Thursday, 8 ET/PT
Premiere: Sept. 23
Where we left them: The investigative team at the Jeffersonian Institute went their separate ways in last season's finale, with Booth (David Boreanaz) off to train Afghan soldiers and Brennan (Emily Deschanel) headed to an Indonesian anthropological dig, accompanied by lab assistant Daisy (Carla Gallo). Newlyweds Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) head to Paris. "Everyone is exploring an alternate life, another path they could have taken," Deschanel says.
Where they're headed: About seven months later, the team members return to help Saroyan (Tamara Taylor) solve a case. Saroyan "has found herself in a bit of a dilemma," Deschanel says. "She is being criticized for not identifying the remains of a child. … We get rounded up to save her from being publicly humiliated." But things have changed. Booth has met a war correspondent (Katheryn Winnick), and they move in together. "It becomes a whole dynamic," Deschanel says. "Brennan is torn between loving him and wanting him to be happy."
Who's new:David Alan Grier guests as a children's TV personality. And when Brennan and Booth investigate a case in Jersey, they encounter a nightclub bouncer (Antonio Sabato Jr., General Hospital). Having mistaken a reality series for a documentary, Brennan "considers herself to be an expert (on) the culture, customs and vernacular of the guidos," Deschanel says. — Mike Snider
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