"No dream sequence here. No undercover assignment. Not even alcohol. After months of teasing, creator Hart Hanson confirms Bones (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) will hook up in this year's season finale. 'They're actually in bed having sex,' Hanson tells me. 'And they won't be able to just walk away from what happened. It will have serious ramifications.'
Booth is able to open up after working with his therapist, Dr. Wyatt (Stephen Fry), to confront problems from his dark past. 'Booth's father had some issues,' David says. 'We're going to find out more about how painful it was for me growing up with that man. My grandfather was a much nicer person.' So nice that it'll be revealed that were it not for Grandpa, Booth would be dead. Casting will soon get under way for Gramps, a fighter-pilot hero, who will appear late in April or early May amid a Booth family crisis. 'We hope to do some fancy casting around the grandfather, ' says Hanson. Top on his wish list: James Garner. Hanson believes the veteran actor, like David, has 'a certain cool kind of thing going on.' But Hanson says Robert Wagner resembles Boreanaz' real dad, Philidelphia weatherman David Thomas.
Viewers will meet Booth's father, an ex-military man-turned-barber, later this season or early next. Hanson says Booth's mom is 'probably alive' but 'wasn't around for most of his life.' Bones' father, Max, is in limbo due to Ryan O'Neal's ongoing, real-life legal drama. 'He pleaded guilty [to drug possession], so [he] has to go into a program,' Hanson says. 'But we'd very much like to have him come back and move in with his daughter by the end of the season.'"