- Casey drops some big news to finally explain to Jane why he's keeping his distance. Barry's mother plays ringer in an interoffice softball game then announces she's getting married. The detectives investigate the murder of a an ex-football player who ran a bakery.—David Foss
- The squad investigates the murder of one time college football star Enzo "End Zone" Womack who was stabbed to death while sitting in his van as it went through a car wash. Womack's college career came to an end as the result of serious knee injury but he had established a successful cake business and was doing quite well. He remained an avid fan and team supporter and his extensive video collection of past games helps he police sort out exactly what is going on. Meanwhile, Barry's mother comes to Boston to visit. She has news for him but can't quite bring herself to tell him. Jane gets an unexpected visit from Casey who also has news for her.—garykmcd
- Cake bakery entrepreneur Enzo "End Zone" Womack, whose college football career was wrecked by a knee injury (like Frabkie's promise), was fatally stabbed in the car-wash. Anonymously delivered videos on his former team, which he remained a loyal fan to, provides surprising clues. The team is under tension as Maura insists on her novel forensic team enter the near-completed police softball league, and proves a worthy challenger for the detectives. Furthermore, Casey is back, leaving his assistance dog with Korsak, and Frost gets a visit from his mother Camille and her housemate Robin Jackson , who is whispered to be her Lesbian partner.—KGF Vissers
- BCU football holds a car wash fundraiser. A former player, now with End Zone Cakes cupcake bakery, comes by to check on an injured player named Marcus. He wants to talk to the trainer, Dan Mackenzie, after he gets his car washed.
As he goes through the car wash, someone pops up from the backseat of his van and stabs him in the neck.
At the station, Frost's mom Camille comes by with her roommate Robin and Robin's son Cameron. Jane, Frost and Frankie are headed to a softball game. Maura and the MEs want play, too. Jane is struggling for a way to exclude them when they get called to the scene.
The victim in Enzo Womack, a former BCU running back. Maura knows him as a baker. Mackenzie, the trainer, was a kicker for BCU when Enzo was on the team.
Back at the station, Jane is surprised to see Casey Jones in the lobby, waiting to talk to Korsak. He's there with his service dog Elsie, the one Korsak found. He wants Korsak to pet sit, but promises Jane he'll be in touch.
Down in the morgue, Maura does the autopsy on Enzo while Jane is proud of herself for going against her impulses and being patient for Casey. Maura is huffy about being excluded from softball. Enzo could have gone pro, but he torn his ACL.
Maura finds hilt marks on Enzo's neck and some fibers in the wound.
Jane goes to check on the cupcake van. It's a bloody mess. Korsak tells Jane that Casey asked about her and might be gone for a few months. There's blue stuff that could be frosting on the floor mat.
Frankie brings Frost's mom Camille by the café and introduces her to Angela. Camille teaches civil engineering at a military academy, she's divorced from his dad. She nervous because she's going to tell Frost she's getting married.
Angela tells her about her kids being overprotective when she dated. "Then I decided I was allowed to be a person, too," Angela says.
In the squad room, Frost dries out Enzo's soaked phone. Enzo went to every BCU game and has video of every game on his laptop. He was a ladies man and hired ex-girlfriends to work at his bakery. He had an appointment to go to the car wash on his calendar.
They find photos Enzo's ex Laura posted in which she's angry at him.
Frankie comes to talk to Jane after showing Camille and her roommate around Boston. He tells Jane they're a couple, but Frost doesn't know. Jane doesn't think it's their place to tell him.
At End Zone Cakes, Enzo's office manager Valentina directs them to Laura. They're making a BCU football stadium cake for his funeral.
Maura is there to test the various knives that could have killed him. Laura tells them Enzo strung every girl there along. She says she was at the gym when he was killed.
At the station, they confirm Laura's alibi. Maura reports the murder weapon wasn't at the bakery.
Jane asks Frost about Robin, who he says is living with his mom to share expenses.
Jane, Frost, Frankie and Korsak leave for practice, but run into Maura and the MEs in the lobby, not taking no for an answer. Frost's mom offers to join them for a scrimmage.
Later, at the bar, Maura gloats over winning the scrimmage. She gets lab results on the contents of the van, the blue in the back was field paint like they use at BCU.
Camille and Robin helped the MEs win. Frost knew they were ringers. Jane notices the woman are wearing wedding rings.
Frost makes a toast: "To two wonderful people who have taught me the meaning of love and commitment, my mom and her partner Robin."
Camille is surprised he knew, but he says he has for years. He says he kept inviting them to Massachusetts hoping Robin would make an honest woman out of his mom.
Jane comes home from the bar to find Casey waiting on her front steps. He says he wants to apologize, but doesn't want to come upstairs. She heads up, forcing him to suck it up and make it up the stairs on crutches. He warns her it'll take a while.
She rushes up and tries to clean up and change before he gets there.
He doesn't want her to touch him. He tells her he's having surgery to have the bone and shrapnel pressing against his spinal cord removed. Jane wants to help, but he doesn't want her "taking care of an invalid."
She tells him the injury isn't him.
He asks her if she saw anyone while he was gone. When she says she did, he tells her she'll find someone else again. She begs him to stay, but he asks her to let him kiss her and leave. She does, but isn't happy about it.
Maura comes over. When Jane tells her about his surgery, she gets a weird look and goes to the internet to show how risky the surgery is. Jane prefers to pretend it'll all be fine.
The next day at the lab, Maura comes up to say the blue paint in the van does match BCU. Enzo missed the first game. He had a clip of Coach Phillips getting angry over a call during the game up on his computer.
When Maura asks, Korsak tells her that Casey made him promise he'd take care of Elsie if something happened to him.
Frost puts Enzo's dry phone back together and hopes it works. But it's dead.
Instead, they pull up the video clips Enzo had up on his computer, including the one of him getting hurt five years ago. It clearly shows Enzo's blocker falling intentionally leaving him unprotected, just like what happened to Jeff Marcus in Saturday's game.
Both right guards faked the same trip to allow their running backs to get hit. They think they were point shaving. The footage shows both QBs making the same signal to call the play that was thrown.
They find sideline footage and find Mackenzie dropping a towel both times.
Maura gets lab results on the fibers in the wounds, from heat rub and sports tape. Jane thinks the wound could have come from a multi-purpose tool.
Enzo's phone comes back to life. They find the last text he sent was to Mackenzie saying: "I hope I'm crazy, I think Coach Phillips has BCU players shaving points."
Jane, Frost and Korsak go to the BCU training facility and confront Mackenzie. He has a big fancy house despite being a D=III trainer. They arrest him as the coach and team look on.
Jane comes home to find Maura on her stairs. Maura did research on the surgery Casey is having, it's extremely risky.
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