- Jane and Maura investigate the mysterious death of a young boy whose family is from Cape Verde. It appears at first that he may have died during an attempted exorcism, and it may take a message from beyond the grave for Jane to pinpoint exactly what happened. Jane is distracted from the case when her mother sets her up on a surprise date.—TNT Publicity
- Rizzoli and Isles investigate the death of a young immigrant boy, Mathius Senna. After the post-mortem, Jane quickly concludes that the boy may have died during an exorcism. Mathius' mother tells them that the devil got into her boy and was cursed. She attends a storefront church that has its roots in Christianity and African mysticism and is run by an ex-convict. Mathias' parents are divorced and his father Malcolm has been trying hard to get custody of his son. While the investigation continues, Rizzoli's mother is obviously up to something when she gets Jane to buy a little black dress and organizes a dinner at home. It turns out it's a date for Jane and not with someone she would have chosen herself. Det. Vince Korsak meanwhile has taken to doing his paperwork at a table in the nearby coffee shop.—garykmcd
- The cause of death of a 15 year old Cape Verdian boy eludes Dr. Isles. The estranged father expects to get his legal custody. The mother is hitched to a Cape Verdian church of an ex-con, voodoo priest. A sleep vision nudges Rizzoli forward.—SHS(fnpshs@gmail.com)
- Maura struggles long with the autopsy of healthy Cape Verdian teenage boy Mathius Senna, which appears to be the result of a Pentecostal exorcism performed by an ex-con pastor, whose church is vandalized while the team performs a search. The knave probably belonged to or was press-ganged to the neighborhood skater gang. Mathius's divorced father Malcolm Senna aspired custody, his partner a kid of their own. Jane's mother Angela sets her up on a home dinner date with lieutenant Joey Grant, who counters her prejudices from childhood, only to accept a Washington job.—KGF Vissers
- A teenage boy skateboards down the street but stops when he sees a black town car pull up.
Jane tries on dresses with her mother, who insists on buying her one. They settle on a classic little black dress. Jane gets a call.
Jane and Maura arrive on the scene. Jane rolls her eyes at Lt Grant chatting up the press. Maura doesn't immediately find any cause of death. The victim's ID says he's 15. Grant joins them, pointing out the kid's skateboard under the Dumpster.
The boy's mother waits to make the identification. She tells Jane he didn't come home last night. She's been divorced from his father for five years. She says the devil got into her boy, her son wasn't the same after he met the skateboarders. They're from Cape Verde.
Jane wonders about the devil comment.
She finds Korsak in the coffee shop. He's smitten with the new barista. She asks him to help her get info from Matt's custody hearing.
In the autopsy, Maura doesn't yet have a cause of death. There was presence of candle wax and burned feathers in his lungs. She says the medical evidence aligns with an exorcism.
They look into the mom's church, run by an ex-con. She takes them there. Jane immediately asks Father Koku if he performed an exorcism on Mattias. He says they did a cleansing ritual. She rubs the priest the wrong way as he warns her there's evil about.
Rizzoli visits Mattias' dad, Malcolm. He doesn't think his ex-wfe had anything to do with his death, but the church might have. His wife explains how devoted Malcolm was to Matt, even putting off starting their own family to focus on gaining custody.
He says the judge was about to rule in his favor for custody. His wife comforts him.
Korsak, back in the coffee shop, tells Jane the dad was telling the truth about the custody case.
Frost looks into Matt's friends and child predators. Maura brings Jane's mom up. She brought the dress up for Jane to wear to dinner tomorrow night, along with a fluffernutter sandwich.
Frost reports that the gang unit said Matt was hanging with bad kids. They all have records except Matt. They go to talk to the gang leader, "Cruncha."
At a skatepark, Frost tosses Cruncha around until he says Matt's mom and her Cape Verde church friends are evil.
Maura tells Jane that Matt's tox screens were negative and she still doesn't have a cause of death. They walk down to their cars in the parking garage when Jane thinks she hears something. She walks up to a car and opens the door - to see a pile of snakes on the driver's seat.
Later, Grant tells Jane she needs to take the threat seriously. He's worried about being seen as persecuting a priest or the church, but he believes her and tells her to be careful.
Out at dinner, Maura gets another tox report with nothing on it. Jane tries to get her to guess, even though it goes against every fiber of her being. She tells Jane she found cases of people being "hexed" to death, essentially dying of fear.
Jane suggests they go to church. Cut to her, Maura and Frost serving a search warrant at the church. Inside, Jane clarifies to Maura that she didn't have a warrant. Maura understands their rituals and seems to make an impression on the priest. He goes ahead with a ceremony to help Matt's mom as they observe. It's a lot of singing, drumming and chanting with candles. There's also a snake. Maura explains that Matt's mom thinks the devil that possessed her son is inside her.
They lift her up and lay her own as the priest raises a knife over her. He plunges it down - into a feather pillow. Suddenly, there's a loud crash and a molotov cocktail comes through the window. Frost races outside to see who threw it and tackles one of the gang kids.
Back at the department, they talk to Jerome, who says the "voodoos" killed Matt. Outside, Jane doesn't think the kid killed Matt. Jane tells Frost she hasn't ruled out the church or parents yet - then she realizes she's late for dinner.
She arrives at home in her black dress, bearing flowers. She arrives and walks into the living room to find Lt. Grant waiting for her. Her mom says the other guests went out for ice cream, but Jane doesn't believe her. Her mom says she needs to know she's taken care of and commands her to go in the other room and "be a girl." Grant says her mom told him it was a reunion. He tells her she looks "perfect." She can't help but be charmed. Jane's mom shouts from the other room for her to set the table. They're doing OK until she says, no offense, but she doesn't need a man to be happy. He jokes that "no one's proposing here." It kills the mood. They both bail.
Jane brings the wine to Maura in the morgue. Maura's a big Lt. Grant fan. She says he's trying to impress Jane. Jane heads home.
She looks over pictures of Matt with both parents. She finds a drop of blood on her carpet and takes out her gun. There's a trail into her bathroom. It's Mattias, lying on the floor. He opens his eyes and presents her with a plant of some sort. She starts awake.
She goes into the kitchen and finds a bouquet of purple flowers on the floor.
She opens the door for Maura, in her pajamas. Jane asks her to run one more tox panel on purple poisonous plants. Matt was holding purple flowers in her dream. Maura know of a poisonous flower found in Boston called monkshood.
The next day, she tells Jane that Matt's tox screen shows monkshood. He was poisoned. Jane looks up photos of it and realizes where she's seen it. She asks Maura if she can genetically type the stuff that killed him to the plant it came from. Maura says she can't, so Jane settles for lying about it.
Back at his father's house, Jane tells him and his wife that Matt was poisoned by a flower like the one growing by their porch. Jane tells them Maura can match the flower. All someone would have to do is soak the monkshood in water and offer it to Matt.
Jane turns to Malcom's wife. She knows he wouldn't have kids with her because of Matt. It was in the custody papers. Malcolm looks at his wife and knows she did it. She tells him she did it for them. He tries to go after her, but Jane takes her away.
Jane arrives home in the rain to find Grant waiting on her stoop. He tells her he's leaving for DC - a big job he wasn't expecting. He was appointed to be a liaison between Boston and Homeland Security. She says that's cool, for him.
He apologizes for calling her frog face, and "roly poly Rizzoli" as a kid. He tells her he liked her for a long time, a really, really long time. She blushes. He brushes her wet hair out of her face. They're about to kiss when she stops and says, "you're leaving."
"Have fun in Washington, and I'll miss you," she says as she gets up and goes inside.
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