This episode of Rizzoli & Isles entitled “We Are Family” focuses on the assassination of a state senator, Isles’ kidney transplant, and Rizzoli’s relationship with Casey.
The episode begins with Jane and Maura running and talking about the kidney transplant from last season. Side note, Maura gave her kidney to her long lost sister but her sister does not know that Maura is related to her. The two stop running to view the parade with Rizzoli’s mom and then Frankie rides up on a used bike. Maura talks to Frankie about the bike and offers to fix it with him later. Then we see a shadowy figure assemble a rife and shoot the state senator in the head.
Later on we find out that the two main suspects in this case was the senator’s sister and husband. After the gun shots, Jane and Frankie run up to an open window to get some clues. They find vomit and a blueberry waffle. At the police precinct, Barry brings up the fact that the husband was a homemaker. He would have some motive for killing his wife. However, that does not pan out so well. Barry and Jane head over to the senator’s office. They look at the state senator’s schedule and see two acronyms. The first acronym is THT which means Take Home Toxins and the other is GBS which means Good Bye Speech.
Frost gathers the senator’s laptop and a bottle of dirty water that will lead to solving the case. So at this point the main clues are waffles, dirty water, acronyms, and a 90 min time gap between the senator leaving the house and arriving at the parade. She must have had waffles during that time and she did. This plot line reveals that the senator knew about a factory in Reddington where the workers were supposed to have disposable uniforms but the factory owner fail to get them. The senator knew that the Take Home Toxins were making kids sick. The senator wanted to expose the truth. However, that would lead back to her sister. Her sister took bribes from the company to prevent any further investigation on the environmental hazards. Her sister had waffles with her that morning and she killed her during the parade. The senator wanted to step down and exposed the factory.
The binary plot was about Isles feeling moody about the kidney transplant and she really wanted to tell Cailin about it. But Cailin already knew. When Isles and Rizzoli was stalking her at a coffee shop, they were discovered. Maura decided to talk to her sister Cailin.
The third plot was about Rizzoli hooking up with Casey. After sex, he informs her that he is leaving for Afghanistan for a few months. Also Jane’s mom Angela and Lt. Cavanaugh are dating.
This was a decent first episode to the season. I really enjoy the crime aspect of the show more so than the comedy. Sometimes it feels out of place and a little lame but the show works well as a drama. Rizzoli & Isles airs on TNT.
image: TNT
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