William Bumiller

The remains of a teenage runaway are discovered and his parents think he was murdered by his "wrong side of the tracks" girlfriend.  When it becomes apparent that she is interested in tragic love stories, i.e., addicted to Romeo and Juliet, Bones and Booth are about to concur, but new evidence leads them to believe a man helping runaways may be involved.

Rush and Valens reopen the 1985 case of a wealthy stock broker killed during an apparent carjacking gone awry.

President Palmer unites two unlikely and influential people; CTU copes with an unexpected weakness; Jack deals with a familiar foe.

Veronica passes the examination to officially become a private investigator while Piz (recurring guest star CHRIS LOWELL) lands an interview with Apollo Bukenya (NELSAN ELLIS - The Inside) an African student at Hearst who wrote a book about his years as an orphan child and soldier in Uganda's rebel army. Veronica is hired by an African man Kizza (BABS OLUSANMOKUN - Law andamp; Order: Criminal Intent) to help prove that he is Apollo's father but her investigation leads to information that might expose Apollo's story as a fake. Meanwhile as the election for sheriff nears Keith faces a crime spree in Neptune. And Parker (recurring guest star JULIE GONZALO) comes to Veronica for advice about Logan after learning that he plans to spend the summer surfing with Dick (recurring guest star RYAN HANSEN).