TEXT: (Open: Rock Creek subway Tunnel. Sweets is sitting and listening to his ipod when the guy next to him receives a text message and sits down next to him. Shocked. He starts to tear up.) SWEETS: Uh, excuse me. Are you all right? MARCO: Yes. Yes. Yes, thanks. Yes, in fact, I'm great. I've been fighting leukemia for the past eight years and now I just got a text; I'm cancer free. SWEETS: That's awesome. Congratulations, man. MARCO: It's... Oh, my God. I've been on hold for almost half my life. No more. No. I'm gonna travel, I-I'm going to sleep with exotic women in exotic places, I-I'm gonna do anything I want. SWEETS: Hey, that sounds like a good plan. Congrats, man. (He shakes Marco's hand.) (Cut to: Founding Father. Booth and Brennan are meeting with Riku Iwanaga. She has come all the way from Japan to interview Brennan about her latest book, Bone of Contention.) BRENNAN: Ms. Iwanaga has come all the way over from Japan just to interview me about my new book. BOOTH: So her book is big in Japan, too? RIKU IWANAGA: Yes, very popular. Spine-tingling. BOOTH: Spine-tingling is good, Bones. BRENNAN: Well - well, except when it indicates a dangers nerve disorder. Well, she's also interested in how you work. BOOTH: Oh, sure. As long as we keep you safe. RIKU IWANAGA: That is what Agent Andy would say in your books. (The building starts to shake) RIKU IWANAGA: It is an earthquake. BOOTH: No, no, no, no. It's not earthquake. This - this isn't California. BRENNAN: Well, in both 1811 and 1812, large tremors shook D.C. And again in 1828. (The building shakes again, harder this
SUMMARY:
While Dr. Sweets is on a subway train, a stranger tells him he has just been cured of leukemia , then the train is thrown off its tracks as a water main breaks, causing havoc inside the train leading to death of the man who had just been cured of cancer. The accident exposes a skeleton that was caused by the flooding, leading Booth and Brennan to investigate. With the release of Brennan's fourth book, a reporter ( Seiko Matsuda ) interviews her for a Japanese magazine and follows her and the team around. Sweets deals with the near-death experience feeling it was a message to live his life fully, leading him to make a decision about his relationship with Daisy.