Booth and Brennan examine a severely decomposed body found by some teenagers on hospital grounds. They identify the body as a man named Franklin Curtis, who was the founder of an organic supermarket chain, and discover that the body was either cooked or incinerated. Booth and Brennan go out to question people around Curtis' farm, while back at the lab it is discovered that the flesh of another victim was with Curtis'. Meanwhile, Booth and Brennan are assigned to a psychologist.
Season 3 Episode 4 of Bones resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s03e01 - The Widow's Son in the Windshield
s03e02 - Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van
s03e03 - Death in the Saddle
s03e04 - The Secret in the Soil
s03e05 - Mummy in the Maze
s03e06 - Intern in the Incinerator
s03e07 - Boy in the Time Capsule
s03e08 - The Knight on the Grid
s03e09 - The Santa in the Slush
s03e10 - The Man in the Mud
s03e11 - Player Under Pressure
s03e12 - The Baby in the Bough
s03e13 - The Verdict in the Story
s03e14 - The Wannabe in the Weeds
s03e15 - The Pain in the Heart
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with cuddle investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned, or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Brennan's equally brilliant colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab include earthy and bawdy Angela Montenegro, who's created a unique way to render an original crime scene in a three-dimensional computer image; Brennan's assistant, Zack Addy, a young prodigy whose genius IQ actually gets in the way of his finishing the several doctorates he's begun; "the bug guy", Dr. Jack Hodgins, who's an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby; and Brennan's boss, imposing lab director Dr. Daniel Goodman. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seely Booth, a former Army sniper who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes. Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally, but so far the chemistry between them has only played out in a fictionalized account in Brennan's lastest mystery novel.