The identification of a woman whose body parts were found scattered in different locations in Los Angeles International Airport is hampered by the victim's numerous plastic surgeries and past as an escort.
Tropes:
- Headbutting Heroes: Hodgins and Goodman fight about Goodman's approach to analyzing human remains; Hodgins finds it sentimental and unscientific. They end up bonding at the end as Goodman convinces Hodgins that it's about viewing the remains as a human being and Hodgins provides him with a more professional sounding justification for his decision not to authenticate the remains.
- Plot Parallel: While Brennan and Booth try to identify the remains of a recently murdered woman who has had her bone structure surgically altered, the squints remaining at the Jeffersonian try to authenticate the remains of a man who may or may not be an Iron Age Pictish skull fused onto a different body.
- Shout-Out: A callgirl mentions to Booth that she and the murder victim knew a guy who played a terrorist on 24.
