After getting the call that a painting had been found Frost, Jane, Maura, and Frankie drive from the station to Paradise Park where a witness called in saying that she came across a painting on an easel in the park.
"I can't get over this weather." Frankie says shaking his head as he stepped out of the back seat of the car along with Maura on the other side. "It's like its June or something."
"Warmest March, I've ever experienced here." Jane agrees as she and Frost step out of the front seat, before she then spots a woman with a couple of uni's. "That must be her."
The four walk over to the group and Officer Jimenez immediately straightens up at the presence of the four.
"Detective Rizzoli this is Fran Delgardo." Officer Jimenez says introducing the detective's with the lady who came across the painting. "She was walking to her pottery class when she came across the painting."
"That's it over there." Frost says nodding his head at the easel.
"Yes when I got a look of it, it looked a lot like how they described those murders on TV with the heads and the blood." Fran says.
"Mrs. Delgardo did you see anything else suspicious?" Frost goes on asking the witness questions as Jane, Maura, and Frankie walk over to the painting.
When the three step in front of the easel to get a better look they see the exact scene that has haunted them since they walked in to the basement. The painting is a colorful painting of the heads sticking out of the bright red blood in the basement, an exact replica of the crime scene.
"Oh my God, this is sick." Jane whispers to herself as she studies the picture.
"Jane look." Maura says studying it as well seeing a date in the corner. "1-3-12…that was 2 days before the victims were killed."
"So he painted this first." Frankie guesses.
"We don't know that he could be messing with us." Jane argues back.
"Not by what the painting is telling us." Maura says studying every brush line.
Jane looks over at her wife and raises an eyebrow. "What?"
"Based on the coloring and the textures of the brush line the time frame of painting this picture falls within the date on the picture." Maura says nodding her head agreeing with herself.
"You can tell how old a picture is just by looking at it." Jane says not totally believing it.
"Yes." Maura nods her head confidently.
"Alright." Jane nods her head knowing better then to go against her wife who is almost always right. "So this guy painted this picture and then what…went out to make it a reality."
"This guy's a freak!" Frankie huffs just as Frost makes his way over before his phone starts to ring and he steps away.
"Mrs. Delgardo didn't know much more, said she'll call if she remembers anything."
"Good….good." Jane huffs.
Frost then gets a good look of the painting and lets out a groan. "Am I really seeing this right now?"
"Yeah, the guy painted it before he killed all those people." Jane fills in the blanks.
Frost shakes his head looking around before catching a look at something out of the ordinary. He squints to get a better look before informing his partner. "Jane." Frost says pointing to a tree.
"What?" Jane asks looking where Frost is pointing seeing a circle symbol with three lines through it that they saw in the basement with the invisible ink. "Is that what I think it is?"
"Yeah, in the basement there were 6 random symbols…that was one." Frost says looking past the tree at another symbol carved in another tree. "There's another one."
"Hey guys, that was Korsak." Frankie says walking over.
"And…." Jane presses.
"He just got done with forensics on the notes in the little baggies found underneath the victims."
"And…" Jane repeats again getting more and more impatient with every word.
"Umm…Korsak said that every note under each victim described them in artsy words is what Korsak said." Frankie says.
Frost raises an eyebrow confused at Frankie. "Artsy words."
"Yeah, you know dignified with metaphors and junk." Frankie rambles before getting softly pushed by Maura.
"Metaphors are not junk Frankie." Maura lectures.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Frankie says rolling his eyes at his sister-in-law.
"Relax you two." Jane says shaking her head amused before nodding her head over to the trees with the symbols on them on the path. "Come on."
The four adults walk along the path following the trees with the symbols carved in them trying to figure out where they are leading them.
Frost is the first one to see something and points to another easel in the brush. "Jane over there."
Jane looks at where Frost is pointing at and sees the easel. "It's another painting."
Jane, Frankie, Frost, and Maura walk over to the easel and stand in front of it taking in the picture immediately catching their breaths in shock.
"Woe." Frankie huffs under his breath as he runs his hand through his hair. "That's the old abandoned wheat mill on 88th right."
"Yeah, Frost call it in for back up." Jane says to Frost who immediately whips out his cell phone and takes a few steps away. "Tell them we are first responding to the scene!"
Jane then turns to her little brother who is staring blankly at the painting. "Frankie stay here and run the crime scene; get everything roped off with the uni's over there."
"You got it." Frankie nods his head as he heads over to the uni's back by the first painting.
Maura shakes her head staring at the painting. "Oh my God."
"If this painting is right, our missing 4 vics are in that warehouse…placed in that position." Jane says out loud running it all through her head.
Frost after he done with his call walks back over to the two women slipping his phone back into his inside jacket pocket. "Alright let's go, back up's on the way."
"Kay." Jane agrees nodding her head as the two detectives hurriedly walk away leaving the M.E. alone.
