 Brennan leaves the crime scene to go on her date with the man she had met on the internet, David Simmons.While walking to the restaurant, she is shot at, and only avoids being hit by bending over to retrieve her dropped cell phone as the shots were fired.While her colleagues are concerned for her, Brennan refuses to stop work, claiming that the best way to find the murderers would be to have her on the case, and then therefore they would catch her attacker too.