By: Kelly Kearney

After Jane’s (Angie Harmon) angry confession of planning to kill Alice Sands, (Annabeth Gish) the second half of the premiere starts at the detective’s new condo. Last season, Alice burned down Jane’s old apartment and thanks to Maura’s (Sasha Alexander) professor friend, Jane decides to sublet his condo in the medical examiner’s neighborhood. Jane’s confiding in Maura about feeling racked with guilt and blaming herself for the trauma Alice put her loved ones through. The grudge she has against the brunette detective touched all of their lives and Jane is becoming obsessed with ending it. Maura, ever the optimist, lightens the mood by pranking the detective. With her news of her brain injury and her memory loss, she tricks Jane into thinking she doesn’t remember how long she’s been at the condo or if she’s ever been there. Jane panics and Maura laughs at her trickery. Before Jane can get a little payback, both cell phones go off alerting them of a possible homicide. Our favorite duo is off, but not before the health conscious Maura steals a giant bite of the detective’s donut. Boy, the brain damage must be real because that donut was absolutely not made with quinoa.

Jane’s New Lead and Frankie’s New Job

Frankie (Jordan Bridges) meets Maura at the scene of a car crash that sent a Volkswagen off an embankment leaving a young woman dead. It seems the younger Rizzoli is no longer with Homicide, but working his fist case as lead detective on the Fatal Accident Investigation Team. Later, when the family of the young woman comes to claim her body, Nina (Idara Victor) shares a story about her murdered boyfriend. The two share a touching moment and Nina and Frankie fans across the world were saying, “Aww….” These two have it bad for each other. If they spent less time dodging gunfire and psycho women with a grudge, they could end up together. As romance is blooming at the morgue, Jane thinks she has a lead on Alice. The police found a lead to Alice’s money man so they head to his apartment to check it out. When they get there the suspect blasts through the door and Jane prevents one of the officers from getting shot. The stop the assailant and come up with nothing, but Alice’s money. They desperately need to tie some evidence to Alice, but she’s proving to be too smart for the Boston P.D.

Maura and Memories Lost

Maura’s back at work and the results of her brain bleed are becoming evident. While autopsying Alice’s accomplice, Maura can’t remember the name of an artery. Kent (Adam Sinclair), her assistant, notices something is off with his boss. She waives his concern off, but Kent isn’t buying it. He’s starring at Maura when Jane comes in and rags on Kent for starring at her best friend. There’s kind of a moment between Kent and Maura where he shows true concern for her. Could this be the beginning of a Kent/Maura relationship? Maybe, but if I was Kent I’d try winning over her cop best friend or else he won’t get past the creepy staring stage. Even though our quirky Medical Examiner is having some cognitive issues, she’s still the same Maura. Maybe she can’t remember what a Mass spectrometer is but she does remember to ask Jane if she’s been eating. Typical Maura, always worrying about someone else, namely Jane.

Follow the Clues

Through good old fashioned police work, the team follows some leads on Alice’s now dead accomplice. While looking into his life, they discovered he stopped at the same deli every single day. Since they have nothing else, they go check it out only to discover Alice is there, presumably waiting for them. I mean, come on, she’s way too smart to get caught in a back room of a deli. This must be a trap to get to Jane. Jane and the team bring her into the station for questioning. Alice, who Maura thinks is psychotic, wants to talk to Jane and the detective seems eager to get it over with. Alice tries bait Jane by mocking her upbringing and we’re reminded why all this happened. Alice Sands destroyed her life over professional jealousy and personal failure. Jane’s desperate to keep Alice locked up, but there’s still no physical evidence tying her to the crime so the judge throws her case out. Now that she’s free, she won’t stop coming after Jane and her family and she proves that by telling the press Jane’s a bad cop for falsely accusing her.

Back at the M.E. office, Maura and Kent are having what can only be described as a tense moment of longing stares and questioning glances. What’s going on with these two? Didn’t Maura think he was strange and Kent seemed to have a crush on Jane? I guess a lot can happen during a hiatus. As Maura and Kent confuse the viewers, Frankie is anything but confused about his feelings towards Nina and he tells his mother Angela (Lorraine Bracco) about it. They have so much in common and Nina is practically family already. Angela is happy, mostly because she’s had grandbaby fever for six seasons, and urges him to tell Nina about how he feels. Later, Frankie uncovers the truth about the car crash from the beginning of the episode. It was actually a suicide and now he has to inform the family. Nina comforts him and Frankie takes that as a sign to kiss Nina! She pulls away and the younger Rizzoli feels dejected. Maybe it is because of Nina’s reaction or maybe because Frankie Rizzoli is a sensitive guy, he lies to the crash victim’s parents and tells them it was an accident, not suicide.

Catch Me If You Can

Maura’s searching through evidence when she comes across a fingerprint in the car of Alice’s former cell mate/ girlfriend. There was a police shootout while searching for Alice and the car was seized as evidence. Low and behold, they have a match! Alice was in that car during the shoot out and with the DNA they also found in the car, they may be able to tie Alice to at least one crime that should keep her locked up for a long time. They head to the deli where they found the deranged woman before and she’s there again! She takes off through the deli with Jane hot on her trail. Alice grabs a teenager that works the meat counter and holds a gun to his head to get Jane’s attention. She’s pushing Jane to kill her and lets her in on what this whole thing was about. She’s trying to destroy Jane’s career by making everyone think she’s a dirty cop. Jane says she has no plans of ending this that way and Alice forces her hand by pushing the teen out of the way and aiming to fire at Jane. Jane takes the shot, hitting Alice in the chest with two bullets, killing her instantly and leaving it in question of whether or not Alice successfully set Jane up to discredit her.

Love Is in The Air

Now that the eminent Alice danger is over, Frankie tells Nina he broke up with his invisible (because we never see her) girlfriend and confesses his feelings which, is no surprise, are very mutual. The two have a sweet kiss at the Dirty Robber and it seems like this is the beginning of a very cute coupling. The Rizzoli’s haven’t had the best luck in the love department so Frankie is ahead of the curve with Nina. As for his older sister Jane, she’s finally glad her family is safe.

The episode ends with our two favorite ladies back at Jane’s new condo. Everything’s back to normal with Jane making fun of Maura and Kent’s flirtatious stares while Maura’s getting a rise out of Jane about her narcotics officer ex-boyfriend. All is good in Boston. The team got their perp, Maura and Jane are safe and Frankie got the girl. You can’t ask for a better Rizzoli family happy ending…until next Monday that is.