"Rizzoli & Isles" When the Gun Goes Bang, Bang, Bang (TV Episode 2010) Poster

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8/10
Entertaining End for Season One
biorngm29 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The closing episode of season one comes with a surprise attack on headquarters after an undercover cop is assassinated in a warehouse by a masked killer while the accomplice watches. The perpetrators are after evidence taken by the cops when the victim was found in a pool of his own blood. The evidence is a pack of cigarettes found on the victim and the victim's partner arrives at the warehouse outraged the man has been murdered; believing he was sent there alone.

Many police are at the crime scene looking for anything that will help them solve the homicide. There was a witness hiding while smoking crack and she is brought in for questioning. Detective Rizzoli comes with the victim's partner to HQ, slipping the cigarette pack into her jacket on her way to the lab before locking it in evidence. While Jane is talking to the witness the drug-ring cast of heavily armed men enters HQ, kills the desk sergeant, shoots Frankie Jr. While making their way to the evidence lock-up. They knew the location of the evidence lockers which hints strongly at an inside informant; they shoot locks off lockers but cannot locate the missing evidence.

Maura has gone to feed her tortoise in the lab when she hears weapons firing while Jane leaves the witness in the stairway corner realizing they shot her brother. Maura attempts to save Frankie while on an examiner table while Jane works on a plan to escape since her brother needs hospital attention. Korsak finally reaches Jane on a homicide portable phone and learns HQ has been violently compromised and her brother in a dire situation. Vince hears the victim's partner tell of his partner's zeal to infiltrate the warehouse where he was killed by his own partner and later killing the witness in the stairwell.

The shoot-out was dramatized fairly well nailing the rooftop villains and the concluding scene where Jane shoots the bad cop through herself with his gun; not a bad ending, unlikely, but not bad. The series has 105 episodes spanning seven seasons with this performance the last of season one. The entire episode was entertaining, lose the side-show with the parents and the questionable methods of BPD. Everyone is a critic and those not liking the show hopefully will stop reviewing altogether; I have seen all the episodes, rating the series watchable and certainly beyond mediocre.
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10/10
Intense Season Finale...
AnnMarjiata23 January 2022
No spoilers here. The last episode from Season 1 and the standout episode IMHO.

Lots of tension here. This is certainly a top episode from the entire series. The show should keep your eyes glued to the TV.

Excellent script, acting, direction, etc... No disappointments here.
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10/10
Wonderful Climax!!!
surveysbytony6 May 2021
This makes the fourth time I've watched this series, and everytime I say you don't mess with Rizzoli, there has been a lot of episodes that were good, but this is the one that made people want to come back for another season, everyone wanted to know what happened to Rizzoli, and the look of dread on Isles's face was something to behold, everyone knew this wasn't going to be a one and done series, if it was then that meant that TNT didn't know what they had, I like many others are glad they did.
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5/10
a hot, predictable mess
kevanovich-0204422 January 2018
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Predictable story & bad guy. The episode had potential but was wasted on idiotic plot points (needed to advance story) & a ridiculous ending. Why didn't killers take the evidence when they killed they guy? If they didn't know it existed, how did they find out about it? What happened with the snipers? How does Rizzoli pull off that maneuver? Why have the entire precinct work off-site? I would've added an extra star had Rizzoli slapped some sense into Isles' when she was whining about not having sufficient resources.

I counted only 4 good episodes this season (despite what the IMDB ratings say). We'll hope the writing picks up since the show had a lengthy run. The subplot with the parents is always forced and so becomes annoying. & now there's a new family member?! Either write better parts for them or ditch them altogether.
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