- Jane and Maura's friendship suffers following the shooting of Maura's biological father, gangster Paddy Doyle. Jane also finds herself in the middle of an Internal Affairs investigation. And her relationship with Agent Dean is exposed.
- Jane and Maura's friendship suffers following the shooting of Maura's biological father, gangster Paddy Doyle. Jane also finds herself in the middle of an Internal Affairs investigation. And her relationship with Agent Dean is exposed. Maura finds out that her father said she died as a newborn on the day she was born August 7, 1976 and has a gravesite and marker with the name of Baby Maura Doyle on it.—K.P. Manning
- Jane and Maura's relationship has deteriorated after Jane shot her biological father, gangster Paddy Doyle, in the warehouse. Maura insists that her father was there only to protect her but Jane believes that he could easily had shot her, as he did FBI Agent Dean. The entire squad soon find themselves under investigation by Internal Affairs who believe Jane is dirty and helped out her best friend's father. Jane learns some important information about Maura's biological mother. Meanwhile, the squad is also investigating the shooting death of an off-duty policeman who was in charge of the evidence lockup. At first glance, it looks like he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time but a closer look at the security video suggests he may have been the target.—garykmcd
- Former undercover volunteer Maura resents Jane's part in the shooting her biological father Paddy Doyle, refusing to consider he may have been trying to protect her, Jane scolds her naivety. FBI agent Gabriel Dean is soon recalled to D.C. as Internal Affairs Captain John Connors personally conducts an official investigation, with Jane as main suspect, although Paddy lives and Maura looks for the Hope he mentioned, possibly her biological mother. Still the team investigates the fatal shooting of the evidence room officer, off duty, soon suspecting a link between the cases involving Doyle's Irish mob rival and a dirty cop connection.—KGF Vissers
- Picking up from last season's finale, we begin with a crime scene and Jane freaking out to Korsak over shooting her best friend's father. Korsak reminds her he was head of the Irish mob and suspected in 15 murders.
Korsak didn't think this was how they'd take down Paddy Doyle. Flash back to Jane and Frost going into a warehouse, inside a man is telling Maura she shouldn't have come alone. He takes out a gun to shoot and from a gangplank above, Doyle shoots the man. On the ground, Agent Dean shoots at Paddy and hits him in the shoulder, then Paddy shoots Dean in the leg. So Jane comes in and shoots Doyle as Maura screams "no!"
Doyle falls to the floor below. Jane tries to stop the bleeding but Maura yells at her. "Don't you dare touch him!"
Later, Jane tries to talk to Maura, but she's really angry.
Maura defends her dad for shooting the guy who tried to run her over yesterday and put her mother in the hospital. "We had a handle on it until Paddy crashed our operation," Jane says. "Oh, you mean your boyfriend had a handle on it?" Maura asks.
Jane didn't know Dean would follow them, but he's a federal agent so he had a right to. Maura defends that Paddy just shot Dean in the leg and could have killed him if he wanted to. She thinks her father was only there to protect her.
Jane calls her naïve and ignorant. "Well, at least I don't play judge and jury and kill people," Maura says.
Jane blames herself for involving Maura.
Flash back to Jane wiring Maura before she goes into the situation undercover. Jane reminds Maura that this is serious and someone is trying to kill her.
Later, Lt. Cavanaugh takes Jane's gun as evidence and chides her for not telling him she knew Paddy Doyle was in town. She has to go meet with the head of Internal Affairs.
In a convenience store, the clerk talks to a customer about the day's news when a masked gunman comes in and shoots them both.
At the station, the IAD guy John asks Jane how long she's known Paddy Doyle was Maura's father and then how long she's been sleeping with Agent Dean. He thinks it has a lot to do with her judgement today.
At the hospital, a doctor tells Maura that surgeons are working on her father, but he has no movement in his legs.
Cliff, another IA guy, joins Jane. He asks if she's doing favors for Maura. They are interrupted by Korsak and Cavanaugh who need Jane for a case -- a cop has been shot. Jane worries what's going to happen when they talk to Maura, who can't lie.
In the hallway, Jane runs into Agent Dean, who is limping but OK. She's mad at him for telling people they were sleeping together and for following Maura to the warehouse. She thinks he figured he'd be the hero and break the case and she feels betrayed. She brushes him off.
In the hospital, Maura visits her mother (Jacqueline Bisset) who is badly beaten. Jane's mom Angela visits.
At the convenience store, the customer turns out to be the cop, Walter Wisniewski. The alternate coroner Dr. Pike (Ed Begley Jr.) examines the body and is sure they were shot with a .38. The cop was shot in the back. They look at the security footage and don't think it feels like a robbery.
At the hospital, Maura tells Angela she feels bad for biting Jane's head off. She was in shock. Doyle kept repeating "Hope" and she wonders if it's her biological mother's name. The surgeon brings her a Do Not Resuscitate form and Maura gets upset, she tells Angela to leave.
At the cop shooting, Korsak urges Jane to get to the hospital to talk to Maura before IA gets there. To outsiders, he thinks they'll look dirty because they bent a couple rules.
Jane runs into the hospital and tells Maura that IA is coming. Maura is upset that Jane doesn't start with an apology. Jane quickly tells her that if their friendship ever meant anything then she hopes Maura will think before she answers their questions.
