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After last week’s pivotal and emotionally wrenching 100th episode, it’s back to business as (almost) usual on Bones. Two teenage girls are exploring….each other…in a bale of hay when a raccoon feasting on a maggoty skull flies in and smacks one of them in the face. Ooh baby, that’s a freakin’ mood killer if I ever heard of one. Our favorite—though by now, somewhat dysfunctional—super-scientist/super-agent team is called into the town to investigate. A rather large coincidence: the town is where Brennan grew up and went to high school, and it happens to be the week of her high school reunion.

Brennan finds more remains and quickly determines that the victim was killed in a manner consistent with a spooky legend that dates back to when Brennan was in high school: “The Butcher of Burtonsville High.” And, like the master of social interaction she is, Brennan immediately goes about alienating the local law enforcement, specifically Deputy Conway, a woman she went to school with. Conway doesn’t immediately remember Brennan, but instead goes about putting the moves on Booth (at least somebody is). Brennan praises her for losing weight—because it’s “better for your cardiovascular system”—and points out that Conway’s weight was probably the source of the vast social “derision” she received in high school. “Oh I remember you now: the creepy girl.” Booth mostly succeeds in hiding a small smile, but you can tell he’s enjoying this a little bit. He is, after all, entitled; getting rejected by the woman you love (even though she loves you too and is just too afraid to confront that) should earn you some free bitterness.

What’s really nice about this episode though is the balance that Boreanaz finds in portraying Booth’s emotional state. I was afraid this episode would either harp too much on the events of last week or not mention them at all. But Boreanaz takes care of it perfectly. There are several moments where you see his disappointment, but Booth never comes off as sullen or trying too hard to pretend that he wasn’t affected by Brennan pouring cold water over his heart. Boreanaz is quite funny in several scenes, especially during a videoconference with Sweets in which he cavalierly (and with no small trace of annoyance) explains that staying in a hotel with Brennan won’t be an issue and that he has completely moved on and already has a date lined up.

Emily Deschanel is equally hysterical in a whole slew of scenes. Sweets recommends that Booth and Brennan will get better results if they hide their FBI status and pretend to be just a married couple attending Brennan’s high school reunion. Putting Brennan into her high school reunion sets up the ultimate venue to showcase how impossibly socially handicapped Brennan is. Seriously, could there be any other situation that Brennan is less trained for? She’s the ultimate fish out of water, and the results are pretty awesome to watch.

Booth encourages Brennan to attend the reunion because, besides the whole we-gotta-solve-the-murder-thing, this is the perfect chance for her to make up for having not been popular by showing off how beautiful and successful she became. Unfortunately, he doesn’t explain this concept to her as if he were talking to a third-grader. You’re supposed to rub your success in subtly, so that no one can accuse you of doing it deliberately. Brennan doesn’t understand this, and just ends up digging herself into deeper and deeper graves. Booth tries to help her out, but he ain’t a miracle worker. The episode isn’t mean-spirited though; Brennan is mostly unaffected by her failures to connect with her former classmates because she’s just so clueless about the nature of human interactions.

All of the highlights you’d hope would come from this scenario happen; you get to see Booth make fun of Brennan’s yearbook photo (she’s the only one not smiling), and revel in the fact that she was a complete high school misfit. “You’re Wednesday Adams…I’ll bet you had a pet rat too!” he exclaims. “No, I had a mouse, and a snake and some spiders.” “Wow and you weren’t popular? Now that’s amazing.” In fact, Brennan’s only friend in high school was the creepy janitor who used to find dead animals for her to dissect and talk about the philosophy of death with her. This janitor—who loves knives–is played by Robert Englund, the original Freddy Krueger, and all of the tongue-in-cheek references you’d expect are made. What’s most funny and oddly sweet about his character is how affectionate Brennan is toward him. Even when he’s grinning like a maniac and talking about death and holding a lethal blade, she can’t understand why Booth finds him alarming.

All of the murder stuff is satisfying, and Angela gets to do a couple of extra-nifty simulation things and shows them to Brennan via videoconference. I loves Bones episodes where Booth and Brennan are away working a case and all of their correspondence with the Jeffersonian has to be through conferences. I like having that separation between our principals and the lab. The physical gap somehow makes Booth and Bones seem like they are existing together in a more intimate, private world, and that’s how it should be.

Initially, when I realized that the B storyline was going to be Wendell finding out that Angela thought she was pregnant and didn’t tell him, I feared the worst. But surprisingly, the Angela stuff didn’t irritate me this week. The subplot was handled well, didn’t dawdle, and Michaela Conlin succeeded in making Angela appear human and not annoying at the same time—a rare feat. And of the revolving interns, Wendell has always been the one I liked the most, and I’m glad that he isn’t going to be Angela’s plaything anymore.

