List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent characters
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
, a spin-off
of the crime drama Law & Order
, follows the detectives who work in the "Major Case Squad" of the New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on high-profile cases (in most cases murder
, just like the regular Law & Order in this sense), such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the financial industry, and the art world
; though sometimes the cases are similar to the cases from the original Law & Order show as well. From its fifth season until the beginning of the ninth season, which aired in September 2005 until April 2010, the series had generally shown four major detectives working the unit, in alternating episodes under the leadership of both Captain James Deakins
and Captain Danny Ross. The unit also previously had a prosecutor assigned from the DA's office, that frequently interacted with the squad. The ninth and tenth seasons of the series showed two major detectives working the unit in all episodes under the leadership of Captain Zoe Callas and later Joseph Hannah.
One of the original characters on Law & Order, Detective Mike Logan
(played by Chris Noth
), appears in one episode of Season 4. At the beginning of Season 5, he is transferred from Staten Island
to the Major Case Squad, where he worked until the end of Season 7.
Robert Goren is a quirky, extraordinarily intelligent investigator and criminal profiler
, known for his instinct and insight. Often, Goren's intuition
, rather than solid evidence, turns out to be the case-breaker. Each episode, Goren typically employs his knowledge of an unusually wide range of topics, from theoretical physics
, chemistry
, and literature
to history
, psychology
, and multiple foreign language
s. Goren once served in the Army
's Criminal Investigation Division
, stationed in Germany
and South Korea
, and worked in the NYPD's Narcotics Division before transferring to Major Case (in the first season episode "The Insider
", it is revealed that he worked on three undercover
operations resulting in 27 arrests and convictions).
The Robert Goren character is very reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes
; he notices tiny-yet-important details ignored by others, and possesses broad, almost encyclopedic knowledge. Frequently, Goren obtains crucial information and confessions by psychologically manipulating and provoking suspects and their associates. Mental illness seems to run in Goren's family: his mother suffered from schizophrenia
and his biological father was a serial killer
. Recently, it has become clear that this history, coupled with Goren's unorthodox style, has become a source of trouble for him within the NYPD, spawning rumors and accusations that he is mentally unstable. In particular, this view is held by the Chief of Detectives, who suspends
him for six months without pay after he embarks on an unauthorized undercover infiltration of a prison
's mental ward. In the season 7 finale, he lost his brother Frank (Tony Goldwyn
) to his archnemesis Nicole Wallace. In the course of the investigation, he realized that his mentor, Dr. Declan Gage, had orchestrated the deaths of his brother and Wallace. During season eight, he begins to recover after the events of season 7. In "Loyalty", Goren and Eames are pulled off a pair of homicides by Ross, who informs them that the FBI has taken an interest in the case. Ross is later murdered as well, their prime suspect is taken into custody by the FBI, provoking Goren into a physical altercation that leads to his suspension. He continues to investigate on his own and eventually learns of a plan by the FBI to allow GPS-tagged weapons to be distributed to terrorist camps in Somalia, so that the camps could be easily targeted and wiped out. He is then fired by Eames, who had recently been offered a promotion to captain of the Major Case Squad; she subsequently quits instead.
Alexandra Eames is the quiet, practical partner who generally seems to mesh well with Goren despite the noticeable personality differences between the two. She worked in the NYPD's Vice Division for four years before transferring to Major Case. Her character is much like the screen portrayals of Holmes's partner Doctor Watson
: a lesser equal, overshadowed by the charismatic presence of a prodigious partner. While still an assertive and no-nonsense cop and the senior partner of the pairing, much of Eames's dialogue consists of sarcastic
, pun
-heavy observations delivered at dramatically opportune moments (much like Law & Order' s Det. Lennie Briscoe
character).
Bishop is introduced in the episode "Pravda" as the temporary partner of Det. Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), assigned to the Major Case Squad of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), due to Det. Alexandra Eames volunteering to serve as a surrogate mother for her sister's baby. Her character was only a temporary replacement and was not seen after Eames returned from maternity leave.
Logan is a troubled detective who formerly worked in the homicide division of Manhattan's 27th precinct (from 1990 to 1995, on Law & Order). He was banished to the NYPD's career graveyard (Staten Island
) after publicly punching a homophobic
politician who had murdered a gay
man whom Logan had grudgingly come to respect; however, Logan redeemed himself by solving a dirty-cop murder-conspiracy case (the NBC TV movie Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
). He was transferred from Staten Island to the NYPD's Domestic Disputes department. Logan first appeared on Criminal Intent in the fourth-season episode "Stress Position
", through his romantic involvement with a nurse employed at a prison being investigated by Goren and Eames. At the beginning of season five, he was officially transferred to the Major Case Squad at the behest of Capt. Deakins, in the episode "Grow
". In addition, Logan was involved in the "officer-involved shooting" used to fuel the career-ending conspiracy against Capt. Deakins. After solving a 16 year homicide case in the episode "Last Rites
", dissatisfaction with the corruption and overall inflexibility of the justice system drove him to leave the force.
Carolyn Barek is Mike Logan's first partner in the Major Case Squad. Barek spent two post-9/11
years with the FBI
. Why she left the Major Case Squad is not stated.
Megan A. Wheeler is Mike Logan's second partner in the Major Case Squad. Wheeler transfers in with her captain-mentor, Daniel Ross. She is by-the-book, and is reluctant to bend procedural rules, unlike Det. Logan. She left at the end of the 2006–07 season to go to Europe for follow-up work with the Joint Task Force, where she had worked with Capt. Ross. She returns to the role in the episode "Contract"; the absence was written in to cover Julianne Nicholson's maternity leave. During Season 8, Det. Wheeler announced she was pregnant by her ex-fiancé. It was later reported that the character would be absent from the final episodes of the season in conjunction with Nicholson's real life pregnancy, and Det. Eames would partner with Nichols for the remaining episodes.
Nola Falacci served as Logan's partner for a short time while Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) was in Europe teaching American police procedure to European police officers.
