When a skull and various skeletal remains are found in a albero in a nationally protected wooded preserve, Brennan and Booth are on the case to investigate. Back at the Jeffersonian, Brennan learns of her estranged father's new position as a teacher.
Booth and Brennan are en route to China when a flight attendant discovers a fully cooked human body in the plane’s industrial microwave. They must solve the murder in the air before the plane lands and they lose their jurisdiction over the case.