Hotel Lobby, The Next Day 8:45am.
Booth and Brennan both excited the hotel elevator, the main gallery and Lobby area buzing with the morning activity of the hotel's guest, visitors and staff. Just as they neared the lobby area, Brennan's phone rang and she answered it "Brennan.." it was Angela "Hey Sweetie! How's Los Angeles?" Brennan sighed "It's fine,but we haven't been able to get out and see much yet. We're stuck in this beautiful hotel though." "That's great,Bren. I have some kinda bad news." Brennan glanced at Booth then made her way a little closer to the doors in hopes of being able to hear better on her cell. Booth continued to keep a watchful eye on Brennan while also watching the people walking up and down the main gallery. In the crowd he saw this lady dressed in black but looked as though she was dressed in clothes from the 40's. It seemed very odd to him.
He then shook his head, figuring he must have been seeing a actress or something. Just then a girl in her early 20's about 5' 6" in a light grey skirt suit and blonde curls with eyes that matched her suit approached Booth. "Agent Booth?" Booth looked at her, a little shakin still from what he now thought could possibly be a ghost "Yes?" Sarah offered her hand "I'm Sarah, Janet's assistant. I saw you coming from the elevator with your partner Dr. Brennan and thought I would say hello." Booth smiled warmly "Nice to meet you, I'll introduce you to Bones when she's done on the phone." Sarah nodded "Are you okay sir? you look as though you've just seen a ghost." Booth blinked shaking his head then looked at her "I'm fine, just saw a lady dressed in black but her clothes were from the 40's." Booth replied, Sarah nodded then grinned "That would be one of our resident ghost Mr. Booth. None other than the Infamous Black Dahlia, normally she's only seen getting on to elevators or sometimes in the very early morning hours. So it's certainly a real treat to see her this late in the morning."
"The Black Dahlia?" Booth inquired, "maybe you would know her better as Elizabeth Short, back in 1947 she was found murdered in a field not to far from here. And much like that Jack The Ripper case it has remained one of the most infamous unsolved murders of our time." Booth nodded, just then Brennan came up to his side and tapped his shoulder "Booth, I need to talk to you.." completely oblivious to who he was speaking to. Booth put his hand up in askance of a pause "Bones wait a second, I need to introduce you to someone first. Bones this is Sarah, Janet's assistant." Brennan shook Sarah's hand "Sarah, this is my partner Dr. Temperance Brennan" The girls both nodded at eachother. Booth then turned to Sarah "Now if you could please excuse me for a moment.." Sarah nodded "I'll keep a eye out for the others for you." Sarah offered, Booth smiled "Thanks Sarah." Brennan then lead Booth just outside the door of the front entrance where it was surprisingly quiet for the morning hour. The doorman stepped back opening the door for them, Brennan muttering a offhanded thanks to the guy.
Just outside Booth stopped and turned to face Brennan "What did Angela say?" Brennan thought for a brief second how to put it in a way that he would understand "Okay, I gave Angela the name last night, and asked her to search the data bases for any thing. She came up with a photo of him which she is emailing to me now. And some other stuff, problem is she can't find any desendants or known relatives that are currently alive." Booth nodded then pulled out his cellphone pushing some buttons to get a direct line to Cullen "Cullen, We've got a lead on this case but it seems like it might be a cold one, the squints can't find much...okay...yeah could you patch me through to them?...thanks." Brennan looked at him expectantly, Booth pulled the bottom of the phone away from his mouth. "Cullen's patching me through to the organised crime unit to see if they have anything on this guy." Booth heard the click of the change over and the agent answered "This is Agent Booth, I need anything you can get on a guy named Lawrence Nichols...yeah absolutely everything...and could you e-send the files to Dr. Temperance Brennan care of the Jeffersonian...when? how about yesturday? Great...thanks."
Booth clipped his phone closed ending the call,then slipped it back into his pocket. "He said we should have these files by early this evening. In the mean time, we've got a meeting to attend to."
The two then went back into the main hall and then into the Lobby where they found Sarah talking to Starla and Jareth, Booth and Brennan approached the group. They all turned to greet them with warm smiles and friendly handshakes. "Agent Booth, Dr. Brennan..." Booth looked around and didn't notice the camera operator "Where's your friend Joe?" Booth asked, Jareth nodded "He's up in the Gold Room assisting with cleaning out the stair case that leads up to the secret room. They're going to be setting up some lighting in the staircase and secret room so to allow for our filming and also for Dr. Brennan to work." Booth nodded, Brennan then stepped up "Filming?" she inquired.
Starla stepped up then a little closer to Brennan "Yes Dr. Brennan, We'll be filming the whole thing to use later on in the documentry. Jareth has the release form for you and Agent Booth to sign which will allow us to use the footage." Brennan thought for a brief moment "Okay, as long as the crime scene is not compromised.." Jareth nodded "We've done a lot of crime scenes so I can assure you, your investigation will not be hampered in anyway." Booth clapped his hands together egar to get going on the day "Okay...lets go get us some bones." they all then looked at Booth, Booth then looked at Sarah "Ms Sarah, could you please lead the way?" Sarah started towards the main gallery "Right this way please..." Sarah then lead the group into the main Gallery towards The Gold Room, where the crew was still working to secure the old rickety spiral staircase hidden in the wall by a small panel. Sarah lead them into the Gold Room and up the small set of stairs so they would not be in the way of the crew. Little Joe waved from a small table where he was currently fiddling with the controls of the camera.