Zack Nichols joined as a replacement for Logan. He came to Major Case in the episode "Rock Star
", after being away from the NYPD for seven years. He was once partnered with Captain Ross when they both worked in Anti-Crime. He is estranged from his family personally, however, in the ninth season finale
"Three In One", Zack asks for his father's advice (F. Murray Abraham
) for help on a case; they reconcile their differences by the end of the episode.
(Julianne Nicholson
), who left as partner of Zack Nichols (Jeff Goldblum
) at the end of season eight ("Major Case
") and for Det. Alexandra Eames
(Kathryn Erbe
), who had to leave the series with the 2-part-premiere of the ninth season ("Loyalty") after eight years.
Before transferring to New York, she was with the Chicago Police Department
. During her childhood, Stevens briefly lived in Islamabad
with her father, a Marine
stationed at the American embassy, and learned to read Urdu
and Arabic
.
She is a fan of the Chicago White Sox
("The Mobster Will See You Now"). She hints at being somewhat of a baseball fan when she recognized a dead person as a former baseball player and starts telling Nichols stats regarding his short-lived major league career ("Love on Ice"). She has a daughter ("Delicate") who is eight years old ("Traffic"); her name is Kira ("Lost Children of the Blood").
Captain Deakins is Goren and Eames' first immediate supervisor; he periodically checks their progress during investigations. At the end of Season 5 (2005–2006), Deakins retires rather than battle a conspiracy
to frame him. The vendetta stemmed from an episode in which Deakins — torn between loyalty and integrity — reluctantly allows Goren and Eames to imprison his friend Frank Adair (a former Chief of Detectives), by refusing to cover up his misdeeds. Adair uses his connections to plant false evidence of Deakins' corruption; Deakins refuses to tarnish the department by fighting the charges.
Ross is Deakins's successor as the Major Case Squad commander. He is given the command as a reward for a successful three-year stint as head of a Joint Task Force on International Money Laundering; he took Detective Megan Wheeler with him to the Major Case Squad. Little is known about his home life, though he does mention in the 6th season episode Tru Love
that he has two teenage sons, and in 6th season episode Albatross
he is shown at a Burr-Hamilton duel re-enactment with his boys.
In the first half of the 9th season premiere, Ross is involved in an undercover investigation that leads to his death.
), who was killed in the line of duty at the beginning the ninth season. Callas transferred from the Internal Affairs Bureau
to be the captain of the Major Case Squad. However, she only stays around as captain for one season before being replaced by Joseph Hannah in Season 10. Her sudden departure from the Major Case Squad is never explained.
Callas mentions she is from a Greek-American family and has a daughter. Callas is divorced. Her oldest daughter is at Columbia University
as a premed student
. She also has mentioned she has a brother who works in the construction field.
Joseph Hannah is the replacement for Captain Zoe Callas. Hannah is a friend of Detective Robert Goren since their police academy
days. Hannah possesses an easy authority, but also a humorous side, and he shares a buddy-buddy rapport with some of his detectives.
Jay O. Sanders, the actor that portrays Captain Joseph Hannah, appeared previously on Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the episode "Dead
" (Season 2, Episode 1).
Ron Carver is an Assistant District Attorney. Like Anita Van Buren
from Law & Order
, Carver graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice
. No reason has been given for Carver's departure at the end of Season 5 (2005–2006).
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers is a recurring character in the fictional universe
of the crime drama franchise Law & Order
. She is played by Leslie Hendrix
.
Rodgers is dedicated to her work and finds it frustrating when she is badgered by the police for results when she doesn't have them yet.
She also has an affinity for classical music, saying once that she missed an Itzhak Perlman
concert to perform an autopsy. When making an impression of bite marks on the back of an acclaimed opera conductor, she complimented him on his production of Aida
("One of the best nights of my life. Lennie Briscoe
took me.").
Rodgers also reads many crime novels; she reviews them for small magazines. In (L&O: "The Family Hour"), Rodgers named a book that may have influenced the defendant in the murder. When she named the book, the police had not been able to find when they searched the defendant's home, since he was also a crime novel reader. However, the book didn't include the details that she had thought, but instead that scenario was in another book (this scenario is a reference to Law & Order
s role in the Andrea Yates
case). Because of this, she wrote a letter to the judge explaining her mistake. When McCoy
wanted to give the letter to the judge and leave the reference out of his summation, Branch
stopped him and made Connie Rubirosa
, the younger and less experienced ADA, do the summation instead. Though they ended up getting the guilty verdict without giving the judge the letter or mentioning the novel, Rodgers was upset by her mistake and thought it ruined her reputation as a good witness.
Rodgers is a regularly recurring character on Law & Order, as well as the spin-off Law & Order: Criminal Intent
. She also made several guest appearances during the first season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
, as well as a guest appearance on Law & Order: Trial by Jury
. She is currently the longest-running recurring character in Law & Order and one of only five characters who have appeared in all four series of the Law & Order franchise that are set in New York City
. The other four are Lennie Briscoe
, Ed Green
, Arthur Branch
, and Elizabeth Olivet
.
Rodgers can often be seen eating in the morgue. In several episodes, characters comment on her lunch being near the bodies.
Although it is never officially mentioned on screen, there are several moments that point to a growing relationship between Rodgers and Captain Danny Ross of the Major Case Squad
. In one episode, Ross and Rodgers can be seen getting into an elevator dressed for going to the theater. When Ross asks Rodgers for information on Det. Goren
, Goren later confronts Ross with this, shouting at Ross, "Did your girlfriend tell you this?!" After Ross is murdered, Goren and Eames arrive at the crime scene to find Rodgers already there, visibly distraught over both his death and the fact that the FBI
is denying her access to the body.
A police psychologist charged with conducting mandatory sessions with Detective Goren as a condition of his return to the NYPD.
Episodes: "Anti-Thesis
", "A Person of Interest", "Great Barrier
", "Grow
" and "Frame
"
Nicole Wallace is Robert Goren's archnemesis. A brilliant, calculating sociopath
, she is one of the few criminals Goren encounters throughout the series who can get the better of him, particularly by confronting him about his unhappy childhood. Goren theorizes that she was molested by her father as a child, and that the trauma bred in her a pathological drive to use and destroy anyone who gets close to her; this is frequently implied to be true. Goren also believes that she murdered her own daughter in her native Australia
because she saw the girl as a sexual rival (in the episode "Grow
", she insists that her daughter's death was an accident).
