BONES Scoop: Emily Deschanel Talks the Intense Season 8 Finale

One of BONES most notorious and deadly villains returns for a heart-stopping finale.  Pelant is not normally a name to send shivers down your spine, but as long-time fans well-know, that name should.  Super-psychotic, super-intelligent and utterly without remorse, Christopher Pelant (Andrew Leeds) is a sociopath you never want to ever encounter.  He has wrecked havoc in the lives of our beloved BONES heroes for over two years now and the latest person in his cross-hairs is Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz).  In a recent press conference call, star Emily Deschanel gave all the scoop on how difficult this latest encounter with Pelant is going to be and the emotional toll it takes on Dr. Temperance Brennan.

“Bones”

What can you tease about the return of Pelant as this time he seems to be using Booth to target Brennan?
EMILY: In this episode, Pelant returns.  Obviously the last time we saw him, Booth had injured him.  He shot him.  So it seems at this point, Pelant has set his sights on Booth now it seems.  Before, as you recall last season, he seemed to be targeting Brennan.  So it appears that he’s targeting Booth.  In fact, the body that we discover, Booth knew the victim.  It’s very close to home involving the FBI and a case Booth is involved with, and So it feels like it’s very targeted towards Booth and of course that’s terrifying to Brennan because she realizes that Pelant could get him, that Booth is in danger, and Pelant hasn’t gotten to any of us yet on the team.  He hasn’t really hurt us, but he’s really taking it up a notch this episode, and you’ll see how he affects their lives.

Brennan has proved that she would go to measures to protect somebody that she cared about because she stabbed a needle into the guy to get the location of the anecdote.  So how far do you think she’s capable of going to keep safe those that she really loves?
EMILY: As you see in this coming-up episode, Brennan is willing to go farther than she’s ever gone to protect somebody that she loves, and I think there’s really no bounds to her protecting—what’s another word to use because you can’t say certain things about the episode and your season…?  So you saw that she’s willing to go pretty far to save someone that she loves, and now you’ll see that she’ll do the same for other people that she loves to protect them, to protect her life with them.  I’ll leave it at that.

How much does Pelant’s return factor into Brennan’s decision about having a relationship with Booth?  Do you think it still would have happened if he hadn’t returned now?
EMILY: I think that Pelant’s presence and intense presence and targeting Booth and feeling Booth’s mortality and the possibility of him being in danger and the concept of even living without him kind of brings things to the forefront for Brennan when she thinks about Booth and Brennan’s relationship, and I think that she would be thinking about things in that way, but I think that Pelant kind of makes things happen more quickly and maybe in a more intense way.

“Bones”

What do you think about her mindset going into the finale especially when Pelant is attacking again?
EMILY: It’s scary.  They just thought that they were going to lose one of their own already with Arastoo, and Pelant is scary.  He’s somebody who’s brilliant.  Maybe Brennan’s a little bit smarter than him, but it’s hard to say.  She hasn’t seen somebody quite as terrifying and challenging as him and targeting them.  It’s pretty scary.   She’s been raising her child with Booth.  There are so many things that have happened in the last two years, and they kind of don’t really have a moment to think about their lives and themselves and their relationships.  You see Booth and Brennan get together.  They get pregnant right away and then have to raise a child together, and Brennan’s always been this person who said I’d never have children, I’m not going to get married, I’m not interested in that, and she’s kind of going along, but she’s not forced to really examine her life in that way and her relationships.  So when this happens with Pelant, it really forces her to look at her life and herself and her relationships and her feelings and why she feels certain ways about certain things and make her questions some of her core beliefs.  It’s a very pivotal time for her.

