- Young female professionals dressed as dolls are turning up dead on the public transit system, and Jane and Maura must piece together the clues. Angela implements new ideas for the café. And Jane learns more about how Casey was injured.
- Jane and Maura investigate the murder of 25 year-old Victoria Green who was found posed her on a bus stop bench and made up to look like a toy doll. They first suspect Herbert Buckley who was recently released from prison and has a fetish for dolls but that proves to be a dead end. It's only the first of several murders and it seems that the killer is finding the women on the public transit system. Maura finds a sliver of ash wood in the first victim's scalp but the blood on it is 20 years old. It proves to be the vital clue that leads them to the killer. Meanwhile, Korsak find a well-trained service dog who turns out to belong to someone at the veterans center where Jane's friend Casey works. Maura returns the dog and learns Casey's secret. It's left to Jane's mother to get Jane and Casey together again.—garykmcd
- A killer dresses his female, sexually unmolested victims as 1980s dolls, like a series of murders 20 years earlier. Korsak finds a chipped dog, trained to assist mutilated soldiers with PTSD, at the veterans center where Casey works. When Maura brings the dog back she notices what is wrong with Casey, and insist, initially in vain, he must tell Jane about his injury. Angela starts a blog about the crime going around, with the website set up by Frost. The used bludgeon points to a (beat) cop, the team focuses on a grump whose wife had gone missing years ago. His son gone mental from watching his father kill his mother, and was trying to get someone to tell the police about what had happened. Angela breaks her promise to Maura to keep Casey's secret, tricking him and Jane to an uneasy, revealing meeting.—KGF Vissers
- A man holds a young woman captive, asking if she'll tell. They're surrounded by dolls and doll houses. Cut to the next day, the woman's corpse dressed up like a doll on a bus stop bench.
The next day at the station, Stanley is irritated at Angela for bringing in too many customers with her menu expansions.
Maura tries to cheer Jane up by forcing her to run for the endorphins. Jane's CI Rondo comes by and Angela slips him food, she takes it out of her tip money. They get called to the crime scene.
Maura examines the body and announces the victim was beaten by "something hard" and she was bound. She wasn't killed at the stop and is dressed in early 90s clothes.
There's a suitcase at her feet with her driver's license, bus pass, clothes and phone.
Korsak shows up with "Barney Miller" the dog. He found her.
In the morgue, Maura finds the victim was knocked out. She had sex within the last 36 hours but shows no signs of trauma. The make-up was applied post mortem. Frost comes in with the name of a suspect, Herbert Buckley. He used to hire hookers and dress them up as dolls then hit them in the head with crowbars.
When Jane leaves, Korsak comes in asking Maura if she could do a check up... on the dog.
Frost and Frankie check up on Herbert and find him yelling at his wife on the other side of the door. They bust in and discover that his "wife" Marlene is a doll.
Maura declares Barney Miller the dog in excellent health. She knows how to turn off the lights and fetch keys. Maura checks her for a microchip. She's registered to the Truce Veteran's Center, she's a service dog. Maura offers to take her home to spare Korsak from saying good-bye.
Maura gets to the center and Barney takes off. She runs back to Casey, who knows her as Elsie. Maura sees Casey's arm braces and guesses his partial paralyzed condition. He's waiting to get in to a clinical trial for spine regeneration.
He doesn't want Maura to tell Jane about him, but she says it's mean not to. He says he came back for the trials, not Jane.
Korsak and Frost have fun putting "Marlene" in Jane's chair. Korsak mentions Elsie works at Casey's vet center.
Maura tries to get Jane to go out, but she just wants to hit her couch.
At home, Angela worries about Jane to Maura. Maura takes out a "Gray's Anatomy" and makes Angela swear on it not to tell, then she tells her about seeing Casey. Maura thinks Jane loves him.
In the station, Frost continues to fail at cracking the password on the victim's cell phone. She worked at an accounting firm.
