Rizzoli and Isles 710
Written by Ken Hanes
Directed by Sasha Alexander
After Angie Harmon’s turn in the director’s chair this week it was handed to Sasha Alexander. Sasha, like Angie, had done, seems to get the best from her fellow cast members and in turn gives a great performance herself. For me, despite wondering how certain aspects were going to be explained in the story it was a solid episode and a few tense moments with Maura’s life being threatened twice. It also shows the past never really can be forgotten or buried as it can come back at the strangest of times.
We start with someone getting chased in the woods, he falls knocking him unconscious.
Arriving at the crime scene there is a body shot in the back over a table, it’s not our running man from earlier. The victim is well dressed and still has all his valuables so not a robbery. Even Maura can’t argue the cause of death is from a gunshot wound and Jane notices the bushes near are disturbed indicating someone was lying in wait for him.
At BPD Nina seems a bit tense when Frankie arrives having little joy at the victim’s apartment. What he did find was a cell phone bill but no phone was found on the victim or in the apartment. He asks her to run a trace. While she is breaking down the background on the victim Frankie clearly senses something is wrong. Nina’s mother is in town and she is nervous for her to meet Frankie as in the past she has hated her previous boyfriends. While chatting a location comes through for the cell phone and it’s not far from Jane and Korsak’s location in the park.
Korsak and Jane go in search of the phone calling the number, they come across what appears to be another body. After some impressive descending of an incline in heeled boots by Jane, she checks his pulse yelling at Korsak to call an Ambulance as he is still alive. This one is our running man from earlier, he has the victim’s cell phone on him and in his wallet a picture that takes Janes interest.
It's Maura and the second victim posed at the Chapel of love ..its Maura’s ex-husband . yes, Maura has a secret she has kept hidden. Now I was very skeptical how this one could have been left out but it does get explained later.
Back at BPD Maura tells them all about Edward and the fact the marriage was annulled the next day after they came to their senses. There a few comments from Frankie and Korsak, “It’s a police station, not the jerry springer show” says Jane jumping to her friend’s defence . Maura states she hasn’t seen him in years but read he recently took over his father’s company. Jane promises to keep Maura updated on his condition and sends Frankie to work up a background on Edward Dunn, Maura’s ex, they need to work out if he was a victim or was he involved in the murder.
Angela has a run in from the past of her own, Ron her ex-boyfriends’ daughter. If you can remember it was her comments about her father’s safety that caused Angela to break it off with Ron. Well, she feels terrible for what happened. Angela wishes her well and leaves.
Jane talks to Kent who performed the autopsy, as stated earlier victim died from a gunshot wound, gunshot residue was found on Edwards clothing and some of the victim’s blood but nothing to prove if he was the shooter. Maura is in her office and Kent tells Jane how quiet she has been.
Back upstairs they are trying to piece together links between Edward and the victim. Seems about a week ago they had a series of calls between them on their business phones. The victim runs a small accounting firm so it doesn’t make sense for Edwards big company to use them but our victim was a forensic accountant. Seems he had blown the whistle on a few big companies. Maybe he found something at Edwards. Nina comes in saying she has discovered Edward is married Jane says they need to talk to the wife… you guessed it its Maura!
Now you have got to admire Janes slightly blunt delivery to Maura the fact she is still hitched.
I like her speech about choices and it’s a little reference to the choice Jane has to make regarding her job offer. It's also one of the best scenes between these two in a long time and has been missed by fans of the show.
Meanwhile, Nina preps Frankie for meeting her mother, Nina comes up with the idea that they should act like they are not dating ... yes, that will work!
Jane is at the hospital and talks to Edwards mother (yes she is a piece of work) and she makes a quip about Maura when Jane starts asking questions, not the best thing to do to her best friend. She is also with a guy who has interests in the company and seems to be a friend of the family. At this point, they are informed Edward is awake but the Mother , Tilley , won’t let Jane speak to him.
Maura’s hunch was right as Frankie tells Korsak they found buckshot in the tree’s indicating Edward was running away from someone who took a shot at him. Hopefully, the crime lab can get something off the buckshot. Seems both Edward and the victim were targeted.
At the hospital, Jane enters Edwards room to tell him he is no longer a suspect but he won’t say anything to Jane. Jane calls Maura for advice and asks if she will speak to him as clearly, his mother seems to be a controlling factor.
Maura looks in on Edward when his mother isn’t looking so he sends his mother out for some chicken soup for him. Maura sneaks in asking what happened, eventually, he tells her what has been going on. Seems he found some discrepancy in his father’s ledgers and that’s why he hired the forensic accountant. The accountant called him to meet but when he arrived he was dead so he grabbed his phone to call the police when someone shot at him from the bushes so he couldn’t see who it was. No documents were on the victim but he destroyed the hard drive of the ones he gave him and hid those at his apartment. Maura can go there as they are married without a warrant and he gives her his key.
Frankie rushes to the Dirty robber to prep his mother on Nina and his Plan regarding Nina’s mother. Of course, Angela knows it won’t work like we all do and they are soon found out and she takes Frankie to one side to speak to him.
Korsak has located who brought one of the rare guns a few months ago and shows it to Jane.
Meanwhile, Maura finds herself face to face with Edwards angry mother Tilley and a gun. at first, you think she is behind it but she wants the papers to protect her family and the business reputation.
Jane calls and Maura puts it on speaker so Tilley can hear seems her friend at the hospital is the owner of the gun. Tilley and Maura agree to look through the papers together.
Ron comes to the Dirty robber to talk to Angela, seem his daughter filled him in on what was said. He wants to still be with her. I am pleased Angela has found some happiness.
Jane calls Maura who is heading back to BPD she tells her they figured out her friend Noah was running a ponesie scam, Jane informs her they are on their way to arrest him when Maura looks over and sees him and he runs her off the road.
Nina is nervous but she doesn’t have to be as Frankie and her mother got along, in fact, she likes Frankie.
Things are definitely wrapping up in this episode and the mood and tone set wonderfully by Sasha in the director's chair. We get them doing what they do best and showing they are there for each other even though things are changing in their lives.
So what are your thoughts on this episode?
What are your thoughts regarding Jane taking the job?
