"Hiya, Bones."
Brennan didn't look up from her computer. "I see you managed to get a ride from the crime scene. Has the body been transported?"
"It's already here. Angela's working on the reconstruction. She said the skull wasn't damaged badly so it shouldn't take too much time."
"Good." Brennan continued to work.
"Did you find what you needed at the hardware store?" .
"Yes." She got up from her desk and walked out to the lab platform. "Dr. Wells, have you begun to swab and catalog the injuries?"
"Yes. There are 3 sets of puncture wounds on the skull and at least 10 sets on the body. Somebody hated this guy…." Brennan was shaking her head..."although we don't have actual evidence of that, do we?"
Brennan glanced at Booth. "In your opinion, Dr. Wells, could these injuries have been caused by vampires?"
Dr. Wells was caught off guard. "What?...um, no….why?"
"Agent Booth and Dr. Saroyan mentioned vampires at the crime scene. We need to consider all of the possibilities. What else could cause this type of injury? The wounds are all precisely the same size, but the pattern is random. What do you think, Dr. Wells?"
Dr. Wells was stumped. "I don't know…."
"I think what we're looking for", said Brennan, "is some sort of power tool, very similar to this pneumatic nail gun. If it's attached to an air compressor, like so, and you pull the trigger….
BAM! BAM! Two staples entered the board pressed against the nail gun. "You can see the marks are like those on the body. Staples similar to these might be deadly if they pierced the brain or an artery. Agent Booth, please have the FBI techs look for a nail gun at the crime scene, not vampires." Brennan left him standing alone on the platform.
