- A pregnant woman is stabbed to death but Dr. Isles saves her baby. The husband is suspected. Police find that the baby is surrogate and has also been sold online in adoption. During kangaroo volunteering, a suspicious nurse is observed .
- Jane and Maura's mud bath at the spa is interrupted when a man brings in a pregnant woman who has been stabbed. She dies but Maura manages to save baby. The woman's husband, a commercial fisherman, was on his boat when she was killed but says he wasn't aware that his wife was pregnant. The case gets more than just a bit complicated when it turns out she was a surrogate, carrying a child for a couple who were unable to have a child on their own. It leads them to a fertility clinic run by a Dr. Hanson who is less than cooperative. Jane's mother meanwhile is driving her crazy trying to redecorate Jane's apartment and then holding a yard sale there. Maura has an idea.—garykmcd
- Maura dragged pouting Jane to a clay mud bath in a spa, only to be urged to save the baby boy by Cesarean on a fatally stabbed, anonymous new mother. She's identified as the wife of fisherman Hank Kelly, who can't be the father having been at sea most of each year. It turns out neither was the biological parent, she was a surrogate mother in Dr. Hanson's fertility clinic, but the same crook also promised babies for adoption as 'specialist attorney' Russell Dempsey, who is later murdered. Hank hid having found out recently, two wish parent couples risk losing the baby, whom Angela handles at Maura's suggestion as 'kangoroo mother' in neonatal, yet keeps meddling in Frankie's life and Jane's home, even commandeering them for a garage sale which includes some of their things. The culprit lurks for more bloodshed.—KGF Vissers
- Jane and Maura's relaxing day at an outdoor spa is anything but when they discover the murder of a pregnant woman serving as a surrogate mother. Soon the hunt is on to find the baby's biological parents.—TNT Publicity
- A woman is chased through a park. She's wearing pajamas and a coat. The person behind her is carrying a knife. She sees a camper in front of her and races toward it, but she trips. The person catches up to her and stabs her. Her screams summon the occupant of the trailer, who runs to her aid, chasing off the attacker. The woman is moaning.
Meanwhile, at a spa, Jane and Maura soak in a clay bath. Jane's not happy to be in a vat of mud. Maura encourages her to drink her lemon water and enjoy the experience.
Jane's trying to figure a way out when the man runs into the spa carrying the woman. He yells for help.
Maura tends to the woman, who died as he was bringing her over. Maura undoes the woman's coat and sees that she's very nearly full-term pregnant. She orders Jane to do CPR on the dead woman to pump what's left of her oxygenated blood to the baby.
Maura takes the man's Swiss Army knife and prepares to cut open the woman's belly. Jane assists while the man takes over CPR compressions. They hear the paramedics arrive as Jane takes the baby out. He's not crying and is blue. Maura takes him out and does gentle chest compressions. He stats murmuring just as the EMTs arrive. Maura hands him off and they're left with the mother's body. She has a hotel card key in her pocket.
Back at the department, they send out notices to agencies looking for the baby's family. Jane complains about her mom making her nuts. She's even packing Jane lunches.
Jane comes home to find her mom repainting her apartment pink, Jane's least favorite color. She expresses her displeasure and her mom storms out.
Jane visits Maura in the morgue and watches as she goes through the victim's stomach contents including broccoli, salmon and a pill. Maura's worried about the baby and visited him that morning. The victim bled to death in three or four minutes.
Maura found evidence of healed jaw fractures.
Frost and Jane visit the hotel the victim was staying in. No one's in her room. They find her wallet and learn she's Tracy Kelly. They also find a small Canadian flag and wedding ring.
Back at the station, they talk to the victim's husband, Hank, a commercial fisherman. He says he was at sea when she was killed. He didn't know she was at the hotel -- or that she was pregnant. He says he last had sex with his wife 10 months ago. They get a blood sample.
Maura looks at it and concludes he's not the baby's father. But it gets weirder. Tracy was type A and the baby was O negative, so she wasn't his mother. They think Tracy was a surrogate. She made eight months of $2,000 cash deposits. Korsak confirms Hank's alibi. There's also a record of a visit to an ER in Delaware a while back from a car accident -- how she broke her jaw.
