Ryan James Nolan

In the season finale, after an undercover cop working a narcotics-smuggling sting is shot dead, Jane, Maura and Frankie Jr. are trapped in a fight for survival on their home turf.

Jane and Maura investigate what appears to be a hate crime: the brutal assault and murder of a woman leaving a lesbian bar.

A young man is found murdered, stabbed to death with an ice pick, which was left sticking out of his ear.

A body discovered in a park appears to be the work of Charles Hoyt, the imprisoned serial killer who once abducted and nearly murdered Jane.

The eldest brother in an aristocratic Boston family considered to be direct descendents of passengers on the Mayflower is found dead after an apparent sailing accident.