She is introduced in the episode "Anti-Thesis
" as a con artist and thief who is living in the U.S. under the alias "Elizabeth Hitchens". She personally murders nine people throughout her five appearances on the show, and it is explained in "Anti-Thesis" that, years before, she helped her then-lover — a criminal svengali
named Bernard Fremont — rob and murder several men in Thailand
. Fremont is murdered off-screen in the episode "Slither
"; Goren believes that Wallace is responsible.
Certain episodes suggest that Wallace is not entirely without humanity, however. In "Grow", for example, she puts herself at risk to save the young daughter of a man she is dating after discovering that the man is trying to kill the girl in order to collect on a multimillion dollar trust fund. She then kidnaps the girl, but lets her go in a brief moment of conscience. She then leaves a voicemail for Goren, cursing him for "taking away" her last chance at happiness.
She makes her final appearance in the seventh season finale, "Frame
", in which she kills Goren's brother Frank with an injection of succinylcholine
after having sex with him. In turn, she is murdered by Goren's former mentor, Declan Gage. According to Gage, her final words were, "Tell Bobby he was the only man I've ever loved."
Declan Gage, Goren's former mentor, appeared in two episodes. In "Blind Spot", his daughter Jo murders two people and kidnaps Eames to make her father notice her. In "Frame", it is revealed he is showing signs of diminishing capacity and concocts a plan to dispose of people whom Gage sees as destructive in Goren's life, "to set him free". Gage had even written a book about female murderers just to lure Nicole Wallace back to town. When she takes the bait, he lets her kill Goren's brother. He then kills Wallace and sends her heart to Goren. Using Wallace's M.O., he stages an attempt on his own life, although the autopsy on the heart reveals she was already dead at the time. He even gaslights
Goren to make him re-engage with life by defending himself against the suspicion he murdered his brother for life insurance to be paid to a Swiss bank account in the name of one of Goren's undercover aliases. He described his relationship with his daughter ("Blind Spot") as "never better"; she is in a coma resulting from blood loss when she bit off her own tongue.
He first appears in "Sound Bodies
" as a charismatic, but deeply disturbed, young man who manipulates three girls into committing murder. In "In the Wee Small Hours
", he takes up an offer from Goren and Eames to spy on a prisoner in exchange of postal privileges at Riker's, where he was transferred to for a few weeks.
Wally Stevens first appeared in "Probability
" as an eccentric employee at a insurance company. It is through evidence of repetition and patterns that Goren and Eames conclude that Wally is on the autism spectrum as well orchestrating several murders of homeless people for insurance money. Eames remarks that Goren and Wally have many things in common, and wryly suggests that the two of them should be penpals. He reappears in "Endgame
" as an unwitting conduit between Goren, with whom he has been corresponding, and Mark Ford Brady, who is in the same penitentiary.
Detective Daniels is a detective who worked in conjunction with the Major Case Squad and the narcotics unit when drugs and gangs were possibly involved in the murder cases at hand. Daniels is introduced in the sixth season episode, "Players" where a judge's son is found shot to death, shortly after a notorious rap artist is sentenced in court. He later returns in the season seven premiere where a police officer is shot - initially believed to be committed by a high-level drug dealer, until he is killed. Daniels briefly appears in the episode "Senseless" where three kids with no criminal related backgrounds were murdered on a playground by a murderous Mexican drug dealer who felt his victim looked down on him. Dainels helps Detectives Logan and Falacci bust an MS13 dealer believed to be involved in the killings.
Daniels last episode was "Purgatory" where Goren gets involved with an ex-cop involved in a high-profile murder of two tourists, Goren later is fully placed undercover by the Chief of Detectives in order to get his badge back after losing it prematurely going undercover in a prison in New York State. Daniels is partnered with Detective Eames; working on the tourists's murder; when a connection is finally made he and Eames wind up busting in on Goren who is undercover. It was never mentioned what happened to Daniels after this episode.
Faith Yancy is a TV journalist who sometimes reports on the Major Case Squad's high-profile cases. The character is an apparent parody of Nancy Grace
, considering she helms a sensationalist news show in the vein of the real-life Grace's HLN
program; in addition, her name itself can be seen as a parody of Nancy Grace's - "Faith" instead of "Grace," and "Yancy" instead of "Nancy." She also speaks with a slight Southern twang similar to Grace's.
Maas joined as a temporary replacement for Captain Danny Ross, who was murdered working a RICO
case with the FBI. Maas is the first Lieutenant to be the commanding officer of the Major Case Squad. He lets Goren, Eames, and Nichols work on the case at hand along with the murder of Ross. After Goren gets heated and shoves Jan Van Dekker in court, Maas suspends him from duty. He later puts Eames up for recommendation to Chief of Detectives Moran that she be the next Captain of the squad, on condition that she fire Goren. She does, but quits immediately thereafter. Both Maas and Eames are replaced by Zoe Callas.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...
, a spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
of the crime drama Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
, follows the detectives who work in the "Major Case Squad" of the New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on high-profile cases (in most cases murder
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
, just like the regular Law & Order in this sense), such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the financial industry, and the art world
Art world
The art world is composed of all the people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art. Howard S. Becker describes it as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things,...
; though sometimes the cases are similar to the cases from the original Law & Order show as well. From its fifth season until the beginning of the ninth season, which aired in September 2005 until April 2010, the series had generally shown four major detectives working the unit, in alternating episodes under the leadership of both Captain James Deakins
James Deakins
Captain James Deakins is a fictional character on the NBC-USA Network U.S. television series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, played by Jamey Sheridan.On the show, Deakins supervises New York City's Major Case Squad...
and Captain Danny Ross. The unit also previously had a prosecutor assigned from the DA's office, that frequently interacted with the squad. The ninth and tenth seasons of the series showed two major detectives working the unit in all episodes under the leadership of Captain Zoe Callas and later Joseph Hannah.
One of the original characters on Law & Order, Detective Mike Logan
Mike Logan (Law & Order)
Michael "Mike" Logan is a fictional character in the police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order franchise, played by Chris Noth.-History in the franchise:...
