"The Man in the Morgue"
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TEASER A man's VOICEOVER is heard as video of the destruction left by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans is shown - destroyed houses, recovery workers in white hazmat suits, piles of waste, overturned cars. An unbeliever. BOOTH: Who's Sam? BRENNAN'S HOTEL - NEW ORLEANS - NIGHT Booth and Brennan are in her suite. Big life. CAR - NEW ORLEANS - DAY BRENNAN: No, of course, not. HODGINS: When? Harding and Embry come up and joins them. He races into the room Cut To: INT. More memories. Murder charge? Of course. Ripped it right out of the lobe. SAM POTTER: Dr. Brennan, a lost day? She picks up the remains of the Katrina victim's hand and examines it as the scene fades to black. She reaches for her ear as she notices her earring is missing. TILED BATHROOM Brennan still doesn't know what's happening. There's no answer. Voodoo. When the body surfaced at the morgue, she asked her boyfriend to help her hide it. While Brennan is talking to Harding, Booth looks on the floor and sees Brennan's lost earring by the leg of a hall table.
Plan: A: her earring; Q: What was ripped out of Brennan's ear? A: an entire day; Q: How much time has Brennan lost? A: even Brennan; Q: Who is rattled by the circumstances? A: vacation; Q: Why is Brennan in New Orleans? A: Hurricane Katrina; Q: What event is Brennan in New Orleans to help identify victims of? A: Booth; Q: Who arrives to help Brennan? A: the scene; Q: What does Booth arrive on? A: the local medical examiner; Q: Who is found murdered? A: Booth and Brennan's investigation; Q: What leads Booth and Brennan into the dark underworld of Southern voodoo? A: answers; Q: What are Booth and Brennan searching for? Summary: When Brennan wakes up in the bathroom of her New Orleans motel room, bloodied, beaten up and her earring ripped out of her ear, she doesn't know what happened or how she got there, and discovers she's lost an entire day of her life. The circumstances and her loss of memory are enough to rattle even Brennan, who's in New Orleans on vacation, helping to identify victims of Hurricane Katrina. Upon learning of Brennan's situation, Booth arrives on the scene to help her decipher her lost day. When the local medical examiner in New Orleans is found murdered, Brennan is targeted as the prime suspect. Booth and Brennan's investigation leads them into the dark underworld of Southern voodoo, but their search for answers may not come in time to clear Brennan's name.