- Jane and Maura investigate the death of a young woman who is found washed up on the beach. Maura confirms that she drowned and manages to trace the exact location by analyzing the water in her lungs: a tank in an old fish factory. Jane is somewhat upset to find that an old flame, police Lt. Rafael Martinez, is back in Boston. They had worked together in the narcotics division but their relationship ended after a confidential informant had been killed and Martinez left to join a special task force some 8 years ago. The dead girl is identified as Brenda Thompson, a journalism student who was pursuing a drug story on her college campus. When Jane finds Lt. Martinez's business card among her possessions, it seems that he was using her to get information. Meanwhile, Maura learns that she may be in danger owing to her father's activities.—garykmcd
- A gifted investigative journalism student's corpse is found on the beach, drowned but in freshwater, tracing to a tank in an old fish factory. She was tenaciously investigating a drug ring at her university. Jane grudgingly works on the case with her former Boston PD colleague eight years ago, Lt. Rafael Martinez, now a new drug-unit lieutenant and Frankie's supervisor. Maura learns that her mother Hope received a sizable donation to open her charity clinic, actually from her gangster father Paddy Doyle, Jane that the FBI is watching both of them.—KGF Vissers
- A college student waiting for her friend sees what looks like a guy selling drugs. She approaches him. Cut to him dunking her repeatedly in an industrial sink in a warehouse until she quits thrashing.
At the station, Frankie is dressed up like a biker in the hopes of getting assigned an undercover case faster. They have a new boss in DCU, Rafiel Martinez. Jane isn't exactly happy to see him, but Korsak is. Jane and Rafi have history.
Jane and Maura are called to a crime scene at the beach, where the body washed up. Jane wants to get the body to wash out more so it's in BPD territory. She hates Bob Thatcher with the State Police, one of the men on the scene.
They think they're going to have to share jurisdiction until Jane claims she sees an endangered horseshoe crab. When the state police go look, Korsak and Frost drag the body into the surf and get jurisdiction.
Maura looks over the young woman's body and can tell she was drowned.
Back in the morgue, Jane explains she and Rafi had to play a couple when they worked in the drug unit. She was hoping to never see him again. They got her CI killed, then they had a falling out and he took an assignment with a federal task force. That was eight years ago and she hasn't seen him since.
Maura's half-sister Cailin comes by. She tells them scary men in suits came by their house last night and they seemed pissed. They asked about Hope's charity MEND and threatened her. She asks Maura to talk to her and says Hope is planning to move back to London, but Cailin doesn't want to go.
Later, Maura reports the unidentified victim drowned in rain water, not the ocean.
At lunch, Jane drags Maura to see her mom at a MEND clinic. Jane runs into a woman she once arrested, Shondra, who is now a nurse. She credits Jane with getting her off drugs and getting her to finish nursing school.
Hope tells Maura the men who were at the house were accountants. She says Cailin wants to move back to London. Jane doesn't believe a word she says.
Frost calls Jane to report the victim has been ID'd as Brenda Thomas, 20, a Psi Beta Tau.
Jane notices someone following them, but says nothing to Maura.
She goes to visit Maura's father Paddy Doyle in prison, telling him to call his goons off. But they're not his. It's the FBI and they're following Maura.
Jane calls Agent Dean, her ex, who tells her the FBI organized crime division is investigating MEND and Hope and Jane thinks Paddy knows why.
Hope started MEND 20 years ago when Paddy was a fugitive. Jane tells Maura she's being followed, too, but says there's nothing she can do about it.
Korsak and Frost go through the victim's room and find cocaine. Brenda's friend Rachel says Brenda didn't do drugs, her brother OD'd. She studied all the time, to be an investigative reporter.
Her advisor was Tyrell Feeney, but she called him Touchy Feeney.
At the station, Korsak finds Feeney owns a boat. He's an adjunct professor and former reporter.
Jane and Frost talk to Feeney, who says he doesn't know what Brenda was investigating.
At the station, Frankie is mad at Jane that his new boss Martinez apparently has a grudge against Rizzolis.
Korsak urges Jane to fix it.
Maura tells them she found saline, fish gills and tin the water in the girl's lungs. They look up abandoned warehouses near the harbor and find seven.
They find the crime scene at one of the warehouses. Frost finds a wireless microphone crushed on the ground, which matches the adhesive they found on the victim's chest.
Frost accesses her audio files stored on the cloud through her computer. One of them has sounds of her being killed.
Back at the station, Jane finds Martinez's business card folded up among Brenda's things. It says "Cricket" on the back. Jane goes straight to him and accuses him of getting another CI killed -- "Cricket" is his safety word.
He says she wasn't his CI, but interviewed him for her story about drug dealing. Jane blames him for her death. He says they already picked up the guy from the buy Brenda made for him and they're trying to get him to make an introduction to one of his undercovers: Frankie. Jane worries he's going to get her brother killed.
Jane and Maura go for a drink at the Dirty Robber and find it made over and serving tofu burgers. Jane tells Maura that years ago she got her CI killed, not Martinez.
Eight Years Ago Jane sends a young woman named Yolanda in to make a drug buy. She can hear the dealer get suspicious, but Martinez makes her wait a second. Then Yolanda says "Cricket!" They hear shots. They run to her, but they're too late.
Back at the station, Frost plays a recording of Brenda asking a dealer to introduce her with his supplier.
Cailin texts Maura: the Feds just left Hope's house.
Maura breaks into file storage to go through Paddy Doyle's files. Hope visited the grave she thought belonged to Maura every year, but Maura thinks that wasn't what she was really doing.
The scrimshaw necklace Cailin gave Maura can't be from the year Cailin said it was because it's of a bridge with a secret tunnel in Sarajevo, where Hope was doing relief work in 1993. It's called the Tunnel of Hope. Paddy was a fugitive then, she thinks they met up there. Hope started MEND thanks to a $2.5 million donation from an anonymous donor in 1993. They think Hope took Paddy's dirty money.
Jane and Maura sit down with Hope and the financial statements for MEND. Hope claims she doesn't know who gave her the start-up money. Jane asks Hope if she was laundering money for Paddy. Hope wants to talk to Paddy. "I need to make this stop," she says.
The three of them visit Paddy. Paddy says his father would have killed Hope and Maura if he'd known Maura was alive as a baby. Maura says he has a chance to protect them both by pleading guilty. "You know I'd kill for either of you, but I will never plead guilty," he says.
In Maura's office, they get a report of transmission fluid from where they found the body and on the crushed microphone. Frost checks vehicle maintenance records for the State Police and finds one of their cars was leaking.
They head to arrest the state trooper on campus and invite Martinez to come. He calls someone to keep him on campus.
Frankie rolls his bike to block Bob Thatcher from leaving. Jane, Martinez and Frost pull their guns as Thatcher puts his to Frankie's head. Jane worries something terrible is about to happen. But Frankie wheels around, disarms Thatcher and knocks his bike over onto him. Jane and Rafi seem to forgive each other. Genial banter ensues.
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