Rizzles Story

Chapter 11

In the Morgue

Maura: See the patterned abrasions?

Jane: From the terry cloth. He didn't use his hands, so she was clutching at the ligature,fighting for her life.

Maura: It takes 20 to 30 seconds to render someone unconscious. One, postmortem trauma. Two, postmortem trauma-

Jane: No, I got it. Strangling sucks.

Maura: Three, postmortem-

Korsak walks in.

Korsak: Depends who you're choking.
Can you believe that? I get kicked to the curb, Grant gets the brass ring.

Maura: Well, he's a -- A legend in the drug unit. Perhaps he's a little nicer off the mound.

Jane: Oh, yeah, he's fantastic. I want to kill myself. What's the best way?

Maura: Uh, atlanto-occipital disarticulation is very fast.

Jane: No idea what that is. What else you got?

Frost walks in.

Frost: I miss anything?

Maura: We were just about to start the "y" incision.

Korsak: Oh, goody. Gore never bothered me. My first autopsy was a burn victim, hands curled up like this.
Guys thought i'd turn into a little girl.
Grabbed the fingers, looking for some skin to rehydrate and get a print.
Snapped off, like pretzels.

Jane: Knock it off, Korsak.

Frost gags.

Maura: Sink.

Korsak: You hungry, Frost? You want to grab a tomato soup.

They walk out.

Maura: You want to know what I'm thinking?

Jane: It's so weird. I do.

Maura: I'm thinking I know why you're making such a big deal out of the fact that Grant's your new boss.

Jane: I don't want to know what you're thinking.

Maura: You two like each other.

Jane: No. (tears up) It was about what happened with my parents.

Maura: Oh, Jane. I'm so sorry. I didn't-

Jane: I know you didn't. It's okay. You know you have an hour to finish this before we're supposed to meet Arizona for dinner, right?

Maura: Crap.

She puts the body away and changes. Then, they go home and change. They go out to the Dirty Robber.

In the middle of dinner, their phones ring. They all groan.

Jane: Isles. Alright, I'll be right there.
Maura: Dr. Isles. Okay, I'll be there as soon as I can.
Arizona: Isles. I'll be right there.

At the Crime Scene

Jane: He tucked her in.

Maura: When's the last time we had two stranglings in one day?

Jane: Well, cheer up. Maybe tomorrow will be stabbing day. I don't -- I- I don't like this. It's the same m.o. as the softball girl. Sophie Clark -- 22.

Frankie walks up.

Jane: What are you doing here?

Frankie: I'm working. It's my sector.

Jane: Since when?

Frankie: Since I asked for a new sector.
I want to learn from the best.

Jane starts crying.

Frankie: Are you okay, Janie?

Jane: Yeah, I'm just glad that you still love me.

Frankie: Oh, Janie. Come here.

She walks to him and they hug. Then, Janes phone rings.

Jane: Isles. Okay, thanks. We've got an I.d. on the first victim.

At BPD

Jane: Mary Sullivan, Sophie Clark. That's weird. Uh, run it again.

Korsak: Check the cold case database.

Jane: Why?

Korsak: Just do it.

Frost: Oh, wow, Sophie Clark was a victim of the boston strangler, 1962.

Korsak: He got Mary Sullivan in '64.

Jane: Yeah, we got him in '67-- Albert Desalvo. He confessed to all 13 of the murders. He died in prison in--

Frost: Uh,'73. Stabbed by an inmate.

Korsak: Isles, think. We got two new stranglings -- Same names.

Jane: It's a bizarre coincidence. Or we've got a copycat.

Korsak: No. Some veteran cops never believed Desalvo was the boston strangler.

Jane: Yeah, lots of cops do.

Korsak: So why is it a cold case? An open homicide investigation, Jane. Never solved.

Jane: Come on. What are you telling me? That the boston strangler is back?

R&I

Korsak: I was 10 when it started.
The city went bonkers -- Panic like you've never seen.

Jane: Yeah, probably because women were being strangled in their own apartments from '62 to '64 and the boston cops couldn't catch him.

Frost: People don't like that. My mom still talks about it.

Korsak: People were furious with the cops. The bosses would have done anything to get the public off their backs. It was like jack the ripper found boston.

Jane: Yeah,you're forgetting one thing -- Desalvo confessed.

Korsak: Because he loved the attention.
Told you -- banana-head.

Jane: All right, then how did he know details? You know, the apartment layouts, the way the bodies were strangled. Read his interviews.

Korsak: He was a serial rapist in and out of the clink. Shared a cell with the real strangler is what some think.

Jane: Korsak, it's been 40 years. Even if the "real" strangler has been behind bars and he just got paroled, he'd -- he'd be in his 60s.

Korsak: Hey, Mick Jagger's in his 60s.

Jane: Oh, well, that's our first suspect.