TEXT: "The Critic in the Cabernet" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (Open: Bedford Creek Vineyard, Aging Cellar- Several people stand around a wine cask sampling wine.) SEAN MORTENSON: Now this cab is young, so limited finish, of course, but still has a nice depth. DR. LES GRANGER: I can taste cherries, a bit of ginger... KIM MORTENSON: Plums and cassis. RACHEL GRANGER: And a hint of dark chocolate. Lovely. BRUCE HANOVER: In another five years, it's going to be an exceptional wine. SEAN MORTENSON: Yes, Bruce is a magician with my grapes. Of course, he convinced me to sink a mint into the vineyard over the last two years alone. But, money well spent. DR. LES GRANGER: You're going to make Virginia the next California, Sean. SEAN MORTENSON: Doc, wait until you taste the '97. Gotta be the best year we've ever had at Bedford Creek. Wouldn't you say, Bruce? BRUCE HANOVER: Perfect balance of sun and rain, limestone and gravel. It was a year one dreams about. Now, some sediment is normal, especially in such a big wine. (Bruce pours several glasses of wine and passes them out. They toast and begin to drink. They make faces and gagging sounds and spit it out.) SEAN MORTENSON: What the hell is going on, Bruce? BRUCE HANOVER: I don't know, sir. RACHEL GRANGER: Something's in my glass. (Her husband reaches into her glass and pulls out a purple object.) DR. LESS GRANGER: My God, that's a human finger! (Rachel screams and drops her glass which shatters on the ground. The other guests make similar gestures.) (Cut to: Dr. Lance Sweets' office at the FBI building. He's having a session with Booth and Brennan.) SWEETS: (He opens the blinds on his office window and walks back to
SUMMARY:
The team is on the case when human remains are found inside a barrel of wine during a wine tasting. When the victim turns out to be a wine critic whose scathing reviews were capable of sending a vineyard to its ruin, everyone from the winery's owner to the victim's own wife becomes a suspect. Meanwhile, Brennan decides to have a baby and asks Booth to be the father; when Booth begins to doubt himself, he finds himself talking to Stewie Griffin from Family Guy .