Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Undaunted MettleNoah Preston (Michael Hogan) is a very mysterious, but ambitious young architect. He is obsessed with designing the new buildings to replace the World Trade Center. But after arranging to meet someone, he turns up dead in Penn Station - stabbed with a screwdriver in the neck. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) have a tough time figuring him out because he was so secretive. He didn't have a license but still worked at a decent firm, although his designs and ambitions far exceeded the type of shopping mall/development type work at his company.
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Episode 2 - GeminiBrent Anderson (Barry Del Sherman) is obsessed with appearances, as well as the lengths people go to change the way they look. Brent decides to change his eye color to blue, his brown hair to blond and goes to a plastic surgeon inquiring about a nose job. Meanwhile, there are a string of seemingly related murders and two were committed at eyewear centers. Initially, robbery is thought to be the motive but a common ad at both eyewear centers - "change your brown eyes to blue" - makes Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) suspicious.
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Episode 3 - The GiftClayton Webster (Lee Rosen) is the son of a very wealthy Upper East Side couple. His mother Lyz (Anne Twomey) is a worrier and he senses trouble with his parents' marriage. Clayton is soon found dead in the trunk of his car in Long Island City, in a square surrounded by three churches. Clayton was a cameraman for a national news organization and had recently returned from Iraq where he was part of the embed program. Jerry Rivers (Brennan Brown), a reporter, leads the detectives to the Long Island City apartment of Octavia Ruiz (Florencia Lozano), a Chilean art dealer. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) suspect she was having an affair with Clayton's father, Henry (Michael Nouri), also an art dealer, but he denies it.
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Episode 4 - But Not ForgottenFrieda Merced (Liz Larsen) and her friend Isobel (Alicia Coppola) are having lunch, discussing some mysterious tax forms. Isobel's husband, Earl (Terry Serpico), is a partner in a security company and ex-cop. Her ex-husband, Dan, was Frieda's brother. He died on 9/11, not during the terrorist attack but his car was jacked and he was found dead in Queens. Frieda's husband, Truman (Tom Mason), works out the details of his mother's arrival. Frieda is supposed to pick her up at the airport. But when Truman arrives home from work, his mother is in the lobby. Frieda never made it. A witness at a parking garage on First Avenue saw Frieda get into a waiting cab with her bichon. Earlier in the day she had been at the gym, and when she saw someone outside, she ran back in. A web cam picks up a photo of a man named Bennie (Tim Artz) who was waiting for her outside. Meanwhile, Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) make the connection between Frieda and Isobel. Frieda's brother was Isobel's husband, but since he died on 9/11, his murder investigation got short shrift.
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Episode 5 - PravdaBen Elkins (Judd Hirsch), editor of the prestigious New York Sentinel, is concerned about his star reporter, Carl Hines (Anthony Mackie). His recent story is late and he talks to his mistress Katya (Michal Sinnott), threatening her that she must stay away from Carl. Meanwhile, Carl, an African-American in his late 20's, has been fabricating stories. He doesn't file any expense reports, yet has by-lines from all over the country. His father, Roy (Glynn Turman) teaches journalism at Jamaica High School and is very proud of his son. But when Katya is killed in Carl's apartment, Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Bishop (Samantha Buck) see the dark underside of life at the Sentinel.
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Episode 6 - StrayTwo undercover Detectives set up a gun buy and are killed in the process. The other two Detectives, who were following them, make the gruesome discovery of the dead cops. They're alongside the two young men who were selling the guns, which turned out to be plastic, brutally killed inside the Detective's car while stopped at a rest station. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Bishop (Samantha Buck) track down the victims who work in a Staten Island custom auto shop. There they had the tools to make the fake guns. But they need to find their accomplice as they suspect he was the one who killed his friends, and the cops. They hope that since the bills were marked, that will help them find the killer.