Even Cam came off well this week, with a couple of great lines, telling Bones that “It’s always a tad creepy when you admire the killer’s handiwork,” and realizing after watching Wendell and Hodgins bicker over who had the coolest lab discovery that she “runs a kindergarten.”

The other highlight: seeing Booth and Brennan on the dance floor. Brennan asks Booth to a slow dance and he resists, guarded after being so vulnerable last week. But when he sees how much it means to her—to get to dance at the prom she never went to—he relents. And when you can clearly see how intense Brennan’s feelings are for Booth, you almost want to slap her for being too emotionally controlled to take the risk and fight for what she wants. What she and Booth both want. But unlike some fans that are so ready to run Brennan over with a truck for warding off Booth, I understand why she did and why she is the way that she is. When your parents abandon you and disappear when you’re fifteen and you go from bad foster family to bad foster family, it’s pretty reasonable that twenty years later you’d still be dealing with serious abandonment issues.

She told Booth that she doesn’t have an open heart like he does, that he should be protected from her…but the truth is that she’s afraid that he won’t always feel the way that he does about her, and that he’ll abandon her just like her parents did. We caught a glimpse of this in the season premiere. She probably figures she has a better chance of keeping Booth in her life as his friend and partner than she would as his love.

Overall I’m pretty pleased with this season so far. There have been a couple of crappy episodes, but by and large things have been much better than they were in season four, and Booth and Brennan are seriously progressing in their relationship.

Season 5, Episode 17: The Death of the Queen Bee (originally aired April 15, 2010)

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Fans of the Emily Deschanel/David Boreanaz series, Bones, won’t have to worry about their show being cancelled for awhile. FOX has just given the series a two year renewal.

Bones is centered on an unlikely alliance between an FBI agent (Boreanaz) and a forensics anthropologist (Deschanel) and her team. The rest of the cast includes Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Eric Millegan, Tamara Taylor, Michaela Conlin, John Francis Daley, Patricia Belcher, and David Greenman.

Considering that Bones’ ratings are strong, its seemed odd that the show hadn’t been renewed until now. According to Variety, the holdup was over a common topic these days, license fees.

To no surprise, the FOX network and the show’s studio, 20th Century Fox TV, are owned by the same company. While you might expect that that would make things easier, it actually made for longer negotiations. There are other profit participants involved so there was extra due diligence to make sure a renewal deal reflected the show’s true market value.

When the negotiations were finished, Bones executive producer Hart Hanson confirmed the news to fans via his Twitter account. He later wrote, “Thank you BONES fans for your response to our pick-up. Thank you so much. We are all so gratified. We love working on our show. Thanks.”

The show is expected to return in the Fall and FOX will announce its 2009 – 2010 schedule on Monday.

Yes, the much-discussed sex scene between Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) is going to happen in the Bones season-four finale.

No, it is not a hallucination. And yes, oh yes, it could lead to something even bigger for the couple.We just chatted up Bones bosses Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan, and as S.N. jokes, “We did some research and found out that sex is very closely related to having children. We were shocked ourselves.”So what does the sex mean for our fave twosome, and which beloved character is returning for the season finale? Here’s what we know:You longtime fans will be delighted to know that the writer-producers of Bones are taking this step forward seriously. As Hart says, “I think the audience will be very satisfied with the sex scene, and [the way] that it sets up the next season and the way things unfold between [Bones and Booth].

“Bones Jay Maidment/FOXSo why the change of Hart after years of putting the kibosh on B&B? He tells us, “The fact is, when we started Bones, we knew that we would never have to face the day of reckoning of when to have Booth and Brennan consummate their affair, because no show ever goes that long. And now here we are. We have to pay the piper.

I think it was about six months ago that Stephen and I just quietly between the two of us started talking about how we were going to contend with that huge, hanging sword of Damocles issue of their sex life.”And for the record, the baby issue is key to the decision, at least on Brennan’s side. Stephen explains, “It started with the idea of Brennan?who has been so adamant about not wanting a child for so long?finally realizing that it might be good for her to have a progeny to have someone as brilliant as she in the world when she leaves. So she is thinking about having a child, and she realizes that Booth is genetically an excellent match for her.”

(Hell yes he is.)Another hint that this knot of storylines leads to a wee B&B Jr.? When asked about future appearances by Booth’s beloved son Parker, Hart says, “Yes, we will see Parker. Of course, Booth’s family life, including his son, fit into our consequences coming up in season five.” (Tell us we’re wrong about this babies thing!)As for the actual sex, they haven’t shot the scene yet, but we have solemn promises that it is not the product of Booth’s currently fevered imagination.Bones Kwaku Alston/FOXIn other Bones news: * If the script and deal work out, says Hart, “Zack’s (Eric Millegan) in the season finale.”

* Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Jack (T.J. Thyne) are still in love limbo. Says Hart, “Our plans don’t include any fast resolutions to their relationship.”

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