Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Semi-DetachedRay Garnett (Fisher Stevens) is a controversial top rated morning DJ who is always pushing the envelope. He drops his kids with his ex-wife Kelly (Tatum O'Neal), gets a large amount of cash, comes home, refuses dinner from his housekeeper and goes into his home recording studio. When he goes out, he runs into his boss on the Staten Island Ferry. His boss gets off, but Ray doesn't. When Ray's a no show for work the following day, everyone is worried. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) talk to Kelly and she admits he was suicidal (he had attempted it already) and taking a high dose of an anti-depressants. Ray is discovered on the ferry, in the bilge of the boat, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. However, during the autopsy, he does not have the dosage of anti-depressants he should have had. It appears someone was giving him placebos, and then at the last minute switched the pills back to the real thing so it's murder by suicide.
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Episode 2 - The Posthumous CollectionGerhardt Heltman (Sam Tsoutsouvas) is a world-renowned photographer who has his fans and his enemies. While on a shoot, he receives a note and meets with someone in an old printing plant. The next morning he abruptly decides to move back to Germany, even though his wife wants to stay in New York to be near their son and daughter-in-law, who are expecting a baby. He then gets a phone call, leaves the house, and later that night is found dead after a horrible car crash. It is determined that Gerhardt's head was crushed before the crash and his hands were handcuffed to the steering wheel - someone set up the accident.
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Episode 3 - WantAmanda Norman (Shannon McGinnis) dances at a strip club to help pay for her expensive ballet school. She's uneasy when approached in the alley by a sleazy patron, and she asks another customer, John Tagman (Neil Patrick Harris), to walk her to the door. After work she goes to a diner across from the club. Three days later, her body is found in Fort Tryon Park, and her calf muscle is missing. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) go to the strip club and find out the sleazy patron is Manny Feijo (Mando Alvarado), who was upset at being overcharged. He watched her go to the diner but says she was with her "boyfriend" and he didn't go in to talk to her. A waitress at the diner tells them that Amanda came in by herself, quickly became high, then was sitting with another customer. They think her ice tea was spiked.
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Episode 4 - Great BarrierZack (Brian Nishii) and Ella (Grace Hsu) are quite ambitious - Ella is posing as an affluent Japanese businesswoman and Zack says he works at Goldman Sachs. They go to a jewelry store and very discreetly swap three diamonds. Zack then mysteriously dies in a subway tunnel as they are making their escape. It seems someone injected him with a lethal dose of muscle relaxant. It's tough to track down Ella - and it turns out Zach was using a fake license. It seems he had been to Japan and showed a Goldman Sachs executive a "good time." Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) discover Ella worked as a bicycle messenger, with the scrapes, scars and leg muscles to prove it and they track her down. Ella's parents haven't been in touch with her for about a month and are upset because Ella sent a nasty letter to her grandparents informing them her mother decided to have an abortion. In the meantime Ella is casing out yet another jewelry store and the detectives believe she has an older, smarter accomplice.
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Episode 5 - EosphorosEleanor Callaway (Rita Gardner) is the outspoken leader of the New York Atheist's Alliance, who hasn't shown up for a radio interview. She and her granddaughter, April (Mara Hobel), have been kidnapped. April escapes but it's too late for Eleanor, she and one of her captors are found dead. April tries helping the detectives with the case, but Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) are having a hard time piecing it all together. The dead man found with Eleanor is Larry Hastings (Michael Luggio) and Eleanor's son Wayne (Henry Stram) is convinced that although there was a ransom demand, the crime was about silencing their atheist beliefs, not about money. Goren and Eames however, aren't so sure.
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Episode 6 - In the DarkIn the land of the underground, strange things happen. Homeless people live in the subway tunnels and disappear. Vicki Hale (Amelia Campbell), a volunteer who brought safe needles, condoms and blankets to those in the tunnels, was asking about a regular Alan (Bruce Smolanoff), who was last seen doing business with Donald (Paul Lazar). Soon after, a scavenger finds a body and it's bought for $120 from Paul French (John Krupp). Vicki's head turns up at the Meritt Laboratories research lab in Brooklyn. But before the doctors can harvest the brain, they shave the skull, and find a bullet wound.
