- Jane looks for a way for Maura to meet her biological mother, Dr. Hope Martin. Angela gets involved in a political campaign. And a nun from Jane and Frankie Jr.'s past returns.
- Jane and Maura investigate the death of a young woman whose body is found in a back alley dumpster. The killer apparently burned her hands to stymie her identification but the police find a driver's license on her. Maura determines that she was asphyxiated and suffered a severe blow to the head. Meanwhile, Jane is after Maura to locate her biological mother and it turns out she already has. She is Dr. Hope Martin a world famous physician who has done a good deal of forensic analysis. Jane arranges for her to come in and try to identify the dead girl. She turns out to be everything Maura could ever hope for in a mother but is determined that she should never know about their connection. As for the dead girl, she is identified as 27 year-old Emma Spencer, a legal intern who worked at the DA's office. She was investigating the murder of a friend who disappeared when they were young teenagers and whose remains were only recently discovered. She had also taken a leave of absence to work as a nanny for Tom MacGregor who is running for Congress—garykmcd
- A law student who was killed and dumped into a trash bin. Finding out that Maura knows who her mother is and where, Jane urges Maura to contact that Dr. Hope Martin, a very successful doctor who helps women and children in need. She invented a technique to help re-hydrate the fingers of victims so that they may be fingerprinted for identification that can help with the case, so they ask Dr. Martin for help. Maura doesn't want to tell she is her daughter, since Hope was told Maura died at birth, but they quickly become good friends. Angela supports a new mayoral candidate Tom MacGregor, Jr., who helps school lunches, but the murder victim shortly was his nanny under an alias, as a cover. MacGregor's assistant, an attorney, proves the key linking with a 10 years old murder.—KGF Vissers
- A woman sneaks through a big house late at night. She's holding a plastic bag. She starts working on getting something out of a suit of armor. A man walks up to her in the darkness, but she knows him. She tells him she's almost got it. He shoves her down the staircase.
At Maura's house, Angela is prepping to campaign for Tom MacGregor Jr. who is running for Congress. Maura is buying various adventure gear, scuba stuff, safari boots. Jane thinks it's because she's trying to distract herself from looking for her birth mother, Hope. Giovanni the dumb mechanic comes by to help Angela campaign.
Jane gets called to a case. The victim is lying in a Dumpster.
Jane needles Maura to follow up on finding her birth mother, but she thinks the fact that her father, Paddy Doyle, told Hope that Maura died as a baby means meeting her isn't a good idea. By the way Maura talks about her, Jane realizes she's already found her.
The victim is Celia Jaffe, a 27-year-old. She was beaten and her hands were burned to a crisp.
Jane finds Maura being secretive in her office. She's checking her mother's webpage. She's Dr. Hope Martin, she founded a medical relief agency for doctors to help women and children. She did residency in Sarajevo and Maura is intimidated.
Hope has been living abroad for the past 20 years and has an 18 year old daughter. She developed a technique to identify victims of genocide that they still use. Maura's connection to Paddy has been all over the news, she thinks Hope would have reached out if she wanted to. She's back in Boston.
Celia Jaffe's husband Rick comes to the station --with Celia and their baby. The real Celia's wallet was stolen, but someone sent the whole thing minus her ID back to her. They think the victim was hiding from someone.
Up in the station, Jane is horrified to see Sister Winifred Callahan waiting. She was her elementary school teacher who terrorized her and now she has a grant to work with families of homicide victims in the Boston PD.
Jane runs to the morgue to escape. She remembers Sister "Bitcher" whacked her with a ruler for misspelling "flamboyant."
"Why was the word flamboyant on a second grade spelling test at a Catholic school?" Maura asks.
In the morgue, Maura finds the victim's head was bashed around. She still can't ID her, but thinks she can rehydrate a charred finger for a print, Dr. Martin's technique. She cuts the finger off and Frost slowly passes out.
Upstairs, Korsak tries to accommodate the nun, but she's snippy and dour. She won't take cream and sugar in her coffee because she hates to get used to anything in case there's a shortage. Frankie comes in and has the same reaction Jane did. She calls him by his full name, Francesco. She asks Frost's name. It's Barold.
Down in the lab, Maura can't get the finger rehydration method to work. Jane tries to get her to call Dr. Hope Martin because they only have one less-charred finger, the rest are toast. Jane thinks meeting her on a level playing field is the way to go.
Maura dials her number then loses her nerve, making Jane talk to her. She agrees to come by for a consult in half an hour.
