Jonathan Kowalsky

When Booth and Brennan are called to investigate decomposed remains found at the Jersey Shore, the team IDs the victim as Richie “The V” Genaro, a 23-year-old who partied the night before at a popular nightclub. Booth and Brennan question Genaro’s peers and the club bouncer (guest star Antonio Sabato Jr.), and Brennan surprisingly proves her pop culture savvy and anthropological expertise after watching what she believes to be a documentary on the inhabitants of the Jersey Shore, but was in actuality as reality show set there. Meanwhile, at the lab, the team grows fond of Booth’s girlfriend, Hannah (guest star Katheryn Winnick), and Angela tries to keep her pregnancy a secret.

Ray's life is thrown into absolute turmoil when his father Mickey unexpectedly gets out of prison five years early, kills a priest, and arrives in LA, vowing to take revenge on Ray for framing him. Meanwhile, Ray's mentor, Ezra Goldman, and his law partner, Lee Drexler, need Ray to find a way to get a "straight" action star out of a scandal with a transsexual. Ray must also protect a beautiful singer from a stalker, but the case leads to tension between him and his wife, Abby.

Bob and Lee's front-yard water sculpture prompts the neighborhood association into action; Edie finds out about the affair Carlos is having with Gaby; the Solises' former gardener, John (Jesse Metcalfe), wants to rekindle his romance with Gaby.

When a dead body is found at an ancient burial site that is thought to be cursed, the team tries to determine the motive and the symbolism behind the crime. Also, as Torres continues therapy with Dr. Grace, he discovers that their lives are in danger.

Nursing his wounds following Mags Bennett’s death, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) aims to find the cash and drugs that went missing in the wake of the Bennett family’s demise. And as Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) looks to sell what he salvaged from the crime family’s marijuana farm, he hatches a plan to take revenge against the imprisoned Dickie Bennett.