We last left our two teams of investigators at the crime scene in an alley somewhere in Los Angeles:
Booth:
We'll take the body back to the FBI lab here for analysis. I'll have
the prior victims delivered there as well.
Brennan: That
works. We've got a portable version of the Angelator here that we
were using for our demo at the seminar. I'll have Zack set it up
there.
Booth and Brennan hop into the back of the morgue
truck.
Wesley: I would really love to see you at work,
Dr. Brennan, might I--
Brennan: Wesley, right? You said you
were reading one of my books? Bred in the Bone?
Wesley: No,
the first one you wrote on forensic methodology to--
Brennan:
Well, in that case, I think we can arrange to have you observe.
Booth: Bones, I don't think that is such a good
idea.
Brennan: He can't hurt anything by watching.
Wesley:
I won't. In fact I'm a professional Watcher; I used to be a employed
by the Watcher's--
Booth: You mean you're some sort of
professional pervert?
Booth closes the door to the morgue truck as Wesley tries to answer.
Wesley (to Angel and Cordelia): They've invited us back to the FBI lab.
They get in
Angel's car and head to the FBI lab.
After some explaining at the
front desk, they are let into the lab. Brennan, Zack and Booth are
discussing how to proceed with the exam as Wesley watches. Angela
goes over to sit with Angel and Cordelia on the other side of the
lab.
Angela:
So, how do I know you're really a vampire?
Angel: Trust
me.
Cordelia: Why don't you just "grrr" for
her?
Angel: I'd really rather not, it's counter-productive
in most cases.
Angela: Grrr?
Angel: Don't ask.
Well, for one thing, I don't have a pulse or a heartbeat and I don't
breathe.
Angela: Really? Can I? (reaching to touch his
chest)
Angel: OK...
Angela: I can't feel anything
in there. Ooh, your kinda cold too.
Angel: No body
temperature. I'm pretty much room temperature.
Angela
(shouting across the room) Brennan, this is so cool, you have
to check him out! No pulse!
Brennan comes over, Booth slowly
follows her, trying to appear uninterested in the whole thing.
Brennan grabs a stethoscope from a drawer and listens to Angel's
chest.
Angela: See, he's got no pulse, no cirulation,
no breath, no temperature, he's--
Brennan: Dead.
Angel:
Pretty much sums me up.
Booth (quietly, to Angel):
No circulation? (waves his index finger around in a circular
motion).
Angel: Uh, no.
Booth: So, can you--?
Does it--? (points his finger upward suggestively)
Cordelia:
Yes, it does and he can. Trust me.
Everyone looks at her. Angel looks embarrassed by the whole topic. Angela, on the other hand, is extremely interested in the whole discussion.
Cordelia:
Not, from my own personal experience or anything! But it definitely
works like it should. Or maybe shouldn't...you know, after the
gypsies and all.
Angela: What's this gypsy thing?
Zack:
(From across the room) Dr. Brennan, Angela, we've got some
results for you to look at. They go over to him.
Zack:
I've taken some data that should help us recreate the bite marks on
the victims. We can compare it to the other victims to see if it's
the same biter. That will have to wait until we get the other bodies.
Brennan: Great, we still need some more tests on the soft
tissue. Where's Cam? I thought she was meeting us here?
Zack:
I haven't seen her at all today. I thought she had gone to the scene
with you. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Hodgins in a while
either. (Da da dun!) Did anyone else hear that?
They all
roll their eyes at him.
Meanwhile, Wesley, Angel and Cordelia discuss the case.
Cordelia:
You know, this reminds me a whole lot of that donkey demon from
Season 1.
Wesley: Burrower demon, burrow-ER, not burro, not
donkey.
Cordelia: Well, whatever, it makes a big hole in
people, just like that big hole we saw in that person! (she points
towards the body on the other side of the lab)
Angel:
That's true, but it doesn't explain the fang marks. A vampire
wouldn't feed on a person that had that amount of damage to their
body.
Wesley: And the burrower demon couldn't leave a body
after a vamp had fed on it. But the body has elements of both.
There's something we're missing here...
Cordelia: Could
they be working together? The donkey and the vamp?
Angel:
I've never heard of anything like that. Let's go back to the office
and dig into the books.
Angela: Before you go, make sure
we know how to contact you! (looks flirtatiously at Angel)
They leave,
after telling Brennan and her team their ideas.
Just as they are
leaving, Cam shows up at the lab, looking annoyed, some drops of
blood on her usually impeccably neat clothing. She sees Angel and
gives him a long look as he walks past her out of the lab. He turns
around and stares after her, as she walks over to Brennan and the
body.
Brennan:
We must have gotten our signals crossed, we thought you were meeting
us here and not at the scene?
Cam: Right, I ended up at the
scene and didn't see anyone from our team. There was a lot of blood
but no body when I got there. I don't exactly understand why they
called our team on this one? And who are those people that Booth is
leaving with?
Booth (getting up from a desk nearby):
I'm right here.
Cam looks surprised, glances back
at the door where Angel's receding back is still visible.
Cam:
Wh--? I must be seeing things. Booth would never wear that coat
anyway.
Booth: Hey, I'd look just as good in that coat.
Better!
Angela: What about the hair?
Booth: Not
the hair. Never the hair.
Brennan (to Cam): Zack has
done a lot of work, but we still need you to run some tests while
Angela does a 3D mock-up of the attacker.
Cam: I'll get
right on it, what do you need?
to be continued
