53 Facts About Lance Sweets

Lance Sweets was promoted to a series regular and appeared in the opening credits beginning with the episode "The Santa in the Slush".

In "Double Trouble In The Panhandle", Lance Sweets reveals that his birth mother was a psychic working in a circus in South Florida; upon reaching the age of majority he attempted to track her down, but could gain no information from the insular circus community.

Lance Sweets lived in four foster homes by the time he was adopted at age six by the Finleys.

Lance Sweets mentioned that he was beaten by a foster dad "for sport" and the whip scars are still visible on his back.

Lance Sweets's loving, but elderly, adoptive parents died shortly before Dr Sweets began working with Booth and Brennan, leaving him without a family.

Lance Sweets correctly deduces that Sweets was adopted as a child and suffered some sort of abuse.

Lance Sweets is highly educated and intelligent despite his youth, holding two doctorates despite only being 22 years old when he made his first appearance in the show.

Lance Sweets completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto and has a master's degree in Abnormal Psychology from Temple University and two doctorates from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Lance Sweets did mention that he was an intern at a mental health facility in Philadelphia, possibly coinciding with his time as a graduate student at Temple University or the University of Pennsylvania.

Lance Sweets occasionally accompanies Booth to interview victims' family members or analyze a crime scene for insight into a suspect.

Lance Sweets is usually known to other agents, including Booth, as "the shrink".

On occasion Booth will pull rank and trick Lance Sweets into doing an interrogation or unwanted tasks for him, much to Lance Sweets' chagrin.

Lance Sweets appears to be formally trained as a psychoanalytic psychologist, often referencing Freudian theories and approaches, even describing the psychosexual stages of childhood development to Booth.

Lance Sweets was the first to correctly deduce murderer Christopher Pelant's real motives after the Jeffersonian team kept hitting dead ends with the physical evidence.

Lance Sweets began seeing Brennan and Booth in "The Secret in the Soil".

Lance Sweets has started appearing more frequently in the field; notably, undercover as Angela's aspiring-fireman-husband-with-a-bad-back, to gain information on a suspect without a warrant.

Dr Wyatt explained that he felt Lance Sweets had misinterpreted the relationship between Booth and Brennan by looking on a somewhat superficial level.

Lance Sweets asks Wyatt, now a chef, if he has the right to publish his book when Booth and Brennan cannot even admit to themselves that they are in love, but Wyatt tells him he left psychiatry so he would not have to deal with a dilemma like this.

Lance Sweets was reluctant to return after calling off his engagement with Daisy but prosecutor Caroline Julian tricked him into returning by calling him up saying that Booth had returned with "posttraumatic stress syndrome" and needed psychological help.

In Season 7, Lance Sweets decided to earn his firearms qualifications, which likely meant that he was not a sworn special agent as FBI regulations require special agents to be armed.

Lance Sweets stated that he wanted to back Booth up in light of the number of violent suspects Booth has to deal with on a regular basis and the fact that he regularly accompanies Booth out into the field.

Lance Sweets was grazed by a bullet during the test but passed.

Lance Sweets had a relationship with Daisy Wick, an intern at the Jeffersonian.

Lance Sweets asked her to marry him and later they broke up.

At the beginning of the program's tenth season, Lance Sweets is revealed to have impregnated Wick sometime prior to that episode.

Lance Sweets confesses that he had a secret thing for Angela, mentioning in Booth's coma about Daisy.

In "The Critic in the Cabernet" when Booth is in the hospital, Lance Sweets is visibly upset and emotional about Booth's predicament.

On other occasions, Booth has asked for Lance Sweets's help during investigations, even explicitly recommending him to Cam on one occasion.

Lance Sweets has a good friendship with Brennan, despite her disdain for his profession.

Later, after learning that Lance Sweets was abused as a child, she shares a part of her own pained childhood with him in an attempt to connect with him.

Later on, during "The Night in the Bones Museum", Brennan agrees to rehire Daisy when Lance Sweets says he would take it as a personal favor, possibly as a result of her affection for him.

On occasion Brennan will admit to the uses of psychology, such as when she asked Lance Sweets to help her learn to read people the same way Booth does.

Lance Sweets explains that, although it is not necessary to the case, he wants that insight into the human mind, something that Brennan accepts and respects.

Lance Sweets stayed with them for several months after he broke up with Daisy and when he was about to move into his new apartment, Brennan expressed her sadness that Sweets would no longer be there to help babysit Christine or share his recipes.

When Booth was wrongfully imprisoned after the season 9 finale, Lance Sweets took over Booth's fatherly duties and regularly took Christine to the park and helped Brennan move into the new house.

Lance Sweets has developed a friendly relationship with Dr Gordon Wyatt, who in turn mentors Lance Sweets and offers him guidance at times.

Lance Sweets tells Sweets that he has a good heart and a genuine desire to help others that makes psychology his true calling, something that Gordon himself does not have.

Lance Sweets begins dating one of Dr Temperance Brennan's interns, Daisy Wick, after meeting her during a case.

Lance Sweets is initially drawn to her by the fact that she minored in psychology and later, after Booth and Brennan avoid another therapy session, calls her.

When Daisy confesses she thought that Lance Sweets was ashamed of her, he kisses her in front of the entire team, surprising them all greatly.

Lance Sweets teaches her breathing techniques to make her less so, but she begins to resent his constant presence at the lab.

Lance Sweets realizes that his trying to change her was insulting, and resolves that if she ever fails in future, he will just "give [her] a hug".

In "The Bones On The Blue Line", Lance Sweets proposes to Daisy, and she accepts.

Lance Sweets realizes that he wants a stable relationship, and he and Daisy reconnect in a bar by realizing that they are not so different after all.

Later on in the season it is revealed that Lance Sweets is planning on proposing to Daisy again.

Lance Sweets is brought into the series early in the third season as a psychologist to Seeley Booth and Temperance Brennan.

Lance Sweets' presence provides a bit of comic relief, as he is often the target of insults from both his clients, though they do show sympathy for him on occasion.

Lance Sweets is characterized as extremely intelligent and he has often been able to provide much-needed insight into a case when the Jeffersonian team hit a dead end with physical evidence.

Lance Sweets is generally well-liked and valued by the "squints" despite Brennan's dislike of psychology and Hodgins' incessant jibes about his youthful appearance.

Besides his academic intellect and skill as a profiler, Lance Sweets has various interests outside of psychology.

Lance Sweets is musically-inclined and plays the piano ; in during the time frame between Seasons 5 and 6 he takes a sabbatical when Booth, Brennan, Angela, Hodgins and Daisy leave Washington DC for a year and becomes a freelance pianist.

Lance Sweets is protective of Brennan, having burnt evidence that he thought would implicate her.

Also on the scene is Aubrey, who arrived moments after the incident, after hearing the shots Lance Sweets fired at his assailant.