
Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and also writes books, has an impressive ability to read clues from victims' bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her to assist with investigations when remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that standard identification methods are useless. Brennan is teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth, a former Army sniper, who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes but who has developed respect for Brennan, both professionally and personally.
Brennan identifies remains of a 6-year-old boy who went missing from a local park and determines that he was sexually assaulted before being murdered.
Angela and Brennan are caught in a melee at a hip-hop club, when a wall breaks open and reveals a mummified corpse and a stash of drugs.
Brennan and Booth race the clock to tie up loose ends before the defendant in Booth's first FBI case is executed for the crime.
A girl's decomposed remains are found in a refrigerator, leading Brennan to confront her former mentor.