Bones Shocker: TJ Thyne on What That Heartbreaking Twist Means for Angela and Hodgins

The bomb that went off on Thursday's midseason finale of Bones may have blown up one of the show's key relationships.

The second episode of the two-hour finale opened with an explosion that sent Aubrey (John Boyd) to the hospital with some pretty scary injuries, which he sustained by shielding Hodgins (TJ Thyne) from the blast.

While Aubrey eventually left the hospital and seemed to be OK, Hodgins' bumps and bruises turned out to be much more severe after some delayed swelling around his spinal cord leaves Hodgins paralyzed.

Bones boss on how the midseason finale changes everything But is Hodgins' sad diagnosis permanent? "You can't say never, but as far as we're concerned, he's going to be wheelchair-bound," executive producer Michael Peterson tells TVGuide.com, adding that Hodgins will be put through the wringer as he comes to grips with his situation.

There's all these different stages of dealing with a tragedy -- you go through anger, you go through denial -- and he's really going to hit every single one of them.

[...] as Hodgins spirals toward his rock bottom, his wife Angela (Michaela Conlin) may turn to an unexpected source for comfort: photojournalist Sebastian Kohl (Gil Darnell).

For so many years in the early seasons, they had such struggle and difficulty and stress in their relationship.

When we come back, it's eight weeks later, so a lot of Hodgins' initial reactions to being paralyzed, we don't get to see.

When we pick back up, Jack is very much anxious to prove that he's absolutely going to get out of the chair as soon as possible and it's his struggle to stay as positive as possible while the rest of the team is so desperately concerned about him.

[...] it's a real stressful time for them all, but he believes that he's going absolutely crush this thing and get out of that chair as soon as possible, but I don't know that that's really the truth.

Thyne: I think Episode 11 is a almost like a fal