What Doesn't Kill You (Episode 301)

Well, season 3 definitely started off with a bang, or rather, a look that could kill in a heartbeat. Season 3 picked up right where season 2 ended, with Jane shooting Maura's biological father, Irish Mob Boss Patty Doyle. Season 3 opens with everyone outside the warehouse. The paramedics have removed Doyle and Agent Dean has been taken to the hospital after getting shot in the leg by Doyle. Jane knows Maura is mad, but she doesn't realize just what she has helped set into motion. Throughout the episode we see a few flashbacks, some great arguments, and even a moment that makes you go "aw."

Right from the start, Jane knows that her relationship with Maura is never going to be the same. Jane sees that Maura is hurt, that she is shocked that Jane shot her father. Jane doesn't quite understand why Maura all of a sudden cares about this man. You can see it in both of their eyes that they are hurting. After the incident, Jane is told that she is going to be interviewed and investigated by the IAD (Internal Affairs Department). Turns out that there is someone inside the BPD that is working for or with Doyle.

Jane and Agent Dean's relationship also comes to head in this episode, with the revelation of their intimate relationship. After Agent Dean dropped by on the undercover opp, and was shot in the leg, he too was interviewed by IAD. He admitted he had an intimate relationship with Jane, which she was then asked about, in front of Korsak and Cavanaugh. Jane is embarrassed and pissed. Will Jane and Dean ever be together again?

Maura has a lot of things running through her head. Did she overreact when it came to Jane's actions? Does she care more about her father than she originally thought? Most importantly, who or what is Hope? Maura saw a different side of Jane in the warehouse. She had never actually seen how someone ends up on her autopsy table. Seeing Jane fire her gun and shoot a man, her father, right in front of her freaks Maura out. She is stunned by what Jane did and she is stunned at her own emotions and her own reactions to the unfolding events.

Meanwhile, Jane and the gang are called to a homicide at a convenience store where a cop has been murdered. Since Maura is tied up with her family (her mom was hit by a car in the season finale), Dr. Pike is back and just as snarky and anal as ever. Jane runs into Maura in the ME's office, leading to a very heated cat fight full of accusations and name calling which needs police intervention. Jane is sentenced to time in Evidence Management and Maura hands in her resignation letter, turning her duties as Chief ME to Dr. Pike.

While working in the EMD (Evidence Management Department), Jane talks Frost into "test firing" some guns confiscated by BPD. Turns out one of the guns is the same one that was used to shoot the officer and the store clerk in Jane's murder case. After searching the murdered officers house, they learn that the officer was not only dirty, but was working for Doyle. Which also leads Jane into figuring out that the two men investigating her, the two from IAD,  happen to be dirty as well. All working under Doyle.

Jane finds pictures in Doyle's boxes in evidence that closely resembles a pencil drawing of a young woman that Constance gave to Maura, a piece that one of her students drew. Jane believes that this woman could have been Maura's mother, leading Jane and Angela to a tombstone with the name of a baby, baby Maura Doyle. Jane shows Maura, which leaves Maura with even more unanswered questions.

After the end of episode one, we know one thing for sure, Jane and Maura are definitely not LLBFFs anymore. Will they ever be that way again? Who knows. It is going to take a lot to get them back to the friends they were before, lets just hope they make up soon, because it just isn't Rizzoli & Isles without Rizzoli AND Isles being together.



Until Next Time,

J. Cavanaugh

All photos used in this post are screen shots from episode one.