Plot

Bones and Booth travel to Washington to investigate an arm found in a dead black bear.

After Bones confirms to Booth the hand found in a black bear is from a human male and was hand-sawed off days earlier, they are sent to the Flathead Indian reservation in fictional Aurora, Washington State. Dr. Denise Randall, a veterinarian, brought to Dr. Andrew Rigby most of the arm of the 18 to 25-old victim, on which Zach finds human bite-marks; not being cooked, that must make the cannibal sick. Aurora's sheriff Chris Scutter knows only of a missing hiker Ann Noyes. Ranger Sherman Rivers shows where he found the bear to harvest the excrement, which includes skin tattooed with an Indian Haida sun, which fits missing Richland college boy Adam Langer (aged 22), who has been missing for ten days, who, considering a career as a Ranger, visited Sherman, who flees into the woods, but only as bear poacher. Adam also took climbing lessons with Aurora's hunky private courier Charlie. The corpses of Adam and Ann -- missing the heart -- are found, shot in the head from up close, buried near a 'medicine wheel' made of stones, fit for a shaman ritual which requires two more bodies. Sherman points out Adam, Charlie -- and others -- were rivals for Denise. Zach discovers new bone markings.—KGF Vissers