"Mummy
in the Maze"
Episode 3x05
Written By: Scott Williams
Directed by: Marita Grabiak
Transcribed by xxblackxsatinxx
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Ext.
roadside halloween maze - day
It's Halloween, and many kids have
gathered around this maze dressed up in an assortment of costumes. The camera
pans around a number of people as the host exclaims the rules of the game.
host
Come, my brave children, to the
hideous Halloween maze. Avoid the creepies and the crawlies that live in every
dark corner of the maze. And the first one to reach the centre and emerge alive
will win the grand prize. AHA!
A pistol
is shot, declaring the beginning of the race, as the children break through the
starting line and push past each other into the maze.
The maze
is covered with traps and dead ends. As the kids run around, the camera follows
one boy, MATTY, a heavy-set boy dressed as a fuzzy bear. Matty is clearly lost
and frightened as he runs around aimlessly in the maze. Matty comes across the
hanging skeleton, scared by it turns in the other direction. Matty runs into
the large witch at the intersection and he turns, once more, scared. Through
the tunnels of the maze, you can see other children running about, trying to
get to the centre. Matty whimpers and looks around, scared.
Matty
Where am I?
Matty
looks down one of the pathways of the maze, and there sits a skeleton in an
electric chair indicating a dead end.
A woman
dressed in a cat costume lunges out at Matty and scares him. Matty stands in
front of the large black witch.
Matty
(CONT'D)
I'm lost! Somebody help me!
Matty
begins to run. A GRIM REAPER jumps out at Matty. Matty screams and begins to
run again. Matty runs passed the noose. The bottom half of a hanging mummy can
be seen quickly.
Matty
comes face to face with the mummy.
CLOSE ON
The
mummy's face. A spider crawls out of the eye socket.
BACK TO
SCENE
Matty
begins screaming. The spider falls on his nose. Matty faints.
Ext.
Halloween maze - night
The maze is all lit up with hanging
ornament lights. Sirens wail in the background, as witnesses are being
interviewed.
DR.
POTOSKA leads BRENNAN and BOOTH into the maze.
Potoska
Right this way, miss.
Booth
admires the costumes.
Booth
Now, that's an excellent costume.
What are you wearing?
Brennan
What? Now?
Booth
No, not now. At the Jeffersonian's Halloween Ball.
Int.
halloween maze - night
Booth
and Brennan followed Dr. Potoska.
Brennan
What I always wear. Are you going this year?
Booth
I'm the official unofficial FBI
liaison to the Jeffersonian. Of course I'm going.
Dr.
Potoska notes the wolfman. Potoska walkies another officer.
Potoska
We just passed the wolfman.
Deputy (o.s.)
Go straight towards the guillotine and veer left.
Potoska
turns to look at Booth and Brennan.
Potoska
It's a maze. What can I do?
Booth,
Brennan and Potoska continue through the maze.
Brennan
Dr. Potoska, how were the remains discovered?
Potoska
A kid passed out.
Brennan
What killed him?
Potoska
Oh, the kid didn't die. He just fainted.
Brennan
Then why am I here?
They
walk past a hanging skeleton.
Potoska
Well, when Matty fainted, I was here with my own kids. I'm a
pediatrician, but I'm also the coroner.
Booth
Small town.
They
continue to walk through the maze. As Potoska begins, and continues to talk,
Booth gets separated momentarily from Brennan and Potoska.
Potoska
Yeah, well, Matty revived
easily enough. Uh, he's what you call a
nervous-type kid. But then I saw what it
was that made him faint in the first place and I almost fainted too, because it
was a mummy, which I told the
sheriff, who called the FBI, who called
the Jeffersonian. And now here we are,
lost in this stupid maze looking for the mummy.
Booth
reappears and joins Brennan and Potoska.
Booth
A mummy?
Potoska
(in walkie)
Yeah, I do not see a guillotine.
Potoska
looks at a scarecrow wearing a cowboy hat.
Potoska (CONT'D)
What would you call that?
Brennan
A cowboy?
Booth
No, it's a scarecrow.
Deputy (o.S.)
Look, just keep turning to the right, all right? Let me know when you reach the dragon.
The trio
turn, and are greeted by a red and green monkey face with big white teeth.
Potoska
(to walkie)
Dead end, with teeth.
Deputy (o.S.)
That's because you turned left at the globin. You were supposed to turn
right.
Potoska
turns around.
Booth
Look, when you say a
mummy? You mean... ?
