Blog 3

Throughout the story, there is much distrust between the federal agencies and the Boston police department. Gunshots ring out from inside the hospital as federal SWAT teams infiltrate the area and kill both Olena and Joe in a savage assault. Detective Jane Rizzoli is whisked off to Brigham Hospital, and her husband slips off to be with her for the delivery of their baby girl. A turf war results between Dr. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner, and FBI Agent John Barsanti who wants to take the corpses to Washington for the autopsy. Strangely, the Governer intervenes before Maura completes the autopsy, and the bodies are taken away.

Both Jane and her husband, Gabriel, have trouble sleeping due to nightmares of the ordeal and their newborn's cries. The Boston police discover that a ballistics check found a match between the weapon used by the hospital infiltrator who tried to kill Olena and a multiple shooting in Asburn, Virginia. The federal takedown team confiscated all the weapons found at the hostage crisis, calling it a matter of national security. One of the Boston PD's supervisors brings the file of the Russian women's massacre to a secluded meeting attended by Deective Rizzoli and Agent Dean. What happened in Asburn and who is involved?

Thanks to the help of her mother, Jane is able to travel to Asburn, Virginia with her husband. She is haunted by dreams and the memory of Olena's last words, "Mila knows." Detective Eddie Wardlow of Asburn isn't pleased to see them despite their supervisor's clearance. He admits to knowledge of a connection between the owner of the "girls' house" and Balentree, one of the nation's biggest defense contractors. No fingerprints of the dead women were found on file, adding to the certainty that the girls were undocumented aliens.

Jane and Gabriel leave the station and travel to the vacated house. It is late afternoon, and the house has been charred by a fire on the second floor. They remove the padlocks on the house and see that furniture and rugs have been cleared away. It is still easy to imagine the horror of that evening as evidenced by the blood stains and holes in the wall. Darkness approaches and, as they leave, bright lights blind Jane and Gabriel on the porch. Agent John Barsanti takes them downtown to a federal headquarters for questioning. What's up now?