TEXT: "The Bone That Blew" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER EXT. VIRGINIA - WOODED AREA - NIGHT [POACHER #1: following POACHER #2: through the forest. Both are holding flashlights.] POACHER #1: : I'm tellin' ya, this... this is a bad idea. POACHER #2: Huh..I heard there's an eighty foot tall black walnut tree back here. POACHER #1: Uh huh? POACHER #2: We can get fifteen grand for just one tree! POACHER #1: This is government property! The road said "closed" in big red letters! POACHER #2: So we get in, we get the wood, we get out. [POACHER #1: shines his flashlight up at a large tree.] POACHER #1: Is this it? POACHER #2: What are you, a moron? This tree is coniferous. POACHER #1: Carnivorous, what? It eats meat? POACHER #2: No, numb nuts. Needles and cones. POACHER #1: Oh. [Dude #1 shines his flashlight up into another tree and sees a large chunk of bone nestled in the branches] POACHER #1: Those don't look like cones to me. [POACHER #2: shines his own flashlight up into the tree and sees that there are several additional bones scattered throughout the branches. Eventually his light hits upon a partial human skull.] POACHER #2: Holy mother of God. [POACHER #1: screams loudly.] [CUT TO: INT. MEDICO-LEGAL LAB - MAIN AREA - DAY] [DR. CAMILLE SAROYAN and DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN are walking together through the lab, arguing.] BRENNAN: How could you have hired him? CAM: Your father was the best candidate. BRENNAN: Well, are you sure? Dad is an excellent liar. CAM: He's also an excellent science teacher. I called the school where
SUMMARY:
When a skull and various skeletal remains are found in a tree in a nationally protected wooded preserve, Brennan and Booth are on the case to investigate. Back at the Jeffersonian, Brennan learns of her father's new position as a teacher, a prospect she is less than happy to learn about, allegedly because of his recent acquittal for murder. In a lucky break, the victim's bones are identified in a government database as those of an ex-Marine who has been off-the grid for nearly three years. With no records of his whereabouts from the past three years, the team turns to the internet for answers. The investigation eventually leads Brennan and Booth to an ultra-elite private school and a group of rich and powerful families, one of whom the ex-Marine had worked for as a "nanny". As the investigation continues, the team finds Brennan's father to be an unlikely asset to the case, but Brennan is opposed to her father's involvement.