Relationships and Secrets

Chapter 62

At BPD-Morgue Autopsy Room

Jane: Lungs sustained repeated punctures.

Maura: How's it going?

Jane: Slow.

Maura: I can't do slow.

Jane: Well, I'm not asking you to.
That's cute.

Maura: Jane, come on. This is really important that I-

Jane looks like she's going to be sick.

Maura: Jane, are you all right?

Jane: "The Chemicals. Same as usual.
But, they've been making me thro-" I start gagging.

Maura: Sink! Sink!

Jane: Oh, god. I'm turning into Frost.

Maura: You know, your heightened level of estrogen produces an increased sensitivity to strong odors. It's an evolutionary adaptation to ensure the mother doesn't ingest toxins that could harm the baby.

Jane: Stop reading my medical journals. You're sounding like me.

Maura: Let's step outside.

Jane: No, no, no, I'm-I'm fine. I'm fine.

Maura: No, you won't be if you have to wet-mop your floor.

They go outside the door.

Maura: Okay, what have you found out?

Jane: Well, it was a rageful attack Hmm.

Maura: Uh, any physical evidence to link us to the attacker?

Jane: Nothing yet, though there is a possible sexual element to the stab penetrations. Sometimes they indicate an attacker who's impotent or otherwise incapable of having intercourse.

Maura: Hmm. I mean, I was thinking that someone killed Susan to steal her baby, but maybe the murder was only about Susan.

Jane: Well, someone could have taken the baby after she was dead.

Maura: This is hard for you, isn't it, just looking for a missing baby?

Jane. Mm, of course it is.

Maura: No, I-I mean harder because-

Jane: Yes, Maura. And you need to find Brian.

Maura: And I can't find Brian until I find the killer. And I can't find the killer-

Jane: Until I finish the autopsy.

Maura: Right.

Jane: Well, I would love to, but I keep getting interrupted.

Korsak walks in.

Korsak: Maura. Uh, there's something you need to see on the sex-offender registry.

Maura: Okay, I'll be right up.

She kisses Jane and goes up stairs.

Upstairs in BRIC

Maura: What do you got?

Korsak: This is a map of the neighborhood around Baxter Park.

Maura: Mm-hmm.

Korsak: And these are all the pedophiles around it.

Maura: You got to be kidding.

Korsak: I wish.

Maura: All right. Talk to them-talk to all of them.

Korsak: Well, that's a lot of people.

Maura: I can narrow it down. The playground Susan took Brian to every day is in Baxter Park. It's also where she handed Brian over to Ray on visitation days. I checked for suspicious activity around the playground. A nervous mom reported a man taking pictures of children in the park four times.