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Dr. Catherine Cordell is the main supporting antagonist of the Rizzoli & Isles debut novel "The Surgeon". Dr. Cordell is the living victim of two partnering serial killers, Andrew Capra and Warren Hoyt. Hoyt targets Cordell after she shoots Capra to stop his spree and Hoyt wants revenge.
Biography[]
The Surgeon[]
Cordell was a medical student in Savannah, Georgia, when Capra broke into her home to kill her. He drugged her, tied her to her bed, and raped her. Before he could cut out her womb and cut her throat as was his signature, she grabbed a gun she kept in her bedroom and shot him, immobilizing him. Hoyt saw everything, and as Capra didn't want to go to jail, he made Hoyt shoot him dead. Hoyt fled, and no one ever knew Capra had an accomplice, so Cordell was believed to have killed him in self-defense. She relocated to Boston to work as a trauma surgeon, one of the best in her office. Hoyt wasn't done with her, so he killed two women in practice runs outside of Boston, before relocating to Boston and butchering two more women to get Cordell's attention. Hoyt never raped the women, but the means in which he tortured and killed them were almost identical to Capra. So the police connected the cases, Hoyt stole jewelry from the last woman he killed each time to place at the next crime scene. Cordell was tracked to question her, and while Detective Thomas Moore was empathetic, Detective Jane Rizzoli abrasively interrogated her, which shook her up badly. but when Hoyt sent her the photo of a third women he attacked, the photo straight from the crime scene, the police rushed over to her apartment, where they and Cordell narrowly saved her life. Hoyt slipped in nurse's garb and a woman's wig to pull the woman's plug and terrorize Cordell. She turned Moore, who became her partner and the first man she made love to ever since she was attacked. it was short lived relief, as Hoyt chloroformed her and took her to rural Massachusetts to hold her captive on his farm, where the wombs he stole from women were preserved in fluid. Cordell, afraid at first, refused to stay afraid, so she insulted Hoyt as she cut into her stomach. When Rizzoli arrived to save her, Hoyt made Cordell scream, then taped her mouth. Rizzoli went to her, and realizing the ruse, she was too late to stop Hoyt from hitting her with a metal tray. he then pinned her hands to the floor with scalpels and planned to eviscerate her too. Cordell stopped him by shooting and wounding him long enough for responders to arrive. Cordell and Moore would later marry.
The Apprentice[]
When Hoyt was revealed to have escaped, she and Moore relocated to London for refuge, Moore regularly calling Rizzoli to get updates. Hoyt himself peeped in on Cordell's and Moore's home when they weren't there to fantasize about what he could've done to Cordell again, before fleeing.
Vanish[]
Cordell is mentioned again when Moore assists Agent Gabriel Dean, Rizzoli's husband, in trying to save her from a hostage situation while heavily pregnant with the couple's daughter, as Moore commiserated from his own experiences when protecting Cordell.