Michelle Azar

After an explosion occurs in a hotel garage, the Jeffersonian team must research the remains found at the crime scene in order to match them to the victim. The investigation only gets trickier when they discover that the man whom they thought was dead is actually alive. Meanwhile, Booth has to take on a desk assignment to get the department’s budget approved in order to land a promotion, so Sweets is given a temporary partner, FBI Special Agent Olivia Sparling (guest star Danielle Panabaker).

When the BAU is called to Salt Lake City Utah to investigate a triple homicide, the search for a connection among the victims could lead them to a fugitive who could have ties to the UnSub.

It’s the annual Christmas party at police headquarters, and everyone is full of holiday cheer. Monk, Natalie, Captain Stottlemeyer, and Lieutenant Disher are all there. When it comes time to exchange Secret Santa presents, Captain Stottlemeyer has a problem: he’s unable to find the gift he bought for his friend, Detective Chasen. At the suggestion of Alice Westergren, another police officer, Captain Stottlemeyer takes a bottle of port that he received from an auto body shop and re-gifts it to Chasen. Detective Chasen drinks the port, collapses and dies. The port was poisoned!

Lulu asks Nick to take over her case and be the Guardian ad Litem for a baby with Krabbe's disease, a terminal and incurable disease.

Amy receives a letter from Hawaii from Levi, who has been bristling under the constraints of Open Air, its holistic philosophy, and his bodily-function-obsessed roommate Tony. To cope, Levi escapes with a pair of fellow malcontents, Travis (Christopher Abbott) and Danielle (Ashley Hinshaw), for a night of drugs, alcohol and debauchery at a nearby hotel. After pushing himself to his hard-partying limits, Levi decides he's ready to return to Open Air and give rehab one more chance.