MAURA
She’s worried about what kind of future that baby is going to have.
JANE
You think I’m not? Lydia can barely tie her shoes.
Suddenly Maura pulls up short.
MAURA
Oh.
JANE
You pull something?
MAURA
I smell something … decomposition.
Jane follows Maura as she sniffs her way to the edge of the pool just as Korsak and the techs start moving the statue.
KORSAK
Let’s tilt her sideways first –
JANE
I can’t believe you can smell decomp through bronze.
MAURA
It’s a a heavy particulate odor detectable to some animals for miles.
JANE
(re: statue)
Looks like the Venus di Milo.
(off Maura’s look)
I’ve been to the Louvre, Dr. Snob.
Suddenly, one of the Techs LOSES his footing. Korsak moves to help him but it’s too late.
JANE MAURA
Oh no. Oh no.
CRASH. The statue DROPS onto the concrete around the pool. The HEAD cracks open. REVEALS the face of a DEAD WOMAN.
JANE (CONT’D)
It’s not bronze, it’s plaster.
KORSAK
(to Tech who dropped statue)
S’okay, Murph. We had to crack her open sooner or later.
Maura kneels to inspect the face, reaches out with a gloved hand and touches the woman’s cheek.
MAURA
She’s very cool.
JANE
A dead woman masquerading as a statue is cool?
MAURA
The body. It’s cold and exhibiting signs of delayed decomposition.
JANE
So she was frozen?
MAURA
No. Likely kept in cold storage.
JANE
(trades a look with Korsak)
So that’s “Refrigerated” not “frozen,” got it?
MAURA
The difference between 32 and 33 degrees is enormous, Jane.
Frost heads over with news.
FROST
Park was updating their electrical system. No power to the cameras.
JANE
So no security footage.
KORSAK
What about the maintenance crew?
FROST
Last guy here says he fished trash out of the water just before he left at 7:00. She wasn’t there.
Jane takes in the body.
JANE
No one goes to this much trouble for a single kill …
