William R. Moses

Murder’s a drag, when Jane and the CBI try to find the killer of a young man found burned to death outside a cabaret featuring female impersonators. During the investigation, they discover a list of suspects, all of whom bullied the victim.

A robbery-homicide prompts Beckett to invite Demming to assist on a case; the investigation becomes a competition for Beckett's attention.

Booth and Brennan are en route to China where Brennan has been summoned to help identify pre-historic anthropological remains with Booth in tow to watch over her highly sensitive equipment. Their restful flight is disrupted when a flight attendant discovers a fully cooked human body in the plane’s industrial microwave. Booth and Brennan connect online with the team back in the U.S. using Brennan’s high-tech equipment, as well as odds-and-ends gadgets from the airline passengers, to send evidence back to the Jeffersonian for processing. When they identify the victim as a travel writer working on a controversial story about airline pilots, Booth and Brennan race against the clock to solve the murder before the plane lands in China and they lose their jurisdiction over the case. Meanwhile back in the states, Angela and Roxie’s relationship progresses as Hodgins tries to move on.

Carrie sends her daughter back to the States while she pursues the person trying to kill her; Quinn tracks Carrie to the safe house, where Carrie shoots him.

Will confronts a moral decision when his former teacher faces a life-threatening disease; Rhodes disagrees with the father of a young patient about a risky procedure; an unusual case causes Sarah to recall Jason Wheeler's suicide.