TEXT: TEASER EXT. BACK ALLEY OF A FAST FOOD CHAIN - NIGHT (FATHER and SON are collecting grease from a grease receptacle. They are maneuvering hoses.) SON: Sucking fry oil from these seafood restaurants are the worst. I don't mind the chicken places but the seafood makes me sick. FATHER: Quit moanin' and put the hose in. SON: (Opens a panel of the grease receptacle) Ugh, smells like shrimp. (Puts the hose in) Okay! Suck it. (The father turns on the machine. Something gets caught in the hose.) SON: Hold it. Hold it. (He pulls out...) Ugh, I got hair. A lot. It's gross. FATHER: Probably a rat. Let's just open 'er up. (They open up the receptacle together. It looks unappetizing.) FATHER: Go ahead and pull it out. (Son reaches his gloved hand in and pulls out a fleshy, dead human. Son screams as the camera pans to the corpse slowly sinking back into the grease.) EXT. BACK ALLEY OF A FAST FOOD CHAIN - DAY (Police sirens.) (FBI and police cars are already at the scene. CAM is also there directing personnel. BOOTH and BRENNAN arrive. They are walking from Booth's car.) BOOTH: Fishing is not a sport. BRENNAN: What? Monuments to sporting events in Ancient Egypt include fishing, as well as swimming and wrestling. BOOTH: C'mon. No sweat, no sport. BRENNAN: Well. Oh, Boris Spassky at chess. He used to perspire profusely. BOOTH: Why do you gotta make things so complicated? Let me break it down for you, okay? Basketball, football, hockey... that's a sport. Board games, fishing? Not a sport. CAM: No problem going easy on the fried food after this one. (They
SUMMARY:
When the remains of a competitive gamer are discovered in a grease truck, Brennan and Booth are called to investigate the case. The victim, Steve Rifton, is the only active player known in the gaming community to have received a perfect score on a famous video game. Steve turned his success into a lucrative partnership with a gaming referee and charged fans to play on the very machine that gave him the perfect score. But between sour business deals and bitter competitors, the team at the Jeffersonian must work to narrow down the many suspects with motive for ending Rifton's reign as gaming king. Meanwhile, Hodgins, Sweets and Jeffersonian intern Colin Fischer take turns camping out for tickets to a movie premiere.