The pill in her stomach was a pre-natal vitamin. Frankie joins Korsak to shadow him as prep for the detective's exam. Frankie shows Jane a flyer their mom made advertising a yard sale -- at Jane's house.
At the sale the next day, Jane negotiates with parents pushing a stroller. Maura knows how much it costs and admits she was on-line browsing. She knows she doesn't have a baby... yet.
Frost stops by and offers her $100 for an old toy. Maura gets him up to $120 and he buys it. Frankie tries take it back.
Maura gets a call from the crime lab, which traced the prenatal vitamins to a clinic in Beacon Hill.
At the clinic, they wait to speak to Dr. Hanson. He looks at her picture for a long time but says he doesn't recognize her. He refers her to Randi his nurse, who's also pregnant. Randi doesn't recognize her either. She cheerfully asks them to get a court order.
At the station, Korsak has matched the baby's DNA to an inmate named Mitch Tolliver. He has a twin brother named Jim.
Jane and Frost meet with Jim and his wife, who says she kept having miscarriages. They're both teachers. Hanson arranged for them to get a second mortgage on their house to afford it. Tracy called all the time and gave them ultrasound photos. They say they were heartbroken when they heard Tracy miscarried. Jane gives them the news that their baby is still alive.
Jane arrives at the NICU to see her mother breast feeding the baby. Maura explains that studies have shown skin to skin contact is good for new babies, so she arranged for Angela to be a "kangaroo" volunteer.
Mr. and Mrs. Tolliver arrive. Jane says they can go in as soon as the court awards custody. Angela holds him up to the glass for them to see.
Korsak calls, saying there's a problem.
At the station, he introduces Mr. and Mrs. Paysons -- they claim they're the baby's parents. They say they legally adopted him through Dream Babies, through Russell Dempsey online. Most of the paperwork was online. They paid $75,000 so far, but only started two weeks ago. Russell stopped returning their phone calls and they saw Tracy's picture in the paper.
Maura confirms that Jim Tolliver is the father -- but his wife Linda isn't the mother. Frost finds Russell Dempsey online -- he's Dr. Hanson.
At the Dream Babies offices, they find empty boxes and paperwork -- and a dead Dr. Hanson on the floor. Test tubes are broken everywhere.
In the morgue, Maura says the knife is consistent with the knife that killed Tracy. They've logged thousands of couple's sperm samples and embryos so far.
Frankie finds surveillance footage of Hanson intimately comforting Tracy outside the clinic. They were lovers.
They find loving emails from Hank to his wife -- and that someone sent him a photo of pregnant Tracy the night before she was killed.
Hank's boat was at sea, but it has a 16 foot inflatable he could have used to get to shore. They confront him with the emailed photo of her pregnant. He admits he took the dingy and drove into town, but left when she didn't show up.
Frankie plays Jane a deleted message from Hanson's phone. Tracy says she only became a surrogate so Hank could quit his job and she's carrying the Tolliver's baby. "Please can you all stop calling me," she says. Who else was calling?
Jane finds a tube with Jim Tolliver's name on it -- and the nurse Randi's. Records show three IVF procedures for her but they all failed.
At her house they find a crib and a pregnancy fake stomach. Jane calls Maura, warning her to not let the baby out of her sight.
She gets off her phone and we see Randi standing in the NICU in scrubs and a dead nurse in the next room. Maura doesn't know who she is so she continues paying attention to the baby.
Jane arrives and Randi manages to hide her face as Maura hands the baby to Jane. As Randi is leaving the room Jane notices she's wearing the same shoes everyone at the clinic wore. She tells her to stop and Randi whirls around with a scalpel. She admits she used her egg and Jim's sperm and killed Tracy because she wanted the baby.
Jane hands the baby off to Maura and draws her gun. Randi drops her scalpel and Jane cuffs her.
Back in the spa, Maura says it was wonderful to see Mrs. Tolliver with the baby. Jane shushes Maura so she can enjoy her dirt bath. Maura flings mud at her.
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