Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth) and his partner, Detective Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson), make up the Major Case Squad alongside long-time partners Detectives Robert Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe). The two Major Case Squad detective teams will split the caseloads week to week.
- Metascore58
- 2001-2011
- 10 seasons
- NBC
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth) and his partner, Detective Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson), make up the Major Case Squad alongside long-time partners Detectives Robert Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe). The two Major Case Squad detective teams will split the caseloads week to week.
Season 2 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
Dead
Sun, Sep 29, 2002 43 mins
Several people are murdered, and Goren and Eames must find what connected them. Soon the detectives realize they are after a very intelligent and dangerous killer.
Episode 2
Bright Boy
Sun, Oct 6, 2002 43 mins
Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor.
Episode 3
Anti-Thesis
Sun, Oct 13, 2002 43 mins
A university president is killed and the suspects include a professor who wants a chairman position, a grad student, and a lecturer from Oxford.
Episode 4
Best Defense
Sun, Oct 20, 2002 50 mins
After receiving misleading phone calls, and discovering a severed brake line, A.D.A. Peter Bonham appears to be the target of a contract hit. When Bonham kills the hit-man, Gary Burke, in his wine-cellar, Goran and Eames set out to discover who hired him. All of the evidence uncovered by the Detectives seem to point directly at Bonham's own wife, a successful trial attorney. It doesn't take long after arresting her, however, for Goren to suspect that she is being framed, and why. The challenge facing the Detectives is proving it, while not tipping their hand to the real culprit.
Episode 5
Chinoiserie
Sun, Oct 27, 2002 55 mins
The death of a young mother in front of her children while they're in Chinatown points the detectives towards past events at Tiananmen Square, but the clues send them towards illegal antiquities trading instead.
Episode 6
Malignant
Sun, Nov 3, 2002 43 mins
The murder of two deliverymen leads to a scheme to make money from drugs, and a man's standing in his church community.
Episode 7
Tomorrow
Sun, Nov 10, 2002 43 mins
The murder of a wealthy man's two children and their friend has Goren and Eames looking at his ex-wife, but a closer look at the evidence reveals a different connection and sisters with an unusual attachment.
Episode 8
The Pilgrim
Sun, Nov 17, 2002 60 mins
When a Pittsburgh cop's daughter goes missing, Goren and Eames find themselves on the trail of radical Muslims who will do anything to accomplish the next lesson for America.
Episode 9
Shandeh
Sun, Dec 1, 2002 43 mins
Kelly Sussman is the wife of a Jewish businessman, and requested a divorce after finding out that her husband had a mistress. She is brutally killed by two contract killers, and evidence are later planted at the house of her husband's mistress. The police initially suspect the businessman Danny Sussman, but he is a surprisingly weak-willed man, and he had no apparent reason to turn against his wife and his mistress. Goren and Eames start investigating the activities of Danny's domineering mother, who disliked both women and wanted to protect her son from them.
Episode 10
Con-Text
Sun, Jan 5, 2003 43 mins
When a mob-related father-son murder-suicide doesn't hold true, detectives Goren and Eames find a connection to a nobody younger brother, a self-help guru, and two million missing dollars.
Episode 11
Baggage
Sun, Jan 12, 2003 60 mins
Jenny Sullivan was handling baggage at an airport, and she was recently promoted to a supervisor position among her peers. She was being sexually harassed by several of her subordinates, and her superiors had refused to help her. One night, Jenny's sabotaged car breaks down in an isolated area and she accepts unexpected help from someone she knows. She is later found beaten to death. Goren and Eames realize that Jenny's requests for additional security measures were interfering with illegal activities at the airport, and that the people harassing her were trying to force her to resign. But it seems unlikely that Jenny would ever asks for help from any of her known enemies, and so the detective duo start investigating the only co-worker which Jenny apparently liked and trusted. An apparently charming man with con-artist tendencies and anger-management issues.
Episode 12
Suite Sorrow
Sun, Feb 2, 2003 43 mins
After the tyrannical owner of a Manhattan luxury hotel is found submerged in her bathtub, evidence seems increasingly to indicate that the woman's death was the work of her deeply frustrated, long-suffering daughter.
Episode 13
See Me
Sun, Feb 9, 2003 44 mins
A psychiatrist is stabbed to death one night in a park adjoining Gracie Mansion, and the killer seems to be a hostile schizophrenic from a nearby homeless shelter. But there proves to be far more to the case than meets the naked eye.
Episode 14
Probability
Sun, Feb 16, 2003 44 mins
Goren and Eames investigate 16 murders connected to an insurance scum. People bought insurance for homeless or impoverished people, killed them, and then attempted to collect the money from the insurance companies. The detectives deduce that a trio of college-educated criminals were behind this plot. But one of the three is found murdered, the second one had her share of the loot stolen, and nobody knows the identity of the third accomplice. The detectives receive help from an insurance-fraud investigator with Asperger's syndrome, but they suspect that the man has his own agenda.
Episode 15
Monster
Sun, Mar 2, 2003 44 mins
Soon after a notorious "Yuppie Killer" leaves prison, his mother is found dead. As Goren and Eames investigate, however, they find disturbing hints tying her murder to yet another infamous, but closed, case: the "Reservoir Runner Rape."
Episode 16
Cuba Libre
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 43 mins
A millionaire ex-con's wife is murdered the night of his release, and as the detectives piece together a complex case they must somehow devise a way to use his extreme paranoia against him.
Episode 17
Cold Comfort
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 44 mins
Esteemed former Senator Randolph Kittridge succumbs to cancer while his son and daughter wrangle over a codicil to his will providing that his body be cryogenically frozen after his death. But when not only the ailing Senator dies but also his daughter, Eames and Goren start looking at murder suspects and their motives.
Episode 18
Legion
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 44 mins
After a father and son are found with their throats cut, detectives Goren and Eames find everyone in the victims' supposedly "low-crime" neighborhood strangely reluctant to cooperate with the murder investigation.
Episode 19
Cherry Red
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 60 mins
Goren and Eames try to unravel a deadly mystery after an elderly woman dies in a fire and bequeaths some of her estate to a young woman who is subsequently murdered. Soon their investigation turns to a shady state public administrator who has re-invented the concept of "grave-robbing." Goren discovers the suspect's weakness for expensive collector cars, but to make the case succeed in court, he might also need to exploit his quarry's personal relationships.
Episode 20
Blink
Sun, May 4, 2003 43 mins
The development and deployment of some gambling "systems" by a few college buddies leads to the death of one of the group, Penny Chai. The ensuing investigation leads Goren and Eames to the ringleader, a bold individual who seems to know no fear.
Episode 21
Graansha
Sun, May 11, 2003 43 mins
An investigation into the murder of a probation officer leads Goren and Eames into the world of Irish Travellers.
Episode 22
Zoonotic
Sun, May 18, 2003 44 mins
Part 1 of 2: The murder of a crooked cop puts Detectives Goren and Eames on the trail of an obsessively clean doctor whose previous girlfriends all seem to be afflicted with a "zoonotic" disease -- or a virus found only in animals. Their probe also points to a preening veterinarian as well as a looming psychological component that is crucial to putting a bulletproof case together.
Episode 23
A Person of Interest
Sun, May 18, 2003 43 mins
Part 2 of 2: Goren's misstep while working a victim opens him to press scrutiny and ushers an old adversary back into his life.
