If the Bones season finale left you yearning to know more, check out this interview with Hart Hanson where he explains what fans can expect to see when the show returns! Warning: Spoiler Alert!

If you don’t want to be spoiled, turn back now!

The season finale left Brennan hopeless, as an evil genius had managed to frame her quite convincingly for murder. SO much so that even the team at the Jeffersonian were second guessing their initial beliefs that she had to be innocent. When so much evidence was stacked up against her they had no choice but to issue a warrant for her arrest. Fearing what Pelant would be able to do once she was in the system, Brennan fled with daughter Christine leaving Booth behind.

TV Line reports:

TVLINE | Will there be a significant time jump between seasons?
It always works for us to have the same amount of time pass for our characters as it did for our audience, and I believe we will be very close to that again. A couple of months will have gone by.

TVLINE | Will Brennan have been a fugitive for that length of time?
Here’s what I’ll say: There is an arrest warrant out for her and she is avoiding that warrant. If she gets [arrested and] gets into the system, then Pelant can do anything he wants to her, which would be pretty terrible. So she’s outside the system in that time, with the help of her dad.

TVLINE | How many episodes will this play out in next fall?
It will be many episodes before the Pelant story is resolved. I think we will have Brennan and Booth back together — and her back working at the Jeffersonian — by the end of the first episode. I don’t know if I want to say that or not, but I just did. [Laughs]

TVLINE | Regarding the four standalone bonus episodes, I imagine they can’t air at the start of the season since you’d have a major continuity issue with Brennan’s disappearance.
We’re counting on them airing one or two of them early in the season, but it won’t be the premiere. And I doubt it would be the second episode. We might be able to get away with airing one of them in the third or fourth spot. But beyond that I don’t know.

Is there anything else you’ve been left wondering about?