This week, Bones dealt with relationships, particularly those of mothers and fathers. However, the episode, titled “The Twist in the Twister,” also addressed the awesome power of Mother Nature.

When a man’s dead body is found on an archery field, cause of death seems to be a fencepost through the chest. However, once the body’s examined in the lab, they find out it had been in a tornado that happened a few weeks back.

The crew identifies the victim as Scott Braley, a 32-year-old storm chaser. After talking with his brother, they learn his expensive storm chasing vehicle is missing. They think if they find it, they’ll know where Scott got murdered. So Booth (David Boreanaz) puts out an APB and the motor home turns up in Virginia.

Without telling Temperance (Emily Deschanel) where he’s going, Booth and Sweets (John Francis Daley) head to Virginia, where they find Scott’s former driver, Nolan, using the vehicle like a motel. He tells them he has it because Scott owed him back wages.

While his story checks out, Nolan tells Seeley that Scott had a female rival named Toni Lawrence. The two of them were vying for the same movie contract. With Scott gone, Tony automatically gets the deal. It’s a motive for murder.

Booth and Sweets find Toni just as a tornado forms nearby. Booth spies an orange tank—the same color as the murder weapon—strapped to one of her vehicles. While everyone else runs to a nearby storm shelter, he wrestles the tank loose, narrowly missing getting caught up in the tornado himself.

As the group closes the shelter doors, someone else arrives—it’s Bones. Booth isn’t happy that she’s risked her and the baby’s lives in the storm.

As the tornado passes, Bones and Booth interview Toni, Wes, the movie producer, and his film assistant/girlfriend. Wes claims Scott never showed up for their interview, so he couldn’t have killed him and neither could his girlfriend. Toni says she didn’t kill Scott either, but that she heard him arguing with someone whom he owed a lot of money. Once the storm passes, a rainbow overhead pleases the film assistant but affects no one else.

A check of Scott’s finances leads Booth back to the victim’s brother—his funding source. His brother agrees they did argue but says they also came to a deal. Scott had one more year to make a go of the business before he pulled financing.

In the lab, Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) are working sleep deprived. Baby Michael won’t sleep. So when Angela’s dad wants to take him out, they try to stop him, fearing he’ll stimulate the child even more.

Eventually, however, they give in and let grandpa babysit. Angela’s figured out a formula to ID from where the victim’s body came. She and Hodgins take a team to look for more clues. They find one of Scott’s storm chasing machines, proving he’d been there. They also find orange-colored glass covered with Scott’s blood. They also find green, blue, and purple glass. The murder weapon was a rainbow-colored water bottle.

Booth questions Wes’s girlfriend. She confirms she was in Scott’s mobile home, where she had sex with his driver, Nolan. Her boyfriend found out and dumped her, but apparently not before killing Scott by mistake.

When Angela and Hodgins return home, they hear loud music playing. They’re furious until they find Michael sound asleep. It seems the music soothes him.

On another home front, Bones confronts Booth about being overprotective. He tells she’s right but he isn’t going to stop.

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David Boreanaz (Booth) is getting a lot of buzz lately in light of his recent feature film, The Mighty Macs. Considering how Boreanaz’s sportsfan status has bled into Booth’s character, it doesn’t surprise us at all that he’d land a big-screen role as a former NBA referee. And in her report on Macs, Amy Longsdorf of Morning Call doesn’t appear too surprised, either… but she did get some nice info on Bones in the midst of her coverage!

Namely, there’s this delicious tidbit about Booth and Angela (Michaela Conlin). While the two characters interact only infrequently on Bones, it appears that the two actors have a lot to say to each other — including some fightin’ words!

“It’s always fun to be on the set with Michaela,” Boreanaz said, “and throw down some Allentown and Philly love. I always tease her about [Allentown] being famous for gymnastics.” When they’re not trading hometown jabs, Boreanaz continued, they’re developing a valuable director-actor relationship: “I really like working with [Conlin] as a director. I’m always challenging her to push her character even further.”

Boreanaz also took a moment to bust out some major Bones pride, claiming that the show is “the tipping point for procedurals.” According to DB, Bones really set the high-water mark for crime dramas, with every other network subsequently shooting for a “relationship-driven” analogue.

And with Fox considering an eighth season for Bones, we can’t exactly dispute Boreanaz’s take here! Imitation is the best form of flattery, after all. Long live Bones!

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Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor and John Francis Daley will now earn in the mid-five figures per episode range to remain on the drama should it get an eighth season.

Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Hodgins), Tamara Taylor (Dr. Saroyan) and John Francis Daley (Dr. Sweets) have closed new deals to remain on the long-running Fox detective series should it score an expected eighth season order.

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The four actors, who were making in the $30,000 to $40,000 per episode range heading into their negotiations with studio 20th Century Fox TV, received pay bumps that brought them each to the mid-five figures per episode in exchange for an additional season on their contract, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter. 20th TV declined comment.

