Girls, This Was Nothing Like Todd Solondz' 'Dollhouse!!!!!!'

                                   Last night's episode of "Rizzoli And Isles" had the same title as Todd Solondz' famous signature first film, "Welcome To The Dollhouse."   But what a world of difference, darlings!!!!!!!  For this was a serial killer story, with some surprises, and a  back story that proved more fascinating than the one at hand.

                                     Things begin in the present, in an enclosed space, filled with all sorts of
dolls.  I first thought I was watching an outtake from "Dead Silence."  Amdist macabre lighting, an anonymous, terrified woman is tied to a chair, being admonished by a mysterious, menacing man.
"Will you tell?" he keeps asking her.  "I'll never tell," she replies.

                                        Tell what? I wanted to know.

                                        Later, a bus stops at a bench to pick up a supposed passgenger. But
said passenger turns out to be dead, a young woman, arranged like a doll, and dressed in clothes that not only do not quite fit her, but were in fashion 20 years ago--the 1990s.

                                           What are Rizzoli and Isles to do????? They look their most glamorous, and Angie Harmon is sharp and on the job, while Sasha Alexander is a font of intellectuality.  Someone I would love to have a drink with.  Bet she knows who Fantine is!!!!!!!!

                                              Two more victims emerge--both near bus stops, and both dressed in 1990s garb.  Maura Isles finds slivers on one of the victims that is about twenty years old--and has blood type of someone twenty years ago.  Korsack recalls that it matches the material used in police nightsticks at the time, and wonders if the perp is a cop.  The discovery is made that all the
victims were found within georgraphic range of a set of defunct storefronts, one of which used to be a store twenty years back, known as Libby's Dollhouse.  And Libby had been married to someone still on the force--Artie McMurphy.  Is he their guy?????????

                                                 They talk to Libby's mother, who reveals what a scumbag Artie was, an abuser who beat his wife and kid with his nightstick. Libby used to come in the store, hiding and lying about it all.  Because she still loved Artie.  Then, one day, she mysteriously disappeared, and was never found.  Artie was left to raise their son, Jonathan, who was so traumatized he was eventually incarcerated in a mental institution.

                                                    So, it would seem Artie is riding buses, trolling for young women, to reduplicate the murder of his wife he comitted twenty years before.  This is sort of half  right.  Because, when they track Artie to the set of abandoned store fronts, where they believe the victims are being killed, they find Artie--but the killer turns out to be his son, Jonathan!!!!    Jonathan, it seems, has been released from the mental institution, against the wishes of his father, who informs them his son is a monster.  Again, this is only half right. Jonathan is seen holding a young woman tied and captive, chanitng "Will you tell?"  So we know now that it is he who has been trollling the buses, killing the women, and Artie recognizes this, and has gone after him.  Before, anyone can do anything, Artie shoots his son.  As he dies in Rizzoli's arms, he tells them his
father "hurt" Libby, and to look in the house.  Scumbag Artie is not off the hook.  They go to his house, dismantle the fireplace, and there, bricked up behind it, is what is left of Libby's body.

                                                      As Rizzoli explains, Artie murdered his wife with the night stick, but did in riight in front of Jonathan, when he was a child.  He was the one who asked Jonathan, "Will you tell?"  Which of course went on to unhinge the son, who grew up to reduplicate the actions he saw.  Or, as Rizzoli said, "You killed his mother in front of him, and made your son into a monster."  Scumbag Artie is led away!!!!!!!!

                                                       This was so fascinating, darlings, it took a back seat even to Angela's (Lorraine Bracco) bunny pancakes, and her attenpts at online ordering, and a blog!!!!!
We just love Lorraine, and the girls looked fabulous,. That ending, with Jane weeping, as she watches Casey walk out of the bar, was unbearably poignant, but I still think there is a future there.

                                                          But the evening belonged to scumbag Artie and his son, Jonathan.  An abuser who turns his son into a serial killer!  Give this guy the needle fast!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                             And, girls, we cannot wait to see what happens next week!!!!!!!!!!!