8.344 minSeason 12 • Episode 12
LatestWith Kovac still at large, the team searches for evidence to track him down. After Brennan experiences a setback, the rest of the team must figure out how to find Kovac without her, putting everything she has ever taught them to the test. When all signs point to Kovac having outside help, as well as a hideout, Booth and Brennan go searching for him.
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.
Writing
Brennan's literal-to-a-fault dialogue is comedy gold disguised as drama.
Acting
Deschanel and Boreanaz's chemistry carried 12 seasons of slow-burn tension.
Production
The Angelator recreations are gloriously creepy tech-horror eye candy.
Creator
Hart Hanson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The character Temperance Brennan was loosely inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who wrote the novels—but TV Brennan is basically Reichs' opposite personality-wise.
The show quietly revolutionized female-led procedurals by letting its genius heroine be genuinely abrasive and socially inept without 'fixing' her.
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