Chapter 29
4 a.m., Wednesday morning/Thanksgiving Eve

Boston, Massachusetts

Angela Rizzoli

Angela simply could not get much sleep.

On Monday, she had coffee and dinner with her daughter Jane at their friend Maura's home, where Angela herself had been living for some time. It was a normal day.

Monday night, Angela learned that Maura and Jane "had to go" to Washington for a reason neither wanted to discuss, other than to say it was "job-related."

Things went from an overnight trip to D.C. to learning that Jane and Maura were going to have to stay in Washington indefinitely.

When Angela learned why - mid-morning, from Detective Korsak - she turned into an emotional wreck. Lieutenant Cavanaugh told Stanley to give her the rest of the day off, and Angela went home to Maura's now-empty house.

During the day, her son Tommy showed up with a host of FBI agents, and the empty house filled up, mainly with feds and Boston police officers.

She took some solace in the fact that Tommy would be there with her, and she could call Jane and Maura any time to talk. Still, when the FBI told her they needed Maura's belongings for an extended stay, Angela began having panic attacks.

Angela was calmed down only by her other son, Frankie; Cavanaugh; and FBI Agent Todd, who told Angela about his sister, Kate, that she was a former Secret Service and current NCIS agent, and that she would be right there with Jane and Maura 24/7.

Throwing herself into the last-second effort to get Maura and Jane's belongings to them helped Angela take her mind off Jane and Maura's absence. Knowing that Tommy was going to stay with her and that Frankie would still be around helped ease her mind; so did Stanley's kind offer to take the rest of the week off - with pay - and Boston PD's pledge to give her "whatever she needed."

She had talked with Jane three times on Tuesday, and Maura twice. Both seemed frustrated that they couldn't stay in Boston and concerned about something.

Neither said as much, but Angela knew something was bothering them - especially when she talked with Jane last night.

Jane's last words to her were "get some sleep, Ma," which is what Angela tried to do.

By 4 a.m., however, Angela was pacing the house, attracting the attention of the two FBI agents walking the property, while trying not to wake Tommy, sound asleep upstairs.

She was worried about everything from Frankie Sr.'s refusal to contact her yesterday to how she was going to pay the bills for Maura's house to whether she and Tommy would have to move in with Frankie.

Angela was, again, close to becoming a nervous wreck, so she tried to calm herself down by making a pot of coffee.

As the pot brewed, Angela ruminated on what she had been told by Cavanaugh and Agent Todd about the man threatening Jane and Maura.

Nothing was said about Jane and Maura's personal lives as any reason for their exile.

But she knew that it played into things.

She knew what some of the officers had said about her daughter over the years, going back to when Jane broke into the force.

And she knew that the reason that Jane and Maura's relationships with men always fizzled out wasn't the men's fault.

Whatever was going on, whatever this maniac was doing, it had something to do with Jane and Maura, together.

You see, you can't fool a mother.

And whatever was going on between them, Angela Rizzoli knew about it long before Ari Haswari ever did.

Sean Cavanaugh

The head of Boston PD's Homicide Division found himself asleep at his desk.

He looked at his phone, saw it was 4:01 a.m., and thought about just staying where he was.

Cavanaugh was a division head, however, and it wouldn't look good for a Lieutenant walking around on a work day without a change of clothes, a shave and a shower.

He knew his problems would be here waiting for him when he returned in a few hours, so Cavanaugh put on his coat, grabbed his briefcase and locked his door.

On the way out, he looked at the area where his detectives worked. It was almost empty, with only two people there, both asleep at their desks.

The first man he woke up was Barry Frost, Jane Rizzoli's current partner on the force.

"Huh...huh...er, Lieutenant," Frost said, after Cavanaugh gently shook his shoulder a few times.

"Frost," Cavanaugh said. "Go home, shower, get a bite to eat. Get back here at nine."

"Yes sir," Frost said, gathering his things as Cavanaugh walked toward Vince Korsak's desk.

"Korsak!" Cavanaugh said, tapping Korsak's shoulder a few times. The detective finally woke up, looked at his watch, and knew he overslept.

"Lieutenant," he said, "I guess the Carlton operation took more out of me than I thought..."

"This is a lousy place for a motel," Cavanaugh said. "I'll tell you the same thing I told Frost. Go home, shower, eat, come back here at nine."

"Yes sir," Korsak said.

"Frost! Hold up," Cavanaugh said. "We'll walk out together...and if you guys want to talk about anything work related, hold it until you get back here."

The three men took the elevator, and walked out the building, none of them bringing up the elephant in the room, and each of them thinking about nothing but it all the way to their homes.

Cavanaugh did stick a post-it note to his dashboard before he drove off, something he scribbled at work and didn't want to forget the next day

CALL NCIS ASK ABOUT EMPLOYMENT FOR JANE AND MAURA

and

JANE + MAURA RELATIONSHIP

Vince Korsak

Korsak stopped at a 7-Eleven on the way home, wanting to get some caffeine in him so he wouldn't doze off between now and the end of the day.

He was glad to see four third-shift Boston PD officers in the store, and made small talk as he made his 32 ounce coffee.

Yes, Detective Rizzoli is in Washington; yes, Dr. Isles is with her. No, he couldn't talk about why. FBI. Couldn't confirm threats...they'd have to ask Lt. Cavanaugh or the Chief...

There was the one smartass who kept asking if Jane was a lezzie and she and Isles ran off to San Francisco to get married; Korsak acted like the guy wasn't even in the room.

But Korsak himself was wondering if their absence had something to do with a relationship.

Cavanaugh may not tell some idiot officer, but would surely tell he and Frost what was going on.

Barry Frost

While Korsak stopped off for coffee, Frost went straight to his apartment.

He threw his gear on his couch, turned on his TV, found the 4 a.m. airing of SportsCenter and finished off a very cold pepperoni pizza.

All he could think about was Jane, and Maura, and how they were doing in Washington and why the feds were making them stay down there.

He was going to find out more about this Haswari guy, from somebody, when he got back to work in a few hours.

And he and Korsak were going to get answers from Cavanaugh, not just for themselves but for Angela, Frankie and Tommy and Maura's team. Then, they all were going to figure out how to get Jane and Maura back home.

Daniel Todd

Daniel finished his email to his sisters Kate and Juliana, telling them what he could about the operation that ended David Carlton while bragging in his usual smartaleck-appearing-but-really-good-humored way.

He knew why Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles were in Washington, and why Ari had targeted them. He also knew that there were a lot of things Jane and Maura's friends and families didn't know, and that the local rumor mill was already working overtime.

Daniel dreaded the next few days.

Someone was going to come to him demanding answers - be it Angela Rizzoli, or her sons, or Korsak and Frost, or Cavanaugh, or perhaps Constance Isles.

He even heard that a T. Pike was nosing around; Daniel heard Pike was jealous of Maura, and thought he and Agent Gabriel Dean might have to sit Pike down and read him the riot act.

Jane and Maura were going to have to deal with a lot of issues, but if Agent Daniel Todd had a say, The Idiot T. Pike wouldn't be one of them.