- 22 year old Melissa finds her dock-working father's work place injury fishy. Her subsequent murder has the mob's M.O. But, an injured Doyle, the mobster and Isles' father, claims innocence. Rizzoli frowns on Isles' chess game with Tom.
- Jane and Maura investigate the murder of Melissa Joy Black who is found dead, tied to a pier at the port with an ice pick through the heart. Maura is concerned that it may be a mob killing with links to her biological father Paddy Doyle and so calls in another medical examiner, the fastidious Dr. Pike, who finds a micro SD card in her stomach. Melissa's sister tells the police her father was injured on the job 6 months ago and will never recover. Melissa likely got a job at the docks after the union blamed their father for the accident claiming he was drinking on the job. A wounded Doyle shows up at Maura's house demanding medical treatment but denies having anything to do Melissa's death saying someone is trying to frame him. After Doyle's right-hand man is found dead, the police think a war over control of the docks may be underway. Maura meanwhile is spending time with Jane's brother Tommy. Vince is pushing Jane to take the mandatory sensitivity training and she goes out of her way to evade the training officer.—garykmcd
- Maura enjoys hosting Tommy again, who turns out a great chess partner, never mind Jane's doubts. Melissa Joy Black was reported missing at the docks, where she worked behind her family's back. She drowned restrained, but was ice pick-nailed to a pier. Now her sister realizes she must have tried to prove their father Bill's near-fatal accident was none, but sabotaging his attempt to vitalize the trade-union. That fits the MO pointing to Irish mob boss Patrick 'Paddy' Doyle, who later arrived with armed goon, demanding his biological daughter Maura treats his fresh shot wound, while Boston PD finds his lieutenant murdered, suggesting a port turf war.—KGF Vissers
- A young woman races to get in her car late at night. It's dark and she fumbles to get her keys in the ignition. Before she can get away, a man comes up and punches through the window and grabs for her.
Jane shows up at Maura's for their scheduled early morning run, but finds Maura isn't ready -- she's been up all night playing chess with Jane's ex-con brother, Tommy, who is staying there.
Maura is quite taken by him.
Jane gets a call to a possible homicide. Maura doesn't want to leave her game.
At the scene, without preamble, Jane tells Maura not to sleep with her brother. Maura insists that she is attracted to his mind.
The car has been stripped clean and there's no body, but the inside is covered with blood. Maura looks at the spatter and says both of the victim's carotid arteries were slit, so whoever the blood came from is definitely dead.
The car is registered to a 22 year old from Michigan named Melissa Black. She has a parking pass for the docks.
At the docks, Jane and Maura get the complete once-over from the dock workers including one aggressively rude and offensive one.
In the office, they meet Ray Murphy, the union rep. He calls over Axel to ID her. He knows her as MJ, who walked off the job yesterday mid-shift. They hear a commotion and race to see the men rushing to see something in the water.
MJ's body is tied to a piling. Maura sees an ice pick through her chest -- Patty Doyle's signature. Maura takes herself off the case and tells them to call in Dr. Pike. Korsak thinks he's pompous and has OCD.
Maura doesn't want to risk a defense attorney finding out Patty is her biological father and using it to hurt any case they build.
Bill Sutton, the CEO of the shipping company, asks if they can cover the body.
He tells them the mob doesn't have any hold on the docks anymore, but might be wrapped up with the union. He promises to help.
In the morgue, Jane is aggravated waiting for Dr. Pike (Ed Begley Jr.) to get started on the autopsy as he fusses getting his instruments arranged to his personal requirements.
He says the victim bled out in under a minute.
Maura goes and reads old news clippings of Patty Doyle. Jane tries to assure her that her father has nothing to do with her.
Jane catches Maura IM'ing Tommy with chess moves.
Jane hides behind the door when she sees a sensitivity training instructor approaching. Maura covers for her.
Korsak and Jane go to MJ's home and break the news to her sister Shannon. Their father is on life support from a head injury on the job six months ago. He was a longshoreman.
Her sister didn't know she was working at the docks or going by MJ. Shannon says Melissa didn't believe the union story that the accident was their dad's fault for drinking on the job and she must have been investigating.
Dr. Pike brings Maura an SD memory card he found in Melissa's stomach.
Maura and Tommy flirt over a game of chess at her house, when suddenly two men bust down the door. One holds a gun on Maura and tells her the other needs a doctor. It's a badly wounded Patty Doyle (John Doman) and one of his thugs.
