Medico-Legal Lab

The Medico-Legal Lab is Jeffersonian Institute's Forensic Division's labor and main base of operations on Bones.

It was formerly the Jeffersonian Institute's Anthropology Unit Lab, now the Jeffersonian Forensic Division, a new division formed during the summer of 2006.

History[]

The lab is bombed by Mark and Jeannine Kovac in The Day in the Life, resulting in severe structural damage. Despite this, Booth diffused one of the bombs to prevent the building from crashing down, maintaining its structural integrity as the team worked in their usual spaces in The End in the End to analyze the available forensic evidence, but after Kovac's death, the Jeffersonian is shut down for a few weeks to undergo repairs.

Forensic Division Staff[]

Employees[]

Camille Saroyan - Former Head of the Forensic Division; Forensic pathologist.
Temperance Brennan - Chief forensic anthropologist.
Angela Montenegro - Forensic artist that uses technology.
Jack Hodgins- An entomologist, botanist, and mineral expert. Current Head of the Forensic Division.
Zack Addy (Formerly) - A bone trauma expert who was also once Dr. Brennan's graduate student.
Clark Edison - Archeological forensic anthropologist; one of Dr. Brennan's rotating assistants.

Interns[]

Wendell Bray - One of Dr. Brennan's rotating assistants.
Daisy Wick - One of Dr. Brennan's rotating assistants
Colin Fisher - A forensic anthropologist, one of Dr Brennan's rotating assistants.
Arastoo Vaziri - One of Dr. Brennan's rotating assistants.
Vincent Nigel-Murray (Deceased) - One of Dr. Brennan's rotating assistants.
Finn Abernathy - One of Dr. Brennan's rotating assistants.
Oliver Wells - One of Brennan's rotating assistants.
Jessica Warren - One of Brennan's rotating assistants.
Rodolfo Fuentes - One of Brennan's rotating assistants

Inside Lab[]

Forensics Platform[]

Where Brennan and her team do their work by examining the bodies of the deceased or murdered victims that have been found. The area where the bones or corpses of the deceased are stationed is guarded by an invisible laser to keep the remains and possible evidence safe from contamination or tampering.

In order for them to access the area, each employee must swipe their ID card into the machine at the entrance which in turn grants them entry. Failure to do so will result in a loud alarm being triggered that will only stop once another ID card has been inserted into the machine. Various guards are regularly seen stationed in or outside the area. All the employees at the Jeffersonian possess ID cards, with Booth later receiving his own ID card courtesy of Brennan although it is rarely ever seen.

Brennan's Office[]

Whenever she's not in the field or working on bodies, Brennan spends most of her time in her own office, filing reports, doing paperwork and also writing up her next possible novel.

Angela's Office[]

Where Angela does her own work and also uses her own specially designed computer system (known as the Angelator and later the Angelatron) to give the team a glimpse or an insight into what the victims looked like before decay left their bodies unrecognizable as well as possibilities into how they died.

Autopsy Room/Cam's Office[]

Where Cam performs her own autopsies on the victim's remains before they are taken away to have their flesh removed so that Brennan and her team can look at the bones to identify the victim, locate forensic evidence, or find any possible causes of death. She also has her office here.

Ookey Room[]

In the first three seasons, Hodgins often worked at a lone desk in the Forensic Area, but Zack has his own space called the "Ookey Room". This is also the place Zack and Hodgins often did their experiments. In addition, Hodgins regularly keeps some of his bugs here. but after Zack was institutionalized, Cam wanted Hodgins to permanently move into his old space because she thought it'd be easiest for Zack, but Hodgins couldn't bring himself to take that space.

By the events in The Bone that Blew, Hodgins began using Zack's space after Max Keenan reinspires him into discovering how stuff works in a fun way, the reason why he got into science in the first place. The duo conducted an experiment with Wendell Bray using a wind tunnel, and in later episodes, he's shown to have gradually left his cubicle and begun nesting into Zack's Ookey Room ever since.

Bone Room[]

Where the skeletal remains of the victims are usually located. Brennan and her team usually go there to see if they can find anything else in regards to the victim's bones. In the episode The Shot in the Dark Brennan got shot in the room while she examined some bones.

Limbo "Modular Skeletal Storage"[]

A long hallway containing numerous boxes of bones belonging to unidentified people, both murder victims and missing people. Also referred to as "Limbo", though both Dr. Goodman and Dr. Brennan object to the term. Later in the series, everyone started to call it Limbo.

Lounge[]

Located on the mezzanine level of the Jeffersonian Institute's Medico-Legal Lab, overlooking the forensic platform, it is the area where Brennan and rest of team usually go for meetings or if they just want to hang out after a tough case.