Nick Ballard

Jay’s birthday brings everyone together and Phil is beside himself over the super cool gift he got Jay, a high-tech outdoor grill. Claire and Mitch decide they will “offer” to pay back the money Jay loaned them ages ago as their gift not really thinking he will take them up on it, and Gloria teaches Manny and Luke a lesson about drinking, while Andy gets real awkward with Haley when she brings over her new doctor boyfriend.

When a human body is found inside the strung up Otter mascot uniform of a rival school, Brennan and Booth investigate whether the body inside the costume was dead beforehand, or killed during a Middlesex University bonfire event. The body is identified as Jimmy "Beaver" Bouvier, a fraternity brother at Middlesex University. When Brennan and Booth question his fraternity brothers to gain information as to how he ended up in the rival school’s mascot uniform, they learn that Beaver had a money-making operation on the side and was making a killing of his own. Meanwhile, Booth offers to help his brother Jared (guest star Brendan Fehr) find a new job after being dishonorably discharged from the Navy for illegal activity he engaged in to save Booth's life recently.

A man claims responsibility for pushing a sex offender off a building and promises to systematically kill another person every day. Twenty years ago, his six-year-old son was raped and murdered, and now he intends to execute one registered sex offender every day until Rush's team can find the culprit in his son's killing.

Mac finds himself in the center of a political firestorm following the death of a serial killer in Mac's custody. As the NYPD Advocate tries to prove Mac didn't follow procedure, Mac gets some help from the last person he would expect. The assistance ultimately helps him turn the tables on his nemesis Deputy Inspector Gerrard. Across town, the rest of the team investigates a case where John McEnroe is their number one suspect in the murder of a man found impaled on a condom machine. (TV-14)

Naomi embarrasses herself in front of her boss Rachel in an attempt to get over her break-up with Austin. Dixon and Adrianna are booked to perform at a club, where they realize that working together might be a bad idea.