Maura examines him. He has a gunshot wound in his shoulder that broke his clavicle. Patty tells Maura he got shot over "business" but he had nothing to do with the woman at the dock getting killed. Tommy asks how he knows Maura and Patty tells him he's her father.
Frost plays the garbled footage from Melissa's SD memory card. She was wearing the camera and running, but it doesn't show from whom.
A testy cop from the crime scene at the docks brings Jane the battery form Melissa's car.
Korsak reports that Melissa's dad's blood alcohol was .10 when he had his near-death "accident."
Maura and Tommy sit out the night tied up at her house. Patty rests on the couch. Tommy asks her questions about Patty. Patty gasps and his goon orders Maura to help him and whacks Tommy when he talks back.
Maura checks on him. She says he should be on an IV. He looks up at her and says she looks like her mother, and she would like Maura.
Jane and Korsak hit the docks, to question the longshoreman. When the aggressive one from earlier in the days grabs Jane's butt, she chickenwings him and Korsak arrests him.
Jane gets a call that Patty Doyle's right hand man has been found dead.
Frost and Jane report to the scene, where Kevin Brennan is lying dead on the floor of a warehouse with gunshot wounds. Jane sees the amount of shell casings and other blood drops and thinks it was an ambush. Pike shows up. When he says Maura was unreachable, Jane races off.
Maura's cell phone rings, but Patty won't let her answer it. Patty assures her he doesn't kill women or children or "anyone who doesn't deserve it." He tells her he's being framed. Patty and his goon leave. Patty says he's going to "finish what someone else started."
Jane shows up 15 minutes later. Maura tells Jane what Patty said. Tommy says Patty would have to live by a code to rule the street and clearly loves Maura.
At work the next day, Jane and Korsak look at files of his past alleged victims. Testy officer Duncan comes by with more parts of Melissa's car from chop shops for Jane. She expects him to be a jerk to her again, but Korsak and Frost promise he likes her.
In the morgue, Maura asks Dr. Pike why he didn't do an exam of Melissa's teeth or gums. She's curious about post mortem bruising around her mouth and Maura thinks she might have bitten her attacker. Pike says he already released the body. Maura's upset he did it without having her sign off. He starts to defend his credentials, but she cuts him off and tells him to get the body back, reminding him that she's his boss.
Jane and Korsak interview Axel the longshoreman. He didn't know MJ was Richie's kid. Axel says Richie was a "stand up guy" and was trying to address dock safety, running for union rep before he got hurt. Ray Murphy won. He has an assault and fraud record.
Frost pulls up surveillance footage of Ray leaving just a few minutes before Melissa did on her last day. He has a fancy car. The footage shows Melissa following him.
Jane runs into the sensitivity trainer in the hallway, where Axel has just told her he wants to file a complaint against Jane for insulting him. Jane pauses and puts on her sweetest face to apologize, and does so so convincingly that the jerk accepts her apology and backs off.
Back in the morgue, Pike examines Melissa's teeth, right where Maura tells him. He finds a skin particle. Maura tells him to take the credit.
At the docks, Jane and Korsak walk up to the union rep's office and hear a woman making moaning noises inside. They open the door and find Ray Murphy stabbed through the chest with an ice pick and his secretary tied up in the closet.
Two of Ray's fingers are broken, but only two, so he gave up whatever the person was after.
In the morgue, Maura tells Jane that Ray has a bite mark on his arm that matches Melissa. She thinks Patty was telling the truth and Ray killed her.
Frost finds Melissa was backing up her footage to a wireless receiver in her car, which they just recovered. He pulls up the footage. It shows Ray Murphy going into a warehouse and talking to someone, but they can't see who. They zoom in and see it's the CEO Sutton, telling Ray to push the men to unload faster. Sutton did it. Patty was telling the truth.
Maura tells Jane she better find Sutton before Patty does.
Jane shoots out the glass door at Sutton's office building and she, Frost and Korsak go in. They find Sutton holding his broken fingers in the conference room. Jane looks out the window and see Patty getting into a car below.
Jane comes home to Maura's and shows off her sensitivity training certificate. Jane gets a call from Patty, who tells her he's one of the good guys compared to the new way of doing business. He tells Jane his people would never hurt women or hard working people like Richie.
Richie's daughter Shannon finds a stack of cash on her doorstep.
Patty tells Jane to check the DNA of the blood alcohol test they said was Richie's. He tells her to take care of Maura, but Maura says she can take care of herself.
Angela, who has been out of town, notices the busted-in door. Jane says Tommy did it when he forgot his keys. Jane gives Tommy chess advice, surprising Maura. But Jane says she's the one who taught him how to play.
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