Re: RIZZOLI & ISLES tv series and book series disscusions and comment
Okay, I've given you 72 hour to catch the summer finale... can I assume we are all on the same page?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6KxQInwGY
That's right, no more new
R&I until sometime in mid/late winter.
Yeah, bummer.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6KxQInwGY[/yt]
For those not keeping track, last week we discovered
Jane's apartment was a victim of arson. Quite personal arson since the same person also hacked her bank accounts and screwed over her credit cards.
Nina the cyber sleuth discovered this and informed
Jane in the final scene of the penultimate summer ep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDomM2j1d5A
Jane shared
Nina's discovery with
Maura at the beginning of this ep. I don't know what upset
Maura more, knowing that
Jane was being targeted, or that Maura had to keep it from
Angela.
Maura: I can't lie!
Jane: "Yes you
can! That's the beauty of the new you."
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDomM2j1d5A[/yt]
Did you like how
Jane stared at and then shook her phone, trying to make it call her to the homicide scene? She tried to catch
Korsak's coat tails as he left for the scene, but he commanded her to stay home and copy/print up all the threatening letter/emails she's received over the years.
The dead woman at the center of this week's mystery is a recovering addict who recently came into a bunch of money. Unfortunately within moments of receiving an envelope full of 5 grand she began to foam at the mouth, stagger and fall to the floor.
While
Korsak, Frankie
Rizzoli and Maura
Isles investigate the murder scene,
Nina has been busy going over the video-file left by the arsonist.
Going back to the raw non-compressed data still available,
Nina discovers she can see another couple inches around the picture as originally depicted. A couple of inches doesn't sound like much until you realize you can see some bare skin at the wrist of the arsonist and that the wrist is covered with a butterfly tattoo.
Jane was giving
Nina a list of places to check out the tattoo but they are interrupted by
Frankie's arrival and his insightful comment when he saw the tattoo's wrist on the computer screen.
Frankie: Hey, what are you doing with my murder victim?
(
Jane is looking quite resigned as she too looks at the screen.)
Jane: That's not your murder victim... its mine.
Everyone is starting to get really worried about
Jane. Her
Arsonist has just graduated to being a
Murderer.
Maura and
Frankie are having a contest this week about which one of them can worry more about
Jane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrYbF5-SOk
Needless to say, even the baby brother is out worried by the best friend who is ready, willing and able to hire a bodyguard for
Jane.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrYbF5-SOk[/yt]
As you can see above, initially
Korsak is unwilling to consider the bodyguard but once
Jane identifies the watch IN THE STOMACH of the murder victim as
her own, even he can't deny
Maura's conclusion much less her solution.
Watching
Jane deal with the bodyguard is one of the fun times in this tense show. Its nice to see
Boris already has Jane's number...
feed her and she will "come around".
Angela has been on the sidelines trying to find out what's going on.
Jane hides all,
Maura merely hides but
Frankie eventually caves and tells her someone is "after"
Jane but thankfully avoids specifics.
When
Angela finds
Frankie working late and
Jane MIA, she puts 2 & 2 together and cooks a lasagna for her daughter.
The funniest part of this next scene was just before this clip begins.
Boris and
Jane hear someone pounding on the apartment door.
Jane immediately tells the bodyguard not to let the very dangerous woman in, all the while hiding the delicious meal he just cooked for her.
Boris pulls his gun as he presses her for specifics...
Jane: It's my
mother!
Silly man, he looks through the peephole as we hear a voice ask...
Angela: Who are YOU?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vbc6VUc7GM
The 2nd funniest part is at the end of the clip as
Angela stands at the door to say goodbye to
Boris.
Angela:
Boris, work "friend" of
Jane's, if
anything happens to my daughter
I'll kill you dead. 
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vbc6VUc7GM[/yt]
Jane is stuck at the apartment she shares with
Frankie as everyone tries to discover the murderer before he can carry out his nefarious plan that they think will take pace at 5:26 (the time set on the watch in the murder victim's stomach.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3K6KMXG_DA
That's why
Nina isn't going to rest until 5:27.
Of course, as the appointed time passes by
Jane realizes the message in the "5:26" isn't a time and she forces her way out of the police protected apartment building to demand
Korsak let her back into the investigation and therefore back onto the case.
While back on the case, she blows up at
Frankie and banishes him from the room. Later she bonds with
Maura over life choices and futures with/without the Boston Police Department.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3K6KMXG_DA[/yt]