(played by Chris Noth
Chris Noth
Christopher David "Chris" Noth is an American actor. He is known for long-running television roles as Det. Mike Logan on the police procedural and legal drama television series, Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and as Big on Sex and the City. For the latter role, he has been...
), appears in one episode of Season 4. At the beginning of Season 5, he is transferred from Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
to the Major Case Squad, where he worked until the end of Season 7.
Main characters
| Name | |Occupation | Episodes | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | |3 | |5 | |7 | |9 | Robert Goren Robert Goren Det. Robert "Bobby" Goren is a fictional character featured in the NBC-USA Network police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio.... | Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer. Often referred to as an actor's actor, his work as a character actor has earned him the nickname of "Human Chameleon"... |
Junior Detective | Main | 141 | |||||||||
| Alexandra Eames Alexandra Eames Det. Alexandra "Alex" Eames is a fictional police detective with the NYPD Major Case Squad featured in the NBC-USA Network Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Kathryn Erbe... |
Kathryn Erbe Kathryn Erbe Kathryn Elsbeth Erbe is an American actress known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order, and death row inmate Shirley Bellinger in the HBO series Oz.-Personal life:... |
Senior Detective | Main | 136 | ||||||||||||||
| Mike Logan Mike Logan (Law & Order) Michael "Mike" Logan is a fictional character in the police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order franchise, played by Chris Noth.-History in the franchise:... |
Chris Noth Chris Noth Christopher David "Chris" Noth is an American actor. He is known for long-running television roles as Det. Mike Logan on the police procedural and legal drama television series, Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and as Big on Sex and the City. For the latter role, he has been... |
Senior Detective | Guest | Main | 35 | |||||||||||||
| Carolyn Barek Carolyn Barek Det. Carolyn Barek is a fictional character on the NBC-USA Network series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, played by Annabella Sciorra.Barek is partnered with Det. Mike Logan , on the Major Case Squad of the New York City Police Department . Her badge number is 6141.A criminal profiler from... |
Annabella Sciorra Annabella Sciorra Annabella Sciorra is an American film, television, and stage actress. Sciorra received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead for the 1989 film True Love, and came to widespread attention in her co-lead role in Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever... |
Junior Detective | Main | 12 | ||||||||||||||
| Megan Wheeler Megan Wheeler Det. Megan Ann Wheeler is a fictional character portrayed by Julianne Nicholson on the NBC-USA Network series Law & Order: Criminal Intent... |
Julianne Nicholson Julianne Nicholson Julianne Nicholson is an American actress. She is known for having played Det. Megan Wheeler on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Early life:... |
Junior Detective | Main | 24 | ||||||||||||||
| Nola Falacci Nola Falacci Det. Nola Falacci is a fictional character on the NBC-USA Network series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, played by Alicia Witt.-In Major Case Squad:... |
Alicia Witt Alicia Witt Alicia Roanne Witt is an American film, stage, television actress and singer.-Early life:Witt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her mother, Diane , is a junior high school reading teacher, and her father, Robert Witt, is a science teacher and photographer. She has a brother, Ian... |
Junior Detective | Main | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Zack Nichols | Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblum Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum is an American actor. His career began in the mid-1970s and he has appeared in major box-office successes including The Fly, Jurassic Park and its sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Independence Day... |
Senior Detective | Main | 24 | ||||||||||||||
| Serena Stevens | Saffron Burrows Saffron Burrows Saffron Dominique Burrows is an English actress and former fashion model, who starred as Det. Serena Stevens on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Lorraine Weller on Boston Legal.-Early life:... |
Junior Detective | Main | 15 | ||||||||||||||
| James Deakins James Deakins Captain James Deakins is a fictional character on the NBC-USA Network U.S. television series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, played by Jamey Sheridan.On the show, Deakins supervises New York City's Major Case Squad... |
Jamey Sheridan Jamey Sheridan James Patrick "Jamey" Sheridan is an American actor. He was born in Pasadena, California.He has had a prolific acting career in theater, television, and feature film productions. Born to a family of actors, he made it to Broadway and earned a Tony nomination in 1987 for his performance in the... |
Captain | Main | 111 | ||||||||||||||
| Danny Ross | Eric Bogosian Eric Bogosian Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,... |
Captain | Main | 61 | ||||||||||||||
| Zoe Callas | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer known for her role as Carmen in The Color of Money, as well as for her roles as Lindsey Brigman in The Abyss, Gina Montana in Scarface, and Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.-Personal life:Mastrantonio was born in Lombard,... |
Captain | Main | 14 | ||||||||||||||
| Joseph Hannah | Jay O. Sanders Jay O. Sanders Jay Olcutt Sanders is an American character actor.Sanders was born in Austin, Texas, to Phyllis Rae and James Olcutt Sanders. He is noted for playing Mob lawyer character Steven Kordo in the 1986–88 NBC detective series Crime Story... |
Captain | Also Starring | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Ron Carver Ron Carver Ron Carver is a fictional character on the NBC-USA Network series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, played by Courtney B. Vance.Carver often works in conjunction with detectives Robert Goren, Alexandra Eames, Mike Logan and Carolyn Barek of the Major Case Squad. He graduated from John Jay College of... |
Courtney B. Vance Courtney B. Vance Courtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. He was formerly a regular on the NBC/USA television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He was also a series regular on the ABC series FlashForward. As of 2011, he appears on the TNT series The Closer as Chief... |
Assistant DA | Main | 111 | ||||||||||||||
| Paula Gyson | Julia Ormond Julia Ormond Julia Karin Ormond is an English actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage.-Early life and education:... |
Police Psychiatrist | Also Starring | 7 | ||||||||||||||
Robert Goren
- Portrayed by Vincent D'OnofrioVincent D'OnofrioVincent Phillip D'Onofrio is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer. Often referred to as an actor's actor, his work as a character actor has earned him the nickname of "Human Chameleon"...
. - Episodes: "OneOne (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"One" is the first episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.- Plot summary :In January 1998, Karl Atwood enlists his girlfriend Gia and three others to help plan and execute a major jewelry heist: Carson, fresh out of a Canadian prison; Nathan, an expert in phony...
