Warning: This story contains spoilers from the series finale ofBones.

Booth and Brennan have finally walked off into the sunsetwell, the night.

(Headherefor star Emily Deschanel’s thoughts onBones’final hour.)

What we wanted to do this season is really challenge who Brennan is.

Her parents went missing.

Ultimately she finds out, and she realizes that she’s not even living by her actual name.

She’s worked so hard to get there [with him]; now he’s gone.

Who is her family?

And this last episode is this final hurdle she has to overcome.

She’s questioning, you know, where’s my place in the world without this?

There’s nothing wrong with her intelligence at all.

It’s a wonderful virtue.

She’s a more well-rounded person than when we first met her.

She’s taken down these barriers and opened herself up, and we wanted to acknowledge that.

Was that always the guiding principle for this finale, or did you ever consider going darker?

There were lots of considerations.

There was consideration of letting Hodgins walk again: Is that the lightness we need to run towards?

It can mean quite the opposite.

You gain new perspective…

So I don’t think we ever considered going much darker.

[We considered going] lighter.

Is there any chance Cam is not going to come back to the Jeffersonian after her six months away?

Yeah, I think that’s very much a real chance.

I think she and Arastoo will make the tough choices as they look at their careers together.

But you know, that’s life.

People do move on, but it doesn’t mean that friendships die out.

Angela, on the other hand, has always talked about leaving.

What was the thought process behind keeping her settled at the Jeffersonian?

First of all, it just felt like territory that had been mined, to be honest.

And she’s also changed so much.

She’s not just wanting to go off and be in Paris and be this famous artist.

Her priorities have changed as a mom and as a friend and everything else.

She’s not going to just hold on to an old dream.

She’s going to make new dreams every single day.

There were so many references to past years in this final episode and final season.

Did the cast have any input in the callbacks?

The Mulder/Scully line that Booth alludes to in [the finale] was absolutely David.

He was like, “Yep, we gotta do it, we gotta do it.”

You gotta do it."

And I think at the end of the day, he was right.

We certainly didn’t want to throw any shade on anybody else.

We got the final piece in the 4:47 puzzle.

How did you settle on the meaning behind it?

There were a lot of arguments and discussions.

Everybody has a different way of looking at it.

But we tried to wrap it up as best as we could.

Everything else we’ve teased with 4:47, I would call omens leading up to this moment.

Brennan goes through this struggle, and she comes out the other side a changed person.

She is able to see herself in a different light.

In this action and in their survival, they are changed.

Booth is finally able to absolve himself from his guilt because Brennan talks him through it.

Same with Boothhe’s able to help Brennan redefine herself and see that she is more than her intelligence.

4:47 is that moment when their life changes one more time.

And you know that they’re going to be okay.

Any chance I can get you to say anything about Hart’s idea?

He’s just too smart for me to be able to explain.

It had something to do with Brennan just being the exceptional woman that she is.

But he really could say it so much better.

At the end of the day, what do you hope people take fromBones?

I think that whatever each individual takes from it is really up to them.

There’s just something about the show that has always been very hopeful.

And I want people to feel that even as the show ends.

You really hope that’s still going on when you don’t see it.

And you as a viewer are going to be okay, too.