Constance was beyond the point of being worried about Maura. It was as if her whole life had crumbled around her. First it was the divorce, then Jane's disappearance and murder, her arrest and eventual indictment for murder, it was if Maura had lost all will to live. Constance had canceled her tour and effectively moved in with daughter just to keep an eye on her.

Most days Maura did next to nothing, but each night she went to bed to in a Boston Red Sox T-shirt that Jane had bought her. Maura admitted to her mother that it was really the only thing she had left that Jane had been in contact with.

Jane had been declared legally dead by Dr. Pike although there was no body. The blood evidence was enough to get the death certificate or so Constance had understood. She had gone to see Angela a couple of weeks after the funeral, but Angela didn't want to see her. Tommy had apologized to her, just telling her it was too soon.

Constance couldn't imagine what it was like for Angela. To lose a child, your only daughter.

Maura had waived her right to a speedy trial at her arraignment where Dalton entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. The paper the next day ran a photo of Maura in court and a secondary photo of Jane and Maura on their wedding day.

She remembered how happy Maura was that day. She was nervous about a million different things before hand, but once she stepped down that aisle and saw Jane waiting for her, everything else didn't seem to matter. Constance always believed the day Maura chose to get married, she would be married for life.

She never envisioned Maura getting divorced. Then again, she never imagined Jane would cheat on Maura but she had. Once Maura found out the marriage had quickly unraveled.

Then the day after the divorce papers were signed, Jane was gone.

Today was going to be another rough day for Maura as they were due at the attorney's office to review some things for the trial. While the trial itself was months away, all eyes in Boston were going to be on it. And they needed to be prepared.

After all, Maura didn't have an alibi.

…

They arrived at the attorney's office and one of Dalton's assistants led them to a man whom Constance didn't recognize. Once they introduced to him, she recognized the name Gary Stipling as the investigator that Dalton had hired to work the evidence.

Dalton turned over the meeting to Stipling.

"Here is what we know," Stipling started out as he started a presentation that was projected on a screen. "Detective Rizzoli was served with the divorce papers on Monday, the 24th. She left work that day requesting some time off. On Tuesday, the 25th, the divorce papers were in a FedEx envelope signed and electronically scanned at pick up at the box down the street from where she was living. By Saturday, the 29th her family had officially reported her as missing because no one had seen her since she left work that Monday. She wasn't answering her phone which was off and the battery removed to prevent any type of tracking. She did not answer at her apartment and her brother Frankie used his spare key on that Thursday but found she wasn't there. Her police issue vehicle was also gone."

"During this time, you Dr. Isles were at your cabin in Maine. You arrived there on Tuesday. You were informed of Detective Rizzoli's disappearance by her mother Angela who had called you on Sunday, the 30th to see if perhaps you knew where she was or had heard from her."

As he said each date a timeline began to fill in on the screen.

"The divorce papers had arrived at their destination on Thursday, the 27th. They were processed by the court on Friday, the 28th ending your 22-month marriage. You returned to Boston on that Monday despite having taken two weeks off of work and previously saying you going to be out of town for the duration of it. Might I ask why you came back?"

"I … Jane wouldn't take off like that. At the very least Frankie would know where she was or at least he would have been in contact with her," Maura said softly.

"Did you suspect something had happened to her?"

"I don't know. She just wouldn't do that is all."

"On Wednesday, the 3rd, a state patrol officer in Maine found a car down an embankment in a remote area of the state. He went down to investigate and found blood inside the cab of the car. He called it in, the license plate was ran and it came back as belonging to the city of Boston. It was the missing car that had been assigned to Detective Rizzoli."

"They had it brought back up onto the road and inside the trunk were much more blood, along with human hair. Now according to the analysis we received through discovery the DNA results from the hair, which had included part of the root, along with the blood, came back as Detective Rizzoli."

"The coroner in Maine came to the conclusion that based on the amount of blood, Detective Rizzoli could not have survived that kind of blood loss. His findings were backed up by Dr. Pike. The car had been found less than five miles from your cabin. At this point the case went from missing persons to a homicide investigation. The Maine authorities obtained a search warrant for your cabin quicker than the police did here for your Boston home."

"At the cabin they found a shirt – a button up dress shirt, which Detective Rizzoli had last been seen in when she left work that day. It had her blood on it, and some strands of hair later identified as yours. The shirt was found in an outside trash under other items. Authorities also found what they believed to be the murder weapon – a scalpel, which had your fingerprints on it and which can easily be traced back to you as you had specialty ordered it along with others like it last year. Trace amounts of Jane's blood and skin were on it."

"The scalpel was found wrapped up in a small towel in cabinet under a sink in a bathroom off of your cabin bedroom. Trace blood was also found in the sink. This evidence prompted a judge here to sign a search warrant for your home. Since you had up until recently lived in the home with your wife it would not be unusual for the authorities to find traces of Jane's DNA or personal items belonging to her there. But they found no personal items, why is that?"

"I had it all boxed up and sent to her place a couple of weeks before."

"You didn't keep any pictures of her, any mementos of the life you had with her?"

"What does that matter?" Constance asked.

"Because a jury is going to find it odd," Dalton answered. "If Maura takes the stand, which is really out of the question at this point, and tells the jury she loved Jane, they are going to find that suspect if she didn't keep anything of Jane's."

"I have some stuff," was all Maura said.

"Well the authorities did find blood evidence in the basement of the house. It looked like someone tried to clean it up with bleach," Gary said. "The amount was significant which is why they theorize that Jane was killed there."

"My daughter didn't kill anyone," Constance asserted.

"I believe that as well, but believing and proving are different matters, which is where I come in. I have discovered a few things that may be difficult for you to hear Dr. Isles. I apologize to add to your grief. From everything I have discovered I genuinely believe you and your wife were very much in love and would still be today if it weren't for Miss Samantha Collins, the woman Jane allegedly had that affair with that caused you to end the marriage."

"It was hardly alleged," Constance said. "Jane admitted it."

"From your own daughter's statements, Jane never admitted to it exactly. She said she woke up in bed naked with Samantha but she couldn't remember what happened that night."

"What's the difference?"

"The difference is while Jane used poor judgment in not telling you immediately, I don't think she had sex with Miss Collins that night, nor did she have any long standing affair with her like Miss Collins alleged."

"I saw the emails," Maura said. "She had been emailing back and forth with Samantha for a year. Some of them were pretty explicit."

"They were also faked and I can prove it. Jane didn't have an affair, of that I am certain."

Maura tried to process this. Jane had an affair. It ended their marriage. Jane had denied the affair over and over to her, but by that time Maura refused to believe her or even listen to her. What is she was telling the truth?

"I don't … why are you so certain she didn't cheat on me?"

"Let me show you why," he said.