" - "Loyalty (Part 2)Loyalty (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Loyalty" is the two-part season premiere episode and is the first and second episodes of the ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Part 1:...
", "Rispetto" - "To the Boy in the Blue Knit CapTo the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap"To the Boy In the Blue Knit Cap" is the eighth and final episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural television drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This episode is the final episode of the series. It first aired in the United States on the USA Network on June 26, 2011...
"
Robert Goren is a quirky, extraordinarily intelligent investigator and criminal profiler
Offender profiling
Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is a behavioral and investigative tool that is intended to help investigators to profile unknown criminal subjects or offenders. Offender profiling is also known as criminal profiling, criminal personality profiling, criminological profiling,...
, known for his instinct and insight. Often, Goren's intuition
Intuition (knowledge)
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. "The word 'intuition' comes from the Latin word 'intueri', which is often roughly translated as meaning 'to look inside'’ or 'to contemplate'." Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify...
, rather than solid evidence, turns out to be the case-breaker. Each episode, Goren typically employs his knowledge of an unusually wide range of topics, from theoretical physics
Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...
, chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, and literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
to history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, and multiple foreign language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
s. Goren once served in the Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
's Criminal Investigation Division
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command
United States Army Criminal Investigation Command investigates felony crimes and serious violations of military law within the United States Army...
, stationed in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, and worked in the NYPD's Narcotics Division before transferring to Major Case (in the first season episode "The Insider
The Insider (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"The Insider" is a first season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a wealthy man, found stabbed to death in a yacht marina. They interview the victim's daughter, a teenaged party girl...
", it is revealed that he worked on three undercover
Undercover
Being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence...
operations resulting in 27 arrests and convictions).
The Robert Goren character is very reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
; he notices tiny-yet-important details ignored by others, and possesses broad, almost encyclopedic knowledge. Frequently, Goren obtains crucial information and confessions by psychologically manipulating and provoking suspects and their associates. Mental illness seems to run in Goren's family: his mother suffered from schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
and his biological father was a serial killer
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
. Recently, it has become clear that this history, coupled with Goren's unorthodox style, has become a source of trouble for him within the NYPD, spawning rumors and accusations that he is mentally unstable. In particular, this view is held by the Chief of Detectives, who suspends
Suspension (punishment)
Suspension is a form of punishment that people receive for violating rules and regulations.- Workplace :Suspension is a common practice in the workplace for being in violation of an organization's policy...
him for six months without pay after he embarks on an unauthorized undercover infiltration of a prison
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
's mental ward. In the season 7 finale, he lost his brother Frank (Tony Goldwyn
Tony Goldwyn
Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated Tarzan.-Early life:...
) to his archnemesis Nicole Wallace. In the course of the investigation, he realized that his mentor, Dr. Declan Gage, had orchestrated the deaths of his brother and Wallace. During season eight, he begins to recover after the events of season 7. In "Loyalty", Goren and Eames are pulled off a pair of homicides by Ross, who informs them that the FBI has taken an interest in the case. Ross is later murdered as well, their prime suspect is taken into custody by the FBI, provoking Goren into a physical altercation that leads to his suspension. He continues to investigate on his own and eventually learns of a plan by the FBI to allow GPS-tagged weapons to be distributed to terrorist camps in Somalia, so that the camps could be easily targeted and wiped out. He is then fired by Eames, who had recently been offered a promotion to captain of the Major Case Squad; she subsequently quits instead.
Alexandra Eames
- Portrayed by Kathryn ErbeKathryn ErbeKathryn Elsbeth Erbe is an American actress known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order, and death row inmate Shirley Bellinger in the HBO series Oz.-Personal life:...
. - Episodes: "OneOne (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"One" is the first episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.- Plot summary :In January 1998, Karl Atwood enlists his girlfriend Gia and three others to help plan and execute a major jewelry heist: Carson, fresh out of a Canadian prison; Nathan, an expert in phony...
" - "Loyalty (Part 2)Loyalty (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Loyalty" is the two-part season premiere episode and is the first and second episodes of the ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Part 1:...
", "Rispetto" - "To the Boy in the Blue Knit CapTo the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap"To the Boy In the Blue Knit Cap" is the eighth and final episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural television drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This episode is the final episode of the series. It first aired in the United States on the USA Network on June 26, 2011...
"
Alexandra Eames is the quiet, practical partner who generally seems to mesh well with Goren despite the noticeable personality differences between the two. She worked in the NYPD's Vice Division for four years before transferring to Major Case. Her character is much like the screen portrayals of Holmes's partner Doctor Watson
John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)
John H. Watson, M.D. , known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and is the first person narrator of all but four stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.-Name:Doctor Watson's first...
: a lesser equal, overshadowed by the charismatic presence of a prodigious partner. While still an assertive and no-nonsense cop and the senior partner of the pairing, much of Eames's dialogue consists of sarcastic
Sarcasm
Sarcasm is “a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt.” Though irony and understatement is usually the immediate context, most authorities distinguish sarcasm from irony; however, others argue that sarcasm may or often does involve irony or employs...
, pun
Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...
-heavy observations delivered at dramatically opportune moments (much like Law & Order
Lennie Briscoe
Leonard W. "Lennie" Briscoe is a fictional character on NBC's long running police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order. He was featured on the show for 12 seasons, from 1992 to 2004. He was created by Walon Green and René Balcer, and was portrayed by Jerry Orbach...
character).
- There are occasional hints of a strong affectionAffectionAffection or fondness is a "disposition or rare state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning: emotion ; disease; influence; state of being ; and state of mind...
, and even jealousyJealousyJealousy is a second emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, particularly in reference to a human connection. Jealousy often consists of a combination of presenting emotions...
