- Part of a leg drops into an elevator. The gruesome discovery finds the body had been in the shaft for a few days. The victim was an office manager who was disliked by everyone. As the team investigates, Angela and Hodgins come to terms with their break up.—Jesse Sanchez
- A firm's elevator shake-up releases part of the completely crushed body of office manager Patty, an abusive woman who terrorized/blackmailed many colleagues. Booth seeks medical 'support' in the race for a dead colleague's coveted chair, also hoped to support his hurtful back. Sweets is denied the chance to properly help Hodgins and Angela come to terms again. Apprentice Colin Fisher proves brilliant, yet as insecure although his thesis and improvisation prove invaluable.—KGF Vissers
- Our cold open is inside an office building elevator on Monday morning. As the passengers make small-talk, everybody notices a strong odor. The car starts to shake, lights flicker and one of the panels on the celing pops open. The lower part of a human leg falls out, the appendage is stripped to the bone and has a woman's shoe still on the foot.
We cut to Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) in the office of Sweets (John Francis Daley) where Booth is unsympathetically worried he will not get the office chair of a recently deceased agent. They join Cam (Tamara Taylor) at the scene, determining tthe leg belonged to a woman between 20 and 40 years old and that the flesh has been stripped away from the leg.
We move to the elevator shaft where we learn the woman's remains have been smeared the enire length of the hoistway. The victim got wedged between the interior shaft wall and the elevator, and has been scrapped between the two as the elevator moved up and down. They think she was dropped postmortem and fell from a large height. On the roof, the threesome finds a joint near the opening of the elevator shaft.
Back at the Jeffersonian, the gang is sorting though copious amounts of evidence, including 1,263 bone fragments. Time of death is placed at between Friday night and Saturday morning and the victim's last meal was a Gyro. No drugs or poison were in the victim's system.
While Angela (Michaela Conlin) works on a sketch, she and Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) have an awkward conversation related to their recent break-up. Intern Fisher (Joel David Moore) and Cam figure out the body must have been dropped from the top floor or the machine room on top of the building.
Brennan and Booth conduct interviews at the office, determining a woman named Patty was likely the victim. We find out Patty was the office manager, and was still in the office when her boss left that day. The boss, a Mr. Flannery, sends them to Ted, who has a previous arrest for marijuana. Ted admits to smoking a few joints and Booth brings him downtown.
Ted tells Booth he and Patty were at odds and Booth shows him a picture of Patty's car which had been keyed with the word BITCH. Back at the office Angela tells Brennan she's having difficulty working with Hodgins. Cam has written a ridiculously over-the-top doctor,s note to help Booth get his chair which he says he cannot use.
Hodgins finds copier toner on the front and back of Patty's clothing and stains on several sweater fragments with various chemicals he cannot place. After more discussion of his chair, Brennan and Booth find out there was dried toner and fabric threads in a section of the office floor. They find a section of carpet containing stains.
Booth is told Patty got a nasty email the previous week from the recently fired Dave Farfield. Flannery tells Booth and Brennan that Dave was let go after eight years because of Patty's complaints.
Booth interviews Dave, who admits to keying Patty's car after a dispute related to parking. Dave says few people in the office liked Patty, and provides anecdotal evidence to support the claim. Dave was drinking at a bar called Paradise Isle with coworker Chip on the night of Patty's death, and then spent the rest of the night on a verifiable online roll-playing game.
Fisher has Patty's bones organized and tells Cam that Patty's ribcage was stomped postmortem. Angela runs into Sweets at a diner and gains piece of mind regarding Hodgins after a brief convo.
Hodgins finds a stain on the skirt which Cam determines to be semen and Cam tells him the carpet swatch from the office also contained a semen stain. Patty ordered food Friday night, Booth tells Brennan, but used Flannery's credit card. Booth bring Flannery in, and he admits Patty had been blackmailing him because of a side venture he had selling surplus office supplies online. In exchange for her silence, Patty had been allowed to use his card.
Fisher determines Patty's pelvis bone could not have fit through the shoot on top of the elevator shaft, so it must have been dropped in the shaft from the 16th floor. Cam learns the semen stains from carpet and skirt matched (duh), but it did not come from Flannery. Angela and Hodgins put the awkwardness of their past involvement behind them.
At the office Booth and Brennan examine the 16th floor elevator door, which has been wiped down by maintenance. Booth, a decent-sized guy, is unable to open the door by himself, suggesting there had to be two people involved in getting Patty down the shaft.
Fisher and Cam determine Patty's death was caused by a brain aneurysm, and Brennan then discovers a staple in the skull. A thrown stapler must have ruptured the pre-existing aneurysm which led to her death.
Booth and Brennan determine this means the death was at least partially accidental. Hodgins tells them the stain was from a Blue Hawaiian cocktail, which are sold at Paradise Isle. The cocktail and stains were transferred onto Patty's clothing from the killer's shoe when he stomped on her ribs. Though Dave's alibi is air-tight, there is no accounting for Chip's whereabouts after he dropped Dave off that night.
Cam has determined the semen stain was made Friday night and based on DNA she determined it came from an Asian man. Guess who is Asian? Thats right, gold 'ol Chip. When presented with a court order, Chip fesses up to sleeping with Patty and she threatened to report him for sexual harassment when he tried to end the relationship.
Booth asks Chip to show how he threw her down the elevator shaft and is unable to get the doors open by himself. Brennan helps Chip, and finds a painted finger nail in the grooves of the elevator doorway floor. (Why didn't Booth and Brennan open those doors and find the nail when they were there several scenes earlier, you ask? The answer, of course, is it would make too much sense.)
The nail belonged to the receptionist, Christine, who admits Chip had been covering for her. It was against company policy for coworkers to date, and when Patty walked in on Christine and Chip in the copy room she threatened to turn them in to Flannery at which point Christine threw the stapler at her.
In our last scene Booth finds out he has gotten his chair and it was kind words from Brennan to HR that got the job done.
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