Michaela Conlin: We go back seven years, a year before the pilot. Brennan and Angela had been friends already and we find out about how and why Brennan decides to bring her into the Jeffersonian as an employee. She had been travelling and is trying to get back to Paris, which is sort of why she takes the job.

• 2. Looking back on the first 100 episodes, do you have a favorite?

I really loved the first Christmas episode. I know a lot of people didn’t love it, but shooting that episode, it was the 13 episode of the season of the first year and it was really when we started to congeal as a cast. We all shot everyday, we were locked in the lab, I was in an elf outfit, it was just a blast. It was lovely and the first time I think we realized that we had something very special.

• 3. How surprised are you that five years into its run, the show is more popular than ever?

It really is. I get stopped way more than I ever did in the first and second season. I get stopped all the time which is really awesome. It’s incredible. The show just seems to keep growing and growing and growing, and it’s great to be apart of something like that.

• 4. Realistically, how long do you BONES can go on for? And are you happy to stick with the show as long as it goes.

It doesn’t feel like it’s been five years. Emily and I had just said that five years ago, in February we shot the pilot, which is crazy. I’m happy to do it as long as we all feel like we can keep making great shows and we feel that way so far.

• 5. And finally, if you could put your writer’s cap on for a moment, where would you like to see Angela go over the course of the next say, 100 episodes?

Great question. I’d really like to see for us to see more of her family life with her dad and her mom. And I’d love to see Angela figure out who she loves and if she can be in a serious relationship. I’d love to see the next chapter of her life, where is she going to go…. I have a feeling that it might be a foreign country.

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Angela’s self-imposed celibacy will end early next season on Bones. And the person she’ll hook up with is someone we’ve met before. “Hot!,” said Michaela Conlin (Angela) upon hearing her new sex partner’s identity from series creator Hart Hanson at a recent Fox party.

“I didn’t expect that. It’s been six months for Angela.” Since we saw Angela last season in a relationship with a woman named Roxie, what will be the sex of her new partner? “It will be a male,” confirms Hanson. Meanwhile, tearing a page from the script of the 1985 Harrison Ford film Witness, Booth (David Boreanaz) and Brennan (Emily Deschanel) will head to Amish country in the new season. Deschanel says the episode will find an Amish teenager murdered while he’s on his Rumspringa, which she explains is a sabbatical in which Amish teens “are allowed to go into our modern world and drink, smoke, have sex and even do drugs.

They can go crazy and see what they’re missing before deciding whether or not to return to their community.” To save production costs, Westlake Village in the San Fernando Valley was used in place of Lancaster, Penn., where the fall episode is set. Deschanel describes the episode, which just wrapped, as “heartbreaking.”

So who do you think Angela will be getting it on with? Hodgins? Jared Booth? Or someone else? And will Booth and Brennan make like Ford and Kelly McGillis in Witness?

So… Angela has a girlfriend.

Michaela Conlin: For now, yes. [Laughs] Who knows how long it will last. It’s somebody she dated in college, they had a relationship. And now she’s back for a bit.

TVGuide.com: How hot-and-heavy were Angela and Roxy, back in the day?

Conlin: I’m sure it probably was like any relationship ? I don’t think they were exclusive. It was what it was. But they were together for a little while.

TVGuide.com: You certainly could do worse than Nichole Hiltz, that’s for sure.

Conlin: I know, she’s so lovely. A lovely person.

TVGuide.com: What implications might Roxy surfacing have on the Angela-Hodgins relationship?

Conlin: Anytime anybody shows up from somebody’s past, it’s affecting for both people. But the thing I really like about it is it shows us who Angela was before she even got to this place and this job and into that relationship with him. I think it’s important for them in the long run, if they are to come back together eventually, to see that other part of her. I honestly don’t know what’s going to happen between Angela and Hodgins.

TVGuide.com: It’s probably exciting for you as an actress to explore Angela’s back story.

Conlin: Oh yeah. Angela doesn’t comment on the fact that it was a woman. She just happened to be attracted to a woman. That’s who she wanted to be back then. That’s how she approaches everything.

TVGuide.com: The Angela-Hodgins fans were thrown earlier this season by their sudden break-up, using words such as “random,” “rushed” and “not befitting the characters” to describe it. What’s your take on what went down?

Conlin: Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard people have been saying. I think the strike was definitely difficult on all the story lines that had been up in the air, so that was part of it. I think they rushed to the altar in the beginning anyway. We could have seen more of how the two of them were together.

TVGuide.com: So you’re saying the break-up wasn’t the rushed part, it was the build-up of the relationship?

Conlin: Yes. Personally, I would have liked to see more of them making it as a couple. We may still see it, I don’t know. That’s more of a guess. But I really didn’t feel the break-up was rushed.

TVGuide.com: I’m curious, what will be Angela’s take on Booth’s brother, Jared (played by Brendan Fehr starting Nov. 12)?

Conlin: She likes him. [Laughs] Angela pretty much likes any being that’s in any manner sexual. Look, it’s like having Booth without having Booth. Angela would like to see Brennan and Booth get together, so I’m sure she figures, “Hey, this is the second-best thing.” But yeah, Angela is definitely is a little bowled over when she meets him.

TVGuide.com: Now that Angela’s openness to women has been established, maybe Thirteen from House could crossover for a little romance?

Conlin: [Laughs] I would love that! [Olivia Wilde] is fantastic. I just watched that episode where she brings someone home, and she was great. I love the way they’re approaching that, like it’s not a big deal.

TVGuide.com: Give us one last tease about what’s ahead for Angela.

Conlin: You’re going to see her in a lot of different circumstances this season, being single, I’ll just say that. Being on the open market… it’s going to be an interesting year for her!