How personal this case is for the entire team, what can you say about what goes on at the Jeffersonian in the season finale?
EMILY: In the season finale that was important. We may see multiple victims in this episode from Pelant.  It actually feels more targeted toward the FBI than the Jeffersonian, but of course, we’re partners with the FBI as a whole and then Booth being Brennan’s partner in life and in their work.  So it feels personal even though nobody seems to be specifically targeted at the Jeffersonian.  It’s really FBI, but we are working feverishly to solve this case, to find Pelant, to stop him however possible, to figure out what he’s doing because he always has a hidden agenda as we’ve learned.    He’s not just killing some person at random.  There’s a reason he’s chosen the victims he’s chosen.  There’s a reason he’s killed them in the way he has, and there’s a meaning behind it.  It affects not only Booth at the FBI.  It affects Sweets. Pelant is targeting Booth, but it’s affecting Sweets as well, and Pelant has taken information that he’s learned from Sweets and is toying with him as well while he’s on this killing rampage.  So Pelant also in this instance may be involving other people in his plot.  We’re trying to investigate and figure out how he’s doing it, and So it gets scary when he’s probably recruiting other people to do work for him.

Pelant is one of the most unique villains BONES has really ever seen because he’s a little bit nerdy but that doesn’t make him any less deadly.  So where does he rank among the villains that the characters have faced off with over the years?
EMILY:  I find him terrifying in his calm, steely way about him.  His nerdiness — you’d think would make it less scary, but I think it makes it more scary, and if you know the guy who plays him, Andrew Leeds, he is like the friendliest, sweetest person. So it’s just really strange.  Some of the actors had never met him and I ran into him with Tamara Taylor who plays Cam Saroyan, and she said “oh my gosh, he’s so different from his character.”  She had no idea.  She’d only seen him on screen.  So I thought that was very interesting.  But I think we’ve gotten better and better with our serial killers, we’ve gotten better and better.  That sounds like such a silly thing to say, but to me, it’s more terrifying. You have this brilliant person who’s able to really get around the law in so many different ways whether it’s getting out of an ankle bracelet or finding ways around not being able to use computers and changing his name and identity and changing the records of DNA so that he is known as a completely different person.  That is so terrifying and so brilliant that I think I’d have to rank him as the number one for serial killers.   The Grave Digger was terrifying and that Brennan and Hodgins (TJ Thyne) being buried alive was pretty terrifying, and you have Gormogon which was very scary, but I rank Pelant as number one right now.  Hopefully, we keep building upon things and make them scarier and scarier, if we have more serial killers that is.

Do you find filming emotional scenes more challenging?
EMILY: It depends.  It really depends on what it is.  It depends on the emotion and the way the scene is written and the circumstances.  I find it challenging to switch tone like we do on our show.  It’s definitely challenging to go from comedy to humor and lightness to sadness.  It really depends on the particular scene and what it is.  Sometimes emotion comes easily for me and sometimes it’s more challenging whether it’s because we are laughing and being light a moment before or for whatever reason it’s not as — So it really depends on the scene what the challenge is, but I think changing tone really can be very challenging for me and it really depends on the scene for me and what it’s about and why. I think that when you’re supposed to have emotion out of nowhere, that’s challenging for me.

“Bones”

Can you talk about the change between the relationship between Brennan and Booth with Sweets this season since he was staying with him and now he’s gone?
EMILY: Well, we had a fun kind of parent/child relationship for a while where we had Sweets staying with us.  He’s kind of like our child in a way, or we’re kind of treating him that way, and we don’t believe he’s able to move out on his own and then he does.  So we as Brennan says in an episode, he’s the only person that she could think of living with them ever.  He’s a person that Booth and Brennan both like equally and where you can qualify emotions.   So I think they’ve become very close with Sweets having lived with him, and I think it’s hard when he moves out.  It’s hard when he’s dealing with stuff from feeling affected by Pelant as well in this coming episode.  We feel it when he’s affected.

BONES has obviously been tremendously successful.  Why do you think it resonates with viewers.  What do you think the appeal has been for them?
EMILY: People ask me this question or similar questions and it’s hard to have an answer, but I can guess that the reason why it’s been a popular show is that it has a lot of different things for so many different people.  When people are interested in solving a case and they like the puzzle of that or somebody’s interested in the science or somebody loves watching the kind of repartee between the characters or the sexual tension between Booth and Brennan or between other characters., the dynamics of the relationships of the characters whether they’re friendships or partners in life or partners in work and there are some episodes that seem like a farce and some episodes that seem like an action film and some that just seem like a good old-fashioned mystery, and I think that it offers so many different things and that can be a negative thing for us and it can be a positive thing for us, and I’ll have to say that I think that may be a reason why we’ve lasted for so long, but it may also be why we’re not the number one television series on TV, but it can work both ways.

