Directed by Matthew Penn
Written by David Gould
When two of the runners in the Massachusetts Marathon are shot during the event, Jane and Maura must work in secret to solve the case without causing mass panic.
Tropes
- Asshole Victim: The victims were two men who, along with a third man, gangraped a 15-year-old girl which resulted in her committing suicide. The men never went to trial because the third man was well-connected. This led to the girl's sister killing two of the men and attempting to kill the third as revenge. Jane even says that she was tempted to let the killer finish the job.
- Fictional Counterpart: The Massachusetts Marathon standing in for the Boston Marathon.
- Fun with Acronyms: Rizzoli and Isles run in the Massachusetts Marathon representing Professionals for Underprivileged Kids of Excellence. Of course, someone had to lampshade it...Jane: I am NOT running as Lady Puke Gaga!
- Karma Houdini Warranty: The two murder victims and the third would-be one gang-raped a teen fifteen years ago and had been getting away with it since because one of the three came from a wealthy family who bribed the prosecutor to look the other way, leading to the rape victim's death by suicide and her father's death by heartbreak. They clearly didn't anticipate any angry siblings without anything else to lose coming after them.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The two victims gang-raped a 15-year-old girl which caused her to commit suicide. Jane has utter contempt for them and expresses that she is tempted to let the killer, who is the girl's sister, get her revenge by killing the third rapist whose connections allowed the men to avoid going to trial.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: At least that's what one guy thought. Almost a decade and a half ago, he and two of his friends gang raped and beat a fifteen-year old and recorded the entire thing on tape and got off without a blemish on their record because the guy's rich father bought off the prosecutor.
- Sympathetic Murderer: The person who murdered two men during the Massachusetts Marathon and almost gunned down a third. This is because her older sister was gang-raped on tape fifteen years earlier by the "victims," who got off because the survivor's father bought off the prosecutor. The rape victim eventually committed suicide and her father suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the stress.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Even the detectives side with the killer. Her victims raped her sister to suicide, gave her dad a fatal heart attack, and got away with everything via Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / Screw the Rules, I Have Money! until she finally snapped and swore to subvert their Karma Houdini statuses herself.
