Right things you should know. Brennan got fired and moved away after a fight with Angela. This takes place 2 years afterwards
LA
11th September
Agent Seeley Booth stepped off the plane, "It's hotter than hell out here" Jack Hodgins followed behind Angela and Zach "I don't know it's not that hot, just hits you after the plane journey" Booth muttered something that the team missed. "So G man what brings us to hell on Earth?" Jack had taken to calling Booth G man after Booth nearly killed himself trying to save him from being thrown off a building "Jack, Please stop calling me that. The reason we are here is there was a body found on a movie set. Usually this would be out of our Jurisdiction but the MO matches a case we have worked on a while ago, so this is now our baby guys. So let make sure that this time we get this guy"
The crime scene was indeed a film set, the cameras had been switched off and the lights had been turned to the body and switched on as if to highlight the body. Zach was taking pictures and Hodgins was collecting samples of Earth around the area the body had been "Glenn Stevens, 34 from Maine. He was the set designer on the movie; he had stayed late to work on some details on the outside shoot. He was left at 3am when everyone left the set and was found 8am by Dermot Alex, the director." Booth walked around the squints as he spoke, they worked with a silent communication "Oh God not more of you people. Is there any chance I will get my movie shooting today?" Booth looked up at the man bounding towards him "You must be Mr. Alex?" The man nodded "Yeah that's me, I need to know if I'll be able to shoot anything today?" Booth looked Dermot up and down "Sir, there has been a murder. I can't tell you anything right now only that we are working to the best of our abilities to solve this as soon as possible. If you'd like to help that move a bit quicker you could call everyone who was working last night and get them to come down here and answer a few questions" Dermot nodded "Sure, if it makes a difference I'll call them but I warn you they didn't finish shooting until 3 this morning so I might not be able to get everyone and they ones I do are gonna be pissed!" He turned and walked away.
By the early evening Booth had spoken to everyone who had worked on the set, to his credit Mr. Alex had been right about everyone being pissed. His cell began to ring "Booth… Hey Zach you find anything? Yeah that's interesting… No I have to go and speak to Mr. Alex to tell him he won't be shooting for awhile. Yeah thanks Zach speak to you later" Booth shut his cell phone sighed and ducked under the tape and walked over to the red faced director.
F.B.I Lab
"The victim has multiple fractures to his face, hands and arms. The hand and arm fractures are most likely to be defensive wounds where Mr. Stevens had tried to protect himself from his attacker, after the attacker had subdued Mr. Stevens he tied him up with Barb wire. Along his arms Mr. Stevens had long and deep gouges some of which made it to the bone, I can only assume that he was still alive and was struggling right up until his attacker had seen what he wanted and strangled him to death" Zach Addy hated this part of his job, when he used to watch Dr Brennan he could see how much the prelim exam used to upset her. He didn't get it until it was his turn to do it everyday, the way they could find ways to make people suffer and not show any remorse was something he would never get his head around. "Zachy Boy, I didn't get much from the soil around the Vic only a lot of blood. I ran some tests on the blood that I found but I'm waiting for the results at the mo! Hey dude you listening?" Zach turned "Yeah sorry I was just thinking" Jack looked at him "Thinking about Dr B? You know she is fine right?" Zach shook his head "How do we know? No one has spoken to her for years and when I think about why this all happens it makes me sick." Jack shrugged "Zach no one knew that Cam wasn't there to help us out and nobody knew that she knew Turner Richards, it wasn't anyone's fault" Angela walked through the door "Why are we talking about Turner Richards?" she was obviously upset by the conversation "Sorry Ange you weren't supposed to hear" Jack put his hand on her shoulder "Just don't talk about him again!" Ange turned and left "Well done Zach"
It was 8pm before Booth made it back. Zach was sitting at a desk looking through a brown police file "Well Zach, what have we uncovered since we spoke?" Jack popped his head over the Microscope "That Zach is an idiot of epic proportions!" Booth looked between the two men noting that neither was keen on talking about what had happened in his absence "Ok so you don't have anything. Where's Angela?" "Over here" Angela called from her computer across the lab "What happened?" Booth whispered "They were talking about he who shall not be named" Booth looked puzzled "Voldermort? Why would…" Angela shook her head "Not Harry Potter Booth, we are talking real life here. Richards. The boys were talking about him I walked in on their conversation and well I got a bit upset so I think Jack had a bit of fight with Zach and that's it"
They worked until after midnight with everyone apologizing for their errors. They got to the hotel and said goodnight, Booth looked around his room chuckling to himself as he remembered what Jack had said upon seeing the hotel "Let me guess they couldn't find a hotel that took dollars. Is this the cheapest hotel on Earth?" It was indeed the cheapest hotel he had ever stayed in, he carefully lowered himself on the bed not trusting it's craftsmanship, he put his head on the pillow and stared at the ceiling for what seemed like an age.