The skeazy host (a.k.a. Mr. Jenna Elfman) calls himself a “matchmaker” because it’s shorter to put on a business card than “Asian mail-order bride service provider.” But he at least points them in the direction of the runaway/possibly murderous bride. Her aunt (who works at a Chinese restaurant because all the stereotypical dry cleaning jobs were already taken, apparently) tells them she has already left the country. But then they see the woman trying to unsubtly flee. So we get one final patented Jane Rizzoli chase down/stand down.
Maura is pacing her office fretting about what to say in her goodbye video. Kent offers some spectacularly unrelated suggestions, and then tells her to speak from the heart. So she does. She says how this has been an incredible adventure. And how this is the big family she never had. And she ends it by saying just this once she is willing to speculate and say, “I’ll love you and I’ll never forget you.”
Did it get to dusty in here? My eyes, so much everything is in my eyes. Maura has it, too. And says what we’re all thinking anyway, “I’m really sad.”
The parade of melancholy feelings continues as Jane eyes Korsak’s too-tidy desk and Frost’s too-alone action figure. For all this show does to frustrate, the way it has called back and honored Barry Frost and Lee Thompson Young continues to be a class act. Next they to ceremonially pass Korsak’s desk on to Frankie – sorry, make that Det. Frank Rizzoli.
Jane and Maura look on like proud parents watching their kid walk into kindergarten for the first time. Hey, remember when Jane and Maura almost had a baby but instead decided to foster a kid? Yeah, this show could sure be full bananas.
Right, so let’s blast through our final case blah-blah-blahs because even if that dude from Glee is on it, it’s not nearly as gay as else is happening this episode. The team figures out the wife and Karofsky were in love and running away together from her abusive husband. He caught them, came after them, slipped and hit his head on the car bumper. So the murdered guy murdered himself. Awesome, case solved – lets all go eat some penis cake.
But first, Jane walks over and gives Frankie Frost’s action figure. She says it should stay with him and that they would have been partners by now. But instead the figure now stands, like a sentinel watching over him, always at attention. Like I was saying, classy.
Jane ends her day in Maura’s office. She begs her phone to ring so they can give us one more synchronized greeting for the road. She pretends her reluctance to leave is about not wanting to go to Mama R’s “surprise” party. But we all know the real reason. Girl, you did this to yourself. You, and you alone, decided you wanted a change of scenery. You, and you alone, convinced yourself in a new place you could be brave and start over. You, and you alone, haven’t come out of the damn closet yet.
Jane counts it down, and then her watch is over – but without all the stabbing and resurrecting. Maura can’t believe it has really come to an end. Jane tells her, “We had some good times though.” Cue montage of eye sex, Totally Gratuitous, Totally Gay Touching, Adorable Bickersons-ing and general outrageous flirting.
And then there’s the moment we knew that Jane Clementine Rizzoli and Maura Dorthea Isles were madly, truly deeply in love with each other. The moment Jane taught Maura to hold her gun like a badass. Yep, they’re that gay.
