- Jane and the team investigate what appears to be a modern-day witch hunt in Salem. Meanwhile, Frankie's old girlfriend returns to town with a surprise, and Jane has no problem speaking her mind about the situation.
- A woman is burnt alive, just as her Salem witches coven ancestors. She also refused to sell her property to a real estate tycoon, who now turns to her three heirs, all 'hereditary witches'. Those include Grayson Bennett, who is later drowned in bath, after a third Wiccan was squashed alive. Meanwhile Angela and Jane Rizzoli involve Maura in their mixed feelings and loyalties toward Frankie dating again his dubious ex Theresa, who claims her daughter Lily is his.—KGF Vissers
- Someone ties a struggling woman to a tree and throws kindling at her feet, spraying it with lighter fluid. She resists, but is helpless to get free. The fire comes and she tries to scream through her gag.
At the station cafeteria, Angela makes special breakfasts for Jane and Maura and finds a way to guilt Jane about not giving her grandkids yet. Jane watches as her mom goes to talk to Frankie's ex, Theresa. They pretend to be happy to see her, but neither can stand her.
She's applying for a job and has to get fingerprinted. Jane reminds her of how she got Frankie to co-sign her car loan and then skipped town.
Jane is called to the scene of the burning.
Jane and Maura check out the charred body at the tree. Frost is grossed out by the remains. They can't tell if it's male or female. Maura needs to do an autopsy. She notices a pine scent where the victim's jacket pocket would be -- she's guessing amber. She also has a knee replacement, which will give them a serial number.
Back at the station, they check patient records.
Jane casually asks Frankie if Theresa was there to see him. She starts giving him an earful about her until Frankie mentions Steve, the guy Jane started wearing dresses for years ago.
The implant belonged to Helen Downey, a 43 year old female.
They visit her house. It smells like kitty litter, but there's no sign of a struggle. Korsak finds the black cat, Worthington. He has nail caps to keep him from tearing the furniture. The house is walking distance to the clearing where they found her.
Her kitchen is piled high with historical records.
Frost breaks down the basement door. It's dark and scary. Maura calls to tell her the victim had fossilized tree resin in her pocket, the amber. They find skulls with melted wax on them in the basement. It's an altar. Jane asks if it's possible Helen was burned at the stake. There's a pentagram outlined on her floor. Jane thinks Helen was a witch.
Maura comes over to check out the altar. There's blood on the altar. The bones came from a science class. There's three mens' pictures on the altar, along with hair and fingernails. The chunks of amber are to ward off disease. There are spells for evil, healing, love and protection.
Korsak takes the cat back to the station, where he renames it Beretta. They go through the genealogies from 1692 that Helen had -- the year the Salem witch trials started. The land where Helen was killed belonged to her family for centuries.
She has a pile of registered letters from Robert Cranston, a real estate developer and the one with the evil spell in her basement. He was trying to buy her land to build a megamall. She was the only holdout.
Korsak and Frost interview Cranston, who can't be bothered to tear himself away from his Blackberry. He claims he was out of town when Helen was killed. He thinks she was a nut. She said the land was sacred. When they tell him Helen was killed, he leaves.
Maura reports the blood in the bowl in the basement didn't belong to Helen.
Jane finds Frankie getting three sandwiches from their mom in the cafeteria. When he leaves, Jane worries he's going to meet Theresa.
Jane and Maura go stake out Frankie in the park. They see him getting out of a van with her. Korsak calls, reporting they found Helen's will.
She left her money to three people: a guy named Greyson with a ton of piercings, and young women named Sage and Sabrina. They all work at an occult store.
Frankie busts Jane and Maura. He calls over a young girl to meet Jane and introduces her as his daughter.
Jane isn't ready to believe it just yet.
Jane and Maura go visit Greyson, Sage and Sabrina, who claim to be "heredity witches." Greyson's picture was by the love spell. He admits they were a couple, but says they broke up for the sake of their four person coven. Sage and Sabrina are possessive of him.
They ID the man in the other photo from her altar: Rev. William Scott, Sabrina's dad. Helen cast a protection spell on him.
Greyson suggests a séance that night to talk to Helen.
Back at the station, Angela has met Lilly and is thrilled to be a grandmother. Just like that.
Jane and Korsak go talk to the reverend, who says Helen turned Sabrina against him. He says his family goes back to Sarah Good, who was hung during the Salem witch trials.
At the séance, Greyson invokes Helen and they consult a Ouija board. It spells out "F I G." Greyson says that's what he just ate in her honor. They ask if she knows who killed her and the board indicates yes. Greyson goes into convulsions channeling Helen and says "My killer is near."
At Jane's house for dinner, Angela prepares a family feast. Jane isn't happy to be there with Theresa. Theresa says she brought Lilly back to Boston to be around family and looks meaningfully around the table. Jane asks pointedly how her parents are. Jane is barely civil to her and Frankie hauls Jane into the kitchen for a talking to. Jane insists he should find out for sure if Lilly is his daughter. Jane gets called to another attack -- but first she steals Lilly's sippy cup.
At the occult store, Sabrina is nearly catatonic from a bump on the head. She remembers someone pushed a bookcase onto her. She heard a voice says "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Maura wants to get her checked out.
The door was locked. Korsak found Cranston's business card behind the counter.
They like Greyson for the murders since he seems to be in charge. They break into Greyson's house and find him dead in his bathtub.
Frost and Korsak interview Sage. She claims she was in Needham, teaching a candle-making class. Korsak gets word Cranston has a solid alibi and the reverend never left his house.
Sage is too scared to leave. Korsak says they can escort her home and have the police keep watch.
In the morgue, Maura tells Korsak that Greyson was held under the water. Korsak wants help getting the nail caps off Baretta's claws but ducks out when Frankie comes in angry about the sippy cup. He says he's getting his own paternity test done and isn't getting back with Theresa.
He runs into his mom on the way in. She also has something to run a paternity test on.
Maura finds Jane with news. The figs from the séance were barely digested in Greyson's stomach, which means he was killed before Sabrina was attacked.
Sage didn't have a mark on her. They pull up crime scene photos from Sabrina's attacks and find marks all over her hands, like those that would have been caused from her drowning Greyson.
Maura gets word that Sabrina's blood was in the healing spell on the altar. They don't know what was wrong with her to need to spell.
Maura looks at Sabrina's DNA. Like her ancestor Sarah Good, they think Sabrina is showing the first signs of schizophrenia. She could have been in the middle of a break and pulled the giant bookcase on herself.
Jane calls the hospital but finds that Sabrina checked herself out.
Frost and Jane hit the phones to try to find her. Maura theorizes that Sabrina's schizophrenic break was caused by the conflict between her religious upbringing and her witchcraft. They think she's going back to her old faith. They find her at her church.
Maura and Jane arrive to find Sabrina has tied Sage to a stake and lit a fire around her. Maura tries to talk to her, but she's in full psychotic break. She tries to light Sage on fire, but Jane tackles her and they free Sabrina.
Later at the bar, Jane reports that Sabrina has been put into a mental hospital. Korsak joins him with scratches on his face. The cat didn't like having his nail caps removed.
Frankie's there. Jane apologizes to him, but he tells her the test results show he's not Lilly's dad. Maura assures him he'll make a great dad someday.
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