TEXT: "The Crank in the Shaft" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (Open: Several people are waiting to get into an elevator. It arrives, the doors open and they flood in.) VOICE #1: Excuse me. VOICE#2: Excuse me. VOICE#3: Six, please. VOICE#4: He got it. (A man pushes a button again.) VOICE #5: Somebody already pushed it. (Hamid Hirani approaches the elevator and sticks his arm between the doors as they start to close. He steps inside.) HAMID: Sorry about that. (The doors close and Hamid takes a drink of a coffee he apparently purchased outside of work. Chip Yap notices and comments.) CHIP: Is our coffee machine still broken? HAMID: It was on Friday and I couldn't chance it. CHRISTINE GERTIN: Well, I filled out a 1612 repair authorization for office equipment under two hundred dollars, but I never heard back. (Ted Russo has ear buds in his ears, apparently listening to music.) TED: Man, this guitar is bitchin'. (The elevator opens and a few people leave.) VOICE #1: Sorry. VOICE #2: Excuse me. (Gary Flannery looks back at Chip.) GARY: How's the third quarter P&L? CHIP: I processed a stack of orders and returns with Patty on Friday. She was still reviewing them when I left. (Hamid takes another drink of coffee and everyone in the elevator begins sniffing, as if they smell something foul. They look at each other accusingly and then the elevator begins to shake and the lights flicker.) CHRISTINE: Oh my God, what's going on? (The elevator begins to fall rapidly and then comes to an abrupt stop. The ceiling tiles fall and a human leg wearing a high heel on its foot falls to the ground. Everyone looks sick.) (Cut to: Dr. Lance Sweet's office at the FBI Building. Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan are sitting on the couch across from Sweets and Booth's leg is
SUMMARY:
The remains of a despised office manager are discovered in an elevator shaft, and Booth and Brennan must figure out which employee killed her. After some investigating, they find that the manager had more than a fair share of complaints on file. Meanwhile, Angela and Hodgins try to make peace in the lab after their break-up.