
Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and also writes books, has an impressive ability to read clues from victims' bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her to assist with investigations when remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that standard identification methods are useless. Brennan is teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth, a former Army sniper, who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes but who has developed respect for Brennan, both professionally and personally.

After a woman's car is run off the road, only her baby survives; Booth and Brennan go to the woman's hometown to investigate.

When Max (Ryan O'Neal) goes on trial for the murder of FBI Deputy Director Robert Kirby, all the team members but Brennan are called as expert witnesses for the prosecution.

An aspiring singer (Ace Young) is murdered and, as Brennan and Booth investigate the musician's fans and foes, one obsessed woman transfers her affections to Booth.

A human jawbone found at the Jeffersonian alerts Brennan and the team that the Gormogon serial killer has struck again; a lab explosion lands Zack in the hospital; Gormogon's silver skeleton disappears from the vault.