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5. Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Jane looks for a way for Maura to meet her biological mother, Dr. Hope Martin. Angela gets involved in a political campaign. And a nun from Jane and Frankie Jr.'s past returns. Matthew Del Negro and Jenny O'Hara also guest-star.

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Rizzoli and Isles are on the case of a law student who was killed and dumped into a trash bin. Maura has found the identity of her biological mother, Dr. Hope Martin ( Sharon Lawrence ), but doesn't want to tell that she is her daughter, since Hope was told Maura died at birth. But when Maura is in need of a technique that Dr. Martin developed for fingerprinting corpses, Jane calls her in to help. Angela gets into politics when she starts supporting a new candidate for mayor, Tom MacGregor, Jr., who helps school lunches.

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