Here's the first 2 1/2 minutes of episode 1 with barefoot Rizzoli chasing the elusive Alice Sands... or is it?
Whereas the 1st two minutes of episode 2, "Dangerous Curves" finds Maura visiting Jane in the morning instread of vice a versa. And strange enough... their dual phone calls don't send them to the same crime scene,
Jane goes to take down Alice's money man... unfortunately he dies in the attempt. Maura and Kent discovered his shirt had cow blood on it which leads them to where Alice is hiding.
Maura, even limited by her concussion, provides clues which dismissed Jane's previous theory of how Alice escaped, and more clues as to where to find her in the tunnels under Boston. Eventually they found her, arrested her and let her go for lack of evidence when witnesses to a shooting all lied to protect Alice. Not to be deterred, Jane found Alice's previous get away car and Maura found the evidence to arrest her.
If you are wondering what that has to do with
Dangerous Curves, wonder no longer.
Jane and Alice have done this dance because Police Academy dropout Alice couldn't handle the fact that a PLUMBER'S daughter could defeat her at school. She took her disappointment and turned into a "drug lord" to find her self worth. Of course that wasn't enough and she decided to take away everything Jane had to belittle her life and accomplishments.
The
B story involved a young college student who "would have been" the first in her family to graduate college, but she couldn't succeed at her university and wouldn't take her family's suggestion to come home and go to the local community college. She couldn't accept the death of her grand dreams, but unlike Alice Sands she didn't turn to crime and plot the demise of her arch enemy.
Instead she just plotted a way to suicide that would make her family think it was an accident. Frankie investigated, discovered the truth and learned not to judge the family because of the daughter. In the end he protected the family's view of the daughter and allowed them to think she simply died when she lost control on a dangerous curve while driving a pre-airbag vehicle.
The show ends with Alice committing suicide by cop, (can you guess the cop?) and the ladies challenging each other to explore relationships with men already in their life.
So two eps in and we are done with the Alice Sands storyline that occupied all of season 5... or are we?
Alice wanted to destroy Jane... and I can't help but think we'll see some reverberations of that shooting in the future.
Valentina does "Dangerous Curves Ahead".
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