TEXT: "The Passenger in the Oven" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (Open: Airplane exterior; night. Interior of airplane. Camera pans through first class; BRENNAN's chair is reclined, and she is sleeping with a smile and wearing an eye mask. Pan through coach shows BOOTH sitting in the middle of the plane between two elderly women, one sleeping with her head on his shoulder. BOOTH looks at the sleeping woman, then to his right; the other woman is reading.) BOOTH: Excuse me- CHARLOTTE: (interrupts) Just a minute. BOOTH: (sighs) Ma'am, this woman is asleep next to me and I really have to get out. CHARLOTTE: (laughs and closes book) It's just that this book is so exciting. Do you like mysteries? BOOTH: Well, I-I'm an FBI agent, so mysteries are sort of my thing. CHARLOTTE: (whispers) I'm an aficionado myself. I'm here with NADINE. (points to sleeping woman) She's plotting the perfect murder. For years now. But just for fun. BOOTH: Right, you can tell me all about it later; I've really got to get out. I gotta go. CHARLOTTE: Oh, right. When you gotta go, you gotta go. BOOTH: Yeah. (eases NADINE's head off of his shoulder and stands, then stands and shuffles toward CHARLOTTE.) Sorry. (steps over her legs quickly and walks toward first class) (Cut to first class; a boy is stealing small bottles of liquor from a serving cart. BOOTH walks through curtain separating classes and, seeing the boy, walks up to his seat.) BOOTH: Hey. How old are you? (shows boy his badge) ELI: (sighs) Come on, we're at thirty-six thousand feet, that's outside the three-mile limit. BOOTH: This is American soil until we touch down in Shanghai, alright? So come on, hand them over. (ELI gives
SUMMARY:
Booth and Brennan are en route to China where Brennan has been summoned to help identify pre-historic anthropological remains with Booth in tow to watch over her highly sensitive equipment. However, their flight is disrupted when a flight attendant discovers a fully cooked human body in the plane's industrial microwave. Booth and Brennan connect with the team back in the U.S. via internet connection and they use Brennan's high-tech equipment, as well as odds and ends from the airline passengers, to send evidence back to the Jeffersonian for processing. When they identify the victim as a travel writer working on a controversial story about airline pilots, Booth and Brennan must race against the clock and solve the murder before the plane lands in China and they lose their jurisdiction over the case. Meanwhile, back in the states, Angela and Roxie's relationship progresses as Hodgins tries to move on.