After jetting off to London, England to film the season premiere of Bones, creator and executive producer Hart Hanson has settled into life on the Fox airwaves, as show stars Emily Deschanel and David continue their investigations back on the western side of the pond. As the season progresses through November, both Brennan and fans will learn more about Booth's past as former Roswell actor Brendan Fehr steps into the show as his younger brother. And while we love the chemistry between Brennan and Booth, the younger brother attracts the attention of his older brother's partner.

When we took at look at the storylines of the upcoming November episodes, beginning on Wednesday the 5th, one in particular stood out above the rest. Later this month Booth and Brennan board a plane bound for China where they discover a burned body in a giant microwave while flying the friendly skies. Crazy, we know!

Late last week Hart Hanson jumped on the line for a conference call where we got to the bottom of casting Brendan Fehr and how the idea of a burned body on a flight to China came to life.

THE DEADBOLT: Can you talk about casting Brendan Fehr for Jared Booth and why he was right for the role?

HANSON: Oh, it was one of those things. God, it is so hard to find somebody who is in fact of leading man caliber who isn’t on a show. And we needed somebody we thought the character of Booth would care about deeply, but had a dark side and bore at least some physical resemblance to him. I said while we were doing it, ‘Oh, that’s it. I’m not casting any more family members. It’s too difficult.’ And then in came Brendan who I knew from Roswell, who’s also a nice Canadian boy, you know.

And he has grown up nicely. He’s got some wisdom on his face, some experience on his face, and he’s a very good actor. And it didn’t hurt a bit that he and David [Boreanaz] had conflicts on the ice. They both play hockey in their leagues and they’ve had some conflicts on the ice that comes into their relationship on the show, and he just knocked it out. He came in and - I think it was two days before we were shooting, and we had to change some air dates because we just weren’t going to go with somebody who wasn’t right, and he was vey good. He was very impressive to us.

THE DEADBOLT: How did you come up with the idea for the body in the upcoming "Passenger" episode? Was it ripped from the headlines or...

HANSON: Oh, in the airplane?

THE DEADBOLT: Yeah.

HANSON: The story of solving a crime - that’s a great question - of solving a crime on a flight, where Brennan had to solve a crime. 'Brennan and Booth had to solve a crime on a flight before it landed' has been pitched every year. It was something we wanted to do and I think it was our co-exec producer, Carla Kettner, who had the idea of cooking the body in a giant microwave. So that it would be within Brennan’s field of expertise finally gave us the way into the story. We just had failed five or six times to make that story work and she came up with that and the story fell into place. So I have to give her credit for that.

Other Conference Call Highlights:

Hart Hanson on revealing Booth’s past a little at a time and not blowing it all out at once:

"That whole dynamic is the trickiest thing about Bones. I guess the easiest way to say is that you’re torn between the case and the character, and if one or the other takes over then we cannot become just a soft soap opera, a character beast, and we cannot become a procedural. So to varying degrees of success I think we bang back and forth between the river banks on that and it’s discussed at every story, every outline, every draft. And when I’m doing my final pass on the drafts, it’s always the thing that’s in my mind. And it’s on a per scene basis, too, where you go, ‘Alright. Should we laugh in this scene or find out it was a bronze bullet that killed this person?’ It’s the pain in the ass that is Bones, it’s there all of the time."

Hanson on whether the idea of Brennan wanting Booth to be the father of her child is still in the works:

"It is still in the works and it’s exactly like the previous question was, ‘What case can we be in that resonates that Brennan suddenly deciding that she wants to have a child and that Booth would be the perfect father for it.’ And that has not come up yet. It will before the end of the season. There’s one that’s horribly obvious, but we don’t want to do that. We try not to do that in Bones, which concerns a group, based on a little bit ripped from the headlines, on a group of girls who decide to have children. I think it was Gloucester, Mass. that it actually happened in. It was sixteen girls or something. So we’re doing our take on that. But that was just a little too on-the-nose for us, so it was in there for a bit and it’s come out. But it will happen."

On what we’ll learn about Booth and his past this season:

"Well, what we find out - I think it’s okay to say that what we find out in the November 12th episode is that Booth’s childhood was very tough. It was very tough and it’s hard even for him to say it or admit it to anyone and the story with Jared makes them both confront what happened in their past. I think it’s also fair to say that Booth’s relationship with his dad is not good. But he has a very good relationship with his grandfather and we always had in mind that... Since David is so much, in our minds, like James Garner, that that would be a very cool piece of casting as his grandfather. But I don’t yet know when we’re going to see Booth’s grandfather. But it will be this season and we’re coming into the last third where we are. So it’ll be in the last third of the season if all goes well. I will tell you that soon we see Booth’s apartment and there’s part of the wreckage of Booth’s grandfather’s jet, he was a fighter pilot. In there there’s kind of a homage to his grandfather."

Hart Hanson on Fox’s decision to change the order of the episodes:

"Well, God bless the Bone Yard people for their [efforts]. I mean those people watch with a - they have a detailed eye, they are assiduous human beings watching that. We knew this was going to happen, so I have to give credit to the network for warning us that this would happen. Of course it’s awful for us in a way. So what we had to do was do four episodes that - we call them around here, we call them the limbo episodes, they were shot before the English opening, the two part English season opener. But they had to air after and not in any particular order, and not in order with the things we were shooting anew. Is that confusing enough for everyone? Time, our series stood still in them, which is very hard for us and hard for the actors and obviously noticeable to the audience. I think it’s a one time thing because of the - again, it was trying to get as many episodes out.

"The network wanted the maximum number of episodes they could after the strike. And not knowing when, we were actually shooting before we knew when we were going on the air and if we were going to England and what was going to air in season three and what was going to air in season four. So it was just a complicated dog’s breakfast, a miss mash of horror that we’re almost through. We’re almost done showing things out of their proper order. It happens all of the time."