TEXT: "The Man with the Bone" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (Interior - Hallway, F.B.I. building. Fade in on DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN and SPECIAL AGENT SEELEY BOOTH as they walk side-by-side down the clinically white, sterile-looking hallway.) BOOTH: Welcome to the dungeon. BRENNAN: (hands stuffed into her pockets as she walks) Why do the F.B.I. always stick their morgues in the most depressing basement they can find? BOOTH: Don't be such a snob, Bones, okay? Not everyone gets to play in a multimillion-dollar lab, you know, with skylights. BRENNAN: It's because as a society we feel the need to hide death away. (pause) The people who deal with the dead are... viewed as freaks. BOOTH: I don't know if it's the basement thing but this guy you're about to meet, Harry, he's a little twisted. BRENNAN: You probably think I get some kind of rush when I work, that I'm somehow titillated. BOOTH: (grimaces) Ah, choice of words, Bones. Choice of words. [SCENE_BREAK] (Cut to: Booth pushing open double doors as he and Brennan enter the F.B.I. morgue. Booth is whistling. A slender man sporting wire-rimmed glasses, a long white lab coat and a bow tie, is standing at a light board, examining several X-rays including one of a chest and ribcage and another of a skull and spine. He is the aforementioned 'twisted' medical examiner, HARRY TEPPER, M.D., and as Booth nods hello, Harry turns to greet him with a handshake.) HARRY: Agent Booth. BOOTH: Harry Tepper, meet Doctor Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian. HARRY: I've read her. (
SUMMARY:
When a dead body is found clutching a 300-year-old finger bone, Booth and Brennan's investigation leads them to a dive site off the coast of Assateague Island where a pirate treasure may be buried. Hodgins is excited to get out of the lab and participates in a dive that uncovers more skeletal remains, which are authentic but prove that some of the bones found were actually stolen from the Jeffersonian collection. The investigation uncovers the possibility that the skeletal remains were placed at the dive site by a surprising culprit with a selfish motivation. But when the suspect is found murdered, a new lead sends the duo on the search for the owner of the dig shaft. Hodgins, excited to get involved in the case, volunteers for another dive in the shaft, but Brennan and Booth must race to save him from an underwater death when they discover who's behind it all.