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Beats and rhymes, I got rhymes to beat. How many rhymes with the beats in mind

on Bond Street? For every set, it's now rocking with the very best. Put on your

coat, make it happy for every way. Beats and rhymes, Bond trains, 88 hip-hop. We

put trains on deck in the Bronx where the fame is at. The mushroom signal was

unstable.

That's beautiful.

Yeah, if you're a farmer's wife. Come on, my birthday was last month. It's

fine. Well, we're not leaving until we find something that we both like.

Did you bring food and water?

All right, do me a favor. Try this one on. Oh, let me see.

Every girl needs an LBD.

Not me. I got vaccinated.

Come on.

Let me see it.

Wow.

That is one stunning little black dress.

And Jane, you look beautiful.

Where am I going to wear this? A murder at the Boston Pops? Okay, we're not

leaving until we buy it.

Okay, okay, fine. Get the damn dress.

It'll look fabulous in my closet.

Thank you.

Rizzoli. Ma, no!

Come on!

Like I haven't seen that before?

Okay, I'll meet you there.

Okay.

Yeah. No, no, I'll be right there.

Alright.

No,

not you.

Okay,

I'll see you later.

Thank you, Ma!

It was only victory 25.

Damn, look how young he is.

Not obvious signs of injury.

It's odd.

I can promise you that we're working tirelessly for justice in this case.

Yeah, tirelessly. Look at him work.

Somebody might hear you.

But as you know, Boston has some of the finest detectives. I wonder if that guy

has a satellite for the news vans. He's not a cop, right? He's a police officer.

He's a climber.

He's an ass.

Well, he's got a lot of pulp.

Juice.

We say guys got juice.

You're gonna be drinking yours out of a sippy cup if you don't lower your voice.

What killed this kid? I don't see anything.

No knife wounds.

No bullet entry or exit wounds.

No external sign of trauma to indicate a beating.

Wasn't killed for his stuff.

His school ID.

Let's see his center.

15. God.

I'm never having kids.

What have you got for me, Rizzoli?

Don't you want to wait for the camera crews?

There's no obvious cause of death.

I'll know more after the autopsy.

Hey, hey, hey. Don't touch anything in my car or anything, all right?

So as to not contaminate.

Right.

You might want to take a look under there.

I'm not finished processing the scene.

Well, I bet.

You could match those shoe prints to that skateboard.

If you tried.

I'd do it myself, but I don't want to contaminate your crime scene.

Thank you. It was very helpful.

You're welcome.

Bye.

That went well.

Find something.

Matias! Matias!

Matias!

Matias! No,

no, no, no, no, no!

Matias! Matias!

He didn't come home last night.

I even called his father.

You're divorced?

Since he was 10.

We are fighting.

Over custody of Matthias?

All he wanted to do was skateboard.

I told him it's not safe up there.

He wouldn't listen.

The devil got into my boy and left me alone with his curse.

What do you mean, the devil? He was not the same after he met those boys.

The skateboarders?

We don't need their names.

I don't know them.

I just know they are bad.

Mrs. Sutter, I understand that you don't trust us right now.

But we want to find your son the killer as badly as you do, and I promise you we

will do everything, everything we can to find the person who did this.

He was all I had.

How much do you know about Cape Verdeans? You mean, do I have any

special insight because I'm black?

Yeah.

The gangbangers I've arrested are usually somewhat suspicious of white

female cops.

It's a pretty insular culture.

Not that I really know much.

They think of themselves as more Creole than black.

Matias was a good kid.

He's got no arrest, good grades.

All right, let's look at everything.

Pull up sex offenders and predators in the area, see if anything pops.

Got it. That comment the mother made about the devil getting into her son.

Let's see if there's any tie to local gangs, devil worshipping.

We narrow it down to skateboarders. Nice.

I'll check with Brick.

You seen Corsac?

Coffee shop. Again?

Would you like coffee, detective?

