Lawrence Zucker

Dr. Lawrence Zucker is a recurring antagonist in the Rizzoli & Isles novel series. Dr. Zucker is Boston PD's office criminal psychologist, who often profiles the killers the Homicide Squad come across.
==Biography==
===The Surgeon===
Dr. Zucker is first introduced when he profiles the serial killer known as "The Surgeon". He believes the killer has a disturbed fetish known as piquerism, an arousal from cutting and piercing, usually a human body. Zucker argues the killer is impotent, so blades are phallic to him and meant for the killer to overcompensate.
===The Mephisto Club===
Dr. Zucker was once again consulted to profile a Satanic ritual murderer. Detective Jane Rizzoli was especially unnerved when she saw in his eyes the intrigued questions in his mind as he went through the case file. If anything he was baffled by the scene being staged more than the level of sadism he anticipated: sexual violence, dismembering victims while still alive, even making them partake in staging the scene. As an unidentified, recently murdered victim's right hand was also at the scene, Zucker believed sadism or Satanic rituals. There was mirrored writing on the wall in red chalk, so he believed the killer was selling his soul to Satan. Rizzoli had to shoot down Zucker's theory of a ritual, believing a more personal motive was at hand. Zucker, in turn, dispatched Rizzoli's theory the killer was a follower of independent criminal psychologist Dr. Joyce O'Donnell. Both their separate reservations would prove to be true.
===The Silent Girl===
Dr. Zucker is consulted for his involvement in profiling the Golden Dragon massacre in Boston's Chinatown. Whether or not he's oblivious to the racist connotations, he describes the mass murder as a "classic case of amok", believing the officially accepted conclusion the cook, Wu Weimin, shot everyone present and committed suicide. He fondly remembers the widow, Iris Fang, of one of the victims, finding her strong-willed and beautiful even as she aged. He himself pointed out like two other victims, Arthur and Dina Mallory, she has a missing daughter. It was a crucial lead to crack the case and find the real killers down the line. 
===Die Again===
Dr. Zucker returned to discuss the active serial killer the team was tracking, eventually being called "The Leopard Man" because of Zucker's descriptions. Based on Dr. Maura Isles' investigation of similar homicides, missing victims, eviscerated victims, and massacres in forests, he profiled the killer was evoking West African ritual cults. He knew pelt-wearing groups of killers mutilated settlers and other victims for power, and realizing the hunting grounds of the killer, it led to crucial connections between cases, not just between cases, but in other countries as well. These killings would distinctly be tied to the killer they were after, once they analyzed the patters of the cult murderers.
==Personality==
Dr. Zucker is a Freudian spoof of the psychologist. He's an eccentric, traditionally disciplined and featured, socially detached professional, who looks at cases and their aspects as marvels more than tragic crimes. He's versed in multiple studies to expand his knowledge and figure out allegories to pull his educated guesses together from. He does show a level of respect, including to grieving families and elders with their own wisdom to speak for like he does, but, typically around his colleagues, he doesn't show recognition to racial representation, gender inclusion, and the like, as they're either trivial or beyond his understanding, especially personal understanding. His colleagues tolerate him, but believe his melodrama and old-fashioned, haughty, disengaged predisposition has no place in even the procedure of justice. Detective Jane Rizzoli specifically would admit to herself she hated him looking at her and seeing her trauma from her near-death experience with serial killer Warren Hoyt.