During the investigation, two investigators are trapped underground while oxygen runs low.
  10. Headless Forest Body — A headless body and a disturbing videotape create a found-footage-style murder investigation with apparent supernatural imagery.
  11. Witness Hotel Murder — A man is found gutted, burned, and displayed like a scarecrow on a hotel roof. The victim is identified as an informant in organized crime.
  12. Epps Escapes — Charred remains reveal that a serial killer did not die in his cell. After escaping, he begins a revenge campaign involving a young child, while a forensic examiner is exposed to a toxin.
  13. Everglades Investigation — A college student's apparent murder is investigated in the Everglades while one investigator undergoes a required psychiatric evaluation.
  14. Benefactor Murder — The murder of a benefactor of the forensic institution brings professional investigation into conflict with a team member's personal history involving the widow.
  15. Book Imitation Murders — Three murders replicate scenes from a forensic investigator's book, but different methods suggest that three separate killers may be involved.

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