Uh, no, thank you.

Who's she?

New.

What are you doing here?

Working. On my testimony for the O'Reilly murder. I'm up tomorrow.

Yeah, but why are you working here?

Uh, it was cold at my desk.

All right, how's the trial looking?

Huh. A bunch of idiots on the jury who watch too much TV, waiting for the

presto, bango, magic DNA.

Listen, you still got your connection in family court?

Okay, I got a juvie victim named Matthias Senna.

What do you need me for? Well, I need to know now what is in that custody

hearing. Oh, sure. I'm not doing anything.

Thanks.

Then switch to decaf.

Lungs are congested and heavy, but overall organs appear normal.

So what's the cause of death here?

I don't have one.

Muselines. Possible indicators of toxins in the system. So he was poisoned?

Doubtful. A few pinpoint petechial hemorrhages could indicate asphyxia. So

he was suffocated? No airway obstruction or external indication of strangulation.

Hello? Cause of death?

Do you think Lieutenant Grant is sexy?

You know, in a male kind of way?

Do you like him? Not my type. You know, I'll do a talk screen on arsenic and

heavy metals, both of which can cause meas lines.

You just said he wasn't poisoned, Mara. I said it was doubtful based on the

evidence. God, woman.

Grant's a brass kisser.

Even when we were young, he had all the nuns wrapped around his little finger.

Oh, I'll erase the board for you, Sister Mary Pat.

At recess, he would yell out...

Roly-poly Rizzoli eats cannoli.

You were overweight?

No. I was athletic.

Strong.

Maybe I was a little chubby. Why? What'd they call you?

Mora the Bora.

Yeah. They meant boring, but it doesn't rhyme.

Huh.

Do you think maybe I was?

What is that?

Crime lab confirmed the presence of candle wax.

What? Hold your questions.

These dark particles?

Those are burned feathers.

Okay, let me guess.

He was smothered with a burning down pillow while he drank candle wax.

No.

Maura, I know it makes you break out into hives if you have to guess, but I

need a theory, okay? Just one.

The medical evidence is consistent with what I would expect to find if the

victim went through an exorcism.

He was killed by an exorcism?

I didn't say that.

Dad's not religious.

It's the mom's church.

The storefront.

It may not look like a church, but it's an urban crystallization of a larger

American pattern of religious choice.

Yeah. It's also a good scam.

Even the drive-thru chapels are tax-exempt.

Well, commercial spaces can still be sacred.

This is the guy who runs it.

Father Osorio Koku, leader of the Sadaji Velia Church.

Born Reginald Perry.

In and out of jail since he was a kid. Robbery, assault.

Oh, check fraud.

Started his church while he was on parole.

So he's raking it in.

Exorcism goes bad, he dumps a boy's body.

Excuse me, this is an awful lot of speculation.

It's a theory, it's different.

Besides, who in this day and age is performing exorcisms?

Well, the Catholic Church has been performing exorcisms since the second

century, and they still do. It's an effective ritual for expelling demons.

Good to know.

This is Father Cocu, my priest.

Hello. Hello.

We're investigating the death of Matthias.

Did you perform an exorcism on him?

We perform purification rituals on the boy, yes.

And did you purify him the night he disappeared? Father Cucu would never

hurt Matias.

He was helping.

Exorcisms are very powerful.

Is that what you said?

No.

Is that what you said?

No.

Maura?

I... I said, may God give his soul rest.

And she thanked me by saying, stay in God's peace.

We were fighting hard for Matthias.

The devil was strong in him.

And the devil killed him.

See, we don't think the devil killed him.

We think Matthias may have been killed by an exorcism. Think, so you don't

know.

You're good, Reginald.

We're not finished.

Thanks for stopping by.

This is a house in mourning.

It's time for you to go.

Beatrice, that's up to you.

Please do as the priest said.

The forces of evil are powerful.

I can handle evil.

