TEXT: "The Woman in the Sand" [SCENE_BREAK] (Open: Las Vegas Desert. Tents are set up and Agents are scouring the area. Booth and Brennan arrive at the crime scene) BRENNAN: So who do they think the body is? BOOTH: Federal prosecutor who disappeared five years ago, a day before he was starred at a mob trial. BRENNAN: Five years? So there's not much left of him. BOOTH: Yup, that's why they flew you to Sin City, Bones. (Brennan looks around) BRENNAN: They call this, America's playground? BOOTH: We're fifteen miles outside Vegas, Bones. This is America's frying pan. BRENNAN: No kidding. A person can melt before finding a body anywhere near here. BOOTH: Once the mob makes a federal prosecutor disappear, they kind off want him staying that way. AGENT ERIC ZHANG: Agent Booth BOOTH: Agent Zhang AGENT ERIC ZHANG: Dr. Brennan, Thanks for coming. Okay, May 20, 2001. Mason Roberts was supposed to deliver a keynote address at UNLV but he never showed. Found his car 3 blocks from his office, engine still running. Right this way. BOOTH: Wait. No leads until now? AGENT ERIC ZHANG: The police don't mean much without a body. Then yesterday, we get this tip from this call girl working at the Tangiers Hotel. BOOTH: Woah. So, I dragged out one of the top Forensic Anthropologists across the country on the word of a prostitute? BRENNAN: What difference does her profession make? BOOTH: I'm backing you up. BRENNAN: What? You're judging. BOOTH: I wasn't judging. I had your back. BRENNAN: Yes, your voice was judging. BOOTH: I had your back. AGENT ERIC ZHANG: Anyway, the body was right where she said it would be, mile marker 15. (The show the skeleton buried in the sand
SUMMARY:
The team head to the outskirts of Las Vegas to investigate the murder of a missing federal prosecutor and a related murder of a female boxer. While questioning a suspect at a casino, Booth finds himself face to face with his old addiction: gambling. He and Bones go undercover as a couple to infiltrate an underground fight circuit to find out who or what got the victims killed.