
With Maura at a convention, the team must rely on her Assistant ME Susie ( Tina Huang) to use her quirky methods to help find the murderer. Her husband Alan feared her weight loss would make her more attractive to other men, including their handyman, Luis Benitez. Judith Barnett, a woman who recently lost a lot of weight, is initially thought to have been stabbed to death in her home.

Also, the void left at Frost's desk forces the team to make a decision. Maura then takes a liking to a professor but remains cautious, due to her luck with men. Meanwhile, since Maura must teach a college forensic science class, Angela becomes responsible for Jane, who considers her mother's help as meddling. The team investigates her family and staff, both past and present.

Meanwhile, Angela asks Jane to find out why Frankie is being secretive, but Jane wishes to know the same about Korsak.Ī wealthy woman with terminal cancer prepares to commit suicide but is killed before she is able to do so. The team investigates the victim's means of survival if he were to have exited the shelter after a catastrophe. Meanwhile, she finally confirms to her mother of her pregnancy, which Angela already knew, and accepts Maura's help, which comes with constant prenatal advice.Ī survivalist is believed to have died from halomethane poisoning in his protective fallout shelter, until Maura deems the death "suspicious" since alternative methods to the gas exist today. Unfortunately, those hired are killed by the disgruntled son of a bankrupt farmer, which culminates in a tense shoot-out that puts Jane and her unborn child at risk. Loners, who would not be missed for extended periods of time, are interviewed to work on a farm. While the team deals with their grief in order to make arrangements for Frost's funeral, a young woman with amnesia wearing bloody clothing walks into the precinct holding a gun and stating she might have killed someone. Meanwhile, Frankie and Maura decide they are too much like family to pursue a relationship Jane deals with morning sickness while unsuccessfully trying to hide her pregnancy from her mother and the team is called to a car accident that claimed the life of Detective Frost. The father is complicit, but he reveals the baby was taken to a church.

However, a camera at a gas station shows otherwise for the girlfriend's alibi. The baby's father, the woman's ex-husband, is questioned, but he was stuck in traffic with his new girlfriend at the time of death. The investigation is stepped up when an empty baby stroller, believed to have contained her baby, is found nearby.