For Conlin and Thyne, who are both original castmembers, season seven was the last on their contract.

The raises are retroactive and will count towards the show’s seventh season, which has been scaled back some to accomodate star Emily Deschanel’s pregnancy. For her part, Deschanel and her co-star David Boreanaz have already renegotiated their contracts. TV Guide Magazine pegged his salary at $200,000 per episode, while she is said to make slightly less than that.

At the Television Critics’ Association semi-annual press tour in July, Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly said that they hadn’t had any formal discussions about renewing Bones yet, but “the producer would like to keep it going; and we’d like to keep it going.”

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Watching TV might not make you smart, but unless you spend all your tube time keeping up with the Kardashians, chances are it’s at least broadened your view of what smart looks like.

For more than 20 million viewers a week, it looks like Abby Sciuto, the pigtailed Goth girl Pauley Perrette plays on CBS’ “NCIS.”

A forensic specialist who’s been known to narrow a list of suspects by analyzing the DNA in people’s poop – a dirty job that happily occurred offscreen – Abby has a different skill set, but she’s the glass-is-at-least-half-full version of Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), the grumpy Counter Terrorist Unit worker whose computer wizardry on Fox’s “24″ helped Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) survive some of his worst days.

Abby’s so popular that when CBS was ready to spin off its No. 1 drama, it had Perrette help in the handoff to “NCIS: Los Angeles” with an early crossover.

Chloe’s so vital that including a woman who’s good with computers and other technology – think Penelope, the Caltech dropout Kirsten Vangsness plays on CBS’ “Criminal Minds,” Jasika Nicole’s Astrid on Fox’s “Fringe” or Angela, Michaela Conlin’s tech-savvy artist on Fox’s “Bones” – is now more the TV rule than the exception.

“Bones” is a geek-girl extravaganza, a romantic comedy (with corpses) built around a brilliant scientist/novelist named Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and her less cerebral FBI agent partner, Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz).

“I think that for years we saw one thing, which was men and technology and math and science and women being the heart and soul and spiritual person, and I think that all of us eventually – the people who make TV, networks, studios and TV writers – look at that and get tired of that,” said “Bones” creator Hart Hanson.

Conlin, whose character was initially less comfortable with science than most of her colleagues at Washington’s fictional Jeffersonian, has seen Angela evolve into a tech-savvy member of the team.

Sitcom’s universe expands

The lure of the lab has also been felt in comedy. One of TV’s most-watched sitcoms, CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory,” started out as a show about superbright male roommates (Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki) and their blond, less academically gifted female neighbor (Kaley Cuoco).

“Big Bang” has only gotten funnier as it’s expanded the guys’ universe to include female scientists, especially the two played by Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch.

If seeing is believing, some think having girls grow up seeing women on television with math and science backgrounds may lead to more women pursuing careers in those fields. It’s already happening, said Perrette, who has participated in a public-service campaign to promote careers in science and technology.

“They call it the Abby Effect, actually. We’ve been on the show nine seasons, and these girls started watching when they were young, and they’re in college now,” Perrette said.

“I get letters and stuff from people all the time, all over the world – parents, grandparents, kids themselves – that say this fictional character that I play” influenced them, “and now they’re pursuing math and science. … To be able to play this character that has literally made young girls think that it’s OK for them to pursue math and science is unbelievable,” she said.
Inspiration for viewers

In terms of response to her “Big Bang Theory” character, Bialik said she gets “a lot from the geek male culture, an appreciation for this kind of female being presented and represented. But I think also for females in sciences, I’ve heard a lot from women who are either wanting to be scientists or who, you know, find it inspiring to see someone in science.”

For her part, Rajskub, whose pre-”24″ background was mostly in comedy – she was a regular this season on CBS’ short-lived sitcom “How to Be a Gentlemen” – sees women like Chloe as just another expression of TV diversity.

“I think the whole climate of shows right now, in different aspects, for women is fantastic. Because it’s showing a lot of different angles and complexities,” she said, adding, “not that being a smart woman is complex.”

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Our American cousins are in for a treat.

Because season seven of Bones premiers in the States this evening.

And the good news is, it’ll be showing on Sky Living HD just a couple of weeks later.

Yes, that’s right, Booth and Brennan fans, you only have a few more days left to wait because we’ll be bringing you brand new Bones from Wednesday 16th November at 9pm.

Question: Quick Bones query. How much time will pass between Episode 6 (aka the midseason finale) and Episode 7 (the winter premiere)? —Janine

Ausiello: “It will not be that long,” responds EP Stephen Nathan. “But since we want to keep the time line of Brennan’s pregnancy a surprise, that’s all I can say without being a spoiler.” And Lord knows, we wouldn’t want that.

Season 7 episode 1 “The Memories in the Shallow Grave” of Bones has now been screen capped and is now in the gallery. That is 77 high quality screen captures of Michaela.