As we look forward to the upcoming season, it has been mentioned that the rumored scene of Booth and Brennan making out might have been a foiler on your part. Care to comment?


HH: [Laughs] I might have been trying to see where the leak comes from, but it could also be in [the episode]. I'm just trying to find out where information gets out from!

Stephen Nathan: Where is the leak? Is there a leak?

HH: Yes!

SN: Oh my God.

HH: How [else] did the [script] page of Brennan and Booth kissing get out into the world?

So it seems safe to say you were just putting that scene out there solely to try and plug any leaks.

HH: There is a very, very romantic moment in the season opener.

But it's not that kiss.

HH: It might be. I'm not saying.

So do you have a definitive plan for when Booth and Brennan will get together in terms of what season it is? Or is it flexible?

HH: I'm pretty flexible, although I know how it happens and when. I know when [it happens] in the life of the characters, I don't know when in the life of the series. I've always known -- I can't say too much about it -- [but I know] how that happens. I believe that with a series -- and it sounds flaky, but it's the only way I'm flaky, I promise you -- you just have to listen to the series and watch the series and try not to listen too much to the fans. It's impossible not to [listen to the fans] though. And you talk to the actors and the people who are there every day and try and figure out how it's going. And you have to be flexible that way, I think.

Back to the new season, we know that Cyndi Lauper is coming on as a psychic, but can we expect any other familiar faces?

HH: We're going to cast Booth's grandfather. We have someone we really want, but I can't talk about it in case we don't get him, and then the person we get [will feel] horrible. We can't have that. And I was just talking to Ryan O'Neal's best friend to see how he was, and we'd like to have him back [as Brennan's father]. And I've got an idea for one more intern I'd like to bring in. A severely bipolar intern.

Brennan would probably have a hard time dealing with those kinds of emotional issues on a regular basis.

HH: Yeah, to her it would appear to be completely irrational behavior. So it's fun.

And Brendan Fehr is returning as Jared, correct?

HH: Jared will be back. I'm guessing [for] two or three [episodes]. I definitely have two ideas for him. And things pop up, where I think, oh, that would be good for Jared. Someone's going to snap him up though. All these actors we have, [like] the interns, they're all really good. We don't have them in holding deals, they're just guest stars, so we go to them and hope they are available. It's brutal.

How about the other characters who are regulars? I'm hearing Angela and Sweets will be spending a good deal of time together, yes?

HH: Everyone wants to work with John [Francis Daley (Sweets)]. And he really has a good thing going with Michaela [Conlin (Angela)]. Him and Angela are fun.

And some fans have noted they have some tension, possibly romantic, sexual, something along those lines. Will that be played up this year?

HH: Yes, that's right. It's there. Did I tell you Angela's going to break her celibacy [vow]? I'm not saying with who though.

Can you say if it's with a male or a female?

HH: Male. And someone we know.

If it's Booth she sleeps with...

HH: I'm not saying it's not Booth.

Nice use of the double negative. Anything you can tease to about the 100th episode?

HH: David [Boreanaz (Booth)] is scheduled to shoot it. We don't know what the story is yet. But it's our 100th episode, so we have to do something a little big.