Potoska
Wrapped in bandages, curse of King Tut.
You know, a mummy.
BRENNAN
No offense, but I'm not
certain a pediatrician is qualified.
POTOSKA
Pediatrician AND coroner. See that? Yeah.
They
stand in front of the electric chair.
POTOSKA (CONT'D)
(in walkie)
Okay, we are at the electric chair.
DEPUTY
There's an electric chair?
BOOTH
Look, just tell the guy to throw his flashlight up in the air, will ya?
POTOSKA
The FBI requests that
you toss your flashlight into the air.
The
DEPUTY is with the mummy.
DEPUTY
Ten-four.
The
Deputy tosses his flashlight into the air. Booth sees it.
BOOTH
Ah! There it is.
POTOSKA
Oh, let's see if we can get there this way.
Potoska
begins to walk in the opposite direction. Brennan follows him. Booth stops them
both.
BOOTH
Guys?
They
stop to turn and look at him. Booth turns around and knocks down the haystack
wall. The Deputy stands on the other side of the now fallen wall. The Deputy
stands next to the mummy. Booth climbs over the fallen hay bundles.
POTOSKA
(to Brennan)
After you.
Booth
stumbles on the bales of hay, regains his balance and breaths in. He looks up and sees the mummy.
BOOTH
Oh!
Brennan
and Potoska follow Booth and climb over the fallen hay bundles
BOOTH
(CONT'D)
What do you think, Bones?
Brennan
examines at the mummy.
BRENNAN
Well, ocular contents dry, ramus collapsed, leathery skin. These are
actual human remains.
POTOSKA
A mummy.
BRENNAN
How long will it take to get out of this maze?
BOOTH
Not as long as you might think.
Booth
takes out his car keys and holds them up. Booth presses a button and his car
alarm chirps. Booth turns around and knocks down the nearby hay wall. Booth's
SUV is right on the opposite side of the now demolished wall. Booth climbs over
the fallen hay bundlers and looks back to Brennan and lifts his arms with a
look on his face that says 'it was that easy.'
End of teaser
Act I
INT.
MEDICO-LEGAL LAB / EXAMINATION TABLE
HODGINS,
currently offscreen, is also on the platform.
It takes a steady flow of dry air over a long period of time to achieve
this kind of desiccated mummification.
ZACK
The Incan Ice Woman of Peru, the
Zack
turns to look at the x-rays up on the screen.
HODGINS
sits at a desk, his feet up, and a pumpkin full of candy in his lap. Hodgins is
sucking on a lollipop.
Hodgins
How old are we talking?
Zack
Buttons, zipper, rivets. She's probably wearing jeans.
Hodgins
So, freakazoid murder-mummification rather than fascinating history?
She?
Zack
Shape of the innominate bone indicates female.
Now listen, boys. The
Jeffersonian Halloween party, it's compulsory. Donors, patrons, angels,
benefactors. So we all show up in
costume and do our duty.
Hodgins
is about to say something but
I don't want any argument on this.
Zack
I will be the back end of a cow.
Hodgins
So, now costume?
Zack
Naomi, from Paleontology,
has agreed to be my front.
Hodgins
Oh, so many jokes, so little time.
Hodgins (CONT'D)
It's fine. We're all in. I'll be Edward John Smith for Halloween.
Zack
Ill-fated captain of the Titanic.
What about Angela and Brennan?
Zack
Dr. Brennan always wears the same costume to this things. She loves it.
Help me remove these.
Hodgins
What's with the smell?
Cedar oil?
Zack
Also used in mummification.
What about this clear coating over the skin?
Hodgins
Lacquer?
She was painted to death?
HODGINS
The clothing came from a church-run thrift store.
How could you possibly know that?
ZACK
There is no bug or slime specific to church thrift stores.
HODGINS
You don't know that. I'm the bug
and slime guy. You're just the
auxiliary bone guy who dresses up
like the back end of a cow.
Hodgins?
Hodgins
sighs, and rips off the label on the clothing and holds it up for
Free Church of
Zack
I knew it wasn't bugs or slime.
Hodgins
No, you didn't! And that's what makes me, King of the Lab!
Hodgins (CONT'D)
A loyal servant of the Empress.
Hodgins
nods respectively towards
Zack
looks from
Int.
Free
Booth
and Brennan walk among the clothing racks at the thrift store while talking
with PASTOR BILL JONAS.
