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The 10th episode of season 3 finds Booth and Bones in a storyline that forces them to confront some parenting-related feelings, much the same way their standing-at-the-altar moment in the last episode forced them to confront their repressed romantic feelings for each other.

They investigate the scene where a woman’s car was run off the road and the victim’s body deliberately burned beyond recognition. Miraculously, her baby survives the accident. The team designates Brennan as the infant’s caretaker, but when the baby swallows a key piece of evidence, they question her nurturing skills.

The team eventually identifies the victim as a laborer who worked in a tire-recycling factory in a small, impoverished town in Virginia. In an attempt to find the person responsible for the woman’s death, Brennan and Booth go to the woman’s hometown where their investigation takes them to an array of suspects, including her deadbeat husband to the needy inhabitants of her town. Meanwhile, the team is fascinated by the presence of a baby in the lab and its affinity for Brennan.