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Season five answered the will-they, won't-they question that has lingered on "Bones" since the pilot episode.

The answer was they already did.

Now, for the sixth season, producers have re-set the series in a big way and bring the core characters back together but leaving them all in different places emotionally. When we last saw the squint squad, Hodgins and Angela (TJ Thyne and Michaela Conlin) ran off to enjoy married life, Booth (David Boreanaz) was re-activated by the army and Bones (Emily Deschanel) was heading off to an archaeological dig ... all with a plan to reunite in a year.

As circumstances will have it, the core team will only last seven months apart before they are forced to reunite in order to save one of their own but their time away will send everyone off in their own directions.

"We're resetting the series emotionally for all of the characters," executive producer Stephen Nathan told TVGuide.com. "What the season seems to be doing is trying to keep everyone off-balance. The best-laid plans for all of our characters might be very different than we think they are. It also reinforces the relationship that all of our people have. We see in a way how close this group is and how much they needed each other, even in that time that they were apart."

Among the key aspects the season will explore is Brennan's inability to express her emotions healthily, particularly when she learns that Booth has a new woman in his life. During his escapades in Afghanistan, Booth hooked up with a journalist named Hannah (Kathryn Winnick) believing that his feelings for Brennan will never be reciprocated.

But that isn't the biggest bombshell to hit the series: Angela and Hodgins will soon be parents. The carefree couple will quickly discover their lives will be that little bit richer and that their priorities in life will dramatically shift away from their personal crusade in the crime lab.

"We want to have a really good, healthy relationship on the show," Nathan said. "That doesn't mean they don't have issues ... ee're going to try to deal with those events that occur in any couple's life and how a couple that loves each other deals with those events."

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"Bones" returns Sept. 23 on Fox.