Ice Cold: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

and walked out?
    KORSAK
    Un-uh. Got signs of forced entry.
    Jane squats next to the body. Her face takes on a haunted look as she LIFTS pieces of a broken china cup and saucer.
    JANE
    Well-to-do couple. The man bound and posed. The woman missing. And a teacup.
    QUICK POP: CLOSE ON FLASH of steel as a SCALPEL SKEWERS something to a dirt floor. It’s dark and quick. But it looks like someone has driven THE SCALPEL through a WOMAN’S HAND.
    BACK TO SCENE
    Jane squeezes her hands into fists, breathes hard.
    JANE (CONT’D)
    Is he out? Is the Surgeon out?
    MAURA
    Oh my God. Korsak?
    KORSAK
    No. He’s not out. It’s his M.O. that’s all.
    MAURA
    Why didn’t you warn us? Warn Jane at least.
    KORSAK
    I needed your unbiased assessment. It looks like Hoyt, right?
    JANE
    Korsak –
    The air is thick with what each is biting back.
    JANE (CONT’D)
    We put that son of a bitch behind bars. How is this possible?
    KORSAK
    It’s not. I checked with prison authorities: he’s in lockdown.
    Jane TRADES a LOOK with Maura. Walks to the victim. CLOSE ON red circular marks on the corpse’s skin. She GASPS.
    JANE
    These are stun gun marks. Like Hoyt’s victims.
    KORSAK
    Any sick perp could do this if he watched TV news or read a paper.
We’ve got a copycat.
    JANE
    We didn’t release this detail. Hoyt’s trained an Apprentice.