Rizzoli & Isles

Season 6

The Platform

1. Wendy Makkena, who played IAD Det. Hitchcock played Sasha Alexander's sister Dr. Rachel Cranston on NCIS (2003). The two were never on the show at the same time, Makenna was written in 6 years after the death of Alexander's character.

Bassholes

Deadly Harvest

Imitation Game

1. Sharif Atkins who plays FBI Agent Nate Burns (investigating a white collar crime) also plays Clinton Jones, an FBI agent assigned to the white collar division of the FBI in the show White Collar.

Misconduct

1. Last appearance of Tina Huang as Criminalist Susie Chang as a prominent background character
2. Maura refers to the governor as Governor Holcomb. However, in 2015, when the episode aired, Charlie Baker (R) was governor of Massachusetts. Changing the names of high level politicians/leaders is a common practice in TV shoes and movies, especially when the characters interact with the politician/leader.

Face Value

A Bad Seed Grows

1. Parts of the episode shares similarities with the movie "Primal Fear" (1996).

Nice to Meet You, Dr. Isles

1. The dead jeweler, Ten Mohs' street name comes from the hardness rating of diamonds. Mohs is the mineral hardness scale, 1 being talc and 10 being diamonds.

Love Taps

1. Galadriel Stineman and Abhi Sinha play co-workers at an Internet company in this episode. They also played co-workers at an Internet company in NCIS: Los Angeles: Angels & Daemons (2016).

Sister Sister

Fake It 'Til You Make It

1. The rental car is an Aston Martin V12 Vantage S Roadster.
2. In the teaser, the women answer their cell phones in reverse order from usual: Isles first, then Rizzoli.

5:26

Hide and Seek

Murderjuana

Scared to Death

1. Angi Harmon's second eldest daughter Avery guest stars as the little girl selling the fake raffle tickets.
2. Even if the raffle had been genuine, Nina could not have won anything because she had both halfs of the tickets.

East Meets West

1. While on stakeout, Korsak mentions a traffic stop involving drunk frat boys going to the "animal house". Bruce McGill played D-Day in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
2. While she draws a picture of him, Nicole tells Frankie (Jordan Bridges )he looks very similar to Montgomery Clift, her favorite actor, who starred in 1950s films. (at around 16 mins)

Bomb Voyage

1. "Kid tested, mother approved" has been the advertising slogan for Kix cereal since 1978.

A Shot in the Dark