This season has shown a lot of personal growth with Brennan where she’s been gaining a bit more self-awareness.  How do you think these developments strengthen her character and how do you think this makes her more compatible with Booth?
EMILY:  I think becoming self-aware, no matter who you are, I think is always a positive thing, and I think that it may, to Brennan has seemed like a weakness, to be more vulnerable and open emotionally before, but now, hopefully she’s realized that it actually can be a strength and that it can make her stronger for having opened up emotionally and showing some vulnerability and admitted that she’s not always made of steel.  I think that it can always help her relationship when someone opens up more and becomes self-aware, and so I think it definitely benefits their relationship and it’s also a wonderful thing for somebody to try and change themselves to help their relationship and themselves.  I think it’s a wonderful thing and just the fact that she’s even trying to do that is a great thing and hopefully Booth sees that and appreciates it.

After two seasons, are we going to get closure on the Pelant storyline or is there a chance that he might come back next season?
EMILY: There will be some closure, but the story is definitely ongoing.  That’s kind of a tricky answer, but I don’t know how better to answer it.  The story continues into next season.  That’s not to say that we haven’t captured him in some way by the end of this season, but with Pelant, it’s never as simple as we think as we’ve learned.  He’s changed his complete identity.  He’s very tricky.  He’s very wily in his ways.  So the story does continue with Pelant into season nine.

To see if our heroes come out of this latest encounter with Pelant unscathed, be sure to tune in for the 8^th season finale of BONES on Monday, April 29^th at 8:00 p.m. on Fox.  And remember:  evil never truly dies.

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What do BONES, NCIS and CHUCK Have In Common? Vik Sahay Talks Working on All Three Amazing Shows

When a beloved television show ends, one of the burning questions that remains is: When will you see your favorite stars again? In the case of Vik Sahay, that is tonight. In tonight’s episode of BONES, “The Twist in the Plot, Vik guest-stars as a business partner of the murder victim. In a recent exclusive interview Vik shared what it was like working on BONES and an upcoming episode of NCIS, as well as his new comedy series SATISFACTION. He also gave a fun shout-out to CHUCK and his glory days as one-half of the musical group known as Jeffster.

What’s the story about how you came to work on tonight’s episode of BONES?
VIK: I shot BONES in the Fall after sort of taking the Summer off. It was just such a refreshing way to step back on set. I play a green entrepreneur in the funeral business in a very New Age kind of way and I obviously run into some kind of trouble, which is as specific as I’ll get for now. (Laughs) I love the tone of the show — the quips and their banters. It is very tongue-in-cheek, and it was a blast working with them. It was the right feel getting back onto set after taking some months off.

 

“Bones”

Had you worked with any of the cast or producers of BONES previously?
VIK: Actually the director Milan Cheylov; I had worked with him on an episode of CHUCK. So I had met him one before and that was a tiny bit of a reunion.

How did it feel working on this episode of BONES, getting to play in their world for a little bit?
VIK: It was just really refreshing to work in a show that’s been running for so long. It was really lesson in how to keep things fresh and the spirit of the show alive. It’s a nerve-wracking thing to guest-star in an episode because you walk into a machine that is so well-oiled, and all the focus is kind of on you for rehearsing and stuff. The key is for the main cast to make the guest actor comfortable and they were amazing.

We have seen from the previews that your character Akshay Mirza is in a scene with Brennan and Booth. Are those the only characters you interacted with or did you get to work with the rest of the cast as well?
VIK: That was almost the more nerve-wracking thing ’cause I had all my scenes with those two super-stars. So I was the new odd-ball in that triumvirate. So I was nervous, very nervous. But, like I said, they were incredibly amazing to work with.

