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Tempe is called in
Tempe is called in to "check out" the scene -
The search
Tempe and her partners have the task of searching an active landfill -
A discovery
A metal drum is exposed after some soil erosion in a landfill. Inside the drum is crumbling asphalt and from the asphalt, seemingly reaching for rescue, is a human hand. -
Wayne Gamble visits Brennan.
Wayne Gamble, a well known figure in the racing world, comes to see Brennan. His seventeen year-old sister disappeared without a trace twelve years ago. -
Wayne questions
When Cindi Gamble and her boyfriend, Cale Lovette, were reported missing, the FBI had been briefly involved. Cale had belonged to the Patriot Posse, a right-wing extremist group. After a few weeks, the bureau had decided that Cale wasn’t important enough in the Posse to justify using FBI resources. Wayne wants to know if there is a possibility that the body in the drum is his sister. -
Brennan works with Charlotte PD detective Erskine Slidell
Brennan finds herself working with Charlotte PD detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell, not someone she would seek out in a social situation. Slidell has been assigned the case and there is immediate tension. -
Discovery in the lab
Tempe discovers traces of the poison ricin in the body -
FBI seizes the bones
The news of a much more recently missing person, Ted Raines of the Center for Disease Control, brings a pair of FBI agents, who promptly seize the paperwork and the body of Tempe’s John Doe shortly after it’s tested positive for the deadly poison ricin -
Is it the Scientist?
Hard on his heels come FBI special agents who are anxious to establish whether the body is that of a missing scientist whose work involved deadly toxins. -
Accidentally Cremated
FBI "accidentally cremated" the corpus
