Kevin Estrada/FOXWorried for Booth's life thanks to a crazy cliffhanger in the Bones season 11 premiere? Don't worry—your favorite hero will escape, eventually. Booth (David Boreanaz) won't be unscathed, considering the fact that he's clearly being held captive somewhere and bleeding from a gun wound, but he will get back home to his wife and kids.
But first: After leaving the FBI and the Jeffersonian behind, why would Booth go ahead and get involved in a new case—and not tell Brennan (Emily Deschanel) about it?
"I think by the end of episode two there will be an answer to that and everyone will say, ‘I get it now,'" Boreanaz tells E! News of the two-part episode. "He has put himself in danger again and he has been shot and he's bleeding out and trying to figure that whole thing out, and at the end of it we'll figure out the understanding of his brother and how it's affected Booth."
Yes, Booth has struck out on his own without telling anyone (typical Booth actions, to be honest), but Boreanaz teases that this particular time it won't really cause a rift between him and his wife.
"At the end I don't think she'll be as upset with him because we'll see why they go back to work. She'll get why he did what he did," he says. "There is a reason but I think he feels more responsibility towards being sorry about this reason and she sees it more of an understanding which brings them closer together. Which is cool. It won't divide them. It will bring them closer together."
By the end of "The Brother in the Basement," both Booth and Brennan will be heading back to their respective posts at the FBI and the Jeffersonian, which will lend itself to some fun going back to work adventures. "I do know that because he's going back to work that he's got to be reinstated again, so we'll go through shooting ranges and tests and health tests," Boreanaz reveals.
Bones airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on Fox.