PASTOR
Clothes from this ministry were found on a dead body? Well,
I'm afraid that happens fairly often.
BRENNAN
Why?
PASTOR
Because we're a charitable congregation.
Homeless people
know that we'll provide them with what they need.
Pastor
Jonas puts down the painting he was carrying as Brennan opens the case file and
shows him photographs.
Brennan
Do you, by any chance, remember these specific pieces of clothing?
Pastor
This is from your murder victim?
Brennan
(nods)
Mm-hmm.
A
TEENAGE BOY wearing a long black trench coat interrupts them.
Boy
Jonas? Do you have anything like this in red?
Pastor
You're looking for something that screams "Satan," right?
Boy
Basically.
Pastor
I think we have a pink cape in the back.
Maybe we can dye it.
The boy
leaves.
Booth
What kind of church dresses kids like Satanists?
Pastor
Let me show you. At Halloween we
do a Hell House. Fornication, theft, murder, gambling, usury, sodomy, abortion.
The
pastor shows them a miniature of the Hell House.
Brennan
It's kind of horrific, isn't it?
Pastor
Well, abandoning the path of righteousness is horrific, Dr.
Brennan. This is our way of remaking a
pagan holiday, Halloween, into a positive celebration of Christian values.
(to girl) )
Excellent prostitute, Stephanie.
A GIRL,
dressed provocatively, walks by them and smiles.
Stephanie
Hey.
Booth
Anyone ever dress like a mummy?
Pastor
We've never featured a "false idol" room, though, now that
you mention it, it's not a bad
idea.
Brennan
Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs endured for almost 4,000 years, twice
the length of Christianity.
Booth
Look, any of your kids suddenly disappear?
Pastor
No.
Brennan
What if the children that you save from abortion grow up to be usurers
and sodomites?
Pastor
I don't respond to mocking semantics, Dr. Brennan.
Booth
Nor do I, but she's serious.
Pastor
In that case, my serious answer would be that in being given a chance to
live a life, the aborted soul will have a multitude of opportunities to repent
for their sins and live bathed in the Holy Spirit.
Brennan
nods.
Brennan
Thank you.
Booth
(surprised)
Thank you?
Brennan
looks to Booth.
Pastor (O.s.)
You're welcome.
Int.
Royal diner - day
ANGELA
and Hodgins sit across the table from a red-headed woman named AMBER KIPPLER.
Amber
My name is Amber Kippler. I'm a
senior investigator with Doyley
Private Investigations.
Hodgins
Mr. Doyley assured me he'd be taking a personal interest in the search
for Ms.
Amber
Interest, yes. But I'll be doing
the actual footwork. Mr. Doyley is
taking a very personal interest, only not from up close.
Angela
Do you have a lot of
experience at this kind of work?
Amber
Angela Montenegro is not your birth name. You changed your name on your 18th birthday
because it came to you in a dream.
Angela's
jaw drops.
Angela
Um...
Hodgins'
eyes widen as he looks at Angela.
Hodgins
You never told me that.
Angela
I never told anybody that.
Amber
If I can discover something nobody knew about a client I'm not being
paid to investigate, imagine what I can do for real.
Hodgins
Good point.
Angela
(insisting)
I never told anybody about that.
Amber
Yes, you did, actually. A girl
named Roxie whose heart you broke in second year art school.
Angela
Oh...
(smiles)
Roxie.
Angela
chuckles.
Hodgins
Wow!
(to Amber)
What do you know about me?
Amber
Wouldn't it be better if we got to Ms. Montenegro's husband,
Grayson "Birimbau" Barasa?
Hodgins
You found something?
Amber
I found the actual human man—in Florida, in the Keys. No
Name Key, very remote.
Angela
Did you talk to him?
Amber
Absolutely not.
Hodgins
Why?
Amber
My instructions were to locate.
That being achieved, we can now discuss contact.
Hodgins
We want you to contact him.
Angela
And get him to sign the divorce papers.
Amber
By "get him" do you mean...
Amber
looks at Hodgins and Angela. Angela and Hodgins look at her as if insisting the
rest of the sentence.
Amber
(CONT'D)
...force him to sign them?
Hodgins
If necessary, do you have a gun?
Angela
Or just remind him of who I am and ask him politely.
Hodgins
What are you? Canadian?
Amber
We'll do this one step at a time.
Ext.
road - day
Booth's
SUV is cruising down the road.
Booth (O.S.)
Didn't that pastor guy make you mad?
Brennan
No.
