TEXT: "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" [SCENE_BREAK] [Fade in: Stock footage of the White House at Christmastime fades to the Jefferesonain lab, decorated for Christmas. Angela enters the lab, dressed as an elf, chasing after Brennan. Text on the screen reads: DECEMBER 23RD 6 PM] ANGELA: Sweetie! BRENNAN: Angela, I don't want to. ANGELA: Sweetie, could you stop galloping for, like, two seconds? BRENNAN: Better able to withstand peer pressure when you can't catch me. ANGELA: Call it a favor, okay? BRENNAN: How is me going to a company Christmas party doing you a favor? ANGELA: Remember what happened last year? BRENNAN: I didn't go last year. ANGELA: Yeah, exactly. And it took me weeks to collect all those photocopies. I need you. Friends don't let friends photocopy their butts at company Christmas parties. Hey, there's a Secret Santa. BRENNAN: I don't like Secret Santa. The idea that we are forced by convention to exchange meaningless gifts is... ANGELA: Yeah, yeah, I know. If you rearrange Secret Santa, though, you get Secret Satan. [Angela continues to follow Brennan around the platform, standing by as Brennan begins to examine a skull.] BRENNAN: What possible meaning could that have? ANGELA: I've already had an eggnog, if you can't tell. Now, how am I gonna enjoy this party knowing that my best friend in the whole world is in the lab, eyeball to eyeball with... Skeletor? BRENNAN: Who? ANGELA: He's a cartoon villain who looks like a... You know, his name is self explanatory. Would you please just come to this party? [Brennan exhales.] BRENNAN: Twenty minutes. OS: BOOTH: Bones! All right. [Booth enters the lab, carrying a suitcase.
SUMMARY:
Construction workers find a skeleton in an old fallout shelter from the 1950s and the Jeffersonian is brought in to help identify the remains. When Zack cuts into the bone, he accidentally releases spores of the deadly fungus Valley Fever, causing the team to be quarantined in the lab over Christmas. While everyone tries to maintain the holiday spirit, Brennan buckles down to solve the mystery of the fallout shelter. Booth and Brennan's team are reminded that this is a rough time of year for Brennan, since her parents went missing right before Christmas when she was a kid. As Brennan works to bring closure to the family of the missing man - something she has yet to receive about her own parents - the time spent together in the lab provides the catalyst for revealing information about all of them.