Boston Blue Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: Sometimes Everything Right Can Still Be Wrong

This week's episode of Boston Blue gives us two pretty interesting cases, and both deal with people being wrongfully accused or overlooked. We have Danny and Lena investigating a murder involving a great white shark, while Sarah is forced to revisit a case from 10 years ago that could completely change her career. There are also some pretty funny moments with Sean and Jonah that I really enjoyed.

The episode opens with Sean and Jonah responding to a disturbance call, only to discover that someone has hooked a great white shark while fishing for swordfish. That's illegal enough, but things get even crazier when an animal rights activist named Wave Shay gets involved and stabs the shark to stop them from having it stuffed. While all of this is happening, an arm falls out of the shark. Well, that's one way to start an investigation!

Danny is attending a training class about becoming a supervisor, and one of the topics that comes up is being friends with your partner. When he and Lena get assigned the shark case, Lena immediately wants out of it. She asks Danny to use his authority as a sergeant to give the case to somebody else, but he declines. So much for that training class staying theoretical!

Meanwhile, Mae visits Sarah, who is still dealing with issues involving Chief Flannigan. The two also start looking into an old rape case from 10 years ago involving Jessica Davis and Dane Cooper. Sarah originally worked the case and helped put Cooper behind bars, but Mae has reason to believe he may have been innocent.

Sarah isn't ready to accept that. She believes they had all the evidence they needed back then, and this case helped build her career. I can understand why she is hesitant, but the possibility that they got it wrong is something she can't ignore.

Back on the shark case, Danny and Lena get partial fingerprints from the arm and narrow it down to a marine biologist named Steve Reynolds. They initially think they have their answer, but the medical examiner reveals that the arm was severed before the shark ate it. The tag found with the remains leads them to the New England Shark Conservatory, where Steve worked.

They question Steve's wife, Jenny, and learn that the two shared a life and a mission. Lena actually finds their relationship pretty sweet, which was a nice little moment. After looking into the GPS tracking information, they discover that Wave was also connected to Steve's disappearance.

Wave has an alibi, though, and dashcam footage shows Steve going out on the water with his intern, Marissa. When they go to question her, she takes off running, and Lena ends up knocking over a shark display. Danny could have made a joke about it, but he doesn't, which I appreciated. Marissa eventually admits that she and Steve got into an argument over a scholarship letter and a mistake she made during her research. She says she pushed him overboard but insists she never cut him up. When she learns that Steve's body was cut into pieces, she is visibly shaken.

There is no blood on the boat or anywhere else she has been, and more body parts begin washing up on the beach. So now Danny and Lena have to figure out who got to Steve after he made it back to shore. Their investigation eventually points toward a disgruntled fisherman named Laurence. Steve died from blunt force trauma to the head about 15 minutes after going overboard, and the knife used to cut him up is commonly found on fishing boats.

During a fight at a meeting about proposed shark-hunting laws, Wave assaults Laurence, and investigators find a hunting knife on her. Both Laurence and Wave have alibis, though. It turns out they were at a hotel hooking up with each other. This case definitely has more moving parts than I expected. While all of that is happening, Sean and Jonah keep getting calls from two older women, Margaret and Connie, who can't seem to stop arguing. Their first call is over a chowder dispute, and that whole scene was comedy. Their second call reveals that Margaret is upset because Connie didn't attend her husband's funeral and because the truth about his death was kept from her.

Things get even more serious when Sean and Jonah are called back and discover Margaret is missing. With a fugitive in the area and signs of a struggle outside, they track her down and find a man holding a screwdriver to her neck. Thankfully, Connie steps in and attacks him, helping bring the situation to an end. I wasn't expecting these two to have this much going on, but their scenes were some of my favorites in the episode.

Sarah's storyline is easily the most emotional part of the episode. At family dinner, she finally admits that she may have gotten the biggest case of her career completely wrong. Her family tries to reassure her, but she isn't ready to hear it.

Danny gives her some good advice, reminding her that sometimes we can get things right and still get other things completely wrong. Mae also reminds Sarah why she became the youngest superintendent and encourages her to find a way to get to the truth.

Sarah eventually comes up with an idea involving Jessica going back through her therapy sessions. The therapist isn't exactly excited about revisiting everything, but it starts to help. Sarah realizes there was important information missing from Jessica's original testimony, something she was never made aware of. Once she gets that information, she finds a suspect who matches Jessica's description.

The person Sarah is looking for is already behind bars. He used the same method on Jessica that he used in his other crimes, and Sarah manages to get him to confess to additional offenses. She promises him immunity in Jessica's case, which is how she gets him to talk. Dane Cooper is finally released from prison. This storyline really stood out to me because it happens far too often in real life. People are wrongfully accused and end up spending years behind bars because of missed information, poor communication, or mistakes made during an investigation. Sarah has to face the fact that something she believed in for 10 years was wrong, and that isn't easy, especially when her career is tied to that case.

As for Danny and Lena, they eventually narrow their search down to a boat hand named Dylan. He confesses to everything. He was involved with Wave, and love really does make people do crazy things. He killed Steve with his boat and then cut up his body before dumping the pieces into a great white shark feeding area. Definitely not the way I expected this case to end!

The episode also wraps up with Lena reassuring Danny that he doesn't have to walk on eggshells around her just because he is now a sergeant. Her sister has been her boss for years, and their relationship hasn't changed. She tells him not to let HR get in his head, which is something Danny probably needed to hear.

Overall, I thought this was a good episode. Sarah's storyline was the strongest part for me, especially seeing her have to accept that she helped put an innocent man in prison. Danny and Lena's case was definitely unusual, and Sean and Jonah provided some much-needed laughs along the way. I also liked that the episode didn't just focus on solving the cases but showed how mistakes can affect people's lives long after an investigation is considered closed.

“Everything Right Can Still Be Wrong” is a fitting title because sometimes the people who are supposed to get things right are the ones who get it wrong. And sometimes it takes 10 years for the truth to finally come out.