The IA guys show up and yell at Jane to stop talking to her.
They shoo Jane away and ask Maura questions about Jane. The doctor tells Maura that Paddy is waking up. She goes to his bedside and the IA guys ask her about a book that Doyle kept; she doesn't know anything about it.
Jane visits her mom at Maura's, who tries to cheer her up. She asks the story of how Jane and Maura became friends. Jane was working undercover in narcotics.
Flash back to Jane in fishnets and a mini-skirt trying to buy coffee from Stanley at the coffee counter and not having enough money. He doesn't know she's a cop and treats her like a hooker. Maura hears what's going on and tries to give her money but Jane snaps at her and tells her not every hooker has a heart of gold.
Angela and Jane are laughing at the memory when Maura comes home. She reminds Jane she shouldn't be there while IA is investigating and Jane worries about what she told them. She tells her Mom to get her things and forces Angela to choose sides.
Angela goes to get some things and gives Maura a hug. Maura lets her take a drawing one of her mom's art students made of a woman at a graveside.
Jane wakes up in bed with her mom the next morning. Frankie drops by for breakfast. Agent Dean knocks on Jane's door with flowers. She doesn't want to talk to him.
He tells her they had a wire tap on Paddy Doyle and he has cops on his payroll. He thinks she's being set up. He's being sent back to Washington. Jane softens and sends him off with a smile.
In the station, Cavanaugh relays the story of Paddy falling in love with a Harvard girl years ago but his father breaking them up.
Jane meets Frost in the morgue and she flirts to get Dr. Pike to do what she wants. They have to stop him from using forceps on the bullet and leaving mark that would ruin ballistics tests. And it's a .45, not like he said.
Jane sees Maura in her office and tries to talk to her but they end up insulting each other. Jane says at least her father doesn't stab people with ice picks and Maura says at least her father didn't move to Florida to sleep with some floozy he met in a pizza parlor.
Dr. Pike tapes the whole thing on his smart phone.
Cavanaugh interrupts, followed by an IAD guy who asks if they're having a "cat fight." Cavanaugh transfers Jane to Evidence and Maura turns in her resignation.
Maura comes home to find her house ransacked.
Later, Korsak asks if Paddy ever mentioned a book, he says there are judges and politicians on Paddy's payroll, too. Korsak tells Maura that Jane didn't know Dean would be there.
Maura says she resigned because she's the daughter of a mobster and they're all under investigation for trying to protect her.
Frost visits Jane in Evidence, where she makes off with a box of guns to test fire. She pulls a bullet and notices it matches the one that killed Wisniewski, which means he was killed by someone in the police department. Jane takes her findings to Cavanaugh, who is surprised it took her so long to figure it out. They knew Paddy had someone on the payroll in Evidence so he put her there to keep an eye on things.
They all head to Wisniewski's house and find it full of really nice things and also wads of cash in the wall. They find an old childhood photo of Wisniewski with Paddy as altar boys. Wisniewski has a bunch of old guns and they think Paddy had a deal with him to fence guns.
They head to evidence, where the guns are kept in barrels before an armored car takes them away to melt them down. But no one in the department is notified when they're about to be moved.
Jane says Dean told her the FBI thought Paddy was about to move on the guns. They start looking for them. They find scrap metal in one of the barrels and Cliff the IAD guy dead in another, apparently shot with a .44.
John the IAD guy finds them and they show him what they found. He thinks they should seal the barrels and leave them because if homicide starts investigating, the dirty cops will go underground. They figure the guns were hid elsewhere in evidence.
They go to Paddy's evidence boxes and find them full of guns. They decide to put everything back. But first Jane checks surveillance footage from 1976, including a photo of a woman who could be Maura's mom at a grave. Jane recognizes the photo.
She visits her mom and asks to see the drawing of the woman at the graveside. She compares it to the photo and runs out.
At the hospital, Maura's mother sits by Paddy's bedside. Jane confronts her with the photo and drawing. Maura's mom doesn't know who the woman is, but she's Maura's mother. She met Paddy years ago when he took her art class. He showed up months later with a newborn, saying the mother had died during childbirth.
He used to meet Maura's mother at the cemetery because it was the only place they were safe from his father.
Jane visits the grave of Baby Maura Doyle. Paddy told everyone that Maura and her mother had died. Jane notices something on the grave and starts digging. She pulls up a book with a photo in it.
Jane brings it to John in the hospital. Then she shows him the photo -- of John, Cliff, Wisniewski and Doyle. John was the dirty cop, not Cliff.
John pulls the .44 and threatens to shoot her in the hospital. She asks him if he feels lucky. He pulls the trigger but nothing happens. She removed the firing pins from all the guns before they put them back in evidence.
Frost and Korsak come in and arrest him, joined by Cavanaugh who tells her to get back to Homicide. Maura joins them and asks Doyle if he would have shot Jane. "Hell yea, you're a cop," he croaks out.
Jane takes Maura to the baby Maura gravesite. Now she knows why her biological mother never looked for her; she thought she was dead. Maura asks to be alone, and tells Jane to tell Pike she's coming back.
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