TEXT: "The Salt in the Wounds" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (City Maintenance Storage Unit, two workers walking towards a truck.) TESS: Operation says we've got a black ice alert on the bridges. DARLENE: Weather guys are like psychics, man, they don't know squat! TESS: I went to a psychic once, talked to my mother. Mom even bothered me dead. DARLENE: All of the bridges? TESS: All of 'em! Okay, fill me up. (They reach the truck, DARLENE pushes a button and salt starts pouring into the truck.) (DARLENE sees something fall into the truck, and stops the salt.) TESS: What's up? DARLENE: Something in the salt. (She glances into the truck.) DARLENE: Aah! TESS: What is it? DARLENE: You know that Bible story about the woman who turns into salt? TESS: Lot's wife? DARLENE: I think maybe we found her! (Camera pans to a body/skeleton lying in the salt.) [SCENE_BREAK] (Cut to later, police have arrived at the scene, Brennan is in the truck, and Booth climbs up.) BOOTH: So, the weather's been warm for the past six weeks, wow, so they haven't had to use rock salt. BRENNAN: The dermis is extremely desiccated, the salt quick-dried the tissues. (She is examining the body of a young woman, covered in salt crystals.) BOOTH: Looks like a really big Apple doll. BRENNAN: Teenage girl. Very tall, six feet. BOOTH: Looks like she's been dead for about a hundred years. BRENNAN: No, in fact less than a month. Salt is hygroscopic. It draws moisture from its surroundings and replaces it with crystals. BOOTH: You know what? I suddenly got a potato chip craving. [SCENE_BREAK] (Cut
SUMMARY:
Booth and Brennan investigate a petrified human body found buried in a mound of salt in a city de-icing truck. They discover that the victim was a pregnant 16-year-old high school volleyball player, and are shocked to find that nearly half of her teammates are either pregnant or already have had babies from the same father. Meanwhile, Roxie breaks up with Angela, who, seeking solace, has a one-night stand with Hodgins.