Law & Order: CI - Kathryn Erbe and Vincent D'onofrio by Eric Ogden/NBC
Law Order Criminal Intents Sundays at 9 pmET USA seventh season picks up six months after the December episode Untethered in which Det Bobby Goren Vincent DOnofrio faced suspension for going against orders by going undercover in a mental institution where he came frighteningly close to losing his mind Now the super-intense lawman is without his shield and not returning calls from his worried partner Eames Kathryn Erbe Hes in a bar kind of contemplating how he ended up where he is explains executive producer Warren Leight [when] hes approached by another suspended cop [played by Dean Winters of HBOs Oz] who tempts Goren into going into private security work for some dishonorable people Goren going over to the dark side Up until this episode hes been impeccably honest only interested in the truth and [now] thats brought into question says Leight Meanwhile Eames gets teamed up with someone new when The Wires Seth Gilliam returns as a
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent guest stars Tate Donovan and Charissa Chamorro
Tonight's episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (9 pm/ET, on NBC) got its inspiration from the recent bizarre love triangle involving NASA astronauts. For a preview of this stranger-than-fiction tale, we talked to executive producer Warren Leight, who also wrote the episode.
TV Guide: I guess doing a ripped-from-the-headlines story on the astronaut scandal was a no-brainer, right? Warren Leight: We were 18 episodes into the season and banging our heads against the walls, so it seemed like a gift. I saw the [New York] Post and the Daily News staring me in the face and thought it was divine intervention.
TV Guide: How much research did you do about Lisa Nowak and the real astronaut scandal before writing this epis
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Vincent D'Onofrio and Rita Moreno, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
It started with a drive around Lower Manhattan last June. On the eve of the sixth season of NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET), star Vincent D'Onofrio told the executive producer he wanted the drama to be "more than just a straight procedural." After 100 episodes spent profiling coldhearted killers, "Vince said, 'Give me something personal to chew on. I want Detective Goren to face deep human emotions,'" says Warren Leight, the producer in the passenger seat that day.
This season, D'Onofrio got his wish. Oscar winner Rita Moreno was cast as Frances Goren, the detective's strong-willed, mentally ill mother who had been a crucial but unseen presence in Rober
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