Not this guy.

You're a little disrespectful.

I was disrespectful?

Father Cuckoo back there is my number one suspect. Father Cuckoo.

I know, Maura. I was making a point.

Well, Koku is the most popular boy's name of Cape Verdeans. Okay, I don't

need a history lesson. Thank you. Very intriguing culture.

Descendants from the Portuguese explorers and slaves from the Cape

Verdean Islands.

I'm impressed. I can Google, too. And that Father Koku or whatever is a phony.

Did you check out that poncho he was wearing? A grand boo-boo.

I said I know. Oh, you knew what that robe was called?

A boo-boo?

Well, it's popular with the Christians in West Africa, though the Swahili in

East Africa and some Bantu speakers in Central Africa also like their boo-boos.

Yes.

That's not funny. Okay.

Rizoli.

Okay, give me the address.

Okay.

I will see you back at the ranch. I'm going to go talk to the boy's father.

I'll get you a boo-boo.

Woo-hoo!

A boo-boo?

I tried to get Matt away from his mother and that crazy brutal priest.

I should have just taken over.

Do you think that your ex-wife may have had anything to do with Matt's death?

Not Beatrice, no.

Maybe the church.

You did everything you could, Malcolm.

And my son is dead.

When did your ex-wife join the church?

After the divorce.

The priest is a crook. He got her to give him all of her money, even a child

support. He spent every last dime on lawyers fighting for custody.

I mean, we even put off having our own children. I have a child already.

I know.

I had.

The judge was just about to rule in our favor.

We were going to bring him home.

He said it would be a family.

Dad's story checked out. He was getting full custody. So maybe the mom killed

him. Yeah, I'll email the whole file to you.

I'm guessing she's in the waitress protection program and you're working

here because you're her new bodyguard. I'm working a case here, Rizzoli,

undercover. And you're undercover to get her beans to water ratio?

Someone's been stealing from her till. I said I'd help her out.

I have a fresh batch of blondies, my mother's recipe.

You want one?

Don't insult your mother.

I will insult your mother if it keeps my ass smaller.

I hear you.

How much is missing?

$11.01 yesterday.

$14.99 the day before.

Wow, 26 whole dollars. Now I understand why you don't have the time to do

homicide cases.

Hey, I got a full load here, and I'm in the middle of a trial. You got time for

blondies. Are you going to tell me again how much you hate Grant?

You don't keep your mouth shut. I'll go tell her how much you like her.

Some nasty custody model.

Mom in her church against Dad.

Come from there?

Maybe. What do you got?

Tracking Matt's friends and child predators.

Jane!

Hey, Mom.

Look what I found in the lobby.

Well, you weren't answering your phone, and the brand-new Officer Okunda

wouldn't let me out. All right, well, I'll talk to him. Thanks.

Hey, do you have Matt's autopsy report?

Yes, I'm waiting on toxin micros, but I can tell you this conclusively. It was

not a natural death.

Really? You could knock me over with a chicken feather.

And what are you doing here?

I bought you the dress that you're going to wear tomorrow when you come to

dinner. It's just the Salernos, Mom. So? You can't look nice?

Ooh, look at this.

Oh, wow. Look at the detailed Ottoman ribbing. It's got that Grecian v-neck. A

gorgeous woven-edge hem.

Jane. Yeah.

Listen, when you two are done playing Project Runway, I got work to do. I know

you always forget to eat.

Thank you. I love you. Love you.

Look at that. Is it okay?

Yeah. All right. Look at this.

What is that white substance?

Fluff.

light downy particles of cotton it's marshmallow and the brown substance

is called peanut butter it's ground up heavy oily particles of peanuts

what they didn't have that in your fancy boarding school oh it's really good two

hits on pedophiles that like matt's type both in custody when he disappeared all

right what about his uh skateboarder friends gang unit says matt was hanging

with some bad kids random names They've all been brought up on minor drug

charges, except Matt.

