Watch Rizzoli & Isles Online. Boston detective Jane Rizzoli was investigating a serial killer named Charles Hoyt some time before the series began. Hoyt, who was banned from medical school for fondling a corpse, used his vast medical knowledge to systematically torture and kill vulnerable women. Eventually, he captures Rizzoli and pins her to the floor with scalpels. As he prepares to cut Rizzoli’s throat, her partner, Vince Korsak, shoots Hoyt and saves Rizzoli’s life. Rizzoli reasons that, after seeing her so vulnerable, Korsak would never trust her as a partner.The series pilot, “See One. Do One. Teach One”, is largely based on the novel The Apprentice. Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles investigate a killer with Hoyt’s modus operandi, plus an interest in necrophilia. Rizzoli and Isles discover that the copycat was a soldier named John Stark who met Hoyt in medical school, had his identity erased for CIA black operations, and mimicked Hoyt’s MO in a killing spree during said operations. Meanwhile, Hoyt escapes from prison and rejoins his apprentice.