TEXT: "Aliens in a Spaceship" [SCENE_BREAK] TEASER (Interior of car, underground - radio playing) BRENNAN: Oh God. What - What happened? Where am I? (she turns the keys in the ignition -She frantically feels around to figure out where she is. The radio is on. She reaches behind her neck and feels something.) BRENNAN: Ugh. Oh god. (She reaches up and turns on the inside light and exhales. She sees her phone, smashed and lying on the passenger seat.) BRENNAN: (tries to open the car door) Oh, Come on! (She tries to open the door, to no avail. She tries to roll down the window, only to have dirt/rocks fall in the car on her. She quickly rolls up the window. Then turns off the radio. She stops to collect herself, and hears a moaning noise coming from the back seat. She's not alone. She turns around and sees Jack Hodgins, and he appears to be in worse shape then her) BRENNAN: Hodgins. (she climbs in the back seat) Hodgins. Are you all right? Can you talk? (she puts her hand on his leg...only to find to find blood and gashes on them) Your legs. What happened to your legs? HODGINS: (mumbles) Where are we? BRENNAN: We're buried alive. He must have got us. HODGINS: Who? BRENNAN: The Grave Digger. (she looks around the car and sees the dirt covering all the windows.) [SCENE_BREAK] 48 Hours Earlier (Cut to: Crime scene in the woods.) SHERIFF: My superior says to let you look at the...flying saucer. BRENNAN: It's not a flying saucer. SHERIFF: It sure looks like one. Local kids dirt biking. Something shiny poking through dirt. They dig it out, look in the window and see aliens. BRENNAN: Did you look? SHERIFF: Yes, m'am
SUMMARY:
The team investigate the murder of two kidnapped teenage twin boys. The boys were placed in a spaceship-like capsule and buried alive underground. Soon, Brennan and Hodgins find themselves victims of the "Grave Digger", and Booth frantically searches for them as they slowly run out of oxygen underground. The case as broadcast has no conclusion (it was solved in the season 4 episode "The Hero in the Hold"). The Fox Network website initially displayed a summary for the episode which included an original ending where the Grave Digger was identified as the female reporter that coauthored a book about Grave Digger. [11] The summary was later revised to reflect the episode as broadcast in which the Grave Digger is unidentified and the scene replaced by character reunion moments. [12]