 

“Bones”

ONES has the Squinterns, who are forensic specialists who come and help out on different cases. Assuming your character isn’t the bad guy and responsible for the murder, would that be something you would enjoy? Being a Squintern on the show?
VIK: (Laughs) Let’s not give away anything that may or may not happen in this episode, but of course I’d love to. But I don’t want to say anything that may reveal anything.

Would you say that you brought some personal quirks to the character your portray on BONES?
VIK: I don’t know. I think when an actor takes on a role and tries to embody that, it can. Their personal body quirks can seep through. My goal was to get as much honesty and truth as possible, and when doing so, inevitably you open up a pipeline between yourself and the character and I’m sure far too many personal quirks are on display for my comfort. (Laughs)

 

“Chuck”

On CHUCK, you had a very comedic role and it was kind of extreme and outrageous. Would you say that you were able to incorporate those kind of quirks into your character on BONES, or do you just leave all those behind?
VIK: I think I leave those behind. I think Lester was a very particular person with a particular voice, and a particular level of rage and sadness. I try to with each role just start again and basically go back to neutral, nothingness and then build off of that. I certainly deliberately had no intention of bringing any of Lester to this character. They are incredibly different people. So that would have been an odd thing for me to do.

As you’re looking for new projects, what are you looking for as far as character types?
VIK: I don’t know if I’m looking for character types. I am looking for material that speaks to me, whether that’s film or television. I’m about to go on and do a half-hour comedy, called SATISFACTION, in Canada. That excites me. And I did an episode of NCIS, that was really a massive job. That was much more dramatic and that so excites me. So I’m looking for, wherever I can find it, material that sparks something in me.

Maybe you could share a bit more about SATISFACTION? Will you be guest-appearing or will you be a regular on the show?
VIK: I’m a lead in it. It’s shooting in Canada and we shot the pilot last Fall, then early in the New Year we found out that we’re a go. It’s about a group of friends who are 20′s to 30′s somethings who are grappling with love and relationships, young marriages, dating — and they have staggered levels of maturity. So they are struggling to make sense of commitment and monogamy. It’s a great cast with great chemistry, and I’m going to go and do at least a season with them starting in March or April.

How would you describe your character in SATISFACTION?
VIK: It’s hard to describe. I’ve shot the pilot. His name is Dan Dallas and he’s a dentist, and he’s got a bit of a persecution complex. He’s very high-strung and he’s got an innocence to him, and he’s married to this incredibly beautiful woman. From what I can tell, he’s finding that a bit more a curse, than a blessing. And that’s where we’re at with that.

Sounds really fun! But SATISFACTION is only airing in Canada right now?
VIK: At this point, yeah. We’ll see what happens, but right now I think it’s just going to be airing in Canada, for the first season anyway.

Have you been considering other projects or is that consuming all your time right now?
VIK: Like I said, I literally just finished shooting an episode of NCIS and it was really a mother of a job. Truly some very heavy lifting. The audition for that was on January 3rd. So I had no idea I would be getting back to work so fast after the break. But that was a supreme pleasure working with Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, etc. We worked together really well and they take a lot of pride in their show, and it’s longevity — and it’s professionalism is very high. It was an intense episode and I just couldn’t have asked for a better way to kick off the year. So there’s that. And I just got back from the Santa Barbara Film Festival, for a film that I had done kind of right as CHUCK was ending, called “An Awkward Sexual Adventure,” from having its U.S. premiere. So there’s things unfolding.

Sounds like you don’t get much time to breathe!
VIK: (Laughs) Breathing is over-rated.

Coming off the end of CHUCK, that was a sad goodbye, saying goodbye to all these wonderful characters. But it sounds like you hit the ground running after that.
VIK: I just opened myself up and things have been good. Right after CHUCK, I got to go to Romania for 2-3 months and shot a film, a very dark thriller/horror called “Wer.” It’s supposed to open either March or April this year. So, yeah, I’ve been very, very fortunate and just blessed with the people I’ve gotten to work with and all the material that I’ve been able to jump into after that incredibly beautiful experience of CHUCK.

