A serial killer targets families throughout the Midwest, and the team is on their trail. Ellie runs away from her foster family.
Forensic expert Brennan and FBI agent Booth head to an elite prep school where a student was hanged, and must determine if it is suicide or murder.
When the wife of a governor is raped, the governor takes the law into his own hands and then asks Olivia and her team to come in and clean up his mess.
Flashbacks reveal more about Olivia's estranged relationship with her father; both the White House and Pope & Associates are still in the middle of cleaning up the very big and very public mess they created.
Edison Davis introduces the worried parents of a missing college student to Olivia. Their daughter has been writing a racy blog about her exploits in the bedrooms of Washington DC's political heavyweights.