Angela Montenegro (Bones)

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Angela Montenegro is a fictional character in the television series Bones.

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Angela Montenegro is not one of the "squints." An artist, free spirit, a "good-time girl" and "wild-child" at heart, she is the team's specialist in forensic facial reconstruction. She is the center of life and passion in the team, although not quite of normalcy and stability.

Although artistic in temperament, she is obviously quite intelligent, developing, maintaining, and improving the lab's 3-dimensional graphics and computer simulation system. While she may not exhibit the same social traits as her colleagues, she is well suited intellectually to the team.

She is open, friendly, and caring, seeming to have taken on a nurturing role in the team: she has befriended and constantly tries to draw out Dr. Brennan (referring to her as 'Sweetie'), and she acts as advisor and "social coach" to Zach. Her rapport with Jack seems to be that of a colleague, the two of them being the closest to socially normal within the team. Her appreciation for the well-scrubbed appearance of Seeley Booth is obvious for anyone within sight or earshot of her.

Little is known of her family, although it was revealed that she is the daughter of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. Apart from this, and the parade of faces and anecdotes from her love-life, not much is known of her background. It is revealed that at one point, she got married in a fire-water-influenced ceremony in Fiji. She was unsure whether the marriage "stuck" (was legal) and has no knowledge of where her husband is now.

Her personality according to her coworkers is "quirky," a reality that she seems to be aware of herself. She once told Dr. Brennan: "I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them" (Episode 1-16).

She is also the most socially sophisticated of the team, especially on matters pertaining to love and romance. Rarely an episode goes by when her sexual expertise does not come up in some conversation with the team.

She also frequently shows attraction to a man who turns out to be guilty of the crime they are investigating. Angela once was asked by Hodgins on a date. She broke it off and went back to being just friends because she was afraid that if things get "messy," it would affect their co-workers negatively. Later, after he was found after being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together. Additionally, Angela asked Hodgins if she could sleep at his place one night after being spooked by restored video footage. Although not expressly stated, it has become increasingly clear that he and Angela are involved- at the very least more than just just friends. This is seen in the many moments between Hodgins and Angela in most of the episodes following their first date ("The Girl With the Curl"), especially in "The Man in the Mansion"). In "The Priest in the Churchyard", they "christen" a replica of Cleopatra's bed slated to be put on exibit. Hodgins also asks her to move in with him.