- After a student is gunned down in broad daylight, the investigation reveals she had more than a few secrets. Meanwhile, Jane's mother Angela gets into a spat with her father over the car.
- Jane and Maura investigate the murder of a local college student, Danielle Davis, who was gunned down on campus in broad daylight. According to Danielle's father, she was the perfect daughter. She was attending college on a soccer scholarship and was well-liked by everyone. The investigation reveals however that Danielle had recently lost her scholarship due to an injury but somehow still managed to pay her $57,000 tuition. She had recently broken up with her boyfriend and may have been having an affair wit one of her teachers. When it appears that the may have also been working as a call girl, Jane believes the solution to the crime rests with finding her pimp. Meanwhile, Jane also has to deal with her mother whose attempt at greater independence has left her with a clunker of a car.—garykmcd
- Successful, well-liked BCU (Boston Cambridge University) full soccer scholarship Danielle Davis was mysteriously shot on campus. Dr. Isles, whose beloved alma mater BCU is, discovers in autopsy Danielle's misdiagnosed ankle injury requiring surgery disabled continuing to play soccer, so her scholarship was pulled, but hefty college tuition paid, as turns out by a "high-end" escort call girls pimp. She recently broken up with boyfriend Brandon Lewis and possibly had an affair with a teacher. The apparent suicide of a BCU faculty member is quickly ruled as murder and associated with Davis's murder inc campus and prostitution-related circles. Jane abuses her badge to more then recuperate her mother foolish bad deal on a second hand car.—KGF Vissers
- A college student comes upon something on campus that stops her in her tracks.
At the department, Maura brings her career day students in, some disinterested tween girls who don't look up from their smart phones until they hear Jane mention a case and think murder is cool.
A high tech screen on the wall goes off - it's the shot alert, software that can apparently pinpoint the sound of gunfire. It came from Boston Cambridge University, Maura's alma mater.
Jane's mom calls. They pick her up on the way to the crime scene. She says Jane's dad stranded her there.
Angela brags that she'd be good at solving crimes because she reads a lot of crime novels. Jane makes her wait in the car.
At the scene, the female student from the opening is dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. Jane runs off the campus cop who was first on the scene. She's Danielle Davis. They find her cell phone with all the texts deleted. Jane picks up a piece of plastic.
Angela sneaks down the stairs, sees the body, is instantly upset. Jane has an officer take her home. A co-ed runs to the body and bursts into tears. She says she's Danielle's best friend. She says Danielle didn't have a boyfriend.
Jane and Frost go through Danielle's dorm room. Her RA Lucas Bilton tells them a key they find on a bracelet is for her gym locker.
Her dad comes by. He tells Jane that Danielle was on a soccer scholarship and got straight As. Her mom died when she was 15.
During the autopsy, Maura says Danielle died of a gunshot wound to the chest from close range. Maura finds a hair. Maura finds she had a ruptured tendon in her ankle that required surgery, which meant she hadn't been playing soccer in a while.
Jane and Frost visit her coach, who thought she just had a sprain. Her gym locker has a lock different from the key they found. The coach tells them she hated having to pull Danielle's scholarship after she got hurt.
Back at the department, they find Danielle's full $57,000 tuition was paid off. Frost asks Korsak (Bruce McGill) where he went to college. He says he didn't, he watched "Animal House" a few times. (Fun fact: Bruce McGill was IN Animal House as "D-Day").
They find the campus security footage that shows Danielle was out of range of the cameras. Her texts show lots of pictures with Brandon Lewis, a sophomore.
Jane talks to Natalie, the best friend, again. She says Danielle and Brandon broke up a month ago because Danielle said she didn't have time for a boyfriend. Natalie says it was sudden. She knows Danielle wasn't playing soccer and says Danielle wasn't the same.
Jane and Frost go to Brandon's frat house, where co-eds are setting up for an ABC party ("anything but clothes"). At the station, he snottily tells them he's pre-law and doesn't know why Danielle broke up with him.
In the morgue, Jane tells Maura she sort of feels like she missed out on college. Angela calls.
Her mom is outside, with a new car - a broken down pimp mobile. Jane guesses her mom was trying to teach her dad a lesson for not helping her. Maura, who knows all about cars, says it needs a few thousand dollars worth of repairs.
Frost saves Jane from the scene with the contents of Danielle's locker from a high end gym - a slinky dress and "do-me" heels along with condoms, lube and fur-lined handcuffs.
Based on when she lost her scholarship they think she was turning tricks for a month, likely with high end clients. They take Angela's hoopdie to go looking for pimps.
Jane sees a pimp she knows who tells her new girls use websites, but she would have had a book. "This whole damn world's gone crazy, but hos still need to keep schedules," he says.
Jane takes her mom and the car back to the car dealer, who says he's not responsible for abuse after the car leaves the lot. Jane takes out her badge and suggests she might check his paperwork. He agrees to swap for her old car. Jane gets him to throw in a new alternator and floor mats.
Jane joins Maura for a drink. Maura tells her the hair she found was from a toupee. Maura defends Danielle for doing what she had to to stay in school and mentions she couldn't go to her dad for help.
She gets a text about the plastic Jane found. It was from a computer, maybe Danielle's missing laptop.
Jane goes to the campus computer store and asks to see the repair slips - a whole box full. As she and Frost are standing there, the goober campus security guard walks in with a repair slip. He sees them and runs, but doesn't get far. He has a repair slip.
Back at the station, he tells Jane he grabbed the laptop after he found Danielle dead.
Frost goes through the laptop and finds what he thinks are codes for the johns Danielle was meeting, including one at the Wingate hotel the night before she died.
They check the security footage and find a guy with a bad rug, a professor who sold his house recently.
They bust into the professor's office and find him slumped over his desk, dead, holding the same kind of gun that killed Danielle. But Jane quickly sees it's a set up, there's no blood on his gun hand.
Back at the station, Frost finds the prof had withdrawn $180,000 from his brokerage account over the past year and a half. They're thinking blackmail.
In the lab, they confirm the same gun killed Danielle and the prof.
Jane and Maura go back to the campus for a candle light vigil for Danielle. Her dad and her RA and dozens of other students are there.
Korsak calls, having raised the filed off numbers from the gun. It's registered to Scott Bilton, as in Lucas Bilton the RA. He has three other guns registered.
Jane sets her sights on Lucas in the crowd and whispers the news to Frost and Maura. They think he was her pimp. They move toward Lucas but stop when they see her best friend Natalie wearing the same key bracelet. Lucas sees them approaching and takes Natalie hostage. He shouts that Danielle couldn't keep her mouth shut.
He shoots Natalie through the back and runs. Maura tends to Natalie. Jane and Frost follow and he says Danielle was a whore and whiner. She wanted to quit.
Lucas fires at them then runs. He gets out in the open and fires again. Jane blows him away.
Later, Natalie leaves the hospital, healed. Jane meets her with flowers. She asks Jane if she's going to tell her parents. She says she was really desperate and stupid. Jane tells her she gets a second chance. But Natalie says she's not going back to school, she can't afford it.
Jane gives her an invoice. Her tuition has been paid in full through her senior year. Jane says she went to bat for her with the scholarship people.
Back at Jane's place, she and Maura figure that Danielle learned Lucas was blackmailing the prof and threatened to tell. Jane mentions casually she applied to BCU, and she got in. But she didn't go because it would have bankrupted her dad.
Jane tells Maura about her deal with the chancellor for Natalie's scholarship, and how she mentioned how bad it might be if word got out. Jane says all Danielle's dad needs to know is that his daughter loved him.
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