The episode features FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan's investigation into a woman whose remains were found inside a car, where a possible kidnapping may have occurred.
Special Agent Seeley Booth enters Dr. Temperance Brennan's office and waits as she awkwardly answers questions about her new book, Bred in the Bone, in a television interview on Wake Up, DC!.
After the interview ends, Booth quickly takes her to the crime scene where a car and its driver were found extensively burnt, with signs of a child kidnapping.
However, Booth and Brennan discover that Carl is under a Federal witness protection program and is scheduled to testify in two days against KBC Systems, a company he believes is responsible for the deaths of 30 soldiers by knowingly sending defective armor to Iraq.
Booth and Brennan find Carl at KBC Systems, pointing a gun to the CEO's head, accusing him of the kidnapping.
Hawley also "wanted to raise [Booth's] stakes in this case and then give him the chance to take some real action - to save a boy's life not just based on his expertise as an investigator, a sniper, but also as a father."