, between the two partners, but their relationship has never become romantic. Their working relationship is more formal than that of the lead detectives in Law & Order: Special Victims UnitLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
, who typically address each other by their given nameGiven nameA given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
s and have strong emotional interplay. Goren and Eames typically address each other by surnameSurnameA surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
, but when either Eames or Goren is particularly stressed, she calls him "Bobby". She is a legacyLegacy preferencesLegacy preferences or legacy admission is a type of preference given by educational institutions to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution...
officer: her father and late husband were both cops. In the third season, Eames embarked on a surrogate pregnancySurrogacySurrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. This woman may be the child's genetic mother , or she may carry the pregnancy to delivery after having an embryo, to which she has no genetic relationship whatsoever, transferred to her uterus...
for her sister and brother-in-law and, before her maternity leaveParental leaveParental leave is an employee benefit that provides paid or unpaid time off work to care for a child or make arrangements for the child's welfare. Often, the term parental leave includes maternity, paternity, and adoption leave...
, was assigned to desk duty at the police station; her work in the field with Goren was covered by G. Lynn BishopG. Lynn BishopDet. G. Lynn Bishop is a fictional character in the NBC-USA Network series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, played by Samantha Buck.- In Major Case Squad :...
. Recently, Goren and Eames' working relationship has become more strained, as she has become fed up with what she sees as Goren's habit of taking her for granted, expecting her to run interference for his off-beat tactics and style with both co-workers and superiors without acknowledging her contributions. These feelings boil over in the episode "PurgatoryPurgatory (Law & Order: Criminal Intent Episode)"Purgatory" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:The episode resumes where "Untethered" left off. Detective Goren, under suspension pending a psychiatric evaluation, decides to prove himself by going undercover to take down a high-level...
", after Goren embarks on a secret undercover mission for his superiors, and fails to inform her. Eames takes Wheeler's place starting in the episode "Major CaseMajor Case (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)"Major Case" is an eighth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 169th episode overall.-Summary:Forensic scientist Henry Muller packs the apartment of his recently deceased mother on the Lower East Side. Through the window, he watches Grace Purefoy, a young girl from the...
". In the episode "Loyalty," she and Goren are pulled off a pair of homicides by Ross, who has been working undercover for the FBI on a case involving one of the victims. When Ross is subsequently murdered, Goren soon gets into a physical altercation with the prime suspect, leading to his suspension and Eames' decision to covertly help him with his own investigation. She is offered a promotion to captain of the Major Case Squad on the condition that she fire Goren, but after doing so, she puts her badge and gun on Ross' desk and resigns.
G. Lynn Bishop
- Portrayed by Samantha BuckSamantha Buck-Biography:Buck was born in Dallas, Texas, but raised in Washington, D.C.Buck played Det. G. Lynn Bishop in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, temporarily replacing Det. Alexandra Eames while the latter was on maternity leave. Buck's television roles have not been limited only to drama; she also played...
. - Episodes: "PravdaPravda (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)Pravda is a third season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It takes its title from the Soviet-era Russian daily newspaper, Pravda .-Plot summary:In this episode, Goren gets an interim partner, G...
" - "Mad HopsMad Hops"Mad Hops" is the 11th episode of the third season in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:Detective Goren reflects on the athletic endeavors of his youth in this episode, as he tracks down the killer of a high-school basketball star and the private investigator hired to...
"
Bishop is introduced in the episode "Pravda" as the temporary partner of Det. Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), assigned to the Major Case Squad of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), due to Det. Alexandra Eames volunteering to serve as a surrogate mother for her sister's baby. Her character was only a temporary replacement and was not seen after Eames returned from maternity leave.
Mike Logan
- Portrayed by Chris NothChris NothChristopher David "Chris" Noth is an American actor. He is known for long-running television roles as Det. Mike Logan on the police procedural and legal drama television series, Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and as Big on Sex and the City. For the latter role, he has been...
. - Episodes: "Stress PositionStress Position"Stress Position" is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It reintroduces Detective Mike Logan back into the Law & Order franchise.-Plot summary:...
", "GrowGrow (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Grow" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the season premiere episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of a city health inspector, found murdered in mysterious circumstances in an elevator. At first, the murder appears...
" - "Last RitesLast Rites (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Last Rites" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It also marks Det. Mike Logan's final appearance in the series.-Plot:...
"
Logan is a troubled detective who formerly worked in the homicide division of Manhattan's 27th precinct (from 1990 to 1995, on Law & Order). He was banished to the NYPD's career graveyard (Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
) after publicly punching a homophobic
Homophobia
Homophobia is a term used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian, gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behavior, although these are usually covered under other terms such as biphobia and transphobia. Definitions refer to irrational fear, with the...
politician who had murdered a gay
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...
man whom Logan had grudgingly come to respect; however, Logan redeemed himself by solving a dirty-cop murder-conspiracy case (the NBC TV movie Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
Exiled: A Law & Order Movie is a 1998 television film that is based on the Law & Order police procedural and legal drama television series; it originally aired on NBC. Written by Charles Kipps and Chris Noth, the movie revolves around Noth's Det. Mike Logan character...
). He was transferred from Staten Island to the NYPD's Domestic Disputes department. Logan first appeared on Criminal Intent in the fourth-season episode "Stress Position
Stress Position
"Stress Position" is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It reintroduces Detective Mike Logan back into the Law & Order franchise.-Plot summary:...
", through his romantic involvement with a nurse employed at a prison being investigated by Goren and Eames. At the beginning of season five, he was officially transferred to the Major Case Squad at the behest of Capt. Deakins, in the episode "Grow
Grow (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Grow" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the season premiere episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of a city health inspector, found murdered in mysterious circumstances in an elevator. At first, the murder appears...
". In addition, Logan was involved in the "officer-involved shooting" used to fuel the career-ending conspiracy against Capt. Deakins. After solving a 16 year homicide case in the episode "Last Rites
Last Rites (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Last Rites" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It also marks Det. Mike Logan's final appearance in the series.-Plot:...
", dissatisfaction with the corruption and overall inflexibility of the justice system drove him to leave the force.
Carolyn Barek
- Portrayed by Annabella SciorraAnnabella SciorraAnnabella Sciorra is an American film, television, and stage actress. Sciorra received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead for the 1989 film True Love, and came to widespread attention in her co-lead role in Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever...
. - Episodes: "Diamond DogsDiamond Dogs (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Diamond Dogs" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Logan gets his first Major Case and is partnered with Detective Carolyn Barek to investigate a spate of murderous jewellery store robberies.The investigation leads them to...
