- A mentoring program, a fire alarm, Angela's missing wallet, and Angela's breakup with the lieutenant distract the detectives as they track the killer of a microbrewer through cyberspace.
- The squad investigates the murder of Greg Jensen a brew master and the CEO of Overlord Ale who was found dead in his test kitchen. He appears to have been killed with a spear, something Maura confirms when she finds the metal spear tip inside his chest. The police have a lead when they learn that Clark "Skullcrusher" West, head of a motorcycle club, had lost a lawsuit against Jensen for having stolen their club logo and using it in a beer ad. Maura finds some DNA that leads them down a different path and into the world of online gaming. Meanwhile, Angela is doing her best to make Lt. Cavanaugh jealous and Jane and Maura act as mentors for some street kids brought in by Rondo. When the fire alarm goes off unexpectedly and they evacuate the building, Angela realizes her wallet has been stolen.—garykmcd
- Lieutenant Sean Cavanaugh works out his romantic frustration by bickering with Angela's new detective suitor Rich Gibson and allowing dodgy ex-junkie youth worker Rondo to have his troublesome juvenile charges mentored by Korsak, Frost and the girls, only to find one of them stole Anela's purse. The real case is the murder of micro brewer Greg Jensen, whose brand Overlord Ale uses a logo which Clark "Skullcrusher" West failed to have legally protected as belonging to his motor club, as it features as Viking vixen his troublesome daughter Vanessa Jensen. Fancy forensics also requires tracing DNA and rune clues to online Nordic role-play gaming.—KGF Vissers
- Someone does their best Walter White impression, mixing something in a Tyvek yellow protective suit. An unseen person joins him. "You're back? We can't go over this again. Go home, get some sleep," he tells them. The person skewers him with a spear.
At the station, Jane is disturbed to see her mom flirting with Rich "Lightning McQueen" Gibson with the Auto Task Force. Angela is holding his hand when Cavanaugh walks in.
Jane's favorite CI Rondo brings in three teenagers, Reuben, Danya and Trevor aka Dog, who call themselves "Rondo's Rejects." He's trying to find them mentors. Jane asks Frankie to run their names.
At the scene, they find the victim was Greg Jensen, he was cooking beer. His assistant Ruby came back from Iceland, where she was doing marketing research, and found him. He's a microbrewer of Overlord beer. He's married and his wife was home with their two kids.
Maura studies the entrance wound. There's no weapon. Jane follows blood droplets to a mill and finds the chopped up spear.
Back at the station, they confirm the sharpened stick was the murder weapon, but aren't sure where the metal rivet Maura found the victim fits in.
Frankie brings up the teens, who aren't impressed. Danya is in AP chemistry and wants to visit an autopsy for extra credit. Jane wants her parents to sign a release to let her observe, but Danya is emancipated and signs herself.
Down in the morgue, Maura x-rays the victim and sees a spear tip lodged inside him. She finds an ancient Nordic language written on it.
Back upstairs, they see the Overlord poster shows a busty woman in a Viking hat holding a spear. The logo looks similar to a motorcycle club, the Ragnarok Riders. The busty Overlord model is Sophie West, daughter of Clark "Skullcrusher" West, head of the Riders. He sued Greg Jensen for copyright infringement and lost. They have video of Clark threatening Jensen after the trial.
A fire alarm goes off and they evacuate the station. There's no smoke. Frankie thinks one of Rondo's Reject's did it to get out of cooking with Angela. Back inside, Angela tells Frankie someone stole her wallet.
Frankie and Jane interrogate the teens, who deny stealing it. Frankie checks their hands for UV dye residue to see if they pulled the fire alarm, Trevor does. Rondo worries Trevor could lose his college scholarship.
Jane and Frost find Clark at a bar, where the Ragnaroks are putting together a cancer charity ride. He was visiting a kids' cancer ward during the murder.
Back at the station, Maura translates the writing on the speartip to mean "Olaf the Boneless." The Tyvek suit had month old sex fluids on it, and vaginal secretions on the spear shaft, probably from transfer.
Jane and Korsak meet with Mrs. Jensen, who says her husband often disappeared for days at a time. She thinks he was having an affair. Jane tells her about the DNA. She found a burn phone in Greg's car, she gives them the number.
Back in the station, Cavanaugh chews out Frost for making hazelnut coffee. He's been grumpy since breaking up with Angela.
They trace Greg's phone to a condo he bought a year ago. At the condo, they hear sounds of a fight inside and Frost kicks in the door.
Frost, Jane and Korsak sweep the place and find it's coming from a video game called Vikings of the Realm as the character Olaf the Bonless. He logged more than 2,000 hours.
They find mail addressed to Greg at a PO box, written in ancient Nordic. They find an IM in the game saying "Your whore is next."
Back at Maura's, they're stocked for the evening with pizza and frozen yogurt. They hear noises outside and see Rich Gibson dropping Angela off after a date.
After he leaves, Jane accuses her mom of only going out with Gibson to get back at Cavanaugh. She tells Angela it's beneath her. Angela is touched by her daughter's concern.
At the station café the next morning, Cavanaugh and Gibson are snarky to each other.
Rondo and the teenagers bring Angela her wallet back, but it's light $100. Angela asks Dog how his mother would feel, but learns he doesn't have one. Danya confesses she took it for a text book, Dog pulled the fire alarm when he saw Angela coming. They apologize.
Maura meets with her old Nordic history professor. He translates the letters as love letters written to Olaf the Boneless, which he points out is historically incorrect -- it's Evar the Boneless. They were written by his mistress, "Undirmaor" while he was married to "Gunnhild."
Suzy the lab tech reports the DNA on the spear matches the DNA in the Tyvek suit.
Frost has subscriber names of people Greg played with and checks them against Undirmaor and Gunnhild, whose avatar is a sexy Viking. Korsak and Frost are excited to go pick her up, but find a frumpy middle aged woman named Kendra instead.
She says she was having an affair with Olaf in the game, but it wasn't in real life. She thinks "Undirmaor" was responsible for Greg's death. Just in case, they take her DNA and Frost gives her his card.
She texts him later from a gaming convention at a video game store saying she's about to make contact with Undirmaor. They head to the store and find Kendra with a dagger in her chest, just like in the game.
Down in the morgue, Maura runs tests on a hair found on the victim. It shows the person ate fermented whale and sheepshead cheese, popular in Scandanavia. Undirmaor means "underling or apprentice."
Frost checks flight records and finds Greg's assistant Ruby Burke flew in earlier from Iceland than she said. Frost can see she's gaming somewhere. They think she was jealous of his online relationship with Kendra. Frost built an avatar to lure her out. But they check and see Olaf is online. They head back to his condo.
Ruby ignores them when they walk in because she's so wrapped up in watching her avatar reunite with Olaf. They turn off the game.
She says the online relationship started first and after she slept with him, she confessed she was Undirmaor and he sent her away.
Back at Maura's, Angela entertains the teenagers and Rondo with Monopoly. Maura feeds everybody lasagna.
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