Bones (season 10)
The tenth season of the American television series Bones premiered on September 25, 2014, and concluded on June 11, 2015, on Fox. The show moved time slots from its previous season, airing on Thursdays at 8:00 pm ET.
Cast and characters
Main cast
- Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, and wife of Seeley Booth
- David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, who is the official FBI liaison with the Jeffersonian, and husband of Temperance Brennan
- Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro, a forensic artist and wife of Jack Hodgins
- Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille Saroyan, a forensic pathologist, the head of the forensic division
- T. J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins, an entomologist, mineralogist, palynologist, and forensic chemist, and husband of Angela Montenegro
- John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets, an FBI psychologist who provides psychological reports on criminals and staff including Brennan and Booth
- John Boyd as James Aubrey, a junior FBI agent working under Booth
Recurring cast
- Sunnie Pelant as Christine Booth, Seeley and Temperance's daughter
- Patricia Belcher as Caroline Julian, a prosecutor who often works with the team
- Andrew Leeds as Christopher Pelant, a hacker
- Sterling Macer, Jr. as Victor Stark, the FBI Deputy Director
- Ryan O'Neal as Max Keenan, Brennan's father
- Sam Anderson as Hugo Sanderson, the owner of a powerful organization that may be the origin of the FBI conspiracy
- Michael Badalucco as Scott Starret, a previous Jeffersonian intern
- Billy Gibbons as Angela's father
- Cyndi Lauper as Avalon Harmonia, a psychic
- Danny Woodburn as Alex Radziwill, a Diplomatic immunity and State Department official
- Mather Zickel as Aldo Clemens, an ex-priest who counseled Booth when he was a sniper
- Carla Gallo as Daisy Wick
- Michael Grant Terry as Wendell Bray
- Eugene Byrd as Dr. Clark Edison
- Laura Spencer as Jessica Warren
- Pej Vahdat as Arastoo Vaziri
- Ignacio Serricchio as Rodolfo Fuentes
- Brian Klugman as Dr. Oliver Wells
Production
In July 2014, John Boyd was cast in a recurring role of James Aubrey, a junior FBI agent working under Booth. However, it was later revealed that Boyd would be a series regular. The character of Lance Sweets, portrayed by John Francis Daley who joined the cast in the third season, is killed off in the season premiere episode. The decision to kill off the character was because Daley needed a break from the series to direct the upcoming National Lampoon's Vacation remake, Vacation, and executive producer Stephan Nathan thought killing off the character instead of just writing him off would be more impactful. With the series' 206th episode, Bones became the longest-running one-hour drama for producing studio 20th Century Fox Television, and the episode also names all 206 bones in the human body. Emily Deschanel's real-life pregnancy was written into the show, and the season features the reveal that Brennan is pregnant with her and Booth's second child. The season finale was written as a potential series finale, as it was written before the writers knew the series was renewed for another season.
Episodes
Ratings
Live +7 DVR ratings
Live +7 ratings is the number of viewers who watched a particular episode live, plus the number of viewers via DVR over a seven-day period from the original broadcast.| No. | Episode | Air date | Time slot | 18–49 rating increase | Viewers increase | Total 18–49 | Total viewers | Ref |
| 1 | "The Conspiracy in the Corpse" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.49 | 2.4 | 8.83 | ||
| 2 | "The Lance to the Heart" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.9 | 2.75 | 2.4 | 9.16 | ||
| 3 | "The Purging of the Pundit" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.35 | 2.4 | 8.74 | ||
| 4 | "The Geek in the Guck" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.58 | 2.5 | 9.14 | ||
| 5 | "The Corpse at the Convention" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.57 | 2.1 | 8.17 | ||
| 6 | "The Lost Love in the Foreign Land" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.9 | 2.69 | 2.2 | 8.33 | ||
| 7 | "The Money Maker on the Merry-Go-Round" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.53 | 2.1 | 8.03 | ||
| 8 | "The Puzzler in the Pit" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.31 | 2.1 | 7.58 | ||
| 9 | "The Mutilation of the Master Manipulator" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.63 | 2.3 | 8.33 | ||
| 10 | "The 200th in the 10th" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 1.85 | 2.0 | 7.34 | ||
| 11 | "The Psychic in the Soup" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.7 | 2.36 | 2.0 | 8.20 | ||
| 12 | "The Teacher in the Books" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.8 | 2.68 | 1.9 | 7.42 | ||
| 13 | "The Baker in the Bits" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.6 | 2.21 | 1.7 | 7.24 | ||
| 14 | "The Putter in the Rough" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.7 | 2.48 | 1.7 | 7.36 | ||
| 15 | "The Eye in the Sky" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.6 | 2.13 | 1.6 | 6.78 | ||
| 16 | "The Big Beef at the Royal Diner" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.7 | 2.25 | 1.7 | 6.54 | ||
| 17 | "The Lost in the Found" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.5 | 1.93 | 1.6 | 6.64 | ||
| 18 | "The Verdict in the Victims" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.5 | 1.84 | 1.6 | 6.11 | ||
| 19 | "The Murder in the Middle East" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.6 | 1.91 | 1.6 | 6.62 | ||
| 20 | "The Woman in the Whirlpool" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.6 | 2.01 | 1.8 | 7.43 | ||
| 21 | "The Life in the Light" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.7 | 1.97 | 1.8 | 7.17 | ||
| 22 | "The Next in the Last" | Thursdays 8:00 p.m. | 0.7 | 2.25 | 1.9 | 7.36 |