TEXT: "The Beaver in the Otter" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (Outside Middlesex college- Students are at a bonfire rally) GREG HARMALARD: My name is Greg Harmalard and I'm here to recruit you. (Students cheer) Tomorrow night, our noble conference champions, the Middlesex Archers, (Students take an archer's pose) take on the desperate and conniving Forrest Lake Otters. (Boos) Right about now, the Otters must be wondering where their mascot went. (A crane over the bonfire rises to reveal the Otter mascot hanging from it) Archers ready your bows... archers raise your bows... archers aim...archers fire! (The bonfire is set alight by the archers as the students cheer on) GREG HARMALARD: Ladies and Gentleman of Middlesex College, aim your weapons...fire at will. (The students throw all they have it and they fire a blunderbuss. The mascot rips apart as the victim hangs by an ankle over the bonfire. STUDENTS: Oh my god! Oh my God! It's real! (They run and scream out) (Cut to - Outside Middlesex College, the next morning) BRENNAN: Male...some of this costume is fused to the remains DEAN WARNER: Ah, Good morning, I'm Vernon Warner, the dean of students. BOOTH: I'm special agent Seeley Booth, this here is Dr Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian. BRENNAN: There is a lot of damage to this body. SHERRIF TINA MILLINS: They had a cannon, more like a blunderbuss, really, filled to the brink with bric-a-brac and shrapnel. DEAN WARNER: Yeah, look, I suspect that this might be a prank BRENNAN: A prank? BOOTH: It's college, Bones. DEAN WARNER: I...I suspect that one of our less reflected frat house
SUMMARY:
Jimmy 'Beaver' Bouvier is found strung up in the costume of his college mascot, an Otter. Booth and Bones must investigate whether he was dead beforehand or killed during a Middlesex University bonfire event.