The real reason Sweets was killed off on Bones

At the end of Bones’ ninth season, Agent Booth was attacked in his home by three men after an investigation into the death of a conspiracy blogger revealed a shadowy blackmail scheme targeting high-level government officials. Booth was able to turn the table on his would-be assassins, but after being treated for the wounds he sustained in the attack, he was arrested. He protested that he was acting in self defense, but was told that the three men he killed were FBI agents. The assassins, it turned out, were part of a larger governmental conspiracy, and whoever was pulling the strings used them to successfully frame Booth for capital murder.

As season 10 began, Booth was in prison, while the rest of the team — including Sweets — attempted to uncover who was trying to frame him, and why. Booth was eventually exonerated and freed from jail. He vowed to investigate the conspiracy further, but before he got far, he and Bones were called to a parking garage where they found Sweets bloodied and dying on the ground.

Sweets had been in possession of incriminating files that were stolen by his killer in an attempt to put an end to the team’s investigation into the conspiracy. Before he succumbed to his injuries, Sweets told his troubled friend Booth, “The world is a lot better than you think it is,” in a touching final moment between the two.

Written by: Looper