Kim Staunton

When a teenage runaway is murdered, all suspicion is immediately placed on his girlfriend, another runaway from the foster-care system; which angers Brennan, as she too was a foster child.

After a baby dies in a subzero apartment, detectives question the baby's mother, who blames the building owner for deadly living conditions. Prosecutors seem to have a clear-cut case against the owner, until a shocking discovery about one of the tenants takes things in a new direction.

In an especially baffling case, Dr. Jacob Hood must figure out why severely autistic teenagers are disappearing across the country only to reappear a month later exhibiting symptoms of savant syndrome.