Temperance Brennan was sitting on the couch in her office with Angela Montenegro and Camille Saroyan discussing Cam's daughter, Michelle's, latest embarking when her partner, FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, came briskly walking in and rambling about a new case.
"Is it anything I can help with?" Cam asked as Brennan began to stand.
"You wanna come? Let's go, hurry up. Body rotting in a dumpster as we speak, hop to it." Booth replied.
"I'll be in my office waiting to perform a reconstruction." Angela said and began walking to her own office.
"Tell Hodgins to be ready for samples, we'll need them analyzed as soon as possible." Brennan called back as Booth all but dragged her down the hallway, with Cam following.
Fifteen minutes later, the two scientists and FBI agent arrived at an upscale hotel and walked around back where multiple dumpsters were lined up. A forensics team was already collecting samples.
Booth and Brennan walked up to the dumpster and were met by another FBI Agent.
"Dr. Brennan, Agent Booth. Body was found this morning after hotel guests complained of a particularly putrid smell radiating from the dumpsters. Maintenance went to check it out and found the body right at the top of the middle dumpster. Typically, crews use the two dumpsters on the end, which is why no one noticed it before hand. Right over here." The Agent, Agent Morgan, explained to the duo.
Brennan walked to the dumpster and began talking, "Female, Caucasian, aged 15-20, probably on the younger end of that so I might even say 15-18. I'm going to need samples from the area and the body transported back to the Jeffersonian. I'll send Hodgins down to sift through the dumpster later today."
"Everything back to the Jeffersonian pronto!" Booth called out, then continued, "Alright Bones, let's go ID this girl."
Once back at the Jeffersonian, Booth and Brennan sat in the office waiting for the bones to be cleaned.
"You know Bones, we're going to have to go back to that hotel and talk to the manager once we get our girl identified." Booth said.
"Yes I know, why do you bring it up?" Brennan replied, looking up from her computer screen,
"Just something to talk about." Booth replied, just as Cam walked in.
"The bones are clean, Angela is already starting the facial reconstruction. Hodgins is analyzing the samples he took from the soil and dumpster. I placed time of death about 15-20 days ago." Cam says
"Thanks Cam. I'll start looking for cause of death and let you know if I find anything." Brennan says, then leaves her office heading for the platform.
"I'll get a list of events held at the hotel in the past 3 weeks, maybe even four." Booth says, walking out and leaving Cam alone in Brennan's office.
A few hours later, Angela finished the reconstruction and had an ID right away. She approached the platform where Zach, Brennan, Cam and Hodgins were all looking over the body and Booth was reading a stack of papers.
"I have an ID. Kendra O'Neill, age 16. She's the only child of Kelly and Jack O'Neill, but they died in a car crash when Kendra was 12, leaving her to Kelly's brother and his wife. Their names are William and Christine Murphy. I printed out their contact information." She said, held up a picture of Kendra, and handed a file to Booth.
"She's very pretty," Cam stated, "When was she reported missing?"
"She was reported missing about 3 weeks ago." Angela replied.
"Alright, time to go talk to the family. You coming, Bones?" Booth stated eager to get out and do something.
