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Money Maker is the sixth episode of the third season, and the 31st episode overall, of the show, Rizzoli & Isles.

Plot[]

Jane and company must investigate the death of a costumed financier found jammed into a trashcan. Meanwhile, Maura makes a more meaningful connection with Dr. Hope Martin and her half-sister, Cailin.

Recap[]

***This section contains SPOILERS. Read ahead at your own risk.*** Click here to skip to credits.

The episode begins with a man lying on the bed, wearing a mask. A girl walks in; she too is wearing a mask. They exchange some code words and then the man hands her a syringe. She tells him that she is instructed and injects him. Seconds later, the man’s body starts convulsing vigorously and dies. The girl panics. The girls are at home, arguing about coffee when Angela walks in. She is wearing a hot dress and high heels; she looks stunning. Jane thinks her mom is going on a date. Just then Maura receives a call from Hope; her biological mother and Hope wants to have dinner with Maura, along with her daughter. Maura invite them over to her place. Jane gets a text informing her about a murder.

Maura is tensed; Jane suggests taking Angela’s help. They arrive at a huge house, which is the crime scene. Frost tells Jane that the real estate agent, Georgette Wilkins, is a handful. The agent hands Maura her card, but doesn't give it to Jane initially as she thinks cops cannot afford expensive houses. Georgette tells them that this house ran into foreclosure while was being renovated. The detectives then check the door, which has a whole right ear attached to the edge! Someone was trying to listen as to what was happening in the house. But Maura tells them that the ear was detached post mortem. Jane sees a scanty trail of blood and follows it. Frost arrives declaring that the Mercedes outside the house is registered to Neal Murray. Georgia denies any recognition and leaves.

Jane wants Frost to run information on Georgia. Just then a van comes along to pick up the trash. But Jane stops them. They then find the dead body in the trash can; the man is wearing a mask and a cloak. The dead man is Neal Murray, who is the owner of a hedge funds company. Jane notices some stains on the cloak. Maura hasn't tested the cloak yet. The cloak is stamped Rhodium. Maura states that Neal experienced a cardiac event. Maura then points out that there are consistent needle marks on his penis; he is being treated for erectile dysfunction. His heart condition prohibited him from taking Viagra. Also the victim was left handed. Jane leaves to talk to his business partner. They meet Neal’s partner Dale and their high school mate, Doug and his wife Lori. Dale tells the detectives that he loved Neal and that the company wouldn’t survive without him as Neal was a people’s person and he was the one who brought in all the big investors. Frost asks for the list of investors.

At Maura's home, Hope and Cailin arrive for dinner. Not wanting Hope to see the picture of her, Maura has Jane hide the picture in the bathroom before she lets Hope and Cailin inside. During dinner, Cailin reveals that she didn't want to move to Boston since she misses her friends in London. After having dinner, Jane gives Cailin some cake and tries to engage with her in conversation, but Cailin isn't interested. Cailin decides to walk home and asks Jane to tell her mother that she left before leaving. After being told that Cailin left, Hope leaves after her. Hope apologizes and tells Maura and Jane that Cailin is very fragile at the moment and she can’t leave her alone. Next day, at work, Maura tells Jane that there are no traces of erectile dysfunction medication in Neal’s tox screen. Hope arrives to apologize for Cailin's abrupt behavior at dinner. Maura is understanding since Cailin is eighteen years old and it must've been hard for her to adjust to change. Hope then reveals that the reason she brought Cailin to Boston is because Cailin contracted a bacterial infection while Hope was doing relief work in Africa. and that Cailin desperately needs a kidney transplant. Hope reveals that she would give Cailin one of her kidneys in a heartbeat, but they aren't a match, and neither is Cailin's father. Hope is sad that she cannot help Cailin. Maura asks if there's anything she can do. Hope says there isn't, but she appreciates the thought, then leaves.

The team finds out that one of Neal’s clients is Lamar Jones, a rapper. After doing a DNA on the fork that Cailin used to eat the cake from last night, Maura tells Jane that she and Cailin are a match and that she has decided to donate her kidney to Cailin anonymously. Jane is not happy with this decision. Next, Lamar arrives at the station. Winifred criticizes his music and tells him that it is offensive. Lamar is then taken for interrogation. At first he tells them that he doesn’t know Neal, but later he admits that Neal was his “moneyman”. Lamar wanted his money back and so he took Neal for a “spin”. Neal told him that he was giving him chest pains. Lamar had told Neal that he would take him to the hospital for his money. Neal then gave him the money out of his own pocket and asked him not to tell Dale about it. They then interrogate Dale.

He tells them that he makes a lot of money for his clients if they lock that money in for a set period. He then tells them to talk to his lawyer. Vince points out that Dale had a keychain just like the one they found on Neal. Jane fidgets with Neal’s keychain a little and then pulls out a flash drive. It leads them to a website, 10preciousmetal.com; Jane points out that Neal was running an underground sex club; ten different levels of call girls for ten different levels of investors. He conducted underground sex parties in vacant houses and the listing agent for all the houses is Georgette Wilkins. Jane has her card and asks Vince to run her prints. Georgette is actually Candy Smith, a former prostitute. Georgette sold Neal his house.