INT.
BOOTH'S SUV - day
Booth
He's a fundamentalist.
Brennan
I appreciate consistency.
Booth
Oh what, the consistency of trying to scare kids into Christianity?
Brennan
How do we keep kids from smoking? We tell them it gives them cancer.
Booth
It does give them cancer.
Brennan
According to science.
Booth
You know, that's all you care about
is science.
Brennan
In the end, even someone who believes in empiricism and science has to
take a leap of faith.
Booth
What?
Brennan
I believe in what I can hear, taste, see, touch and measure. You believe in what you feel. Pastor Jonas believes that God speaks to him
through a sacred book.
Booth's
cell phone rings.
Booth
Yeah, well, I feel like we're on the wrong side of the argument here.
Booth
checks his phone.
Booth
(CONT'D)
Oh, it's Cam.
Booth
puts Cam on speakerphone.
Booth
(CONT'D)
(to Cam)
What's up?
Cam
(O.S.)
I really need you to come back.
Int.
Medico-legal lab / outside brennan's office - day
Cam is
on the phone and walking.
Cam
I got a couple here, says they think the mummy in the maze is
their daughter.
Booth
Oh, that'd save us some time on identification.
Cam
Their daughter only disappeared last week.
Brennan
The remains we found were at least a year old.
Cam
Look, I'm great with corpses, but when it comes to loved ones, let's
just say there's a reason why I'm not a pediatrician. So if you got a siren, turn it on.
Booth
Right.
Booth
hangs up.
Cam
turns around to look at the couple in Brennan's office.
Int.
Medico-legal lab / Brennan's Office - day
Booth
and Brennan are talking to Megan Shaw's parents, DON SHAW and MARGIE SHAW.
CLOSE ON
Photo of
a red-haired teenager.
DON
SHAW (o.S.)
Megan is fourteen. She didn't run away.
Margie shaw (O.s.)
Something terrible happened.
Booth
She's a very pretty girl.
Brennan
What makes you think the remains we found are your daughter?
Margie SHAW
The news said that you found the body of a teenage girl in a fun
house. I suddenly knew it was
Megan.
Brennan
Suddenly knew?
Booth
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, it wasn't a fun house. It was a maze.
Brennan
And the remains we found are more than a year old.
MargIE SHAW
You're certain?
Brennan
Yes.
Don
shaw
Oh, I see.
Angela
knocks on the glass pane, gesturing that she wishes to talk with Booth.
Booth
I'm sorry. Excuse me.
Brennan
I don't understand why you're disappointed. Your daughter might still be
alive.
Margie shaw
(her voice breaking)
Megan is not still alive.
Angela
hands Booth the sketch.
Brennan
How are you so certain?
Margie shaw
I just am. I can't explain it.
I'm her mother.
Booth
takes a seat next to Margie and Don. Booth shows them Angela's sketch.
Booth
I'm sorry. Does this face mean anything to you?
Don
shaw
No.
Margie shaw
Does she have something to do with Megan?
Booth
This is the girl that we found in the maze.
Brennan's phone rings.
Don
shaw
Definitely not Megan.
Margie
begins to cry.
Brennan
answers her phone.
Brennan
Yes?
Int.
Medico-legal lab / cam's office
Cam
Dr. Brennan, another mummy has been found at Shoreline Amusement Park.
Brennan
turns and looks at Booth.
Ext.
Shoreline amusement park - night
Brennan and Booth quickly make their way
through the park.
Brennan
Perhaps the fact that Megan Shaw disappeared from here and there's
another mummy here is a
coincidence.
Booth
Fact, Bones, there are no coincidences in a murder investigation.
Booth
flashes his badge to the officer who points them towards the Dungeon of 1000
Corpses.
Brennan
You do know the strict definition of a fact, right? It's not the
same as a funny feeling.
Booth
Just because somebody says they saw a mummy doesn't mean they actually
did.
Booth
and Brennan walk up to a BREATHLESS WOMAN sitting on a gurney accompanied by an
EMT, PETE GELLER.
Breathless Woman
I know what I saw.
Geller
Keep the mask on, please, ma'am.
Brennan
What's wrong with her?
Geller
Anxiety attack. Brought on by this dungeon here. I spend half my time on
these calls.
Brennan
(to the woman)
You know it's not real, right?
You're overreacting to an excessive amount of stimuli.
Geller
Keep the mask in place, ma'am.
Brennan
Plus, you should lose some weight.
