TEXT: "The Man on the Fairway" [SCENE_BREAK] [Begin with Brennan driving a golf cart and Zack riding shotgun to what can only be assumed as a crime scene at a golf course] BRENNAN: We'll be meeting with agents from the FAA, the NTSB, and local police. ZACK: Usually Booth handles those people. BRENNAN: Plane crashes don't belong to the FBI. ZACK: Why not? FAA stands for Federal Aviation Administration. The NTSB stands for National Transportation Safety Board. That sounds Federal to me and FBI stands for Federal Bureau... BRENNAN: Zack. ZACK: This is the third time in a row we've investigated without Booth. I don't like it. BRENNAN: Why? He mostly ignores you. ZACK: Ignoring me is Booth's way of acknowledging my presence. It's a guy thing. BRENNAN: Here we are. [Brennan slows the cart as they reach an area cordoned off by yellow police tape protecting what looks to be a small plane crash] DYSON: Dr. Brennan? BRENNAN: Yes. DYSON: I'm Ian Dyson with the NTSB. BRENNAN: This is my assistant, Zack Addy. DYSON: At approximately zero four hundred last night, a private jet with five passengers on board reported horizontal stabilizer trouble, two hundred miles southeast of Norfolk. Yeager Airport in Charleston tracked them for thirty minutes until they dropped off the radar screen at zero four thirty. The plane tried to make an emergency landing here when it clipped some trees and slammed to the ground. We found another mostly intact body over near the trees. The rest is bits and pieces. ZACK: What makes this one of our cases? DYSON: I beg your pardon? ZACK: We're kind of special. We're elite. We don't sort though just any set of bodies. DYSON: It was a state department flight with a bunch of VIP's on board. Is that special enough? ZACK: I apologize if I have offended you. Usually we have an FBI Agent who mediates our
SUMMARY:
Brennan and Zack are called to the crash site of a small jet carrying Chinese diplomats and one mystery female passenger. At the scene, Brennan discovers three small bone fragments that didn't come from the plane and might have something to do with a local man who went missing five years earlier. After Dr. Goodman orders the squints to focus their efforts solely on the Chinese diplomat case, the missing man's son, Jesse Kane, shows up convinced the bone fragments are from his missing father. Brennan and the squints work to solve a mysterious murder involving a scheming younger woman and a local maintenance worker while keeping Goodman in the dark. As the forensic evidence mounts, Brennan must consider the possibility that Jesse had something to do with his father's death.