Frost finally gets in to the phone and finds she was sexting with her boss. The accounting firm website says "Ron Montgomery runs a family company, with family-friendly values." "I remember when that meant you weren't a pervert," Korsak says.
They talk to Ron, who calls the sexting innocent fun. He denies having sex with her, but they point out they have DNA. He admits it. Korsak interrupts to say there's another victim.
She's also dressed in 90s clothing, right down to the scrunchy.
In the café, Angela tries to get help from Frost on her company website. He suggests a blog.
Jane confers with Frankie about the case. Both were killed around midnight. Jane wonders if maybe they rode the bus with the same person. As they talk, Angela writes on her blog.
Upstairs, Frankie found surveillance footage of Montgomery leaving work. He found footage from a nearby building showing him pulling up next to the first victim and confronting her. She gets in his car.
They talk to Ron again. He admits he picked her up to try to calm her down about the fact he's not separated from his wife, but she demanded he drop her off. Then he went to a strip club.
They find footage of the first victim getting out of Ron's car and into a bus. Korsak and Jane go talk to the driver, who remembers she got on in a different place.
Rondo comes up to Jane wearing an "Angela's Guardians" t-shirt, answering her call to keep the buses safe.
In the morgue, Maura announces she found a sliver of wood in the second victim's brain. It has both victim's blood types on it, so it's likely from the murder weapon. There was also a third blood type on it that was 20 years old. The sliver was white ash, just what old police night sticks were made out of.
Jane and Maura go for a run. Jane realizes the clothes and night sticks were both 20 years old.
Jane announces she thinks the killer is re-enacting a killing from 20 years ago. Cavanaugh comes in and puts on the news, with a story about Rondo and Angela's Guardians. He sees the website designed by Frost and announces he's going to set Angela straight. Instead, she butters him up with baked goods.
Jane takes Angela's laptop. Angela tells Maura she has an idea to cheer Jane up.
Jane takes Angela's laptop to Frost and tells her to shut down Angela's blog.
Frost checks old incident reports from near the areas where the bodies were found. They find Libby McMurphy was reported missing from her store, Libby's Dollhouse and Tea Room, 20 years ago. Her husband was Artie McMurphy, Korsak's old friend the traffic cop.
Their son Jonathan has been in a mental hospital for eight years.
Jane wonders if what happened to their victims happened to Libby.
Korsak and Frost talk to Libby's mom. She has old pictures of Libby with the same scrunchies in her hair. She says Artie was abusive. She has old envelopes with Libby's DNA on them.
Korsak and Jane talk to Artie about the excessive force complaints against him. He sees they have no case against him and leaves.
Maura oversees the DNA processing. Jane gets a text from Casey wanting to meet.
Maura confirms that Libby wore the same brand of lipstick as the two victims. They go searching for Artie, but he's gone. Jane gets a call about a third woman gone missing.
They decide to search the empty shops around the area where Libby's shop was.
They reach an abandoned building and hear shouts. They go in and find Jonathan holding a woman hostage and Artie holding a gun on him. Artie says the doctors never should have given Jonathan the bus pass and day trips, it got two women killed.
Jane's trying to talk Jonathan down when Artie shoots him. As he lies dying he tells Jane that his dad hurt his mom.
Jane looks at a dollhouse set up and sees the dolls facing a fireplace. They go back to Artie's house and knock out his fireplace. They find a body in the chimney.
Jane tells Artie he turned his son into a monster by killing his mom in front of him.
Jane goes to meet Casey at a bar. He's glad she wanted to meet him. She wants to start over slowly, like maybe they can meet once a week for a run or rollerblading. He thinks she's mocking him.
He mentions a note she gave him telling him she knows and it doesn't matter. Her mother wrote it, but when she sees his braces, she tells him it doesn't matter.
He's still glad to see her, but tells her he needs time. He asks her not to watch him leave.
She cries struggling to watch him leave.
Maura joins her to cheer her up.
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