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Episode 7 - MagnificatPaul Whitlock (Sam Robards) is not happy that he's passed over for a promotion for a new project at Windale Electronics. That afternoon, he calls his wife Doreen (Carrie Preston) and sends her on an errand. She takes her four boys with her and stops at a gas station, where she encounters three Middle Eastern men. Shortly afterwards her car blows up. The three youngest boys are dead, and she and her oldest, Adam (Sebastian Vignone), are severely hurt. A pipe bomb is found under the gas tank, and when they retrace her steps, they immediately suspect the Middle Eastern men at the gas station, but they have alibis and are clearly not the ones involved. Paul seems eerily calm about all this, and very controlling. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) thinks perhaps Paul's work (he invented a new kind of igniter for land mines) might be the reason someone would hurt the family, but they are now starting to suspect something was amiss at home.
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Episode 8 - Silver LiningBex Todman (Pamela J. Gray) is appraising some one-of-a-kind silver zodiac spoons at a Douglas Manor residence, where Victor Burke, Jr. (Bruce Norris), is literally waiting for his father to die. Victor is in a hurry to get Bex to sign off on her appraisal, but she wants to research the silver first. Meanwhile, her "friend" Wesley Kenderson (David Harbour) is in a hurry to leave her apartment when Victor knocks on the door. Bex gives Victor the appraisal, but doesn't sign it because she knows that the zodiac spoons were stolen. Shortly thereafter, she's found dead on a park bench. Initially, the detectives think Victor might have killed her, since he was in such a rush to get her appraisal. And when his father dies (his alibi was that he was with his sick father), they think it's even more likely. But when they want to confiscate the silver, Victor is absolutely shocked to see that it's been stolen.
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Episode 9 - Inert DwarfDr. John Manotti (Austin Pendleton), who is wheelchair-bound, and his research partner, Dr. Carl Neminger (Steve Routman), are at Manotti's home trying to unlock the Theory of Everything, one of the most complicated theories in the history of quantum physics. Manotti's trophy wife, Joanna (Marla Sucharetza), comes in and orders Neminger to leave. Manotti and Neminger are on a tight deadline - they are scheduled to present their new theory in two months at a major conference in Berlin - but she cuts their session short. Neminger and his assistant, a graduate student named Sateesh (Aasif Mandvi), leave Manotti's house. The following day, Neminger starts to act strangely while at home. After speaking at a conference, Neminger starts to cough up blood and by the time he gets to Grand Central station, he is surrounded by police because he is literally radioactive.
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Episode 10 - The View from Up HereThe residents of a high-end condo building are concerned that the building is falling apart. Jay Peerson (Ken Krugman), president of the condo board, goes out for his evening jog but is actually spying on the building with binoculars. Someone comes up behind him - there's a buzzing sound, and he falls into the river. His body is found without a head after it got caught in the propeller of a boat. Based on the photos of the jogging suit, Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) track down Jay's wife, Darla (Kathleen Robertson), who is devastated. They wonder why someone would kill her husband. It turns out the building is very high stakes, and the people who live there are high maintenance.
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Episode 11 - GoneAllison Jenkins (Michelle Federer) was traveling from Milwaukee to New York City for the first time; she was on her way to meet her future mother and brother-in-law. Her fiance, Brad Wycliff (Jeff Biehl) drops her off at the airport and she is very excited about the trip, but Brad's brother, Jared (Grant James Varjas), doesn't seem too thrilled about the visit. Meanwhile, Sonny Brightbill (Michael Greyeyes) and his girlfriend Carly (Amanda Loncar) have something bad up their sleeves; we just don't know what. While on board the plane, Allison chats with the gentlemen next to her, David Blake (Robert Carradine), who seems very interested in her exotic Asian brochures (she is trying to pick a honeymoon location). Unsure of how to get around NYC, she asks Blake the best way to get to her location. She listens and takes a cab to Brooklyn, but she never arrives at her in-laws' house.
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Episode 12 - CollectiveArnold Pierce (Jordan Gelber) is a very nervous sci-fi toy collector. He sees a listing for a 1950's sci-fi TV-show robot online and gets very upset. He goes to a toyshop in Philadelphia to try and buy it, but the storeowner insists it has to be purchased through the online auction. Shortly thereafter, officers are called to Pierce's apartment, where they hear a woman screaming inside. When they burst in, he has a silver toy in his hands; the cops think it's a gun and shoot Pierce dead. The alleged hostage is nowhere to be found, and detectives realize that it may have been a setup. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) figure out that Pierce had been ripped off. Someone stole a very expensive, collectable robot from him and he was trying to get it back.