Geller
(to Brennan)
Um, ma'am?
Booth
Bones, a little compassion.
Breathless woman
I'm not overreacting. There's a dead body in there!
Geller
A thousand of them, to be exact.
Geller
turns and motions to the sign.
Close on
Sign
that indicates DUNGEON OF A 1000 CORPSES
BACK TO
SCENE
Breathless woman
There's a real one. I'm a nurse, trust me! I know a dead body when I see
one.
Brennan
(to Geller)
Did you see anything?
Geller
Not much time for that. Just went in, got her, got her out.
Booth
leans in, and pulls the oxygen mask away from the woman so she can speak.
Booth
Right. What did you see?
Breathless woman
A corpse. Past the killer clown.
Booth
lets go of the mask, his eyes wide.
Booth
(in a higher pitch than usual)
Clown?
Booth
looks at Geller.
Geller
You okay?
Booth
Yeah.
Booth stands up straighter, his posture
stiff.
Brennan
You sure?
Booth
Sure.
Brennan
Come on.
Brennan
heads to entire the dungeon as Booth points to the breathless woman.
Booth
Clown.
Int.
Dungeon of 1000 corpses - night
The
inside of the dungeon has lights flashing, and a background sound of shrill
screams. Booth walks in and stops when he sees the killer clown. The clown has
wrinkly skin, and long sharp teeth.
Brennan
enters behind him.
Brennan
What's wrong?
Booth
jumps and squeals. He pulls out his phone.
Booth
Um... the phone rang. It's Cam on the phone. It's ringing.
Brennan
Coulrophobia.
Booth
Euh?
Brennan
The fear of clowns. Coulrophobia. May explain why you shot that clown
last year.
Booth
Look, I have no problems with
clowns. I can stand right here. See?
Brennan
Uh-huh...
Booth
answers the call.
Booth
On the phone.
(brings the phone to his ear)
Booth.
Int.
Medico-legal lab / cam's office
Cam is
on the phone with Booth.
Cam
We got an ID on our maze victim off of Angela's sketch.
Booth
Great. Uh, details to follow.
Booth
pulls the phone away from his ear, except Cam continues.
Cam
I think you want to hear this now.
Name's Stella Higgins, fifteen years old, disappeared a year ago today.
Brennan
What's she saying?
While on
the phone, Booth is obviously uncomfortable with the clown. Booth keeps looking
back to it as if expecting it to come alive.
Booth
(to Brennan)
ID and date of disappearance of our maze victim.
Cam
Stella was last seen at Shoreline Amusement Park.
Booth
Wow!
Brennan
What wow?
Booth
More coincidences.
(to Cam)
Uh.. Thanks!
Booth
hangs up the phone.
Booth
(CONT'D)
The maze victim disappeared from here. So we just go right past the
clown. I can walk right past the clown,
like she said. Just right...
Booth
begins to walk past the clown, just as he is facing the clown, the clown begins
to rotate and the clown's arm nearly touches Booth. Booth dodges the clown's
arm as he lets out a scream.
Booth
and Brennan continue through the dungeon.
Brennan
Torture dungeon.
Brennan
imitates the "evil laughter" coming from the speakers.
Booth
Yeah, okay. Clown, scary. Not you.
Booth and
Brennan enter the torture chamber and begin to look through the various dummy
corpses.
Booth
scoffs.
Booth
(CONT'D)
Oh, gee! You're kidding me, right?
Booth points to a mannequin strapped to a
torture chair.
Booth
(CONT'D)
Look at the eye, uh? It's a Ping-Pong ball.
Brennan
walks up to a pile of corpses, and looks at one in particular.
Brennan
Not this one.
Booth
How do you know?
Brennan
Human remains, Booth, it's sort of my speciality. This is a dead person.
End of act I
Act II
Int.
Medico-legal lab / examination area
Zack is
examining the most recent victim when Cam walks across the platform towards
him.
Cam
Okay, the first thing Booth needs to know is if this is Megan Shaw.
Zack
It is not Megan Shaw.
Cam
I agree. It would be impossible to mummify a body like this in just a
little more than a week.
Zack
Dental records do not match.
Zack
begins to examine the victim's hand.
Cam
Lacquer and cedar oil. Looks like the same murderer.
Zack
That's leaping to a conclusion.
Cam
I said looks like, Zack. Looks like is
not leaping.
Zack
Her phalanges, fingers, are broken. Metacarpals... cracked.