- After her boyfriend Casey Jones is unable to get to Boston, Jane takes Maura to her dreaded high school reunion. She hates most of the people there but one former classmate that she liked, Steve Sanner, says he would like to discuss something with her. Before he can do so however, Steve is shot and killed while taking a walk on the football field. The killer used a steel wool-filled water bottle as a silencer. He worked for another high school classmate, Rory Graham, who says he wasn't having any trouble at the office or with co-workers. Based on his phone records, they suspect he may have been having an affair with another former classmate, Debbie Tibbet, but when she is found dead her husband tells the police she had recently become very secretive. A third dead classmate gives them the clue they need to identify the killer. Meanwhile Vince Korsak's ex-wife is back in town wanting money for a new enterprise. Vince would like to see his 16 year-old son Josh.—garykmcd
- Already moody as her boyfriend Casey's Boston leave was canceled, Jane is dragged to her high-school reunion by interested Maura, who went to a girls only-school. Meeting mean girls again and being looked down upon as single without prestigious/lucrative job, she runs so former (until her rack rendered her popular) buddy Emily Sanner's husband, ever-nice shy Steve, can only ask her to video-chat next morning. Alas, he's found murdered in the stadium. He was the right hand of haughty classmate Rory Graham, who made a fortune with a medical implant known to Maura, and belittles his classmate wife, former attorney Kate. It looks like he had an affair with classmate Debbie Tibbet, now gardener and 'plant rights activist', who is found killed next, but as part of business secrets which Maura guesses after a third classmate's murder.—KGF Vissers
- Jane attends her high school reunion and brings Maura along for the ride, but the fun is cut short when one of her old classmates turns up dead on the football field. Jane must focus on the past when she realizes everyone in her class is a potential suspect. Meanwhile, Korsak gets a visit from ex-wife Melody Patterson, who hopes he'll invest in her new business.—TNT Publicity
- An unseen person cuts up steel wool and stuffs it into a two-liter plastic bottle, then tapes it to the barrel of a pistol, making an improvised suppressor.
At Jane's apartment, Maura tries to help her get ready for her high school reunion, so she can get Casey back into her bed. He's flying in tonight.
She gets a text from him telling her to open an Internet chat room. Casey (Chris Vance) is not at Logan airport. He's still overseas, having been sent back to his base in Afghanistan. Jane tries to take it like a champ.
Maura offers to go with her to the reunion to fend off the "mean girls," Debbie and Emily and Kate from her teens. Jane doesn't love the idea.
They get there and immediately run into Giovanni Gilberti (Matthew Del Negro), who has a raging crush on Maura. They fended him off by playing that they are in a gay relationship.
He gets pulled away by the former fat girl, Maria, who is now smoking hot.
They run into Debbie, a former mean girl. She married a former computer geek. Debbie's a home and garden columnist for the newspaper and calls herself a plant activist.
Jane points out a girl in a purple dress with large boobs, her former BFF. She's trying to leave when Emily tracks her down with her husband Steve, Jane's old crush.
Emily excuses herself and Steve asks if he could call her about something some time. Jane says sure.
They run into Rory Graham, who calls Jane "Rolly Polly Rizzoli." He points out Steve works for him at his pharmaceutical company. Maura recognizes it as the maker of a heart valve.
They run into the queen mean girl, Kate. Jane notices Steve and Debbie having an intense conversation across the room.
Kate was a high priced corporate lawyer but gave up her career to raise her kids with Rory.
As she's leaving, Steve motions to Jane again that he'll call her.
Later out on the football field musing about his days as a high school jock, Steve says "hey" to someone we don't see who immediately shoots him with the carefully prepared suppressed pistol.
Back at Jane's apartment, Maura looks up her old all girl's school classmates. Jane gets a call.
The crime scene is on the football field. Steve is dead. People from the reunion cry behind the crime scene tape.
They notice the steel wool and plastic debris and know the murder was planned. There's orange dirt, perhaps clay from the baseball diamond nearby.
Jane talks to Rory and Kate back at their house. Jane talks to his widow, Emily, who says they had the perfect life.
In the morning, Jane is startled by Casey on her webchat. She breaks the bad news. He says he's been thinking about her.