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Episode 7 - A Murderer Among UsLena Brody (Monique Fowler) works at a Jewish Home for the Aging. She has a mysterious bruise on her wrist and tells her daughter, Claire (Maria Thayer), it happened at work. When her husband Lance (Thomas G. Waites) comes home that night, they get into a huge argument. Later, Lance finds her locked in the bathroom, dead. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Bishop (Samantha Buck) are on the case because Lance's sheet metal business was involved in a bid-rigging case in Queens. He is the prime suspect, especially after it appears their huge fight was a result of Lena throwing out one of Lance's prized model boats that he builds from scratch. But the boat is found, so Goren thinks maybe Lena staged her own suicide to frame her husband. Lena's kneecap was shattered and it makes Lance a little anxious when they ask him about it. Strangely, Sam Landau, the son-in-law of one of Lena's patients at the Home, was killed in the same way.
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Episode 8 - Sound BodiesThe close-knit community of Channel Island is calling a meeting to discuss the future of the local church, but the meeting is disrupted when Laura Koehler (Denise Galik) and others become deathly ill. They've all suffered arsenic poisoning and it's determined the source of the arsenic is artificial sweetener. Laura's husband Michael (John Furey) is initially concerned that she committed suicide because their son Brian recently drowned when he and two of his friends took a rowboat to nearby Hart Island. The families of the boys were suing the marina where the kids stole the boat and also the 911 operator. But Laura had been holding out, wanting the case to go to trial and refusing to settle. When Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Bishop (Samantha Buck) examine the boat, they realize it had been sabotaged. Patched with icing and glue to appear to be ok, then rigged to sink about 200 miles offshore. They now think the boys were murdered.
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Episode 9 - Happy FamilyPaula (Angelica Torn) and Russell (Dennis Rees) Connors, soon to be divorced, are in the middle of a major argument. She suspects him of cheating and is going berserk, thinking he might bring one of his girlfriends to their children's recital that evening. Paula and Russell are very wealthy and live in separate luxurious Upper East Side residences. Their children, 14-year-old Jason (Reiley McClendon) and 11-year-old Sam, live with their full time nanny, Helen Reynolds (Anna Katarina), and their mother. The night of their big recital, everyone is there, including their aunt and uncle, Ralph (Josh Pais) and Brenda (Camilla Scott) Friedman, and Paula's boyfriend, Eddie Malloy (Zach Galligan). But Russell never shows up because he's been beaten to death with a hockey stick. Eddie, who arrived late for the recital, is the first suspect. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Bishop (Samantha Buck) find his shirt with Russell's blood and the hockey stick in the trash between Russell's apartment and Beatrice Hall (the location of the recital). But Eddie says he has an alibi, that he was with another girlfriend, and it checks out.
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Episode 10 - F.P.S.ATM machines and computers are going haywire, with systems causing accounts to be drained. Corinne Kennedy (Annie Burton), a computer whiz, gets a threat - that her head will be put on a stick while at work at M&D Accounting Services. She is subsequently persona non grata at the Right Time Temp Agency and goes home to her apartment, where a "deliveryman" pushes her off the balcony. It's evident she wasn't a jumper, plus her computer is missing. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Bishop (Samantha Buck) talk to the people at M&D who tell the cops she was threatened and forensic technicians realize she was in trouble because of spyware technology. They find an ATM machine that has been tampered with and trace it to Tek Cash Services in Yonkers. The Detectives find Alexi (Uliks Fehmiu) and Serge (Astrit Ibroci) who seem to be a front for a bigger operation.
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Episode 11 - Mad HopsDiego Bracho (Jose Ramon Rosario) is desperately trying to find Corey Fergin, a star high school basketball player, and no one seems willing to help him. He goes to Rikers to talk to Corey's brother and canvasses Rucker Park, the sacred basketball court/park in Harlem, but still no luck. Bracho is soon found dead, and still no sign of Corey. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Bishop (Samantha Buck) are wondering why Diego was so intent on finding Corey. They discover he was trying to get him to sign off on a video that was shot, and the ad agency needs his OK before they can release it. But the bigger concern is that Corey, who is one of several very hot prospects on Harlem's Moses Caro High School basketball squad, has not been seen in two weeks. His parents are very concerned, and they think because his brother is in Rikers for selling dope, he might have followed the same path.
