Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

something. Maybe it meant everything.
    And he had beautiful eyes.
    She cast a final look around the room, said a silent goodbye to the ghosts, and nodded. “I’m coming.”
    Together they walked down the stairs and stepped outside, where their classmates were enjoying that bright Saturday, splashing in the lake, lolling on the grass. Shooting arrows at the targets that Mr. Roman had set up that morning. Claire and Will headed up the path they both knew well now, a path that brought them up the hillside, winding through the trees across lichen-covered boulders, past scrubby juniper bushes. They came to the stone steps and climbed to the terrace, and the circle of thirteen boulders.
    The others were waiting. She saw the usual faces: Julian and Bruno, Arthur and Lester. On that fair morning, a chorus of birds sang in the trees, and Bear the dog dozed on a sun-warmed rock. She went to the edge of the terrace and looked down at the castle’s jagged rooftop. It seemed to rise from the valley below like an ancient mountain range. Evensong.
Home
.
    Julian said. “I now call to order this meeting of the Jackals.”
    Claire turned and joined the circle.

In memory of my mother
,
Ruby Jui Chiung Tom

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    After more than two decades as a writer, what I’ve come to value most are the enduring friendships I’ve made in this business, and a writer could have no better friends than my terrific literary agent, Meg Ruley, and my superb editor, Linda Marrow. Through thick and thin, you’ve been there for me, and I tip my martini glass to you both! Thanks also to Gina Centrello, Libby McGuire, and Larry Finlay for believing in me through the years, to Sharon Propson for making book tours such a pleasure, to Jane Berkey and Peggy Gordijn for infallibly spot-on guidance, and to Angie Horejsi for her wit and wisdom.
    In researching
Last to Die
, I relied on trusted sources for my information. Thanks to my son Adam for his expertise on firearms, to Peggy Maher, Enidia Santiago-Arce, and their wonderful colleagues at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for patiently answering this old Trekkie’s questions, and to Bob Gleason and Tom Doherty for so generously including me on that spectacularly fun field trip.
    Most of all, I thank my husband, Jacob. After all these years, you’re still the one.

BY TESS GERRITSEN
    R IZZOLI & I SLES N OVELS

The Surgeon

The Apprentice

The Sinner

Body Double

Vanish

The Mephisto Club

The Keepsake

Ice Cold

The Silent Girl

Last to Die
    O THER N OVELS

Harvest

Life Support

Bloodstream

Gravity

The Bone Garden

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    T ESS G ERRITSEN is a physician and an internationally bestselling author. She gained nationwide acclaim for her first novel of suspense, the
New York Times
bestseller
Harvest
. She is also the author of the bestsellers
The Silent Girl
,
Ice Cold
,
The Keepsake
,
The Bone Garden
,
The Mephisto Club
,
Vanish
,
Body Double
,
The Sinner
,
The Apprentice
,
The Surgeon
,
Life Support
,
Bloodstream
, and
Gravity
. Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.

“Melt My Heart to Stone”
    Episode 310
#2M5910
    Story By
Russell J. Grant & Janet Tamaro
    Teleplay By
Janet Tamaro
    Directed By
Michael Katleman
    PRODUCTION DRAFT
June 20, 2012
BLUE FULL REVISED DRAFT
June 24, 2012
PINK FULL REVISED DRAFT
June 26, 2012
YELLOW REVISED PAGE
June 26, 2012
GREEN REVISED PAGES
June 28, 2012
GOLDENROD REVISED PAGES
July 9, 2012
    P. 8, 8A, 16, 16A, 17, 32, 36, 37, 42, 43, 43A
    All rights reserved. © 2012 Warner Horizon Television Inc. This script is the property of Horizon Scripted Television Inc. No portion of this script may be performed, reproduced or used by any means, or disclosed to, quoted or published in any medium without the prior written consent of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

EXT. ART MUSEUM - DAY 2
    Full-on crime scene in the f.g. as Jane and Maura head toward it. CSRU TECHS, Korsak, Uniforms, ND Detectives.
    Korsak is directing three CSRU TECHS as they prepare to lift a massive statue that resembles the Venus di Milo from the center of a fountain. Jane and Maura walk toward them.
    JANE
    Frankie has a right to be upset. But Riley did earn it: She’s been a detective in the Drug Unit for five years.
    An ND POLICE OFFICER lifts CRIME SCENE TAPE for them to DUCK under.
    MAURA
    Disappointment is a dangerous emotion if it isn’t processed. I’d hate for him to set himself up for a life of misery.
    JANE
    That’s ridiculous.
    MAURA
    Read the research. I’m worried about