Down in the cafeteria, Jane finds her mom has decorated it with MacGregor signs. The Boston PD hates him, he's soft on crime. Maura is giving a very detailed latte order, with no stirrer, when Hope arrives and finishes Maura's thought on how the wood makes the coffee bitter. She's just like Maura.
Maura breaks out in hives, but Angela suggests it's a reaction to some nuts.
Maura tries to remain calm and heads down to the morgue to watch her birth mother work. She talks about wanting to speak for the dead by identifying them.
Hope says she's driven by the idea that everyone is someone's child. Hope says she went overseas to punish herself for something stupid she did when she was 18. Maura asks about it and she tells her about having a baby who died at birth when she was 18. She says the father was "evil," so maybe it was for the best the baby didn't survive.
Hope notes that she never talks about it, but she feels a strange kinship with Maura.
Upstairs, Giovanni comes on to Angela then mentions that he's lonely and wonders why he can't find a nice girl. She suggests he comes on a little strong.
Down in the morgue Maura and Hope have good ridge details from the finger to scan. Hope gives Maura a big hug to celebrate and Maura breaks out into tears. Hope asks Maura to get lunch sometime soon.
After Hope leaves, Maura tells Jane she can never tell Hope she's her daughter.
The nun is setting up shop with filing cabinets in the station. Back upstairs, they find the prints belong to Emma Spencer, an intern in the DA's office. She's only been there three months.
Frankie and Frost go talk to her boss in the sexual assault unit. Emma asked for a week off. She shared an apartment with her brother. They go talk to the brother.
He says Emma took off last week, saying she needed to study for the bar exam. She emailed him every day.
Sister Winifred critiques Jane for not sitting up straight or saying grace. Frost checks Emma's email and finds she was emailing from an empty office in the court basement. They find news clippings about a 17 year old murder of Isabelle DuBois, whose body was just found.
Emma was Isabelle's best friend when they were younger. There's a note from Isabelle to Emma saying "he says he'll be my knight in shining armor -- gag me with a spoon. But I'm going tonight, I'll be fine." Emma covered for her.
Maura examines Isabelle's mummified corpse. She has a weird pattern imprinted in her face. The body was found in a basement.
Maura gets choked up again over her mom saying it's better her baby with Paddy died. Maura doesn't want her to know she's the "evil" baby.
Korsak has results from Isabelle's clothing, they think there's semen they can test for DNA. Just then, Hope shows up.
Frost reports Emma was emailing to apply for another job -- as a nanny.
Frost and Jane talk to the manager of the nanny agency, who says Emma came in in the middle of a crisis. A prominent family fired their nanny because they got a tip she was selling crack. Emma came in that day. The family was Tom MacGregor's.
Frost traces the anonymous call to Emma's phone.
Maura is jazzed to find she has so much in common with her birth mother. She found traces of roofies in Isabelle's system.
At Tom MacGregor's house, he says Emma was only employed for two days. It's the house Emma was killed in. Tom's campaign manager, Dan, suggets his opponent planted Emma there to spy on the campaign.
Maura traces a piece of metal found on Isabelle to a Scottish suit of armor, specifically the gauntlet (glove) part. The DNA belongs to Tom MacGregor.
Jane calls Korsak to look for a suit of armor. It's at the top of the stairs. She gets him a warrant to bring it back.
They find the gauntlet ridges match those on Isabelle's check and there's blood on it. In Emma's scrapbook they find the campaign manager, Dan, was a camp counselor where the girls went to camp.
They think Dan introduced Isabelle to Tom, who roofied Isabelle and raped her, then whacked her with the gauntlet. He called his friend Dan to cover up.
Emma has no credibility on the case because she lied about it 10 years ago out of guilt, so she wanted to find another way to get justice for her.
They think she was looking for evidence in the house when she was killed. Maura finds arm hair in the gauntlet.
Frost and Jane go back to Tom's house and talk to him and Dan. They deny knowing either of the girls and Frost shows them the camp photo of Dan with them. They think Dan was the one who roofied Isabelle, and probably Tom, too, to cover.
Tom realizes that's why he woke up next to a dead girl.
Dan is arrested for both murders and Tom is arrested for being an accessory after the fact.
Maura and Jane go to the bar and find Sister Winifred reading and drinking alone. Her book jacket falls off and they see she's reading erotica. She leaves.
Giovanni comes over moping. He suggests he'll run himself if he wants to make any changes. They encourage him to go for president as they stifle laughter.
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