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Episode 12 - UnrequitedMarion Whitney (Claire Bloom), 60, is in an acting class with students half her age and taking dancing lessons too. Meanwhile, the body of her recently deceased husband, James, is exhumed, and M.E. Rodgers (Leslie Hendrix) discovers he died of poisoning, not emphysema as originally thought. Since becoming a widow, Marion has had a new lease on life - she's hosting major fundraisers and she's on the road to becoming a performer in her own right. But Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) interrupt her in the middle of a big event. They ask her questions and she quickly dismisses them to go back to her guests. An anonymous letter tipped off the cops to the questionable circumstances surrounding Whitney's death - the only thing they can tell about the letter is it was printed on a dot matrix printer.
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Episode 13 - Pas de DeuxDonny De Palma (Charles Rocket) picks up a bored housewife named Margie (Enid Graham) at a dance class, but also has another partner named Ernie (Delaney Williams) who robs banks with him. Ernie wears a "fake bomb" around his neck and tells the bank teller, unless the rules are followed, the bomb will go off. The cops catch Ernie and the bomb, turning out to be a real one this time, goes off, killing him. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) undertake an exhaustive search to find Ernie's partner, and finally find Donny through surveillance tapes. Meanwhile, he's testing Margie stealing a very expensive purse and Margie, who desperately wants to escape her dull, suburban housewife existence, gets more and more excited by her new partner. Margie's husband, Will (Geoffrey Cantor), who works in Connecticut and is rarely home, doesn't have a clue, but when Goren talks to him he starts to get concerned.
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Episode 14 - Mis-LabeledClayton Sherwood (Darren Goldstein) works for Clarendon Pharmaceuticals and his territory is Southeast Asia. He's back from Bangkok for a brief visit, ostensibly to reconcile with his well-bred wife, but gets side tracked with Eric Dunlow (Daniel Sauli), an old college colleague who later turns up dead. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) try to piece everything together. He had a wild social life in Bangkok, his wife was trying to reconcile but before he could see her he said he had to return to Bangkok. However, it appears that something is going on between Dr. Bernard Mailer (Adam Grupper) and Steve Johannsen (Stephen Bogardus) executives at Clarendon. Johannsen knows Dunlow went out with Sherwood and wants to know what they discussed, but Dunlow doesn't tell him anything. The Detectives question Dunlow who says he really couldn't help Sherwood, but they do discover that Clarendon was selling blood-clotting drugs.
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Episode 15 - Shrink-WrappedChristian Lyle (Gene Farber) is arguing with his therapist, Eloise Barnes (Margaret Colin), a sexy but married middle-aged woman. He's a student at Julliard and has issues with boundaries, as he is constantly running late on his rehearsal time. He also is clearly smitten with his therapist. He shows up at her birthday dinner, only to be escorted out by her husband, Graham (Brent Spiner), a psychologist at Bellevue. Later that night, he is found dead in his rehearsal room. His face was burned with acid and his lower body, ripped by stab wounds. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) talk to Eloise, who says her patient lost his mother in childbirth and has subsequent feelings of guilt. Her husband, meanwhile, doesn't have a terrific record of his own.
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Episode 16 - The SaintLouise Politano (Phyllis Somerville) lives with her daughter and granddaughter in the West Village. Louise works at a rehab facility but she speaks often of the Brother Jerome Foundation. Sean Sullivan (Timothy Doyle), whose father Richard (Brian Murray) runs the Foundation, grudgingly gives an envelope to James Bennett (Stephen Colbert). Louise receives a nicely wrapped gift at work. She takes it home and opens it - and is killed by an exploding lye balloon. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) are puzzled by the mysterious accident. Charlotte (Lydia Jordan), Louise's granddaughter, asks the Detectives why Brother Jerome would save her grandmother once, then not save her this time.