This is the game leader.

Cruncha, a.k.a.

Jerome, 18, and the only adult.

He recruits juveniles on skateboards to run drugs for him? Maybe Matt said no.

The origin of gang names is actually quite fascinating.

A nickname signifies a change in status or identity.

You're not a true member until you have a nickname.

Yo, Dr. Death.

Jane Lowe needs a cause of death, not a seminar on gangster nicknames. Maybe

there's something to what Doc is saying.

If Matt had a nickname, it could mean he was in Crunch's gang.

Well, maybe it's time to talk to Cruncher.

Yo.

You know this guy?

Yeah, that's, um...

That's the homie Ali right there, man. We used to skate. So Ali was Matias'

nickname?

Yeah, he was bad on the board.

But I'm done talking to 5-0, so you can go bother somebody else, Duke. You mind,

Jane? I didn't make it to the gym today.

Yeah, be my guest.

Let me go! Let me go, Duke!

Let me go!

I'm not a dude. I'm a detective.

If you disrespect that, I will hurt you. You got that?

You got that? Yes, I got it. I got it. Now, your boy got killed out here.

Look, I ain't killing nobody, man. You need to go ask his mother. They're crazy

Cape Verdeans, and they hexes, and they evil, man.

Them brothers, it says that they church, they off the chains.

So just let me go, man.

I ain't doing nothing. Get out of here.

So what do you think?

My gut says he's right.

Church and the priest are evil, but it's not enough for a warrant.

Nice move.

Another set of micro and tox reports came back, all negative.

I could run tox screens every day, every day for the rest of my life, and still

not have a cause of death.

Gee, that's encouraging.

All right, what about the herbs that they use in exorcisms? Can you run

those? Yeah, already on it. It'll be on the next screening.

It's so frustrating. This poor kid.

Poor parents.

What is it? Shh.

Thanks. You can't take me off this case. I'm not

taking you off the case, okay? But you can't ignore a threat like that. It's a

crazy priest and some garden snakes. Come on.

Hey, Jane, whoever did this covered the security lens with spray paint. No

prints, nothing on the tape.

Do exorcism priests tag? Hey, hey, no jokes, okay? This is a very dicey

political situation.

We cannot be seen as persecuting a priest or the church.

What if he did it? Come on, Joey, is that all you care about is how this is

going to affect your career? What I care about is you going about this in a smart

way so it sticks.

So you believe me? Yes.

Get cocoon.

Just be careful.

Okay, thank you.

Yet another talks report.

They came back negative.

He didn't die from an herb commonly used in exorcisms. Well, look for the

uncommon ones.

It's still thousands. We have to narrow it down.

Maura, I can't go after that priest until I know what Matt died of. Well,

I'm not going to guess.

All right, well, what if you were to guess? Just hypothetically guess.

What would be your guess, hypothetically?

I found several cases of people in the literature who were hexed to death.

Murder by hex.

All right, enough guessing. Well-documented cases. Victims who were

so convinced that they were cursed that they suffered catastrophic catecholamine

-induced arrhythmia.

I don't even know what that is. Heart attack.

Heart attack because they were scared. My kid didn't die of fear.

Well, haven't you ever been afraid of anything?

Uh... My family went to Salem when I was little. See? You were very

impressionable. Yes, I had to sleep with a nightlight. Why? What were you scared

of?

Chromobacterium violaceum.

What's that?

It's a flesh-eating bacteria.

Crawls inside your ear or your nose and starts eating you from the inside out. I

got it.

Thank you.

Horrible.

Every culture has an exorcism ceremony.

You know, and there's no law against being a charismatic religious leader.

Yeah, yeah, like Jim Jones and Kool-Aid and David Koresh and Waco.

What could go wrong?

I feel like going to church. You?

We're about to do a ceremony.

I'm about to serve a search warrant.

That's a very disruptive way to observe a foreign culture.