Just as a shout-out for the CHUCK fans, maybe you could recount a favorite memory of yours from the show.
VIK: There’s just so much. I still once in a while, if I’m holding a pen or any kind of water bottle, I feel it transform into a microphone and I feel the impulse and the desire to be messing with some songs as Jeffster again. I do miss it. I can feel the sadness of that not being in my life.

Those Jeffster songs were always wonderful! Particularly when Jeffster would appear at Comic-Con. We loved that.
VIK: That’s so sweet.

To see Vik Sahay’s memorable performance be sure to tune in for tonight’s all new BONES at 8:00 p.m. on Fox. (Then look for his upcoming appearance on NCIS on February 5th in the episode “Canary.”)

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BONES Scoop Straight From the Source: Executive Producers Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan Preview the Rest of the Season

Returning from its brief hiatus, BONES jumps right back into Season 8 with more super villain Christopher Pelant, a new boyfriend for Cam, a possible life change for Angela and more fall-out and struggle with Brennan’s decision to take off with Christine. In a recent press conference call, executive producers Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan provided all the candid scoop on what’s next and what may have fans clutching at their hearts.

So what can you tell us about when the show will to get back to the Pelant story?

STEPHEN: The Pelant story will reappear in January. Pelant is always going to be hanging over their heads in all of the episodes, but he comes back in earnest—we’re actually shooting the episode now and it will air in January.

HART: It’s being directed by Rob Hardy and it’s one of the biggest episodes we’ve ever shot; very exciting. He will probably make another—two more—and perhaps we’re starting to talk about what our season ender will look like. He may or may not be a part of that.

Now that you’ve got Booth and Brennan together and back together and they have a baby, what are you planning to do to keep the tension between them going?

HART: Well so far, knocking on wood, this has been a very, very rich load for us to mine; the two of them living together with a baby and continuing to live lives and solve crimes. So far we don’t have to do anything big to throw a wrench into that machine anymore. It’s working just fine; lots of new stories. As many, I think, as we had at the beginning when there was just actual tension.

STEPHEN: I think what we’ve done this season, hopefully, is kind of give them stories that are overwhelming emotionally so we see how they react as a couple, so that we see how their relationship is tested. We’re doing that by keeping Pelant alive, by adding somebody to their household, which will happen soon, and also really putting themselves in situations that neither of them ever expected themselves to be in. We have an episode coming up where Brennan has a near death experience, which really kind of causes her to reevaluate her life and see everything a little bit differently. So we’re just trying to move them along and have these characters evolve and not stay in the same place. So hopefully it will be surprising for everybody.

Can you talk about how the season was approached from the standpoint of the reunion and then post-reunion? Will Brennan’s absence haunt the rest of the season at all?

HART: It keeps coming up. In fact, it’s a factor in the episode that Stephen referenced, which is Brennan’s near death experience. I think it’s a lot of fun for us, as storytellers, to keep referring to—someone makes a very rational decision. It’s a very smart decision; it’s the right thing to do. It can still carry bad effects with it, resentment. This season is them coming to grips with the fact that Brennan up and went with the baby, but it was the right thing to do. But there are consequences to everything.

STEPHEN: Also, Pelant is not going anywhere. They know he’s still there, they know his threat exists. So that’s kind of a cloud that hangs over the entire season. I guess in a way all of our people have their own version of PTSDs. They’ve all been completely changed by this war with Pelant and that won’t go away easily.

You mentioned someone moving in with Booth and Brennan into their home. What can you say about their reaction when Sweets moves in?

HART: What, it’s Sweets? That sounds great.

STEPHEN: Not like a hotel suite.

HART: You know what, it was started out as something that we were going to play out through one episode where Sweets needs—when he busted up with Daisy, he let her have the apartment. So he’s been kind of a bit of a nomad since then and they say come on in and you can stay with us for a few days. We were going to do that for one episode, but it was just too much fun. If Stephen and I have one fault out of many, it is that if something’s fun we’re going to stick there for a little while.

