Hodgins and Angela will have some drama to endure when season 9 of Bones premieres. An unexpected third party disrupts their blissfull-ish family, however it’s not what you’re thinking.

“Hodgins is going to have to deal with a new family member,” previews exec producer Stephen Nathan, “and that will impact both Hodgins and Angela and their relationship.” Are we talking a brother? Sister? Cousin once removed and then put back? “I don’t want to say,” he demurs. “The way it comes out is such a surprise; it’s somebody that he wouldn’t know.” Look for the family reunion to take place within Season 9?s first 10 episodes.

In other more terrifying spoilers, Pelant MAY wrap the the first six episodes up with a shut out. Bones is set to air 6 consecutive episodes, before taking their annual break for Fox’s post-season baseball coverage.

“We wanted to make sure that we leave that first six with a very big episode,” exec producer Stephen Nathan says of the Oct. 21 outing, which may or may not revolve around menace-to-society Pelant. “I can tell you definitely that Pelant figures in very, very, very, very heavily within the first six episodes,” teases the EP. ” But where he appears and/or vanishes, I can’t really say at this point.”

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Sweets' New Job

“He’s trying to do something to help people avoid a criminal life,” Nathan reveals of the shrink’s brief professional detour early in Season 9. “He’s working with kids in the inner city.”