"Jane!" Maura calls after her wife.
Jane turns around briefly waving Maura off. "Stay here with Frankie; we'll call you once we know it is safe."
"Jane!" Maura calls once again.
"I'll call you!" Jane calls back forcefully not wanting an argument as she runs over to Frost's car and gets in to the passenger's side before they speed off with the sirens blaring.
Maura watches the car speed off and lets out an annoyed breath before sadly turning to the painting. She studies the painting and tries to stop herself from admiring the obviously talented work. Her admiration though is immediately gone when she remembers that it isn't just a painting but a blue print of a heinous, murderous act.
Jane and Frost pull up to the old mill about the same time the backup does. Frost parks the car and steps out his weapon already drawn as three cop cars parked around them and the cops step out weapons drawn too. Jane waves Frost over and the two head over to the mill and notice the door is half open. Carefully Jane kicks it open and they all step in to the warehouse and look up at the ceiling.
"Oh my God." Jane says slowly putting her gun down as she looks up at the bodies strung up in the air. "It's just like the painting."
Frost shakes his head as he two looks up at the four missing victims dead strung up by rope.
"They look like goddamn marionettes." One officer says behind Jane who studies the victims above her noticing that they are strung up by their arms and legs, necks and torsos. She looks at the two young men in their USMC workout shirts and shorts, and then at the 50 year old unidentified man and the unidentified 30 year old woman.
"Get forensics down here." Jane breaths stretching out her neck before stepping away. "I want to cut them down as soon as possible."
"Yeah." Frost says as he grabs some uni's and starts barking orders and Jane takes a look up and around.
"Looks like they were strangled." Jane says seeing the marks on their necks before shaking her head confused and irritated. "How the hell did he strangle all four of these victims?"
"Forensics is about 3 minutes out." Frost says walking over.
Jane nods her head and then looks back up at the bodies….at their faces. "I want this guy now Frost."
"I know." Frost groans.
"Right now." Jane husks angrily.
Back over in South Boston at Bruno's Diner Kory sits at a table with her two best friends Tyler and Becca hanging out. Kory finishes her last bite of Bruno's famous cherry pie as Sonny the owner comes over with a pitcher of cherry cola.
"Here you kids go." Sonny says as he starts to refill all of their glasses.
"Thanks Sonny." Kory says before sucking a piece of cherry off of her thumb.
"No sweat." Sonny huffs shaking the girl off with his hand. "Great game the other night too gals, East Boston's crap."
"We whole heartedly agree." Becca nods.
Sonny laughs grabbing Kory's plate and fork. "Well we're all pulling for you girls taking state."
"Thanks Sonny, we're sure gonna try." Kory says with a smile before taking a sip of her drink.
"That's what I like to hear, you girls are da best." Sonny winks as he steps away.
Tyler offended chokes on his cola. "Hey I do stuff too Sonny!"
"Well we know you don't do the dishes or bust the tables." Sonny argues turning around to face the young man.
"I'm not working today!" Tyler argues.
"Yeah yeah." Sonny mumbles shaking his hand at Tyler before walking back to the counter.
Tyler huffs before turning to Becca and Kory. "He loves me."
"Please." Becca snorts.
Kory shakes her head and grabs her basketball from the empty chair next to her. "Come on Guys. Let's go to McGaffrey Court, shoot some hoops."
"Jesus, you need a life Kor." Tyler groans.
"What!" Kory exclaims innocently.
"What Tyler is saying…" Becca starts while glaring at Tyler. "All you do is play basketball."
Kory rolls her eyes as she spins her basketball on her finger. "You sound like my mothers.
"Ya mothers are smart people." Tyler smirks.
Kory catches her ball in her hands and glares at Tyler "Shut up Tyler."
"Seriously though Kory we just beat East Boston the other night." Becca argues.
"East Boston…jeesh." Sonny mumbles as he walks by the table with a plate full of food on his way to a table full of hungry steal workers.
"We have playoffs in a few weeks." Kory says spinning the basketball in her palms. "I want to be prepared."
Becca opens her mouth to argue with her friend once more, but then realizes there is no point and closes it. "Okay."
"So are you guys coming or what?" Kory asks as she stands up, putting down a five on the table before grabbing her basketball.
"I would love to but watching you shoot for three hours…does not sound like fun." Tyler says.
Kory rolls her eyes once more at Tyler before turning to Becca. "You?"
"I gotta go home and watch my little sisters for my mom, in like 20 minutes." Becca says.
"Alright I'll see you guys later, yeah." Kory says.
"Yeah." Becca and Tyler both say at the same time as Kory walks out of the diner on to the sidewalk.
She looks around and grabs her ear buds out of her pockets putting them in her ears before starting to dribble down the sidewalk. She is too busy dribbling between her legs to notice somebody in the shadows in the alley by Gina's Boutique. SNAP. SNAP. SNAP….taking pictures.