Girls, I Am Telling You, The Girls At Henrietta's Must Have Gotten Such A Charge Out Of Seeing Angie Harmon Get Underneath A Car, And Drill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   "Dance With The Devil" had to be the most exciting episode, this season, of "Rizzoli And Isles."  And, yes, while that scene with Angie was a highlight,  (who else could keep their hair and make-up so so perfect, even if that hair was pinned back????) Angie as a Jane took a back seat, Lorraine Bracco as Angela was out of town, purportedly visiting a cousin, and, thankfully, Frankie was nowhere in sight.

                                      This gave actors Sasha Alexander (Maura Isles),  Sharon Lawrence (Hope),  Brian Goodman (Lieutenant Cavanugh) and John Doman (Paddy Doyle) a chance to shine. All do the best work they have in this one episode.

                                        The opening takes place on March 22, 1993.  A mother and her young son have just returned home. She talks to her husband.  Something about the setup tells  us this will be important later.
We see an unknown intruder tampering with the heating system in the apartment building the mother and child were in. Somehow, I just knew this person was Paddy Doyle, though he is not seen.  What eventually happens is that the mother walks in to an ice cold apartment, turns up the heat.........and both she and the child are destroyed in a fiery  explosion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                           We eventually find out that this was Lieutenant Cavanugh's young wife, Linda, and son, Christopher, only two years old, then!!!!!!! . The horror of that tragedy has never left him, and while I was not too keen on him dating Angela, I truly felt for his grief, still present, twenty years later.

                                              This marks a turning point for Hope (Sharon Lawrence, always looking stunning!) who, when she is made to understand Paddy himself caused the deaths of this woman and child,  turns on him.  He always told her he would never hurt women or children, but that was a crock of lies.
Which is why I wanted to see Cavanugh in the men's room take Paddy out.  But we know, girls, that would  not have given him the closure he thinks it  would, and we do not want to see a good man locked up.  So, when Hope agrees to  testify against Paddy, and faces him down outside the courtroom, we know she means business, and Paddy is going down.  Will either character be back?  I hope so.  Hope, definitely.  If Paddy is given the death penalty, I hope he is seen one more time, or we learn of his fate for sure.  I am telling the show's creators now-don't leave us on tender hooks, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                 And wasn't Maura's Yoga room just fabulous????????  It should inspire me!!!!!!!!! Maybe I could try doing the child pose again.  I used to be good at it, and I found it comforting.
I would rather have the comfort of my beloved Monsieur, though.

                                                    As Maura says to Hope tellingly, "You made a bargain with the Devil, and now he has come back!"

                                                     But seldom has he been more entertaining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!