- Rizzoli gets a bravery medal after escaping from a hostage situation. A brave US military private is also felicitated but is killed by a car bomb after the ceremony. Rizzoli, resting for the last three months and yet unfit, investigates.
- Three months have passed since Jane was shot and she hasn't yet recovered. There is a ceremony honoring her bravery and Maura convinces her to attend. The evening ends in tragedy when a U.S. Army Private, also being honored for an act of bravery while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, is killed in a car bombing. Despite not being cleared for duty, Jane desperately wants to get in on the investigation. Meanwhile, Jane learns that her parents are getting a divorce. Jane renews her acquaintance with an old high school friend.—garykmcd
- Maura scolds Jane's poor effort to complete her recovery after the precinct shooting in time for the city's bravery medal ceremony she even resents attending, yet uses to spotlight Maura's emergency surgery saving Frankie. Leaving the hall, just-decorated Afhanistan veteran PFC Abigail 'Abby' Sherman is killed by a car bomb. Jane must divide her time between the case and another decorated Afgaistan veteran, her lover lieutenant colonel Casey Jones, whose military expertise proves useful to look into the victim's Taliban-tested unit, which is found by Maura keeping secrets about friendly fire, with the killer prepared to strike again.—KGF Vissers
- After taking a bullet in the Season Finale during a siege of the precinct, Jane Rizzoli is honored as a hero at a public event. The celebration is short-lived, however, when disaster strikes. The ensuing case reunites Jane with an old high-school flame, Sgt. Major Casey Jones, who may be just the person she needs to heal her emotional scars.—TNT Publicity
- A news report says it's the Boston Police Department's Salute to Heroes Night, at which Jane Rizzoli will be honored along with army private Abby Sherman, who was shot in Afghanistan but manage to crawl to a squad automatic weapon and save three members of her squad.
An unseen person makes a bomb.
We see flashbacks from three months ago, when Jane's brother Frankie was wounded and treated by Maura in the siege on the station..
Maura drops by Jane's apartment to find her surrounded by home shopping products and in her PJs. Jane doesn't want to go to the award ceremony. She doesn't think shooting herself (to kill the bad guy behind her) was heroic. Eight people died -- including five bad guys. Maura tries to convince her the ceremony is for her fellow officers, not her.
At the banquet, Jane and Maura listen to the presentation for Abby Sherman. Detective Korsak makes the presentation to Jane as her fellow officers and mother look on. She says she doesn't think of herself as a hero.
She points out Frankie in the crowd and credits Maura with saving his life. Jane says she was just doing her job and they're all there to remind people sometimes the good guys still win.
Jane notices her dad's not there.
After the presentation, Jane says a casual hello to an old high school friend named Casey, a lieutenant colonel.
Jane finds her mom to ask where her dad is. She gets choked up and manages to write on a napkin: "Divorce."
Jane extricates herself and finds Abby talking to Casey. Jane mentions she and Casey dated in high school. Abby went overseas with her boyfriend Gary, but they broke up. She asks Jane about resentment from her male peers after being called a hero. Abby's excited to be a civilian after tonight.
Maura brings Jane's trauma surgeon date Byron over. Jane's gunshot wound bothers her. Maura suggests that sex might boost her immune system.
Jane walks out with Casey, who says she was to scary for him in high school. They get into a car behind Abby. It explodes.
Casey drags Jane from the car. She wants to work the crime scene, but her commander orders her home. Frankie takes her.
At home, Frankie tells Jane that their dad moved out today. He says their parents are losing their house and have been fighting a lot.
Jane tries to go to work, but security stops her at the door because, since she's not cleared for duty, she doesn't have her credentials back. She runs into Maura and Dr. Byron out front -- he won't clear her until she makes an appointment at his office. Jane pleads with Maura to get her in so she can start trying to find out who killed Abby.
Maura brings her to the morgue. She thinks Jane's attitude is impeding her healing. Jane leaves the room when Abby's body is brought in.
Jane goes upstairs to the detective bureau. She finds news clippings and a stuffed police teddy bear on her desk. She begs her Lieutenant to reinstate her for the case. She lets him stick around off the books. She greets Korsak, who was promoted to sergeant, and Frost.
The bomb was a pipe bomb. They're trying to rule out terrorism. Jane suggests Casey, who's in Special Ops, join them.
Later, Jane suggests it could be a fellow soldier because Abby said they resented her. The bomb had a mercury switch but no army ingredients. Her Lieutenant Forman and the three men she saved were at the dinner.
Jane checks with Maura about the bullet doctors left in Abby's shoulder after the attack. She asks for more info.
Jane talks to Abby's high school sweetheart Gary. He says Abby was driving when the roadside bomb exploded. The other two men tell the same story about her saving them. Forman says she was supposed to just be support that day but was a damn fine soldier.
Back at Jane's place, she shares a beer with Casey. He thinks it was terrorism since it didn't seem like the guys in her unit resented her.
He compares Jane to Abby and kisses her.
The next morning, Jane's mom barges in to find Jane in bed with Casey. He leaves and her mom chews her out. Jane insists they didn't have sex.
Jane listens to her mom complain about her father. She half-heartedly offers to let Angela stay with her, but Angela says she's staying in Maura's guest house.
Over at Maura's, Jane visits but bails when Byron joins them. Maura asks him if Jane should be better by now and suggests reasons she might still be in pain. He reminds her she's "merely" a pathologist and he's an "expert" trauma surgeon. She tosses him out.
Maura shows Jane and Casey the bullet from Abby's shoulder -- it's a .38 Special American revolver. Maura thinks Abby was facing her shooter. Casey says it could be friendly fire, which would be tragic but it happens.
"Tell that to Pat Tillman's family," Jane mutters. Casey leaves.
Jane goes to the house of Gary Campbell, Abby's ex. He walks out the front door in time to see his car explode.
Back at the office, Campbell says he was following Forman's orders.
Frost finds that Forman bought bomb-making supplies and leased a place two weeks before the ceremony. They think he followed her back to Boston to cover up her shooting.
Casey, Korsak and an assault team head to Forman's place. Watching on video feed, Jane and Maura watch as the team spots a trip wire and falls back just before the house explodes.
Back at the lab, Maura looks over Forman's body as Jane and Casey go to break the news to Gary.
Maura finds that Forman had a fracture in his head and he was wearing Abby's dog tags. She double-checks and sees that she was wearing his -- both their names end in "man" and hers were in shards so she couldn't tell before.
Maura calls Jane to tell her he was killed before the bomb and that Abby and Forman were lovers. Standing in Gary's kitchen, Jane realizes he's the killer -- but she's not on active duty so she doesn't have her gun. She doesn't have time to signal Casey before Gary pulls out a grenade.
Gary was upset that Abby and Forman were sleeping together. Jane realizes he shot her on purpose in Afghanistan. He knew that Forman rented a house in Boston to be near Abby so he killed them both.
Gary pulls the pin from the grenade. Jane tries to talk to him calmly and gets close enough to grab his hand so he can't release the grenade's lever. Casey shoves Gary against the wall as Jane holds onto his hand. They incapacitate him and get him down on the ground and the pin back in the grenade.
Back at the office, Casey brings Jane the deactivated grenade. His leave is up and he comes to say good-bye. He kisses her and leaves.
Maura visits and checks on Jane, who's not in pain anymore. Jane is excited to be back in action.
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