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Episode 13 - Stress PositionTaylor Kenna (Charles Borland) is celebrating with his "buddies" - he's passed the exam for the NYFD, but his supervisor Kurt Plumm (Wayne Duvall), is suspicious. Taylor is very excited to be leaving his job as a corrections officer in a Federal prison in Brooklyn, but he is having trouble sleeping and with only two weeks left at the job, he is found stabbed to death. Whoever killed Taylor made it look like he was soliciting a hooker, but Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) soon realize that's not the case. They think perhaps a former prisoner had a beef with him and wanted payback. Goren and Eames go to the prison and hear that Chocolate Jimmy Girunda (Jeremy Webb) fits the profile. He was recently released and when they question him at his mother's apartment, he confesses. The cops think that was a little too easy, in fact, they are convinced that it isn't the first time Jimmy's confessed to something he didn't do.
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Episode 14 - Sex ClubGeorge Merritt (Peter Bogdanovich) has it all. Late 60's but living the high life, he is constantly surrounded by beautiful young women. His successful magazine Privilege is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and the cottage industry that was spawned, including the Honey girls, has allowed him to live a very good life. But his business is not as good as it seems, and he is holding a huge auction. Lila Parsons (Catherine Hickland) was a Miss Honey January 1972, now she's married to a very rich Texan and she's got her eye set on a nice package from the auction. Except someone on the phone is bidding for the same thing. She wins, and the caller is very upset. Later that day, she is alone at her hotel, and someone comes in, killing her with blows to the head. Her grandson had been sneaking a look at the book that was part of the package they bought - it was Merritt's official black book with quite a bit of valuable information inside. The cops quickly figure out that the book is what the killer wanted, because it has gone missing.
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Episode 15 - Death RoeTommy Onerato (Chris Penn) is at the fish market and meets Freddy (Edmund Wilkinson), a fisherman who operates out of a van. He gives him a package, which he in turn gives to Josh (Alex Burns). Josh owns Apice Restaurant, and Tommy tells him that the patron who will get this "present" is wearing a goatee. Josh and his wife Beatrice (Monica Keena), who is Tommy's daughter, get together late that night, and are nervous that everything went OK. The next evening, Josh is alone at the restaurant when he gets a call that something bad has happened - he's furious. Meanwhile, Mr. Barry (the man with the goatee) is at a different restaurant, Grill Negril, whispering notes into a tape recorder. He leaves by himself, but feels as if he is being followed. Later that night, Mr. Barry is found beaten to death on the East River Walk overpass. It turns out, Mr. Barry is actually a woman; Sally Moore (Moira Driscoll), one of the top food critics in the city. Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) talk to her editor, and discover that Sally was about to do a review of Apice, but she got food poisoning (no doubt from the secret package of fish that Tommy gave to Josh).
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Episode 16 - Ex StasisA young mother, Vanessa Nikos (Karen Zippler), who designs jewelry, is excited about an appointment she has with a famous jeweler. However, her meeting ends tragically; she is shot and left brain dead. Her organs are harvested and her kidney is transplanted into Sarah Edgars (Denise Burse). Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) believe Vanessa was a target because her appointment was made without the owner, Deven Gehry (Ron Orbach), knowing, and the meeting had to be at a precise time. Also, Vanessa was the only one injured, and she was shot in such a way that she would be brain dead, but her organs would still be functioning.
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Episode 17 - ShibbolethA young woman is brutally attacked and murdered after getting into a fight with her married lover. The victim Phoebe Morgan (Melissa Hickey) was bound and gagged while the killer pleasured himself. Because of a unique speech impediment (captured on the 911 call) Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) believe the killer is Keith Durbin (Paul Sparks), a recently paroled sex offender. Goren realizes the killer is arrogant, and tries to smoke him out with newspaper leaks. The leak works and Goren receives a letter and picture from the killer - a serial offender who was never captured.
