10 Disturbing Backstories Behind Your Favourite TV Characters
4. Dr. Lance Sweets - Bones
Dr. Lance Sweets came onto the show in the third season, taking on the role of the psychiatrist of both Dr. Brennan and Seeley Booth. He was incredibly friendly, and obviously intelligent, which he proved by psychoanalyzing the main characters perfectly.
His youth and relative inexperience in the field made him something of a comic relief/target of insult, but he quickly established himself as an important character to the series. Everything about Sweets revolved around his loving and charismatic personality, but like both Booth and Brennan, he had a rough time growing up.
He was able to relate to Brennan's abandonment issues resulting from her parents leaving in her teenage years, and he could relate to Booth, who had an abusive, alcoholic father. Sweets grew up with abusive parents, and they were emotionally and physically abusive to him until he was put into the foster system sometime before the age of six.
At that time, he was adopted by a loving and caring couple, but before that happened, he lived in a nightmare no child deserves. In an episode in the fourth season, whip scars could be seen on his back, and while he didn't talk about it much, he clearly carried the pain into adulthood.