" - "The GoodThe Good (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"The Good" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the final season episode, Detectives Logan and Barek investigate the murder of a suburban couple found bludgeoned to death....
"
Carolyn Barek is Mike Logan's first partner in the Major Case Squad. Barek spent two post-9/11
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
years with the FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
. Why she left the Major Case Squad is not stated.
Megan Wheeler
- Portrayed by Julianne NicholsonJulianne NicholsonJulianne Nicholson is an American actress. She is known for having played Det. Megan Wheeler on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Early life:...
. - Episodes: "Tru LoveTru Love"Tru Love" is a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, first broadcast 26 September 2006.-Plot summary:...
" - "Major CaseMajor Case (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)"Major Case" is an eighth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 169th episode overall.-Summary:Forensic scientist Henry Muller packs the apartment of his recently deceased mother on the Lower East Side. Through the window, he watches Grace Purefoy, a young girl from the...
"
Megan A. Wheeler is Mike Logan's second partner in the Major Case Squad. Wheeler transfers in with her captain-mentor, Daniel Ross. She is by-the-book, and is reluctant to bend procedural rules, unlike Det. Logan. She left at the end of the 2006–07 season to go to Europe for follow-up work with the Joint Task Force, where she had worked with Capt. Ross. She returns to the role in the episode "Contract"; the absence was written in to cover Julianne Nicholson's maternity leave. During Season 8, Det. Wheeler announced she was pregnant by her ex-fiancé. It was later reported that the character would be absent from the final episodes of the season in conjunction with Nicholson's real life pregnancy, and Det. Eames would partner with Nichols for the remaining episodes.
Nola Falacci
- Portrayed by Alicia WittAlicia WittAlicia Roanne Witt is an American film, stage, television actress and singer.-Early life:Witt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her mother, Diane , is a junior high school reading teacher, and her father, Robert Witt, is a science teacher and photographer. She has a brother, Ian...
. - Episodes: "SeedsSeeds (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Seeds" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This is the first Logan episode to appear on the USA Network.-Plot summary:...
" - "SenselessSenseless (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Senseless" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:The episode starts with a flashback to 1995 of two young boys in a barber shop....
"
Nola Falacci served as Logan's partner for a short time while Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) was in Europe teaching American police procedure to European police officers.
Zack Nichols
- Portrayed by Jeff GoldblumJeff GoldblumJeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum is an American actor. His career began in the mid-1970s and he has appeared in major box-office successes including The Fly, Jurassic Park and its sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Independence Day...
. - Episodes: "Rock StarRock Star (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)"Rock Star" is an eighth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 157th episode overall.-Plot:In this episode, Detective Wheeler and her new partner, Detective Zack Nichols, investigate when a young hipster is found stabbed to death in a neighborhood, where ethnic tensions are rising...
" - "Three-In-One"
Zack Nichols joined as a replacement for Logan. He came to Major Case in the episode "Rock Star
Rock Star (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
"Rock Star" is an eighth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 157th episode overall.-Plot:In this episode, Detective Wheeler and her new partner, Detective Zack Nichols, investigate when a young hipster is found stabbed to death in a neighborhood, where ethnic tensions are rising...
", after being away from the NYPD for seven years. He was once partnered with Captain Ross when they both worked in Anti-Crime. He is estranged from his family personally, however, in the ninth season finale
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 9)
The ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered on March 30, 2010 and ended on July 6, 2010 on the USA Network.After the two-part season premiere, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, & Eric Bogosian departed from the show, Bogosian's character The ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal...
"Three In One", Zack asks for his father's advice (F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham
Fahrid Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men and Scarface...
) for help on a case; they reconcile their differences by the end of the episode.
Serena Stevens
Serena Stevens is the replacement for Det. Megan WheelerMegan Wheeler
Det. Megan Ann Wheeler is a fictional character portrayed by Julianne Nicholson on the NBC-USA Network series Law & Order: Criminal Intent...
(Julianne Nicholson
Julianne Nicholson
Julianne Nicholson is an American actress. She is known for having played Det. Megan Wheeler on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Early life:...
), who left as partner of Zack Nichols (Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum
Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum is an American actor. His career began in the mid-1970s and he has appeared in major box-office successes including The Fly, Jurassic Park and its sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Independence Day...
) at the end of season eight ("Major Case
Major Case (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
"Major Case" is an eighth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 169th episode overall.-Summary:Forensic scientist Henry Muller packs the apartment of his recently deceased mother on the Lower East Side. Through the window, he watches Grace Purefoy, a young girl from the...
") and for Det. Alexandra Eames
Alexandra Eames
Det. Alexandra "Alex" Eames is a fictional police detective with the NYPD Major Case Squad featured in the NBC-USA Network Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Kathryn Erbe...
(Kathryn Erbe
Kathryn Erbe
Kathryn Elsbeth Erbe is an American actress known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order, and death row inmate Shirley Bellinger in the HBO series Oz.-Personal life:...
), who had to leave the series with the 2-part-premiere of the ninth season ("Loyalty") after eight years.
Before transferring to New York, she was with the Chicago Police Department
Chicago Police Department
The Chicago Police Department, also known as the CPD, is the principal law enforcement agency of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago. It is the largest police department in the Midwest and the second largest local law enforcement agency in the...
. During her childhood, Stevens briefly lived in Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
with her father, a Marine
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
stationed at the American embassy, and learned to read Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
and Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
.
She is a fan of the Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
("The Mobster Will See You Now"). She hints at being somewhat of a baseball fan when she recognized a dead person as a former baseball player and starts telling Nichols stats regarding his short-lived major league career ("Love on Ice"). She has a daughter ("Delicate") who is eight years old ("Traffic"); her name is Kira ("Lost Children of the Blood").
James Deakins
- Portrayed by Jamey SheridanJamey SheridanJames Patrick "Jamey" Sheridan is an American actor. He was born in Pasadena, California.He has had a prolific acting career in theater, television, and feature film productions. Born to a family of actors, he made it to Broadway and earned a Tony nomination in 1987 for his performance in the...