Next, Hope arrives to meet with Maura again, claiming that there was no one else she could talk to. Maura says Hope can talk to her, and she invites Hope to sit down. Hope wonders why it's easy to tell a stranger the most intimate details of their life. Maura suggests that it's because strangers don't judge you. Hope tells Maura that Cailin is always so angry, and she feels like she barely knows Cailin anymore. But then Hope claims that Cailin has a right to be angry with her, since she brought Cailin to a place that made her sick and made Cailin live her life. Hope feels like she's failed Cailin, and she tells Maura that no one makes a person know they failed the way their child does. Maura points out that daughters feel the same way about their mothers, since they fear they'll never measure up to their accomplishments. But Hope says that it's a mother job to protect their child, and believes that she's failed twice, referring to the baby she thinks is dead. Maura tells Hope that her first baby dying wasn't her fault. She also says that Cailin is a teenager, and it's her job to push Hope away, claiming that it proves Cailin is strong, and that's because of Hope. Hope looks like she wants to believe Maura, but at the same time, she isn't so sure. Hope then tells Maura that Mass General Hospital called and said they found an anonymous kidney donor for Cailin. However, Hope reveals that even though Cailin will live, she's afraid she's already lost her daughter. Maura assures Hope that she hasn't. With that, Hope thanks Maura for listening to her troubles, calling her the kindest of strangers, unaware that Maura is her daughter too.

Next day, Jane and Vince meet Georgette and tell her that they know she lied about her relationship with Neal Murray. But when they call her Candy, she tells them that she doesn’t know how he died. She leaves for her lunch appointment. Jane and Maura sit down at the same restaurant for lunch. Maura tells Jane that Neal was injected with potassium chloride. When they see Georgette going towards the washroom, they both follow her. Georgette tells them that she didn’t kill Neal and she doesn’t know who did as she doesn’t do any background checks on the girls. They tell her that she will provide the same girls for tonight’s party. Maura asks for one strand of Georgette’s hair and tests it. it doesn’t match to the hair they found on Neal. 

Maura insists on going to the party as she can test the hair strands of all the girls present at the party; she is excited. At the party, they see Doug and wonder how he could afford being at such parties. They check the hair strands for one of the girls and it is not a match. Jane goes to get another. Just then she hears a scream and rushes to the scene. She sees Georgette’s dead body floating in the pool. Maura examines the body in the lab and infers that she was pushed in. they notice an expensive ring on Georgette’s hand. The food substance found on Neal’s cloak is used in food service to keep food warm. They might be looking at a catering service. Jane notices a second set of prints on the ring. Next, Frost and Jane arrest Doug for embezzlement.

They then tell Lori that they found her prints on the ring. She had tried it on before she killed Georgette. Doug had told Lori about Neal’s condition. Lori is a nurse and she snuck in with the catering and injected KCL into Neal. Frost lies that they have a surveillance tape which shows Lori pushing Georgette into the pool. Lori buys that one. She blames her husband that he could never let go of his high school buddies. Lori claims that they were happy, but then Neal showed him a life he could never have dreamed of, and then he fell in love with Georgette. They arrest Lori for the murders of Neal and Georgette.

Next, Cailin arrives at Maura’s house. After she comes in, Cailin tells Maura that she knows she's Hope’s dead daughter, having found news articles about her being Paddy Doyle's daughter. Cailin also reveals that she went snooping during dinner and saw the picture of her mother at her grave. Cailin then angrily voices the pain she went through growing up, saying that she has lived in the shadow of a dead baby her whole life, and believes that she wasn't enough to fill the hole in her mother's life. Maura tells Cailin that she is more than enough for Hope, and that Hope loves her. Cailin tells Maura that she should've just told them the truth, then reveals that she figured out Maura is the anonymous kidney donor. Maura begs Cailin not to throw her life away because of what she thinks of her, but Cailin refuses to listen, saying that she doesn't want any part of Maura in her. At that moment, Hope arrives, asking Cailin what is going on. When Cailin and Hope argue over Cailin taking Hope's car and Hope calling the police, Maura makes a split second decision and reveals to Hope that she is her and Paddy Doyle's daughter, and that Paddy lied when he told her Maura had died at birth. Maura tells Hope she's not looking to be her daughter since she has a mother and a father, but she just wanted her to know the truth. However, Hope doesn't want to hear it. She rejects Maura, claims Cailin as her only daughter and has to pull Cailin away in order to leave, making Maura break down in tears.

Later, Jane is with her, trying to console her friend. Maura tells Jane she didn't expect things to go this way, and that she never meant to hurt Hope or Cailin. However, Maura soon tells Jane that she is done crying as she has cried enough. In fact she is feeling insulted as Cailin rejected her kidney, with Jane commenting that she should keep her kidney in her body, making both women laugh.

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