- The Boston Pilgrims baseball team is co-owned by a man and his estranged wife. Rizzoli and Dr. Isles probe the mysterious deaths of the team's coach and a star player. Tom Rizzoli, a home burglar now out on probation, is misunderstood.
- While Angela is elated about the return from jail for robbery of son Tommy, and Maura eagerly offers to keep hosting him as permanent parole address, his siblings have mixed feelings about their charming 'no good' brother, who seems to get in trouble again fast, as Maura's place seems looted. The latest junior coach of Boston's Pilgrims baseball team, unknown even to super fan Vince, lies dead in the players shower, staged as a fatal fall. The team learns to mistrust the ex cop security chief and finds possible motives among rival players and ownership rivals. Next the star player is killed by car sabotage, so all motives must be reconsidered.—KGF Vissers
- Jane and Maura investigate after the coach of the Boston Pilgrims baseball team is found dead in the locker room. The death comes as a star player and the team owners battle for control of the team. Meanwhile, Jane's brother Tommy returns home after being released from jail.—TNT Publicity
- The city celebrates star Manny Vega as he wins a Boston Pilgrims MLB game with a walk-off home run. The next morning in the clubhouse, the cleaning lady finds a man dead in the shower.
Maura and Jane watch Pilgrims highlights at Jane's house. Jane is enraptured by "Mega" Vega. A news broadcast explains that Phil Young now has sole ownership over the team from his ex-wife Gina.
Jane is stunned to see her former convict little brother Tommy walk in the door. Jane didn't know he had been released. Maura's giving him a place to stay so he can satisfy his parole requirement.
Jane tries to warn Maura that her brother is adorable but has a way of ending up in trouble. Tommy notices Jane's dog won't stop licking her paws.
Maura gets a call about a fatal slip and fall in the Pilgrim's locker room. She wasn't planning on going herself, but Jane has always wanted to see the clubhouse.
Tommy offers to take the dog to the vet, but Jane tells him to just focus on staying out of trouble.
Newly promoted Chief Merck, a former detective who's now head of Pilgrims' club security, greets them both. He gives Jane tickets to a game. The victim is someone from the coaching staff. Merck offers to escort Jane to her seat, but she decides to stay. She watches the athletes get ready for the game. Mega Vega doesn't seem too popular with his teammates. He takes a swig of something from his bedazzled water bottle and ralphs into the trashcan.
Jesse Wade, a former All-Star, introduces himself to Jane. One of the other players shoves Vega out of the way.
Wade gives Jane his number.
Maura is examining the body and is bothered by the fact he has two fractures in his skull, inconsistant with the "slip anf fall" story being offered by the club. She declares the death suspicious, over Merck's objections.
Jane calls Korsak out of the stands where he's watching the game. The victim is Ron McKenna. A judge grants them control of the locker room.
Korsak remembers Merck as "The Jerk." Jane and Korsak wonder if he cleaned up the scene. Jane sends Frankie out to guard the dumpsters while they await a warrant to search them.
Jane and Korsak meet with the owner Phil Young, who says McKenna was a "special assignment" coach. Walt the lawyer says they can't talk to anyone on the team.
Gina, the owner's ex-wife, arrives. It was she who insisted they hire McKenna to act as Vega's sober coach. She says Vega started having violent outbursts three weeks ago.
There's a rumor Phil Young is trying to sell the team.
Back in the locker room, they notice McKenna's clothes are brand new. The backs of his shoes are wet, he was killed somewhere else and dragged into the shower.
They find blood spatter by Vega's locker. The floorin front of the locker smells like bleach.
Maura says the murder weapon is a cylindrical object. She's not ready to say it's a bat, but Jane is. A tech finds blood on Vega's bat which fits the wound.
Jane and Korsak meets with McKenna's son, who says his dad has been clean five years -- since his mom died. He opened an outreach center to help people. The son says McKenna helped a lot of ballplayers.
Jane gets word they were denied a search warrant for Vega's house. A grand jury has been delayed til after the playoffs. Lt. Cavanaugh tells Jane to keep digging.
She and Korsak go to the ballpark and intercept Vega. He's surly and defiant, and denies everything, then drives off.
The key logs show McKenna went in a 6:00 a.m. and the cleaning lady went out at 9:33 a.m. The players don't use key cards.
On TV, Phil Young calls the Boson PD reckless for calling the death suspicious. They play up McKenna's drug history to make him look bad.
Jane calls Jesse Wade, who suggests she meet him at a fancy French restaurant. Maura insists Jane can't go in her detective clothes, so she swaps her raspberry tight mini-dress. Maura slices off the toes off her high heels to make "peep toes."
Jane gets a call from Tommy on her mom's phone. Jane comes to the vet to find Tommy yelling at the doctor. The vet says Tommy won't pay the $300 vet bill. The vet says the dog is depressed and needs to be on Prozac. Maura acknowledges that the dog has seemed listless lately.
On her interview date over dinner with Jesse, he says Vega has been acting crazy lately. McKenna was determined to prove Vega was drinking and asked Jesse for help staging an intervention.
Maura comes home to find her flat screen is missing. Jane runs to wake up her mother. Angela is furious.
Jane and Frankie find Tommy at the bar with a date. He's not surprised they're blaming him and mockingly says their parents' divorce is his fault, too.
They're interrupted by a TV news report that Manny Vega has died in a car crash.
Jane hangs out in the morgue as Maura does Vega's autopsy. They find he was chugging an energy drink and was clean. Maura finds he has a recently enlarged heart. His kidney are damaged, too. He shows signs of anti-freeze poisoning.
They think based on access it had to be a teammate. Jane remembers Jacobs fighting with Vega. They find YouTube footage of a dugout fight, where the much smaller Vega takes on Jacobs.
In the morgue, Maura is trying to pin down time of death. Frankie is going through twelve dumpsters worth of garbage with officers.
Maura says antifreeze poisoning mimics inebriation.
They find anti-freeze residue in Vega's locker water bottle. They think McKenna walked in on whoever was poisoning Vega.
Maura gets the results of a test on McKenna's eyeball fluid, to pin down his time of death. He died at midnight, not 6:00 a.m.
Jane and Korsak talk to Merck to find out why he rigged the keycard entry. Merck says the organization thought Manny did it and he was told to protect him. He asks for a lawyer.
They look at Vega's contract, which included Phil and Gina each giving him one percent of the team, but if he tests positive for drugs or dies, they get their shares back. Three weeks ago, Vega gave Phil his 2 percent, giving him total control. Jane thinks Gina has motive.
Merck just got bailed out by Gina.
Korsak also gets word that they traced the burglary at Maura's house to a ring of thieves, not Tommy.
Jane visits Frankie at the dumpsters. He found bloody latex gloves and towels in a bag.
Jane lingers over Maura as she looks for prints inside the gloves. Maura suggests Jane go apologize to Tommy.
Jane finds Tommy in her neighborhood walking half a dozen dogs at once, for his new dog walking job. He appreciates that the dogs don't judge him. Jane apologizes.
Maura calls with news.
After a win, Jane and Korsak come into the locker room. Jane confronts Jesse, saying he wanted to be famous. She says he had balls taking a cop to dinner. He hears the crowd chanting his name. She shows him the glove.
Jesse says he worked for everything, but Vega just had things handed to him. They arrest him.
Frankie and Korsak help hang the new TV at Maura's place. Korsak notices Angela feeding the dog chicken and asks if she's been licking her paws. He knows that a lot of little dogs are allergic to poultry. Jane rolls her eyes at Maura for buying into the depressed diagnosis.
They all set the table for a big family meal.
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