STEPHEN: It’s so rich because you have Sweets who’s the psychologist, Brennan who disdains psychology now in a house together where Brennan can kind of use psychology against her guest, which is—

HART: She keeps reading his books.

STEPHEN: She keeps reading his books which he leaves in the bathroom and then comes out armed with all this new information, which drives him insane.

Is there a reason for more stories involving Sweets this season?

STEPHEN: There are a few different reasons. Sweets is great, we love him, and he’s a terrific addition of the FBI to handle suspects and the victim survivors from a psychological perspective and help Booth out with the cases.

What’s upcoming in this next episode?

STEPHEN: The first one back is “The Method in the Madness,” which is sort of our artisanal murder, and then the one after that is the 9/11 episode

This next episode has all of the male Squinterns together. Was there a reason you didn’t include Daisy in there?

HART: We wanted a team thing. It’s Brennan dealing with her team of males, is part of the story in there.

STEPHEN: No, we love Daisy, we love Carla. It was just how it turned out because we needed five interns and I think there was also an availability issue, if I’m not mistaken. But we can’t play favorites with the interns because we love them all.

HART: One of my many failings as a show runner is when I went up to Carla to say that just because Daisy was breaking up with Sweets didn’t mean that she wouldn’t be on the show at the same amount. The relief on her face, I thought, oh, I really should’ve talked to her beforehand, but I figured it was a—she would just know. But no, that’s not true. Actors never know anything. But we have no plans to lose Daisy.

Do you have a favorite Squintern?

STEPHEN: No, we really love them all.

HART: I think right now my favorite intern is Vincent Nigel Murray because he’s gone and we miss him, but we really do love them all and we’re shocked every year that we get to have them again because they always go up for network testing for pilots. They’re always just an inch from having their own shows, so we’re very lucky to have every single one of them.

Will you be introducing a new Squintern this year?

STEPHEN: We’re developing another intern now as well and that script is being written so we have to see how that turns out. But we definitely do want to add another face on the show. Then we also have some people who we haven’t seen in a while who we might want to bring back too.

HART: Pilot season’s coming up and our normal Squinterns, we always have scheduling issues around pilot season with them so it’s behooves us to have one more in our quiver.

What can you preview about the ballroom dancing episode?

STEPHEN: Apparently, there’s a lot of dancing. No, it’s terrific. We have Mary Murphy and Tyce Diorio in it. It’s just a lot of fun. Our undercover episodes are sort of gifts to the hardcore fans where we all get goofy. It’s sort of like doing shots every time somebody says something. That’s what our undercover episodes are. We just have a good time and David and Emily just love doing them and this one’s no exception. It’s a murder at a ballroom dancing competition and we find out in this that Booth actually taught ballroom dance when he was in college to make money.

HART: Well, that’s what he thinks he was doing.

STEPHEN: Yes, he thought he was doing that. Sweets points out that he was probably just a gigolo for old women. But we have that from Booth’s standpoint. From Brennan’s standpoint, because of her phenomenal knowledge of kinesiology and anatomy, she believes that as long as she can look at someone dance, she can replicate that exactly. I can just tell you that’s not true.

HART: I’ll tell you something weird about that episode. I watched David Boreanaz learn how to rumba in five minutes. He’s gifted. He’s a physically gifted guy.

STEPHEN: Seeing them move is really funny, and then we also have populated the episode with tons of winners and runners up from SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, so the dancing is really kind of remarkable.

About the episode “The Patriot in Purgatory,” it seemed for the characters it was a very personal story. Was it a personal story?
STEPHEN: I don’t think there’s anyone in the country who doesn’t have a very, very personal story about 9/11 and what happened on that day and how they were affected. I think we’ve been trying for a long time to do an episode that revolved around that event. We haven’t really found a way to do it up until this point and partly because the reality of that event should be revisited, and also, our characters were there. Brennan, in the first season we had heard that she was one of the forensic anthropologists on the scene and worked there for two weeks identifying remains as did Cam as a coroner in New York. So we just wanted to try to approach this subject from a completely different point of view and from a very personal point of view rather than a political point of view. Also to deal with really not only the civilians that died but since that point, all of the service men and women who have been deeply affected by the events of that day and those people who had sacrificed their lives. The ones that we know of and the ones we still don’t know who they are.

