‘Rizzoli & Isles’ season 6, episode 3 review: Tracking down a serial killer

“Rizzoli & Isles” has a tendency as a series to balance out a variety of different cases. There are the ones that are completely serious, the ones that are based around a funny premise, and then ones that try to tow the line between the two. That is what we feel for the most part like Tuesday night’s episode tried to do.

Most of the lighter content of the episode came via the location of a dead body: Basically a research center for cadavers to be studied. As Jane scoffed at one point, the location was practically “Maura’s Disneyland.” It was also presumably an effective hiding spot for bodies in that this is a place where one extra one does not necessarily stand out at first. What follows up the discovery of one body, however, is something more serious: Another body, and then evidence that there was a serial killer on the loose.

The episode created a picture of who this killer named Jeffrey is. He is a former water-cooler delivery guy (we suppose that there is such a thing) that was using women to try to create his own ideal existence. When these women protested, it was easy for him to kill one off and find someone else. Presumably, he felt that he made a mistake in having his first female victim by a married woman, so he changed things up in his hunt for another. This is a man who was so controlling, he would inflict pain on those who did not follow his orders.

The show probably tried a little too hard tonight to connect the emotional state of this particular killer to Rizzoli and how she was feeling about her mother wanting to take ice-skating classes. She realized that she has to allow her to live her life, which is somewhat of a nice moral to close things off. Granted, it does not quite change the feeling that this part of the story felt reasonably tacked-on to a serious case just to try to make it seem like there was a greater element of character depth. Episode Grade: B-.

Head over here if you are so inclined into getting some further news on “Rizzoli & Isles.” Also, you can sign up today if curious in getting even more TV updates on all we cover, courtesy now of our CarterMatt Newsletter. (Photo: TNT.)