- The actions of Hoyt, alias the Surgeon, and Rizzoli's nemesis, from inside solitary confinement spook her. While Rizzoli is off the Hoyt case, Dr. Isles does facial analysis of Hoyt for clues on murder/ disappearance of a married couple.
- Jane once again has to deal with Charles Hoyt, The Surgeon, a serial killer who had taken her prisoner at one point but was arrested before he made her one of his victims. They've found a body in the park of a man who has been missing for nearly 2 years. His throat is slit and it seems that Hoyt, who is in solitary confinement, has once again made contact with someone on the outside who is doing his bidding. The dead man's wife is still missing however and Jane has been told to stay away from the case. Meanwhile, Jane's brother Frankie has a new girlfriend. Lola, a waitress that even Jane has taken a liking to. Maura makes an unexpected discovery however.—garykmcd
- Despite nightmares of her own capture and torture by serial killer Charles 'The Surgeon' Hoyt, whom she helped arrest, Jane keeps quiet about disturbing references to it, until a corpse is found, killed, frozen and staged in his theatrical MO. The surgically throat-slit victim disappeared two years ago with his wife Emily, still missing. Frankie worries about his parents's marriage and is smitten with new waitress Lola, who pleases the whole Rizzoli family, a first. Jane resents protection, except from Maura, and as a Hoyts accomplice is presumed, is taken off the case by lieutenant Sean Cavanaugh in favor of Korsak, Frost and FBI agent Gabriel Dean. However Maura, who struggles with her own trauma as shy adopted kid, steps in, interrogating Hoyts and her software cracks the case.—KGF Vissers
- A body discovered in a park appears to be the work of Charles Hoyt, the imprisoned serial killer who once abducted and nearly murdered Jane. As Maura tries to get inside the mind of the killer, Jane struggles to keep her fear of the one man who terrifies her in check.—TNT Publicity
- Jane dreams about her most recent encounter with "the Surgeon", and the time he stabbed scalpels through her hands. She wakes up to The Surgeon standing over her, holding a scalpel to her face. Except she's not really awake.
Then she actually does wake up and grabs her gun. She goes outside and finds a flare in the street, just like what she used to fend him off last time. Someone takes a picture of her going back inside. (roll credits)
Jane and Maura check out a man found dead on a park bench. He's in a suit and neatly holding the day's paper. His throat has been slit, but there's no blood.
Maura thinks Jane looks like she hasn't slept. Jane and Frost recognize the victim's name James Stern. He and his wife disappeared two years ago. He was the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Frankie talks to Jane about their parents. He's worried that their mom is saving up to leave their dad because she's working outside the house and got highlights.
Lola the cute waitress brings Jane more coffee and flirts with Frankie.
In the autopsy, Maura tells Frost that Stern's heart was frozen. He might have been dead the whole two years he was missing.
There's evidence his wrists were duct taped together. Frost asks if the killer used a scalpel. Maura knows what this means.
Maura visits Jane. She thinks Hoyt, the surgeon, killed them both. Jane tells Maura about the flare she found in the street last night. Maura calls in the cavalry and offers to stand guard in the meantime so Jane can sleep.
Maura closes up the blinds and someone snaps photos from outside. The next morning, Frost and Maura think Mrs. Stern is still missing. Korsak joins them, and soon he and Frost are shouting over who gets to protect Jane. Maura shouts them down.
At work, Maura tells Jane there was no evidence on the flare. Jane recognizes a voice. It's Agent Dean. He takes her out for coffee and assures her the bureau is on it. Hoyt's clearly running things from in the prison. She asks him to come to the autopsy and they joke that it can be their first date.
In the morgue, Maura tells them Hoyt's method of killing is very personal. James could have taken six minutes to die in front of his wife. Maura suggests they show him they're in control. Jane wants to go talk to him, but Commander Cavannaugh tells her no way.
In his office, he tells her she's not on the case, she's a victim.
