After Hodgins and Angela were drugged and woke up to a bloody inactive person hanging in the canopy of their bed and flower petals around their son Michael's crib, they are forced to believe that Pelant is back for revenge against Hodgins. Although Hodgins wants to go after Pelant directly, Booth knows it's best to work within the system and not go against protocol. Meanwhile, as the Jeffersonian team investigates the inactive person, they discover the victim was a Special Forces agent working for the world's biggest supplier of mercenaries, and Angela and Hodgins decide to start an investigation without the rest of the Jeffersonian team for the sake of their family.
Season 8 Episode 12 of Bones resulted in a 2.30 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s08e01 - The Future in the Past
s08e02 - The Parents in the Divorce
s08e03 - The Gunk in the Garage
s08e04 - The Tiger in the Tale
s08e05 - Method to the Madness
s08e06 - The Patriot in Purgatory
s08e07 - The Bod in the Pod
s08e08 - The But In The Joke
s08e09 - The Ghost in the Machine
s08e10 - The Diamond in the Rough
s08e11 - The Archeologist in the Cocoon
s08e12 - The Corpse on the Canopy
s08e13 - The Twist in the Plot
s08e14 - The Doll in the Derby
s08e15 - A Shot in the Dark
s08e16 - The Friend in Need
s08e17 - The Fact in the Fiction
s08e18 - The Survivor in the Soap
s08e19 - The Doom in the Gloom
s08e20 - The Blood from the Stones
s08e21 - The Maiden in the Mushrooms
s08e22 - The Party in the Pants
s08e23 - The Pathos in the Pathogens
s08e24 - The Secret in the Siege
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with cuddle investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned, or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Brennan's equally brilliant colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab include earthy and bawdy Angela Montenegro, who's created a unique way to render an original crime scene in a three-dimensional computer image; Brennan's assistant, Zack Addy, a young prodigy whose genius IQ actually gets in the way of his finishing the several doctorates he's beballoon; "the bug guy", Dr. Jack Hodgins, who's an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby; and Brennan's boss, imposing lab director Dr. Daniel Goodman. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seely Booth, a former Army sniper who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes. Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally, but so far the chemistry between them has only played out in a fictionalized account in Brennan's lastest mystery novel.