Bones Premiere Just Emotionally Wrecked Us: How Shocked Were You?

We feel sad and betrayed after the Season 10 premiere's major death. Help us, please.

Uh, say what?

Tonight's Bones premiere something very upsetting, you guys, and our slightly tipsy (Thanks, Shonda Rhimes!) brains don't quite know how to process it yet. (Warning, major spoilers ahead!)

The beloved Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley) is dead. We repeat: DEAD. At the very end of the season 10 premiere, in the quest to clear Booth's name and help him re-adjust after prison, Sweets was beaten to death. He died in Booth's arms, and now everything is terrible.

To make things worse (though also, in a way, ever so slightly better?), Sweets' girlfriend, Daisy, is pregnant. Way to break our hearts once again, television.

First of all, we saw Booth being horribly beaten in jail for being a "cop killer." Seeing Booth this way encouraged Brennan to blackmail Brady, who successfully got Booth out of jail. Brennan comforted Booth, and then asked Sweets for his help.

Meanwhile, the team continued to work on those files found in that nipple ring chip (LOL). There were a lot of confused autopsies and a car accident and a dead homeless man to sort out, and it all came down to one Hugo Sanderson, whose chemical company made the drugs that poisoned a dead man. Sweets was on his way back with files from the Sanderson Company when he was stopped in a parking lot and beaten up. 

Booth and Brennan found him that way, and sat with him as he bled out. He wanted them to tell Daisy not to worry, and he was still spouting that typical Sweets optimism as he died.

As one long-time team member was about to exit, a new one came in to help keep Booth by the book (or rather to secretly help keep Booth far away from the book). We think we'll like FBI Special Agent James Aubrey, played by John Boyd, but we're mourning too hard to really tell.

So, we're upset and Bones will never be the same, but at least this means that we'll have a new Vacation movie to look forward to soon, since John Francis Daley's busy directing duties are what prompted his character's death. 

Daley tweeted his love to his coworkers after the episode ended, and many, many fans tweeted their dismay back at him. 

Much love to the cast, crew and fans of "Bones." I grew up with you guys.

? John Francis Daley (@JohnFDaley) September 26, 2014

David Boreanaz said it best when he simply tweeted, "Gutted" and "Sad." Ditto. 

RIP, Sweets. You will be missed.