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This is a list of fictional characters in the American television series Bones. The article deals with the series' main, recurring, and minor characters.
Bones (TV Series 2005–2017) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Series Cast 2143. Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
- Main Characters
- Secondary Characters
The following characters have been featured in the opening credits of the program.
•Temperance Brennan (Season 1 - )
•Seeley Booth (Season 1 - Now)
•Angela Montenegro (Season 1 - )
•Zack Addy (As a regular: Season 1 - Season 3, As a recurring character: Season 4 -)
•Jack Hodgins (Season 1 - )
Recurring
•Max Keenan/Matthew Brennan (Season 2 - ) Portrayed by Ryan O'Neal Max is the father of Temperance and Russ Brennan. He took the identity of a deceased Matthew Brennan and changed the identities of his family to protect them from the violent bank robbers who he and his wife worked with as career criminals. As Matthew Brennan, he worked as a science teacher while his wife worked as a bookkeeper. In Christmas of 1991, Max and his wife left their children alone and never returned to their home in order to keep them safe. After Dr. Brennan solved the murder of her mother, he warned her to stop looking for him. When Russ became the target of corrupted FBI agents, Max was forced to resurface and to kill the men. Max resurfaces a second time during the episode "The Killer in the Concrete" when Dr. Brennan asks for his help to find Booth who was kidnapped during the course of the investigation. After freeing Booth Max escapes in Dr. Brennan's car. Max was later arrested by Booth at the conclusion of "Stargazer in a Puddle." Max was tried and acquitted for the murder of Deputy Director Kirby in the episode entitled the "Verdict in the Story." •Russ Brennan/Kyle Keenan (Season 1 - ) Portrayed by Loren Dean Russ is Temperance Brennan's brother, who left her when she was fifteen years old and he was nineteen years old, immediately after the disappearance of their parents. At seven years old, his father told him that he was never to use the name Kyle Keenan again and that his new name was Russ Brennan. When they were children, he had a close relationship with his baby sister, Temperance Brennan, who idolized him. After he left home, Russ committed various misdemeanors and felonies. He worked as a mechanic in North Carolina. However, after his father resurfaced, he went into hiding. Russ resurfaced during the course of "The Knight on the Grid" after learning that his step-daughter Hayley had been hospitalized for complication related to her Cystic Fibrosis, he was arrested by Booth and subsequently sentenced to thirty days in the county jail and had the term of his probation extended and amended to include the wearing of an ankle monitor. •Rebecca Stinson (Season 2) Portrayed by Jessica Capshaw Booth's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his son, Parker. When Seeley discovered that Rebecca was pregnant he asked her to marry him but she refused. It is later revealed that she refused the proposal because she didn't want to be "one of those women" and didn't want to be judged, she reveals to Temperance that she now wishes she hadn't missed her and Seeley's "one true moment" and wonders if he feels the same way. •Parker Booth Portrayed by Ty Panitz Seeley Booth and Rebecca Stinson's four year old love child currently under custody of his mother who has threatened to never let Seeley see Parker again if he doesn't leave her new boyfriend alone. •Sam Cullen (Season 1) Portrayed by John M. Jackson Sam Cullen is a Deputy Director of the FBI. Very little info is known about him, other than he has a wife and also a daughter diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The episode "The Graft in the Girl" revealed that she contracted the disease from an illegally sourced bone graft; Brennan and Booth discovered and arrested the criminal responsible. He does his best to keep Agent Booth on track and frequently disapproves of Dr. Brennan's involvement in FBI field investigations. •Howard Epps (Season 1 - 2) Portrayed by Heath Freeman Howard Epps is a serial killer, who appeared in one episode of the first season and two episodes of the second season. Epps was introduced in the episode, "A Man on Death Row", where he was a prisoner scheduled to be executed in two days, while his lawyer enlisted Brennan and Booth to try and clear his name. They were successful in delaying his execution pending a further review of the evidence, but realized too late that he was guilty. While in prison, he began a relationship with (and married) a woman named Caroline, who knew he was guilty, but believed him to be a good person underneath it all. Most of his victims were blonde teenage girls. Epps' second appearance was in episode "The Blonde in the Game", where he is still in jail, but has been directing an accomplice to continue his crimes in his absence, leaving clues for Brennan and the team to solve to lead them to the next victims. When Brennan and Booth corner the accomplice, Brennan is forced to shoot him to save the lives of Booth and the final victim. When questioned, Epps reveals that the objective of "the game" was to force Brennan to kill, something she has never done before. As Epps had planned, Brennan feels deeply guilty for killing the man, but she eventually comes to terms with it. In his final appearance of the series, "The Man in the Cell", Epps successfully escapes from prison during a fire by killing a fireman, stealing his uniform and leaving his body is his own cell. After his escape, he becomes obsessed with Brennan, using mind games to and make her feel like she was responsible for the deaths of his victims. He tests her and the rest of her team by leaving clues for them to discover and decipher that lead them to more victims, one of whom was his wife, Caroline. He also leave traps in the clues, almost killing Zack in an explosion and Dr. Saroyan when she inhales a deadly toxin hidden in Caroline's head. After being cornered in Brennan's apartment by her and Booth, he runs for the balcony but falls off the balcony to his death. In one episode Brennan breaks his arm. •Caroline Julian (Season 1 - ) Portrayed by Patricia Belcher Caroline Julian is a prosecutor and works as in the U.S. Attorney's office. Her first appearance was in the first season episode, "The Man in the Morgue", which was followed by three more appearances in the second season in "Judas on a Pole", "The Man in the Mansion" and "Stargazer in a Puddle". She has a very demanding and bossy attitude, which overpowers even Brennan to a point where Brennan does not even argue with her. She has a deep understanding in the workings of the government and the way cases should be handled, has a friendship history with Booth and trusts in his instincts and beliefs when working on cases, although she often seems wary of their less orthodox methods. She has appeared numerous times to have Booth and Brennan in court and to solve their cases. •Oliver Laurier (Season 1 - 2) Portrayed by Chris Conner Oliver Laurier's first appearance in the series is in the Pilot episode as a suspect in the murder of Cleo Louise Eller, who he was obsessed with. Towards the end of the episode, Oliver becomes obsessed with Dr. Brennan, who he stalks from scene to scene. His next appearance was in the second season's episode, "The Bodies in the Book", where he is again suspected of murder. He confesses to being a "Brennanite", a loyal fan of Dr. Brennan's crime novels, but was proved not to be the killer. •Tim Sullivan (Season 2) Portrayed by Eddie McClintock Special Agent Tim "Sully" Sullivan is an FBI agent introduced in the second season to be Dr. Brennan's love interest. He makes four consecutive appearances in the second season starting with episode "The Girl in the Gator", where he works with Dr. Brennan in a case while Booth was in therapy. Brennan doubted his sincerity at first because of his wide variety of interests and hobbies, but Booth assured her that Sully is serious about his job and mentions that he had previously lost his partner. After working on the case, Sully asks Brennan out on a date, which she eagerly agreed to. Their relationship becomes more serious and in episode "The Boneless Bride in the River", Sully asks Brennan to go with him to the Caribbean in his new boat which he named after her, but she refuses. He tells Brennan that he will come back in a year's time. •Gordon Wyatt (Season 2)
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