At work, Angela preps someone to see Korsak. She's Melody (Lolita Davidovich), his third and final ex-wife. She's happy to see him. Korsak is at best ambivalent. When Jane sees her, she has to stop herself from going for her gun. She hasn't seen her in five years. Korsak had raised her son from an earlier marriage for almost 10 years until she moved away and took her son.
Upstairs, Frost finds three strings of numbers in Steve's phone. He called a preschool recently, but his kids are 10 and 12. He called Debbie six times. The geek she married owns a software company and is worth $50 million.
Jane and Frost go talk to Debbie and find her rescuing plants from a dumpster. She says she had coffee with Steve and they talked some. Jane notices someone taking their picture and they confront him, a private investigator hired by Debbie's husband. He says he found her talking to two different guys and shows Jane photos. Meanwhile, Debby is on her cell' 'phone with someone.
One is of Steve. Jane takes his memory card.
Debbie tells them that her attorney has told her she is within her rights to refuse to talk to them. She drives off.
Korsak listens to a pitch from Melody. Her son is 16 now. Korsak wants to see him. She wants to open a yoga studio and wants him to invest.
In the morgue, Jane finds indications of stress on Steve's body, grinding teeth, etc. Frost comes in and informs them that Debbie Tibbet was just found dead.
They find her kneeling on the ground leaning forward, with a noose around her neck. Maura says it appears to be a suicide.
Jane and Frost talk to Debbie's geek husband Eddie. He says Debbie has been like a different person the last few weeks, very secretive. But he doesn't believe she killed herself.
In the morgue, Maura says the suicide was posed. Frost ID'd the guy from the other picture with Debbie as a reporter who went to journalism school with her. He said Debbie knew someone who was going to blow the whistle on something at a big company. They assume it was Steve.
Jane gets another call. She has another dead classmate, the formerly fat girl turned hottie.
Upstairs in the café, Giovanni tells Jane how he took Maria out and she stopped breathing and dropped dead in the restaurant. Maria hated Debbie and didn't get a chance to talk to talk to Steve at the reunion.
In the morgue, Maura autopsies Maria's heart and announces she had a congenital heart defect. She worked at the preschool Steve had been calling.
Maura finds that Maria had a replacement heart valve made by Rory's pharmaceutical company. She died because the valve failed.
Upstairs, they find the company is in the process of being bought out and the directors will receive millions. So far, 3,200 people have received the valve, including children.
There have been 180 deaths among those due to heart attacks, including two Boston residents. Maura has their bodies exhumed, and finds both valves were defective. Jane notices numbers on the valve. They compare them to the list from Steve's phone and find that one matches Maria's, that's why he's calling her, to warn her.
Steve told Debbie because she was the only reporter he knew, but she wasn't equipped to handle it so she told her friend. News getting out could have killed the sale of the company.
Maura reports the red clay from the crime scene was from the Maple Leaf Country Club, where Rory and Kate Graham are members.
Jane brings Rory in and tells him the valves are defective. The warrants for his car and office arrive.
Frost finds that a search for a homemade suppressor had been made on Steve's laptop, which his wife Emily had access to. They wonder if she killed him to keep their millions.
Jane talks to Emily and accuses her of murdering Steve. She plays dumb. She shows them a threatening letter she found in her son's bike, telling Steve to keep his mouth shut.
Jane comes to her desk to find Casey on her web chat. She tells him about Debbie being found dead. She misses him.
In the garage, they find red clay in Rory's car. There's steel wool fibers in the trunk and blood.
Jane goes to Rory's house, where his lawyer wife advises him they have to comply with the warrant.
They look at Rory's shoes upstairs but find no evidence of blood. Jane wonders if Debbie was posed kneeling because her killer wasn't strong enough to lift her. They find pieces of artificial turf on Kate's shoes.
Jane goes downstairs and arrests Kate coming out of the bathroom. Walking away, Jane realizes there was no sound of a toilet flushing. Frost finds Steve's computer drive in the water tank. She tells Rory she had to deal with Steve because he wouldn't.
Jane arrests Rory for Maria's death from the defective heart valve.
Jane takes Maura to play tennis against the school wall. Jane is giddy from talking to Casey on web chat that morning.
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