TEXT: "Death in the Saddle" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER [EXT. VIRGINIA - WOODED AREA - DAY. A group of boy scouts are setting up camp in the middle of the woods. A LEADER: approaches AARON:, one of the boys, who is in the process of erecting a tent.] LEADER: Aaron, where's Joey? AARON: Takin' a leak. LEADER: (sighing) Buddy system! AARON: Come on! LEADER: Which way'd he go? AARON: I dunno, Jeez, Joey's gotta whiz like every ten minutes, and I- [From offscreen JOEY is heard screaming. Leader, Aaron, and another boy immediately run towards him. They find him a few feet from the main camp area, he is screaming as he has found a maggot-covered corpse in the bushes.] [CUT TO: EXT. WASHINGTON DC - WOODED AREA - NIGHT. DR. CAMILLE SAROYAN is leaning down, examining the corpse while SPECIAL AGENT SEELEY BOOTH: stands watching. Several FBI Agents are investigating the scene, and floodlights have been set up to aid in the investigation.] CAM: Trauma to the forehead... BOOTH: Eyes full of maggots, and all you see is the boo-boo on the forehead. CAM: Hands bound in front of him...Definitely not execution-style. BOOTH: What's the uh, shiny stuff on the nose? CAM: Some kind of emollient. It's around his lips too. You get anything out of the boy who found him? [Enter DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN:] BOOTH: Only thing that came out of the kid was vomit. BRENNAN: That would explain the pervasive smell... Why am I here? CAM: Dead guy, foul play... it's your main function. BRENNAN: With bones
SUMMARY:
After the decomposed body of a man, whose feet were removed and arms bound, is found in the woods, the team is called in to investigate. The man is discovered to have stayed at a pony play retreat and was killed with a hoof knife. His wife discovered him at the retreat with another woman just before he died, and both become suspects in the case as well as the lover's ex-husband. Meanwhile, Angela attempts to go under hypnosis to find out the name of her husband nicknamed Birambau to divorce him in order to marry Hodgins. Though the hypnosis fails initially it ultimately leads her to the name, Grayson Barasa.