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Jane investigates the death of a family friend in a boy band with a history of drug abuse. It looks like a drug case until drug tests come back negative and another rocker turns up dead. Maura's soft heart drags Jane into assisting with Lydia's pregnancy despite her disapproval of her mother's relationship with Lydia.—David Foss

Frankie is personally shocked by the fatal shooting of youth friend Shane Finnegan, lead singer of a successful boys band with his brothers Liam and Ronan. The trio has been exploited by their deadbeat father and parasitical former manager Ryan, who was recently released from parole, but maintains his innocence. Their present manager isn't quite clean either, nor was the fraternal rapport as harmonious as they sounded on stage.—KGF Vissers

A man parks his car in an alley, takes off a pass and starts walking. He stops when he steps on something glass the breaks it. Someone unseen shoots him once in each leg then, standing over him, shoots him in the face and finally in the head.

Jane and Maura return to Maura's place and find baby stuff everywhere, Angela is throwing a baby shower for Lydia, mother of either her ex-husband's or son's baby -- although she does not know this. Angela thinks Lydia is a "sweet" girl who just needs some help.

Lydia comes back and Jane and Maura are called to a case. "It is so sad that people have to get murdered," Lydia says.

At the scene, Jane learns the victim is Shane Finnigan, the leader of the boy band Channel Street boys, and a childhood friend of Frankie's.

Jane wonders if he was using drugs again, since people score drugs in the alley. Maura finds a vial of what could be drugs on him.

At the station, Jane talks to his Shane's brothers, members of his band. They had just finished a show and were about to tour overseas. He missed a live webcast after the concert. They think he was using again.

Their father Ryan used to be their manager, but they got him thrown in jail years ago after they found out he was stealing from them.

Jane finds Maura rocking out to a Channel Street boys video over Shane's autopsy. Maura gets the tox screen and is surprised he had no drugs in his system and hasn't for at least six months.

Jane tries to console her mother, who tells her that one of their hits was about her. Angela asks Jane to come to Lydia's shower and asks Jane to text her.

Frost goes over Shane's car and finds his backstage pass and car keys in the car. He has expensive luggage in the trunk with his cell phone.

Upstairs, Korsak relays that all the bullets came from the same gun. They haven't been able to track down Ryan, the boys' father. Frost works on Shane's cell phone, which has military spec security to protect from gossip magazines. Frost accidentally triggers a self-destruct program on the phone, wiping out its whole history.

Down in Maura's office, Frankie arrives looking haggard but bearing the murder weapon. He ran from the scene to the station.

Jane drags Maura to go meet with Lydia -- she texted her from Angela's phone. They wait at the Dirty Robber. Lydia is late because she walked after running out of gas.

Before Jane can ask, Lydia tells Jane she doesn't know if Frankie or Tommy is the father. Lydia wants to tell Angela but Jane tells her not to.

Lydia meant to run into Angela that day because Frank used to say she was a great mother and Lydia wants to learn from her.

She's off to Lamaze class, Maura guilts Jane into going. Lydia's "happy place" is a mall. She doesn't plan to have tests done to find out who the father is. Lydia doesn't think it's right to keep the truth from Angela.

"What, you got a conscience now after you sleep with half of my family?"Jane asks.

Korsak comes in to the station to find that Frost never left. He found Shane's last text by going through the concert footage and zooming in on Shane texting on stage. It said: "I'm free, let's do it."

They think it was a booty call and Frost and Korsak head to motels near the crime scene.

In the morgue, Jane learns there was blood on the grip of the handle and she concludes it came from an amateur holding the gun improperly.

Frost calls Jane to report someone named "Jamie Relis" checked into a nearby motel before the concert. It's a name from "Friends with Benefits." They go inside and find a woman dead on the bed by a crack pipe. She's a famous pop singer named Gia.

Gia and Shane met in rehab. Gia had an article about Shane's death on her iPad. They wonder if it was a suicide.

Frost finds footage of TK "The Killer" Womack outside the motel where they found Gia. He managed Gia and Shane. He and his posse went in the motel at 12:15 and came out at 12:30 a.m.

At Maura's, Angela has gone crazy with the decorations. Jane brings Lydia, who is upset. Angela assures her she's better off without the creep that dumped her when she told him she was pregnant.

"He dumped me when I told him the baby might be Tommy's," Lydia lets slip. Then she tells Angela that Frank is the one who dumped her. Angela blames Maura and Jane for not telling her and then can't believe Lydia came into her house and family after what she's done. Angela leaves in tears ignoring Jane's attempts to apologize.

Jane and Maura drop Lydia off at her mother's house with her gifts. Her haggard mom comes out and tells her she rented her room out. Maura feels sympathetic but Jane tells her Lydia made her own bed.

Frost and Korsak talk to Womack the manager, who says Shane was worth more to him alive than dead.

Upstairs, they find Shane donated to a lot of children's charities and relief organizations. The band was broke, but a clause in their contract let them keep rights to merchandizing, online fan memberships and premium chats.

Maura reports the blood on the gun belonged to a white man, so it couldn't be Womack.

They still can't find Ryan and only have a cell phone on his social security application. Jane calls him, saying that Shane named him as a beneficiary on a life insurance policy.

Frost and Jane wait for Ryan to arrive at his PO box. They take him in. He denies killing Shane.

Jane talks to Frankie, advising him not to tell Angela he knew about Lydia.

Maura tells Jane the lesions on Shane's lips were from an anti-malaria drug. They find the same drug in Gia's system, and also find from her hair sample that she'd been drug free for at least six months. Shane's "I'm free" text meant he was quitting the band. They were going to Haiti to help with relief efforts and be together.

The blood from the gun isn't Ryan's, but it's a familial match to Shane. One of his brother's killed him.

They go back to the live webcast and find the program was old. Shane was worth more dead to his brothers. Maura is notified that the fiber in Shane's wound was denim. From the concert footage they find his brother Ronin was in jeans.

He has a hunting license, so he could have hit him in the legs from far away. But that doesn't explain the blood in the hand gun from an amateur. Jane thinks she knows what happened.

Jane and Frankie visit the brothers. Jane accuses them of making a pact to kill Shane.

Flash back to Shane in the alley. Ronin fired first and hit him, but the other brother couldn't bring himself to do it so he fired at the pavement. Then he fired and cut his hand.

Jane and Frankie arrest the brothers.

Frankie and Angela join Maura and Jane. Angela wants to move. She knows Frankie knew about Lydia, too. "I know you were trying to protect me, but I can't have my children think I'm pitiful," Angela says. Jane assures her her father is the one that's pitiful and they admire her for picking herself up. Maura says she always wanted a mother like Angela. They share a group hug.