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Brennan examined the skeleton of bones that lay on the table in front of her. "Male. Southeast Asian descent. Age is late-20's to mid-30's. Approximately 6 feet tall. Angela, can you create a hologram for us?"
"I'm doing it right now, sweetie. It should be up right…about…now." Angela pressed enter on the keyboard and the Angelator produced a 3D holographic image out of thin air.
"This guy looks familiar." Hodgins struggled to think. "I read an article about him maybe around five or six months ago." Hodgins typed on the keyboard frantically. A news article displayed on the screen. "There, that's him! Lawrence Kutner. Suicide. Self-inflicted gunshot wound. No suicide note. He matches your hologram image perfectly." Silence filled the room.
"King of the lab!" Hodgins exclaimed.
Everyone stared at him.
"Well, I haven't said it for such a long time." He explained defensively.
"It doesn't make sense. Why would anyone send us on a hunt for a ghost? This case has been closed by the police." Brennan paused to think. "The only logical conclusion is that someone was unhappy about how the case got resolved and wants us to reopen it and conduct a more thorough investigation."
"So, are we going to take a crack at this case?" Wendell asked excitedly. There has been a dry well of interesting cases for the past week.
"There's no case to crack. If the local police already closed it, there's no point. Where did you get these bones anyway?" Booth snapped back, asserting his authority.
Angela scanned through her computer files. "That's odd. It was an anonymous package. No sender and the return address is also listed as the Jeffersionian Institute. Whoever sent this package really wanted us to take on this case."
"Angela, pull up all the contact information you can find of the family, friends and colleagues who kept in touch with Kutner during the past year. Bones and I have some interrogating to do." Booth waited for Angela to print out a copy of the information. He headed towards the door and motioned Brennan to follow him. "Come on, Bones! Let's get to the bottom of this."