Sympathy for the Devil - Recap

The scene opens with a boy skateboarding. A black car pulls up and the boy gets in. At a clothing shop, Jane is getting a dress. Her mom says that she needs to get the dress. Jane gets a call and she tells that she will be right there. Jane arrives on scene where they find the kid from the beginning of the episode. Mara is there too and she can’t find any stab marks or bullet holes. Jane sees that Lt. Grant is with the press and comments that that is all he likes of the police work and Mara tells her to keep her voice down. She tells that Grant is not a good cop. Grant walks over and attempts to get something. Jane snaps at him and tells him not to touch anything. Mara adds that they don’t want to contaminate the crime scene. He tells Jane to pick up a skateboard under the dumpster. Grant leaves and Mara tells sarcastically that their chat went “well”.

The mother of the boy comes by to identify the body. She tells that Matisse, the boy, changed after meeting the skateboarders. She tells that the devil got inside of him. She doesn’t know the boys’ names and Jane tells that they will do their best to find Matisse’s killer. Jane asks Barry if he knows anything of the culture that Matisse and his mother. Barry tells that they are a secluded bunch of people and keep to themselves. Jane looks at Matisse’s grades and asks if Barry can run the gangs for devils and see if skateboarders come up. She asks where Korsak is and Barry tells that he is at the coffee shop. Jane visits Korsak and he is working on his testimony for a case and she wants to know why he is working at the coffee shop and Korsak hints at the new employee of the coffee shop. She asks him to look up on the Matisse case that she has and Korsak obliges.

Jane goes and sees Mara at the examination room and she doesn’t have a cause of death ye and that she is still working on it. Mara changes subject and says that she thinks Lt. Grant is attractive. Jane tells that Grant was a suck-up even in Catholic School and used to call Jane fat. Mara fells bad to hear that Jane was overweight in school and Jane asks what she was called. Mara tells that she was called boring. Back on subject Mara thinks that a tox screen is good to run even though she doesn’t see any entry. She tells Jane that she found wax in his system and burned feathers. All signs are pointing to an Exorcism but she is not saying that. Barry shows a picture of the mom’s church and automatically knows that it is a front for other things. Father Reginald Cukoo runs the church and has been charged with everything from robbery to even check fraud. While on parole, Reginald opened the church. Jane feels that the Exorcism went bad and they dumped the body. Jane tells that no one is performing Exorcisms these days and Mara tells that the Catholic Church has been performing them for centuries and still does to “expel demons”.

Jane and Mara visit Reginald at his church with Matisse’s mother. Jane tells that they feel that Matisse was killed by a botched Exorcism. Mara speaks in Matisse’s mom’s native language and she tells Jane that she was showing condolences. Reginald admits that he did spiritual healing and tells that Jane that the devil killed Matisse. He tells Jane that she can’t fight the devil and tells them to leave. Mara tells that she was disrespectful but Jane tells that Reginald is a phony and points out that he was wearing a poncho. Mara corrects her and calls it a “Boo-Boo” and points out that Christians in Africa have used them for years. Jane laughs. Jane gets a call and tells that she will be right there. She tells Mara that she has to go speak to Matisse’s father. Mara tells that she will get Jane and “Boo-Boo”.

Jane visits Matisse’s father and he is devastated that his son was murdered. He tells that Reginald the Father of the church is a crook and that he made his ex-wife give him all her money, including the child support. He tells Jane that they were going to get full custody of Matisse and that everything was in the works. Jane returns to the coffee shop and Korsak tells that the mom was getting child support and tells Jane that he is working an undercover case. He wants to help the new employee out by staking out the coffee shop because someone keeps stealing money out of the till. So far $26 has been taken and Jane laughs and tells that he needs to get to work. At the station Jane’s mom visits and Mara tells that the Matisse’s death was not a natural death. Jane’s mom brought Jane’s dress that she bought and Mara compliments it. She also brought Jane lunch. Mara eyes it and Jane offers her one. It is a marshmallow and peanut butter sandwich and Mara tells that it is really good. Barry tells that Matisse was running with gang members and leader Jerome, has a record. Mara tells that people get nicknames because they had to do something bad. They need to talk to Jerome.

