Rizzoli & Isles

Tessa, honey, you home?

Oh, she wanted to stay at Kimmy's one more night.

Well, of course.

Parents aren't nearly as cool as Kimmy.

Mm, not a chance.

We having a red or a white?

A pink.

Raul the towel boy taught me his secret cocktail recipe.

It's on my phone.

Raul with the muscles?

When were you mixing cocktails with him?

Right after my husband

decided to cut our Mexican vacation short

so he could make a business meeting.

You think I'm jealous, but I'm not.

I know you love this dad bod.

I do.

Now, slice me a lemon.

Yes, ma'am.

You think Raul would go all the way into the kitchen

to get you a lemon?

Thanks, sweetie.

Gonna have to be a lime, hon.

That's fine.

Korsak: Thank heaven for tiny miracles, huh?

If Banyan hadn't left his blood on that cutting board,

we wouldn't be starting the trial today

and he wouldn't be looking

at a long sentence for robbery and homicide.

-Witness list? -Yep.

M.E. report confirming Banyan's blood on the cutting board?

Yep.

Initial response report indicating

that Hammonds' side door was open?

Yes.

Search warrant for Banyan's apartment?

Yep. Fat lot of good it did us.

No knife, no red emeralds.

Oh, maybe Nina can provide us

with some up to the minute good news?

Sorry, I double checked with NCIC,

and all the local pawn shop records.

Unfortunately, the red emeralds

stolen from the house haven't turned up.

Finding them after two years was a long shot.

Thanks for making the calls.

Thanks.

So, we have no murder weapon,

and without the gems, we have no motive.

There's no chance we're gonna lose this case, are we?

Oh, we've won cases with less than DNA on a cutting board.

I'm just glad we have this.

We have to meet Banyan's lawyer

at the evidence warehouse in five minutes.

Rizzoli.

What do you mean it's gone?

I have no idea what happened.

After you checked out the cutting board

for trial prep last week,

I put it right back where it belonged.

And nobody's checked it out since?

Uh...no. Other than you,

it's been in the same spot for two years.

Then when the defense sent their request

to review the evidence,

I made myself a little note

to have it ready first thing this morning.

So, as soon as defense made the request, it disappears?

Yeah. Here we are.

B572.

No cutting board.

Did you check the adjacent boxes? Yes.

Okay, we need to search every box in here.

There's four floors of evidence.

I really don't have the manpower for that.

You will.

Thanks.

We got to call Banyan's lawyer and tell him it's gone.

The lawyer's gonna move to dismiss the case.

Hey, ma. It come yet?

Honey, you have the strangest shopping habits.

You opened it?

What if it was private?

You had it shipped to a bar!

So Nina wouldn't see it.

She likes magic shows.

Thought I'd learn a few tricks, surprise her.

You're such a sweet, sweet boy.

Awesome.

Rizzoli.

What?

All right, I'm there.

Sorry, ma. I got to go.

Work.

Of course it's work.

My kids always work.

Bye!

Bye!

Is it possible that someone from your office

got the cutting board?

I'm afraid not.

And there's no other physical evidence

that ties Banyan to the scene?

No, but here's what we have.

We have the swab that we used to retrieve Banyan's DNA.

We have photos of the cutting board from the crime scene

and in the lab,

and DNA documentation proving

that it was Banyan's blood.

The defense won't be able to dispute chain of custody.

It's a hail Mary,

but it might be enough to put in front of a judge.

"Hail Mary" is such an odd phrase.

You know, when it was coined in 1975 --

Maura, Jane go court now.

Thanks. Bye.

Woman: Along with the photographs and lab report,

the sworn testimony of Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles

should be more than enough to proceed.

Your Honor, defense simply can't run its own forensic analysis

on a series of photographs.

If the people can't produce the cutting board for our review,

this case needs to be dismissed.

Counselors, approach the bench.

Jane?

Yeah.

What's going on?

Tessa, something happened, okay?

But we're -- we're working on it. Okay?

-Detective Rizzoli. -Just hang tight.

I've been told there's a problem with evidence management.

Uh, yes, Your Honor.

We, um -- we're working hard to produce the physical evidence

that the defense has asked for.

Um...

we just need some more time.

I sympathize with your predicament, Detective,

but without evidence, this case cannot go to trial.

As it is 4:00 p.m. Friday, you have until 9:00 a.m. Monday

to find this evidence,

or else I'll be forced to grant defense's motion to dismiss.

Next case.

Banyan did this.

I don't know how he did it, but he did it.

Well, we better get going,

'cause we've only got 65 hours to undo it.

We've already finished with rows 1 through 8.

You can check rows 9 through 11 down there.

-Any luck? -

No cutting board in the first two sections.

We got 10 more sections to search on this floor.

Any evidence missing from any other cases?

It's definitely looking like a targeted job.

Did you speak to the evidence officers who were on duty?

None of them saw any suspicious activity.

Banyan could've paid one of them off.

I ran background checks on all employees

with access to the evidence room.

All of them long-term employees, no apparent financial motive,

no apparent ties to Banyan.

So, if it's not an inside job,

someone from the outside broke in.

Only way in is the way we came.

What's up?

Banyan got someone to break in and steal the cutting board.

Trying to figure out how they might've got in.

Is this the only point of entry?

Yeah. To be granted access,

you have to enter a six-digit code

that's changed every week.

Yeah, and I'm sure the system logs in the date

and time of everyone's entry.

Yeah. Those records are already on their way.

Okay.

Tell me about the security system.

The evidence officer we spoke to

said they recently upgraded the facility.

Beside the keypad they put in a new climate-control system

and additional security cameras.

Get the footage from the last week.

We need to review that.

If the cutting board was only taken in the last day or two,

maybe it's still out there.

It's a good thing Ming's Palace is open all night.

Okay, what are we looking at?

Left side is a list of every date and time

that someone entered the evidence room.

Frankie: And the right side is different

security camera feeds from the warehouse.

We're going through to see if we can identify the thief.

Oh, right there, right there! Bottom right.

Blow that up.

Back it up.

Now enhance it.

There's the code, clear as day.

Nina, is this camera system closed circuit?

Yes, but sometimes these systems have a remote login function

so that supervisors can check in.

If our thief could log in remotely,

he could get the code.