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Episode 18 - The Good ChildRachel Coburn (Gaby Hoffman) is not happy with her life, which appears on the surface to be perfect -- loving parents, a nice house. But she's been meeting with an older, married man named Trevor Osborn (John Shea) and she's living with secrets. Her life is turned upside down when her parents, Camille (Lizbeth MacKay) and Dennis (Michael Hobbs) are brutally executed, and it is discovered that the Coburns are really the Meisners from Buffalo. They are in witness protection after Dennis cooperated in a major sting that resulted in convictions and serious jail time for the Marinko brothers.
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Episode 19 - BeastLisa Ross (Elizabeth Hobgood) is beautiful, and married to a successful (but suspicious) dentist, Gregory (Bronson Pinchot). She is out with her friends and wins a sweatshirt in a bar quiz contest, but her husband suspects a man's cologne on it. The next evening, Lisa, her husband, and parents are supposed to go on a dinner cruise, but she gets violently ill and is taken to the hospital. Her face then gets horrible acne-like cysts, and it's dioxin poisoning. Initially, Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) think she may have picked up the dioxin at work, since she's in a basement and there are rusty bolts and the work conditions show traces of dioxin. But not nearly enough to give her the levels in her body, which ultimately kill her.
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Episode 20 - No ExitFour young adults meet and are planning something - the fifth person, Carmine Ruggiero (David Jenkins), isn't there. They all reconvene and pick up Carmine, but unknown to him, they are on a suicide mission, parking their car in front of a train. Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), investigating the crime scene, realizes from the glass under Carmine's foot that he was trying to escape, and they start to wonder if there's something suspicious going on there. In the meantime, Carmine's bosses at LongBridge Finance, Hubert Skoller (Arye Gross) and Leonard Timmons (Darrell Hammond), get the news about Carmine, which followed another recent suicide, of Edie Elverson. Initial investigation of the suicide leads the cops to a bizarre website, Terminal Decision, where Jules Smythe (Jason Antoon) runs a "how-to" suicide website.
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Episode 21 - The Unblinking EyeA group of four twenty-somethings, Mike (Jeffrey Hephner), Ed (Pablo Schreiber), Dana (Jicky Schnee) and Julie (Joanie Ellen), who appear to have everything, are in Queens looking for Chinese food, when they run into Kelly Watts (Kat Foster), Mike's former girlfriend. Ed talks to her, and Dana (who is Mike's current girlfriend) is a little concerned. Later that night, Mike is getting ready to propose to Dana, in front of a baby clothes store, but all of a sudden, she's shot (as is Mike). They had been at a bar earlier and some punks who were there are the prime suspects, especially since one of them had stolen Dana's purse and the ring. But the suspicion shifts to Kelly, who has a hobby of "geocaching" (going to parks and doing a treasure hunt). Police find the murder weapon buried close to where she had recently logged in and swapped treasures. Add on the stalking element, which Mike corroborates, and Kelly is now the prime suspect.
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Episode 22 - My Good NameAnya Czabo (Roxanna Hope) is at an apartment in Battery City, clearly used for personal meetings, and leaves a note for Bear. At the same time, Frank Adair (Michael Rispoli), a high-powered former police commissioner who has his own security firm and is eyeing top political power, is at a photo shoot with his commanding media consultant, Janice Steiner (Jenna Stern). When Anya gets home, her husband, Walter (James Lee), has the note she wrote, and is furious. Several days later, he turns up dead in Harlem. When Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) question Anya, she tells them that she was away at her sister's all weekend, and that her husband had gone out drinking by himself. She has been beaten up, and she grudgingly admits that Walter did it to her. In the meantime, the cops try to figure out who would kill Walter.
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Episode 23 - False Hearted JudgesJudge Ellen Barrett (Susan Angelo) appears to have it all - three great kids and a nice husband. But her life ends abruptly when two men enter her house and she and her oldest son are killed. Her husband clings to life while her two younger children escape by hiding in the bathroom. Barrett was killed right after Wade Brownfield (Ari Fliakos) and his crew was brought from Rikers to Barrett's courtroom, where she took away their visiting and phone call privileges. Shortly after that, another Judge, Roland Thibodeaux (Mark Kenneth Smaltz), is gunned down after a game of handball in the park. Thibodeaux had reinstated a manslaughter charge for an assisted suicide case against Franklin Traynor (MacIntyre Dixon), who gave his terminally ill friend enough sleeping pills to do the trick. But it gets worse, and Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) discover there's a trail of dead judges, starting in the Rockies and working its way east.
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