James Lashly

Booth and Brennan investigate the scene where a car was run off the road and the victim's body deliberately burned beyond recognition. When the team hears muffled whimpering during the site investigation, they find the victim's baby miraculously perched in a tree above the scene of the crash. The team designates Brennan as the infant's caretaker, but when the baby swallows a key piece of evidence, they question her nurturing skills. The team soon identifies the victim as a laborer who worked in a tire-recycling factory in a small, impoverished town in Virginia, and Brennan and Booth venture out to investigate who might have wanted her dead. Their suspicions range from her deadbeat husband to the impecunious habitants of her town. Meanwhile, the team is fascinated by the presence of a baby in the lab and its affinity for Brennan.

When Data's creator summons him home to be fitted with a computer chip that will give him emotion, their reunion is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Data's evil brother, Lore.

As an irascible federal judge (guest star Stephen Root) hears a controversial coal company case, an FBI investigation complicates Raylan’s (Timothy Olyphant) efforts to replace the money Winona (Natalie Zea) took from an evidence locker. And as Raylan and Winona struggle to put the money back before its disappearance is discovered, a coal company executive hires Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) for her security team.

The master Kobliad criminal-scientist Rao Vantika is presumed dead after an inmate transport fire, but his wily pursuer Ty Kajada is not so sure.

If the Tosk and Hunters were surprise guests from the Gamma Quadrant, the first formal delegation is just as unorthodox.