In his prison cell, Hoyt admires a picture in the paper of Jane. Agent Dean comes for him. He thinks he's going to get to see Jane, but it's Maura instead.
She talks to him clinical doctor to-almost-doctor. Dean asks where Emily Stern's body is. Maura tells Dean to hold him down. She approaches him with a scalpel and cuts open his jumpsuit. She finds the photo of Jane outside her apartment in his clothes.
Jane begs Korsak for info about the case. He blames himself for her getting hurt the first time. She says he saved her life. He doesn't understand why they're not partners anymore. She says he couldn't feel like she had his back after seeing her held captive by the surgeon. She says she was broken but he assures her no one can break her unless she lets them.
Maura plays games with Hoyt, who says Emily is nearby. She asks if he plans to hurt Jane. He says does, keeping her alive until he can get out and finish her with his hands. He tries to freak Maura out, but she stays completely calm and unfazed. He knows she's not afraid of him. He says it's because she's like him.
Korsak tells Frost they can't stop Jane from talking to Hoyt. Frost asks what happened to Jane. Flash back to Korsak busting in to save Jane, as she cries out in pain.
Maura shows Jane her interview, saying she believes that Hoyt isn't planning to hurt Jane right now. Maura finds this comforting, but Jane does not.
Maura tells Jane he might not be wrong about her being like him. She says she spent a lot of time alone, she was adopted and her parents were busy. The less she asked for, the less time they would give her. They sent her to boarding school when she was ten.
Jane tells Maura she might be a little antisocial but she's nothing like that monster.
Frankie tells Jane that officers are watching her house. Maura can tell he's happy. He's fired up because Lola cooked for him last night. He wants to bring her over to make Jane dinner. Jane says OK.
Maura runs a test on the photo of Jane that Hoyt had. It's moldy. The kind that grows in a moist environment, like something flood damaged. Dean pulls up a group of houses that sued over flood damage. One is vacant.
Frost and Korsak head there and find an empty freezer. There are also pictures of Jane and a DVD labeled "To Jane." Back at the station, they watch the DVD and see Emily Stern with a recent newspaper. She's alive.
Jane goes in to see Hoyt. Again, when asked where Emily is, he says "not far." Jane says she should have killed him, instead of just shooting his hands. She tells him she's not afraid of him anymore and asks why he came after her.
He says she's the only worthy opponent he's ever had.
Maura watches the DVD of Emily again, trying to do corneal imagining, getting a reflection off her eye. Korsak recognizes it as a vault ceiling from the Back Bay, in a coal cellar.
Korsak and Dean race there and hear her pleading. But it's a recording.
Jane comes home and is surprised to find Lola there, she forgot about dinner. She says Frankie went out to get beer. Jane puts her gun in the desk and goes to freshen up.
But she walks into her bedroom and finds Frankie duct taped. Lola comes up behind her with a gun. At the station, Maura shows Frost and Korsak an old photo of Emily and the new one from the DVD. She had plastic surgery.
Back at Jane's, Jane recognizes Lola as Emily.
Maura sees the photos of Lola with Frankie and compares the images. They realize what Jane has already realized.
Back at her place, Jane whispers to Frankie that they have to make Emily realize she's not in control. Jane tells Emily that Hoyt doesn't love her, he loves Jane. She tells Emily that Hoyt used Emily to get to her. When Emily gets close, Frankie grabs for the gun. He wrestles with her for a moment, then gets the gun. When he hesitates, Jane shouts at him to shoot Emily. He does, killing her.
Later, out at dinner with Dean, Jane wonders what happened to Emily. He says was an abused wife, she was susceptible. Hoyt beat her and kept her in the basement.
Jane tells Dean she wishes she didn't associate him with Hoyt. She thinks if they went out, he would worry about her too much. "I'm not ready for someone like you," she tells him. She kisses him good bye.
Back in his cell, Hoyt is pleased to read about the events surrounding Emily's death. "Here we are again, Jane," he says.
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