Well, at least one of us did, Ann.

You could have told me you had a warrant.

She didn't.

We didn't have time.

Are you right?

No. I said I was about to serve a warrant. I didn't say when.

Your rituals could seem as strange to others as ours do to you.

Blood into wine, bread into flesh.

He's right.

It's no different than the Potomita, linking heaven and hell, is it? You know

about the Potomita?

I spent two years in Dakar with the Médecins Sans Frontières.

You were in Doctors Without Borders?

Why can't you just say that?

Please let us complete the ceremony help sister Beatrice.

Then you can do your search only if we can observe

If you wish

Why

no,

why worry We're just locked in a room with an ex-con who's about to do an

exorcism. This is great.

Snacks. Snacks.

She believed the devil that possessed her son is inside of her.

Think of an exorcism as a massive therapeutic intervention.

Where'd you get this sweatshirt?

My homie Ali gave it to me. Right before you put a pillow over his head and

smothered him to death?

Look, I'm a skater, not a killer.

That's cute, Jerome. You just threw a Molotov cocktail at a cop.

You think you can scare the cops off this case with some snakes and a

firebomb? What are you talking about snakes, man?

Brother ain't messing with no damn snakes.

And the firebomb?

Look, the voodoo was killed, Ali.

Okay, we're done.

Take him to lock up.

He has kids, do petty crimes to cover for his ass, but he throws a revenge

bomb himself?

No, he didn't kill him.

So you make a cruise for it? Oh, big daddy voodoo and saving souls. I haven't

ruled out the parents either.

Damn it, I am late for dinner.

My mom's gonna kill me.

You were firebombed, Jane. It's a good excuse.

You don't know my mother. Will you call her and tell her I'm on my way, okay?

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

No worries.

I'm glad you're here. Yeah, okay.

Help me out. Go entertain.

Zoe.

Oh, you look amazing.

Thank you.

What the hell, Ma?

Where's Paul and the Salernos? They went to go pick up ice cream for later.

No, they didn't.

There's no one else here.

I made Ragu Bolognese.

You made me wear this dress for Joe Grant?

What? No.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Ma.

I need to know you're taken care of.

By him?

Are you kidding?

He's cute.

He's not cute. He's very cute. So what?

You go. Be a girl.

I love you.

So I haven't seen you in a dress since, what, senior prom?

With Charlie Krentz. He was a dork. Yeah, he was a dork.

What are you gonna tell me? I filled out nicely? And risk being brought up on

harassment charges?

Maybe.

You look good.

I had no idea she was inviting you.

She didn't invite me. I broke in the window.

Yeah, you always were funny.

Yeah.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

How does she convince you to do this? Your mom? You kidding me? She wouldn't

take no for an answer.

She told me it was a reunion or something.

Yeah, apparently.

Yeah. So I heard about your little incident at the church.

You gonna write me up?

Maybe.

You gonna write me up for harassment?

Maybe.

She'd have to do it first.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Dinner's almost ready. Set the table, Jane. Okay.

I can't believe my mother.

It's just the two of us, right? Yeah.

My mother still... My mother still likes to tell me when it's going to rain

outside.

It's like, bring an umbrella, you know? Yeah.

No, no. She just wants you to be happy. That's all.

Well, no offense, but I don't need a guy to make me happy. And no one's proposing

here, so... What's that supposed to mean?

This is a bad idea, huh?

Yes. Yes.

It is a bad idea.

All right. Okay.

I'll tell you when I said sorry. Tell her you're sorry.

Why are you laughing?

No, I mean, do I look stupid?

No, are you kidding?

Really, you don't know?

You're gorgeous, my friend.

Then why are you laughing?

Really? Okay, well, tell my mother that. She thinks I'm some sort of pity

project.

She just loves you, that's all.

Want some cheese?

No. Ew, no, not out of the dead fridge, no.

