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Brennan, intrigued by Phil Jackson's management style, pulls all her interns together as a team for a project worthy of the basketball coach's philosophy. She charges them with identifying remains that have been determined unidentifiable. For the team, however, it turns out that naming the bodies may be the easiest part of their task when one of them is from 9/11 and they must decide if he is a victim or perpetrator.—Anonymous

Rival interns Finn, Aristoo, Colin, Wendell and Edison are teamed up to tackle the Smithsonian's sizable stock of unidentified corpses now the relevant missing persons database has been completed. Rivalry stirs the hoped-for productivity, except with Aristoo, who keeps focused on a single unfortunate male, who proves to be a Desert Storm veteran who became homeless. It suddenly attracts everyone's attention when it seems likely he died on 9/11, and possibly during the Pentagon crash. War hero Booth leans on Pentagon buddy lieutenant colonel Ben Fordham to help work out his surprising story.—KGF Vissers

All the regular interns have been called together at the Jeffersonian. Why? No one is sure, but Bones (Emily Deschanel) is the one who has summoned them all. On the table is a badly decomposed body with a chainsaw sticking out of his/her chest. Later, Bones explains to Booth (David Boreanaz) watching basketball has made her think of team dynamics. So she will motivate the interns to all work as one. So coach Bones, quoting Phil Jackson, challenges the five interns -- Finn (Luke Kleintank), Arastoo (Pej Vahdat), Wendell (Michael Grant Terry), Clark (Eugene Byrd) and Colin () says. Later, Booth passes the recently identified bodies to Sweets (John Francis Daley), who must contact all of the families. Arastoo is the only one who hasn't identified multiple bodies. He is stuck on a homeless man found dead behind a parking garage. In Bones's words, Arastoo won't go for the easy lay up. The intern has dedicated himself to a tough case.

The interns soon rally around Arastoo and discover that the homeless man had a broken bone 10 days before he died on September 21, 2001. There is also evidence of jet fuel on the body. The interns are speechless. Was this man a victim of 9/11? Weren't all the victim's identified? "Maybe not," Arastoo says. "Maybe just the victims who had homes." Bones wants to reconstruct what happened to the homeless man from 9/11 until the day he died -- so as to discover his identity. Because the man took a bullet decades earlier and was exposed to uranium, Booth thinks the victim was a Desert Storm veteran.

Angela (Michaela Conlin) reconstructs the face on the computer. Booth takes that photo to the Pentagon to try to find some answers. An official, Lt. Ben Fordham, agrees to show around the reconstruction photo. Back at the lab, Finn makes the mistake of referencing Arastoo's Muslim faith -- and whether he should recuse himself from the case. "This is not the work of religion," says Arastoo of the 9/11 attacks. "Those horrible men who hijacked those planes today, hijacked my religion, too." Finn apologizes -- and the intern team is brought closer.

Booth, who spent the day visiting homeless shelters, identifies the victim as a man with a wife and children. "I need to know what happened to him, Bones," he says. The next day, Booth and Bones interview the victim's wife, who explains that her husband was never right after he returned from war. "Tim didn't trust anyone to help," she says. "There's no Purple Heart for PTSD." Booth gives the crying woman the photo found on the victim of his young family.

Hodgins, meanwhile, discovers the metal found in the man's body is from a lamppost near where the airplane hit the Pentagon. The interns then share their personal 9/11 stories -- where they were and what they were doing. Turns out Wendell's uncle was a firefighter in New York who died in the attack. Lt. Fordham then visits Booth and Bones, explaining the victim stood outside the Pentagon each day for a full year yelling "Walk in Moore Park." "He was clearly disturbed," Lt. Fordham says. Booth is glum.

Later, Booth has a brainstorm. He looks at a photo of the victim with his old platoon mates whose names are Walken, Moore, and Park. "He was out there every day yelling the names of his friends," an excited Booth explains. All of the victim's were killed during the war. The victim wrote numerous time to get them medals with no success. So, he stood in front of the Pentagon each day and repeated their names. "That doesn't sound crazy to me," Booth says.

The interns then find blood from survivors of the Pentagon attack on the victim's clothes. Booth and Bones visit each of them. And each one of them was rescued by the victim, who lifted steel beams to save them. Back at the lab, the intern all-star team finds injuries consistent with weight lifting. It all fits -- and leads Bones to theorize the victim wasn't murdered, after all. His ribs were injured by debris from the plane. His ribs cracked when he lifted the heavy weight off the other survivors. That led to him dying 10 days later. "I can't imagine the pain he must have been in," Camille (Tamara Taylor) comments.

Later, a memorial service is held for the victim -- and Booth explains the man's heroism in front of his wife and son.