HART: Stephen had a great way into the story. It’s one of my favorite scripts that Stephen wrote, and his way into the story was to make the memories of 9/11 come from our Squinterns. Where were they and what happened to them? That finally gave us a way into the story that didn’t seem exploitative or goofy. Really, every single year we’ve talked about what is the 9/11 episode that we can do this year from the first year. We started in 2005 and finally here in the eighth season Stephen found a way to get in. I think it’s just super.

STEPHEN: Also what I think we found in that is that from the interns’ point of view, they were all very young. You don’t usually hear that and we do hear it from Cam and from everyone else and clearly it changes Brennan in a very, very significant way at the end of that episode, but it was really hearing what kids went through as well as adults. Of course we touch on religion a bit as we always do. It was a very important episode for all of us.

For the 9/11 episode, how will the discovery of the victims affect the whole crew, aside from the Squinterns?

STEPHEN: Well, I think the reality of, without giving anything away— The reality of the victim has a profound effect on everybody because this is someone who has been previously undiscovered. This is someone who has been in the Jeffersonian bone room for many years and has been anonymous up until this point. So giving someone an identity, someone who died, everyone’s life is worthy of respect and reverence and to have someone who was up to this point anonymous be given their identity back, their life back, is a profoundly moving thing for everybody.

HART: We know that on 9/11 there were acts of great heroism done, great, great heroism, that nobody knows about. We just wanted to take a look at that, pull the veil back on one of those possible stories. That kind of thing has a huge effect on characters.

Is there anything you can tease us about Angela’s future?

HART: We have no plans to move Michaela off the show. Angela, this is her season to start to think that her life was meant to be bigger than just recreating crimes and living in a life of murder. She’s feeling antsy, but I’m very speedy to say we have no plans to diminish Michaela’s involvement in the show.

Can you shed a bit more light on some of the roller derby mayhem?

STEPHEN: There’s murder at a roller derby team. It’s just another world that we’re entering into that we’ve never been in before. It should be fun.

HART: Also, I think it’s fun to say that Angela has a little bit of experience in this area.

STEPHEN: That’s right. Angela’s been roller skating a lot more than anybody knew. So she’s helping out in a case in a way that she wouldn’t normally otherwise. This is somebody who’s been a little frustrated with her job. She feels that her life is being—she’s lived her life a little too safely lately and she wants to kind of break out a little bit. So getting slammed into a wall in roller derby seemed a good way to let that happen for her.

Has there been any word as to whether we’ll see some of the family that has been teased for a long time, whether it’s Hodgins or Booth’s mother?

STEPHEN: We’re actually going to see someone that we don’t expect to see, a family member of Brennan’s that we would never expect to see. We’re prepping that episode now, but we will be seeing other family members. We haven’t worked those stories out. We’re in the process of working them out, but hopefully we can deal with Booth’s mother this season.

Is Cam’s new boyfriend somebody that we already know or is this going to be a new person?

HART: It’s somebody we know.

STEPHEN: Somebody we know.

How shocked is everybody going to be when it’s revealed?

HART: There’s some surprise.

STEPHEN: There’s some surprise and it’s not necessarily true that everybody knows.

Can you tell us anything about any more upcoming guest stars this season?

HART: Cyndi Lauper is coming up.

STEPHEN: Cyndi will be coming back. All these people will be coming back, but the nature of BONES is that it doesn’t really provide a lot of big stunt casting because everybody’s dead.

HART: Yes, everybody’s always dead. We’re having some fun talking about who might play Booth’s mom and David is very, very interested in that, too. But I don’t think we have any big stunt casting coming up.

With all those big reveals and a few teases thrown into the mix, you are going to want to tune in for all new episodes of BONES starting Monday, November 5^th at 8:00 p.m. on Fox.

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http://www.thetvaddict.com/2012/11/05/bones-season-8-scoop/