If she loves me so much, why does she hand me off to that creep?

I don't believe you think he's a creep.

Well, I do.

I've known him since he was five. You know he used to lisp.

So? So, you get rid of guys if they have receding gums.

That's true.

That is true.

But you're always complaining that the guys you date... don't understand or

like your job and he respects you stop really you think he's his political

animal but it's just that it comes out of him when he's around you because he

wants to impress you it's mating behavior i think it's sweet i think

you're insane i'm off to solve a murder nightlight honor op on i can't wait till

we solve this one

Thank you.

What's in there?

There are almost always explanations for these phenomena.

Almost.

Well, maybe the dog knocked the flowers over. Laura, it's four feet off the

floor.

You know, maybe ghosts are real.

Maybe I could pick the winning lottery numbers today.

Maybe I am losing my mind.

I could do a brain scan if you like. Thank you. That's very helpful. Thanks.

Can you run one more tox panel?

Okay.

What do you want me to look for? I can't even believe I'm saying this, okay?

Purple poisonous plants?

Purple. Yeah.

You said that Matias was holding purple flowers.

Yeah. Monk's Hood is a purple flowering plant that grows in Boston. Is it

poisonous? Yes.

And it works very quickly, and it's extremely hard to detect.

But I can try.

Talks report on Monk's Hood.

Positive.

Low levels were detected, but enough to determine the cause of death.

Matias was poisoned.

I know why I had that dream, because I know where I've seen that plant before.

Can you type the genetics of the Monk's Hood in Matt's body and match it to the

plant that it came from?

No.

Can you lie about that?

No, I don't lie.

It's not a lie.

Yes, it is. I know when it is. I start to hyperventilate. Okay, it's a white

lie. It's still a lie.

You've never lied to a guy and told him he was good when he wasn't?

No.

Like this shirt with this jacket?

Not really, no.

We're sorry to tell you, but your son was poisoned.

What?

How?

Actually, with a plant like this one right here.

I didn't poison my son.

That church.

Beatrice's crazy church.

That's how they did it.

We don't think so.

What's interesting is that Dr. Isles can type the genetics of plants, which means

she can't match the monk's hood that was found in Matt's body to the plant that

it originally came from. Isn't that right, Dr. Isles?

Yes, we do do genetic typing. Basically, someone would just have to soak the

monk's hood in a bottle of water.

Find Matt on his skateboard, offer him a drink. That's right.

This is crazy.

If I may, Malcolm wouldn't have a child with you, is that right?

Wait, how do you know that?

It's in your custody papers.

It's one of the reasons that the judge gave you Matt is because of your

commitment to him. There you have it, right?

He didn't do it.

Yeah, you didn't want another child. You had Matt.

But you wanted one of your own, didn't you?

You knew that Malcolm was winning the custody battle, and you knew it was

never going to happen.

No.

No.

You knew about the exorcisms because of the custody dispute, and you figured

that the church and his mom would be blamed.

You know she never would have stopped fighting for custody.

And we would have spent all our money on the lawyers, and it just was trapping us

in the past, and I swear, Malcolm, I swear, I did it for us. No! No!

I'm sorry.

Calm down.

My mother tell you it was going to rain? No.

Yours?

You've been sitting here, you're soaked.

Longer than I expected.

I got to leave for D.C.

soon. Just want to come by and see you before I left.

Say bye if that's okay.

What's in D.C.? Big job I wasn't expecting.

What, did they appoint you to the Supreme Court?

No.

Not that big.

They appointed me to be a liaison between the city of Austin and Homeland

Security.

That is big.

Guess I'll be out of your hair now.

That's cool. I mean, you know, for you.

Yeah.

Sorry, I called your frog face.

No.

Yeah,

that's me.

I liked you.

Yeah.

For a long time.

I mean, like, a really, really, really long time.

You're leaving?

Yeah.

Well, have fun in Washington.

I'm with you.