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Episode 17 - ConscienceDr. Ann Ford (Judy Kuhn) swims at the mid-city Y every night at the same time. After arguing with her research assistant, and finding her car defaced, she mysteriously drowns while swimming her laps. Dr. Ford was a neurologist who performed controversial experiments, and was involved in a right to die case. Laraine Farrell (Dee Pelletier) is in a persistent vegetative state due to a heart attack while hiking six years earlier. Her parents want to pull the plug, her husband wants her to stay alive, and her 18-year-old son seems to be siding with his grandparents. Dr. Ford died because someone put the chemical DSMO into her swimming gloves, which was absorbed in her skin, causing her to stop breathing and drown. Her research assistant, Daris (Geoffrey Arend), is the initial suspect but he is cleared. Then Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) start investigating the circumstances behind Laraine's illness.
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Episode 18 - Ill-BredDr. Molly Simms (Tari Signor) is an ambitious young veterinarian. She tends to horses that are owned by an elite horse-jumping crowd. After an elegant dinner, the night before a big competition, Molly is found dead in the stables, next to two maimed horses. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) think she might have stumbled on someone maiming the horses and they caught her, so she had to be killed. There's a dentist who is a "new arrival" to the high-class horse set, Dr. Neil McClintock (Ryfus Collins), and he's not well liked. His two million dollar horses are dead.
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Episode 19 - Fico Di CapoA young witness to a mafia-related crime is killed at his grandmother's birthday party. Danny Lucci (Jason Jurman) had been guarded by cops under the supervision of A.D.A. Geraldo Perez (Fernando Lopez). Perez and his team are devastated, and try to pin the murder on the Damiano family. Meanwhile, Perez's wife, Nina (Zhana Kushir) is about to be "discovered." She's an undercover cop trying to infiltrate the Russian mob. A reporter for the Ledger is about to run a story about her, when Detectives are tipped off and try to intercept her at her decoy apartment. She's been stabbed and is in very bad shape. Perez is again devastated that they've gotten to his wife, and is convinced her cover was blown by a cop.
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Episode 20 - D.A.W.There's a wake for Pauline Pearce, an energetic 66-year-old woman who has just passed away. Her daughters, Janette (Cheryl Freeman) and Danielle (Keisha Alfred), are arguing over a ring that has disappeared. Danielle wants her mother buried with the ring; Janette says her mother is going to be cremated. Dr. Edwin Lingard (Kevin Tighe), Pauline's physician, is at the wake. He talks to Danielle, who doesn't look too healthy, and Danielle is concerned that Janette's fiance, Lawrence (Dennis T. Pressey), took the ring and she goes to the police. Shortly thereafter, Danielle stumbles onto Park Ave. at 108th St. and is run over three times. One of the hit and run drivers turns himself in, and says that there was a car stopped which caused the accident. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) sees that Danielle, a recovering drug addict who had supposedly been clean for a year, was using again and had shot up right before she died.
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Episode 21 - ConsumedTommy Callahan (Bill Sage) is acting very strange. He's late for work, angry and sometimes doesn't know where he's been. He also thinks three men are always following him. His neighbor, Beth (Karen Sillas), irons his shirts and takes care of him. He's lonely and goes to a local bar, and that's the last thing he remembers. Three men, including Eddie Mercado (Paul Knowles), are shot. One of the shots is a point blank bullet in the heart. Tommy turns up a little later in a nearby subway tunnel with an empty gun and a broken leg, and he doesn't remember anything. Tommy is brought into the prison ward at the hospital, and Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) discover he had killed a man a year ago when three guys attacked him. Clearly he hasn't been the same since. Goren determines that he has a condition called parasomnia, in other words, he sleepwalks and cannot remember anything while he's in that state. They are convinced that Tommy killed the three victims, but had no idea what he was doing. He must have had an accomplice.
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