At the skate park, Barry and Jane visit Jerome “Cruncher” and he tells that Ali is a good kid. “Ali” is Matisse’s nickname. Jerome tells that he is done talking to them. Barry tells that he has not had a chance to get to the gym and Jane gives him the go ahead to grab Jerome. Barry grabs him and slams him on the hood of the car. Jerome tells that he had nothing to do with the murder of Matisse and tells that the church is evil that his mother goes to. Back at the station and Mara tells that the tox screen is negative and Jane tells Mara to stop talking. She hears something and goes up to her car. She opens the door and there are snakes inside. Later Grant tells Jane to keep a low profile because someone is threatening her. He believes that Reginald is the one who did it, but it is political and he wants the charges to stick. He tells here to get Reginald but be quiet about it.

At a restaurant, Mara and Jane talk about how Matisse has no results that are positive from the tox report and Mara suggest that she can’t say for sure what it is. Hypothetically, she thinks that he was hexed to death because of the fear of being cursed. Jane laughs and says that Matisse wasn’t scared to death and Mara asks if she was afraid of anything. For Jane, she was scared of witches and Mara was afraid of a flesh eating disease. She feels like going to church. They go to the church and Reginald says that they are about to perform a ceremony and Jane tells that she is about to serve a warrant. Inside Mara tells that it is a bad way to get information with a warrant but Jane tells that she doesn’t have a warrant and was only about to serve a warrant. They watch the ceremony and Matisse’s mother feels that she has the devil that cursed Matisse. They do their ritual and a fire bomb is thrown throw the window. Barry kicks open the church door and finds a kid running away. Barry tackles him. It is Jerome from the skate park.

At the station they question Jerome and he tells that the Voodoo church that Matisse belonged too was evil and that he did not kill him. He tells that he wants a lawyer and Jane puts him in lock-up. Jane walks out of the room and sees the dress that she bought and tells that she is late for dinner. She tells Barry to call her mom and tell her that she is on her way. She arrives and her mother says that everything is fine. Jane goes out to the dinning room and Lt. Grant is there. She walks back in the kitchen and her mother admits for setting her up and says that Grant is cute. She tells that she doesn’t need to be setup like that. She re-enters the dinning room and Grant tells that she looks beautiful. They start to be attracted to each other and Jane says that it is a bad idea and walks out of the house with Wine. She visits Mara and wants to know if she looks pretty. Mara tells that she is and is laughing because Jane doesn’t know. Mara feels that Jane doesn’t think Grant is a bad guy. She says that it is sweet that Grant is interested.

At her apartment, Jane is looking over the pictures and finds fresh blood on her carpet and floor. She follows it and finds Matisse’s body. He gets up holding a purple flower. Jane wakes to something breaking. She enters the kitchen and sees that a vase of purple flowers fell and is on the kitchen floor, no body. Mara comes in and says that there are explanations to what Jane saw. Jane tells that she wants to have her run a tox report on a poison purple flower. Later, Mara tells that the tox report came up positive for the purple flower and Jane asks if it is possible to trace the flower to the location. She tells she cannot and Jane tells that she has to lie about it. They visit Matisse’s father and sees the same purple plant. Matisse’s father tells that he never gave him flowers and Jane tells that the wife gave Matisse water that was tainted with the poison flower. She tells that she did if for her husband and the husband attempts to go after her. She admits for killing Matisse so that his father would have a baby with her. Jane reads her the rights and arrests her. Back at Jane’s, Grant is there and he tells that he has to leave to go to D.C. and he tells that he has a job as a liaison between Boston and Homeland Security. He apologizes for teasing her in school and admits that he liked her for a long time and he kisses her. She tells that she will miss him and kisses him on the cheek.

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