„Peep" Brennan quickly pulled her card through the port and ran up the stairs to the gallery. Angela, Hodgins and Zack stood expectantly around one of the examination tables, on which lay a blue garbage bag. Booth ran at a brisk pace after her. „Don't you want to talk about it ?" he asked her gasping. Brennan didn't even turn around. „No! If I want to do so, I would already have done it, wouldn't I ?"she responded a little snappishly. Angela raised an eyebrow smiling. „Can I intervene ?"

Brennan and Booth both turned to her. „ NO!" Angela whistled quietly and shook her hand as if she'd burnt herself. „Seems to be a hot topic." she whispered towards Zack and Hodgins, who were standing next to her. Zack was holding on to a clipboard, that he had in front of his chest, while Hodgins crossed his arms and seemed to be amused by this situation.

Brennan coated her hands in gloves and took a deep breath. „Ok, what do we have?" she asked and her gaze rotated between Angela, Hodgins and Zack. Booth moved in front of the table and based his hands on his hip. But when he saw, what was in the garbage bag on the table, he breathed in sharply, turned around and hold his hand in front of his mouth.

„This garbage bag was found in Snake River" Zack started. „ A angler found the blue bag and when he..." Zack cleared his throat, „pulled it out of the water, it teared open on one side." Zack opened the garbage bag at this side and exposed a collection of decomposed body parts. Brennan wrinkled her nose. Booth moaned quietly

Now Hodgins began to speak. „ There are traces of soil and gravel in the bag. I assume the garbage bag was originally buries near the river and was moved to the surface by the recent floods we had at Snake River."

Angela had gotten pale by the time. „ Is this...one person? Or...oh god.." Hodgins placed his hand on her back to calm her. Meanwhile Brennan already started to have a closer look at the content of the bag. She opened the bag carefully and by using claws she put the separate parts into order on the table. „It's definitely one person, but some parts are missing. The right upper arm for example." Brennan explained with a critical look, not without noticing Booth, who was pointing towards Hodgins hand on Angelas back. „Why did you call me for this case ? There is too much flesh! I don't work with this much flesh!" she said irritated.

„The pathologist got everything out of it that was possible." Hodgins explained. Indeed the torso had been opened and closed again.

Brennan nodded. „Alright. Ok, the full program." she said and let her gloves flick when she pulled them off. „Zack, remove the flesh from the bones. After that you create copies from the ivories that you can give to the dental specialist. Maybe we can identify the victim by the teeth."

While Zack started his work more or less disgusted, Brennan turned and went towards her office. Booth followed her instantly. „Don't you think it's easier to just talk about it ? Or do you plan on ignoring me from now on ?" In doing so he was holding her on her arms and thwarted her. Brennan stopped unwillingly and looked right in his eyes. „No" she shook off his arms and entered her office.

Booth stood confused in the hallway. „What 'no'?" he shouted after her. „Talking or ignoring ?" he asked and got more and more silent, because she was closing the door while he was talking to her. Booth scratched his forehead and stood there brooding for a moment. Then he went down the stairs again. When he passed one of the column, he hit it with his closed fist. But he was so angry that he didn't feel the pain...

Angela and Hodgins had observed everything. Angela didn't understand anything anymore. That they were bickering was nothing new, but that Brennan left Booth in the hallway like that, shocked her nevertheless. „What's going on today?" she said. Hodgins was grinning. „My suspicion : Couples' therapy went wrong." he answered and left Angela behind, who was first nodding, then paused, turned abruptly towards Hodgins. „COUPLES' THERAPY ????!!!" she called and rushed after him.

Zack placed the remains on a tablet. He pushed it into a box of glass, in which he poured two containers of flesh eating insects over the remains. „Well then...Buen appetito!" he said. He sat down on a chair the other way around and based his arms on the backrest. „What's up?" asked Hodgins, who entered the room with Angela in tow.

„I'm cleaning the bones." he responded, without stopping to watch the insects, who went for the flesh. Zack put his hands in his coat and stepped closer to the box. He was smiling satisfied. „Ah, the big party!" Angela stepped next to him and watched the beetles distastefully. „Uargh...it will never stop, will it ?" she said and made a grimace.

„But to be serious, what did you mean before ?" she tried to get Hodgins attention. „Mhm...nothing." he answered randomly and continued admiring the hustle and bustle. She sighed annoyed, plodded out of the lab and left the fascinated men alone.

The water was roaring. He worked in complete darkness. But this didn't cause him any problems. He found every instrument, every tool and put it all under the water jet. If the light had been switched on, he would have been able to see the red and brown color of the water. At last he splashed water on the shovel and removed the last pieces of soil. After he finished cleaning he put everything in the right order again. The instruments in the bag, the shovel got fixed in a holder at the wall. Finally he cleaned the work space, rubbed everything dry with a towel and left the garage. He crossed the grass and went into the house. After he turned the lights on, he opened the cupboard in the kitchen and took a tube of hand lotion out of it. He rubbed in the cream carefully, while he was humming a melody of a tv commercial...