It was the night of the ball, and William and Julia were ready, since taking dance lessons. They arrive at the ball and William asks Julia if she wanted to dance, which she accepts.
They begin dancing, when Julia said, "a most wonderful evening, William"
"Yes, the dance lessons were worth every penny"
Julia laughs, "no, I meant the event, quite a turnout"
"Yes, it is"
"I wonder what, Mr. Blake has brought back from the bone fields?"
"Well, we should see, pretty soon, Julia"
She smiles and they continue talking about how people are fascinated by dinosaur bones. Then they mention an article they both read about x-rays and its new development.
Then they heard a clink of a glass from, Miss McConnell, who introduced Mr. Blake.
He thanks her and the crowd and is about to reveal what he found in the Alberta Badlands. As he was talking, William saw a person, who looked like he was going to attack Blake with a hammer and stopped him, by knocking him down, which made the curtain reveal a man in the t-rex's mouth.
Julia went to see the body and announced he was dead, which distracted William as the person he knocked down got away; he got up and did the sign of the cross.
Julia immediately examines the body and they find out the man was Mr. Blake's assistant named Lukas DeWitt. William asks Julia, "how did he die?"
"It appears, he was shot in the head, but no gun shot residue"
"Oh, and time of death?"
"I'm baffled but, maybe 1-2 days. May I take the body to the morgue?"
"Yes"
She was about to leave, when she says, "I'm disappointed"
"Disappointed?"
"Our date is cut short, by a murder. We didn't get to do the 2-step"
"Ah, we will, maybe we can do the 3-step with Mary"
Julia laughs, "that sounds wonderful" and she leaves
William goes over and ask George about the interviews with the crowd, but all said the same thing.
The next day, William interviews, Mr. Blake and asks him if Lukas had enemies, which he didn't He goes on about his time in the Alberta, which intrigues William.
He then interviews, Miss McConnell, who was putting away the fossils and mentions a Professor Sutton who didn't care for Blake.
William heads to Sutton's studio and talks with him, then heads back to the station, and tells the inspector and George of his findings and begins to theorize, before heading to the morgue.
(The Morgue)
"Julia"
She huffs, "William"
"Are you mad at me, Julia?"
"No not at you, but at the Chief Coroner. I got this order that by the DeWitt family that I can't perform the post-mortem, because I'm a woman and not qualified"
"Julia, you are the most qualified coroner in the country"
"Yes, well they want this American coroner, who's male has to do it"
"But I need the results to continue my investigation, Julia"
"Well, maybe these will help" she says and hands him 2 vials of plaster and brown fibers she found on the body.
William has a vision and figures out he was wrapped in burlap and that's why she was having a hard time figuring out the time of his death, but it also meant he was killed in Alberta.
With this new information he leaves and informs the inspector and asks George for DeWitt's journals, they may have clues in them.
He then talks to Miss McConnell, Blake and Sutton, who are all shocked and stunned by the news and wondered who could such a thing, but William still suspects Blake and Sutton.
He heads back to the station, and does a test of how DeWitt was killed and shows the inspector, who was impressed. But William still needed to figure out what kind of bullet was used and needed to see inside the skull and thought of a solution and asked for the inspector and Julia's help.
(The Morgue)
They prepare the x-ray machine, that William and Julia heard about in an article, which Julia said she "borrowed" from the hospital, which made the inspector laugh and take the x-ray, which astonishes him.
As the inspector was looking at the x-ray, he notices no bullet, which shocked them all.
They head back to William's office, to see the x-ray in better light, but still see no bullet.
Julia ask to see the x-ray and sees something lodged in the skull, and asks William and the inspector for permission to get it out, which they said was fine.
(The Morgue)
Julia grabs her long tweezers and grabs something out of the skull, "what have we here? It's clumped, but it seems granular"
"Could it be more plaster from when he was wrapped?" William asked
"No, its too course, but maybe soil"
William has a vision
"William?"
He is spaced out and Julia knew he was thinking
"A pic. Julia that's the murder weapon a pic"
Julia looks the shape of the wound and agrees.
But William is still wondering about the soil, which Julia suggests she will ask her friends, who are experts with soil.
William tells her, "thank you" and leaves and heads to his office, observing the Alberta Badland sites, and determining where DeWitt was murdered. George comes in and tells him of how he has become fascinated with dinosaurs and found something interesting in DeWitt's journals that could be a clue.
William takes the map to the museum to see Blake and is surprised to see that their continuing showing the fossils that McConnell found, to the press, while the investigation was still going on, which Blake defends her.
He then asks him about a site on the map, which was mentioned many times in DeWitt's journals, which Blake explains is where they found the femur.
William heads back to the station and sits at his desk, while looking at the clues, when he hears a knock on the door, and sees Julia.
"William! I have the results of the soil, we found in DeWitt's skull."
"Really! Great" he says as he gets up from his desk and hugs her, "I can finally, determine, which site he was killed at."
"Actually, no"
"No? Don't tell me another dead end?"
"No, it's not that. The soil wasn't soil, it was concrete"
"Concrete? But there wasn't no concrete at the sites"
"Maybe, they were building, something?"
"Hmm…maybe they were"
William and Julia inform the inspector, get the x-ray machine and head to the museum. They prepare the machine, when Mr. Blake comes in and is confused of what they're doing. But they inform him and take an x-ray of one of the fossils find out it's a fake, which shocks Blake.
They head back to the station, where William interviews Blake, who is still shocked that is finding is a fake, when George informs him that they found the suspect, Clyde Dunbar and was sent to the cells.
William interviews him and Dunbar tells him he didn't kill DeWitt, but was paid by Sutton to cause a ruckus.
He heads back to Sutton's studio and tells him they use an x-ray machine and find out the fossil was fake. Sutton confesses he did it, to get revenge on Blake but didn't kill DeWitt, which William wasn't convinced but leaves.
(The Morgue)
William enters and hears music playing and sees Julia finishing the post-mortem, which she finally got permission to do.
"Julia, I hope you have good news for me."
"I indeed do. Dewitt died from head trauma, as we already knew, but due to the mummification of being in the burlap, I found interesting markings of buttons from his clothes and a pendant"
"A pendant?"
"Yes, right here," she says as she points to it, "very faded but you see the pattern"
William asks her for a candle, and he lights it and pours the wax on the skin and makes a copy of it, which looks just like McConnell's pendant.
William interviews McConnell, who confesses to seeing Blake kill DeWitt and blackmailing him, which Blake confesses was an accident and are both arrested.
After William and Julia are in his office observing the pendant, "so Miss McConnell was blackmailing Mr. Blake?"
"Yes, she saw the murder and blackmailed him by showing her findings at the museum."
"Why, didn't she tell the police?"
"Wanted to finally get credit for her work"
"What women, go through to earn credit for their work."
William nods and is zoned out
"William, this case affected you in some way"
"I just find dinosaur hunting, to be so intriguing. Its been a dream of mine to go to the Alberta Badlands and dig for fossils. But it will remain a dream"
"Well, that explains, why you enjoy playing in the sandbox with Mary at home. But William, never stop believing in your dream. Maybe in the future, with Mary, we'll go to Alberta and dig for dinosaurs."
William smiles and has a vision of the future, where he is in Alberta, with Mary who is 17, and 4 other children, and tells them to wait for their mother, as Julia appears out of a tent and they walk to the dig site to find fossils.