Thomas Moore

Detective Thomas Moore is a former main protagonist and later recurring protagonist in the Rizzoli & Isles book series. Moore is a Boston Police detective who was previously partnered with Detective Jane Rizzoli, the homicide squad's first woman on the force, until he married a survivor of a serial killer, Dr. Catherine Cordell, and eventually retired.
==Biography==
===The Surgeon===
Detective Moore presided with Detective Rizzoli over the case of a serial killer nicknamed "The Surgeon", a meticulous torture-murderer of women who were held captive in their homes, and after their wombs were cut out while they were still alive, the killer cut their throats. After the police connected the murders of two women in Boston, because of the same M.O.s and the women each wearing a piece of jewelry from the woman killed before her, Moore and Rizzoli found Dr. Cordell survived Andrew Capra, a serial killer/rapist of four women where she was a medical student. As she was working in Boston as a trauma surgeon, they questioned her, Moore being more compassionate where Rizzoli was more confrontational. Dr. Cordell was raped by Capra in an attempt on her life by Capra, but she shot him with a gun she kept in self-defense to end his spree. Cordell had no idea who was behind the new murders, but she was pulled into the investigation when The Surgeon emailed her a photo of the third known woman he attacked. By the time she was tracked, she was still alive, Dr. Cordell personally presiding over her case. However, the killer snuck in and pulled the woman's life support to murder her, slipping out undetected.
Moore's were the arms Cordell ran to for safety and comfort. They had sex, the first time in a long time for Cordell, and with the protection and love he felt he needed to give to Cordell, he began a relationship with her. Tragically, shortly thereafter, the killer chloroformed her and kidnapped her to hold her captive in his lair and torture her. By this point, the police finally knew his name: Warren Hoyt, a medical student quietly expelled for molesting cadavers. He was Capra's accomplice, presiding over Cordell's rape. and was horrified by Cordell fighting back and wanting revenge. As she couldn't remember that night, she didn't remember Capra made Hoyt shoot him in the eye to put him out of his misery. Before the three women he killed in Boston, he killed two other women for practice, retaining all their wombs in preservative fluids. He infiltrated the hospital by cross-dressing his way in and out, all as a campaign to terrorize Cordell up to the point he would torture her to death. After cutting into her in a failed attempt to remove her womb and petrify her, Hoyt lured Detective Rizzoli, who arrived at the scene, by making Cordell scream in the basement. When Detective Rizzoli saw her with her mouth taped shut and realized Hoyt was still in the room, Hoyt knocked her down with a medical basin and nailed her to the floor with scalpels through her hands. Cordell got the upper hand, shoot and incapacitating Hoyt with Rizzoli's gun, long enough for police and medics to arrive. Once Cordell recovered, she and Moore made plans to marry.
===Vanish===
Moore returns partnered with a hated detective on the squad, Detective Darren Crowe. He assists Agent Gabriel Dean in investigating a man and woman holding Rizzoli hostage at a hospital while she's due to give birth. They question the yacht club where the woman was found clinging to life before she was brought to Dr. Maura Isles' coroner's office, then the hospital when she was revealed hypothermic, but alive. Moore was the direct yet careful voice who implored the commodore to offer the members' names for suspects. He then identified one of the hostage takers, Joseph Roke, a paranoid military veteran who, as he showed Agent Dean on dashcam footage later, shot a traffic cop in New Haven dead. It was revealed in the video the other hostage taker, Olena, and another woman, Mila, were with him in the car. They were sec trafficking victims who had bounties on their head from the conspiracy that exploited them. The situation got exponentially worse when Rizzoli's name was released by the news, as her being a cop in the crisis endangered her safety. After Agent Dean confronted the newscaster and barreled into the cameraman, Moore consoled him, saying with his experiences with Dr. Cordell, he was dedicated to saving Rizzoli. she was eventually rescued, Roke and Olena being shot dead, killed by operatives acting through the leaders using the crisis response as an opportunity. When the massacre at the cabin where the girls were trafficked was found, Moore participated in the efforts to lure out Mila for her protection. Using the same personal ads the Roke and the women used, Mila called back, but Dean and the detectives' rushed responses scared her away, twice. When Mila came to Rizzoli herself, newscaster Peter Lukas brought a hitman hired by the guy giving the orders, U.S. Director of Intelligence Carleton Wynne. Mila shot the mercenary dead, and when Lukas tried to dissuade Dean's concerns over the phone, which he didn't buy, he brought Moore along to arrest him. Rizzoli and her and Dean's baby, Regina, were rescued, Mila was put into witness protection, and Lukas was charged to make him plead out and testify.
===Die Again===
It was mentioned in the novel Moore eventually retired, as his pairing with Crowe drove him over the edge.
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