. - Episodes: "OneOne (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"One" is the first episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.- Plot summary :In January 1998, Karl Atwood enlists his girlfriend Gia and three others to help plan and execute a major jewelry heist: Carson, fresh out of a Canadian prison; Nathan, an expert in phony...
" - "The GoodThe Good (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"The Good" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the final season episode, Detectives Logan and Barek investigate the murder of a suburban couple found bludgeoned to death....
"
Captain Deakins is Goren and Eames' first immediate supervisor; he periodically checks their progress during investigations. At the end of Season 5 (2005–2006), Deakins retires rather than battle a conspiracy
Conspiracy (civil)
A civil conspiracy or collusion is an agreement between two or more parties to deprive a third party of legal rights or deceive a third party to obtain an illegal objective....
to frame him. The vendetta stemmed from an episode in which Deakins — torn between loyalty and integrity — reluctantly allows Goren and Eames to imprison his friend Frank Adair (a former Chief of Detectives), by refusing to cover up his misdeeds. Adair uses his connections to plant false evidence of Deakins' corruption; Deakins refuses to tarnish the department by fighting the charges.
Danny Ross
- Portrayed by Eric BogosianEric BogosianEric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,...
. - Episodes: "Blind SpotBlind Spot (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Blind Spot" is a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary :In the season premiere episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of a former ambassador's daughter, who is found brutally murdered in her uptown home...
" - "Loyalty (Part 1)Loyalty (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Loyalty" is the two-part season premiere episode and is the first and second episodes of the ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Part 1:...
"
Ross is Deakins's successor as the Major Case Squad commander. He is given the command as a reward for a successful three-year stint as head of a Joint Task Force on International Money Laundering; he took Detective Megan Wheeler with him to the Major Case Squad. Little is known about his home life, though he does mention in the 6th season episode Tru Love
Tru Love
"Tru Love" is a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, first broadcast 26 September 2006.-Plot summary:...
that he has two teenage sons, and in 6th season episode Albatross
Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes . They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific...
he is shown at a Burr-Hamilton duel re-enactment with his boys.
In the first half of the 9th season premiere, Ross is involved in an undercover investigation that leads to his death.
Zoe Callas
Callas is the successor for Capt. Daniel Ross (Eric BogosianEric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,...
), who was killed in the line of duty at the beginning the ninth season. Callas transferred from the Internal Affairs Bureau
Internal affairs
Internal affairs may refer to:* Internal affairs of a state* Internal affairs , a division of a law enforcement agency which investigates cases of lawbreaking by members of that agency...
to be the captain of the Major Case Squad. However, she only stays around as captain for one season before being replaced by Joseph Hannah in Season 10. Her sudden departure from the Major Case Squad is never explained.
Callas mentions she is from a Greek-American family and has a daughter. Callas is divorced. Her oldest daughter is at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
as a premed student
Medical Student
Medical Student may refer to:*Someone studying at medical school*Medical Student Newspaper, a UK publication...
. She also has mentioned she has a brother who works in the construction field.
Joseph Hannah
- Portrayed by Jay O. SandersJay O. SandersJay Olcutt Sanders is an American character actor.Sanders was born in Austin, Texas, to Phyllis Rae and James Olcutt Sanders. He is noted for playing Mob lawyer character Steven Kordo in the 1986–88 NBC detective series Crime Story...
. - Episodes: "Rispetto" - "To the Boy in the Blue Knit CapTo the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap"To the Boy In the Blue Knit Cap" is the eighth and final episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural television drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This episode is the final episode of the series. It first aired in the United States on the USA Network on June 26, 2011...
"
Joseph Hannah is the replacement for Captain Zoe Callas. Hannah is a friend of Detective Robert Goren since their police academy
Police academy
A police academy is a training school for new police recruits, also known as a law enforcement academy.-Australia:Larger police departments usually run their own academies. States often run a centralised academy for training of personnel of law enforcement agencies within the state.Police...
days. Hannah possesses an easy authority, but also a humorous side, and he shares a buddy-buddy rapport with some of his detectives.
Jay O. Sanders, the actor that portrays Captain Joseph Hannah, appeared previously on Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the episode "Dead
Dead (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Dead" is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the second season opening, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of an embalmer found in ritualistic fashion with strange markings on his chest.During the investigation, Goren and...
" (Season 2, Episode 1).
Ron Carver
- Portrayed by Courtney B. VanceCourtney B. VanceCourtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. He was formerly a regular on the NBC/USA television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He was also a series regular on the ABC series FlashForward. As of 2011, he appears on the TNT series The Closer as Chief...
. - Episodes: "OneOne (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"One" is the first episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.- Plot summary :In January 1998, Karl Atwood enlists his girlfriend Gia and three others to help plan and execute a major jewelry heist: Carson, fresh out of a Canadian prison; Nathan, an expert in phony...
" - "The GoodThe Good (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"The Good" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the final season episode, Detectives Logan and Barek investigate the murder of a suburban couple found bludgeoned to death....
"
Ron Carver is an Assistant District Attorney. Like Anita Van Buren
Anita Van Buren
Lt. Anita Van Buren is a fictional character on NBC's long running police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order, portrayed by S. Epatha Merkerson. By episode count, she is the longest-running character on the show...
from Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
, Carver graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is the only liberal arts college with a criminal justice and forensic focus in the United States. The college offers programs in Forensic Science and Forensic...
. No reason has been given for Carver's departure at the end of Season 5 (2005–2006).
Doctor Elizabeth Rodgers
Assistant Chief Medical ExaminerMedical examiner
A medical examiner is a medically qualified government officer whose duty is to investigate deaths and injuries that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdictions to initiate inquests....
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers is a recurring character in the fictional universe
Fictional universe
A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with elements that differ from the real world. It may also be called an imagined, constructed or fictional realm ....
of the crime drama franchise Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
. She is played by Leslie Hendrix
Leslie Hendrix
Leslie Hendrix is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Elizabeth Rodgers on four Law & Order series...
.
Rodgers is dedicated to her work and finds it frustrating when she is badgered by the police for results when she doesn't have them yet.
She also has an affinity for classical music, saying once that she missed an Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...
concert to perform an autopsy. When making an impression of bite marks on the back of an acclaimed opera conductor, she complimented him on his production of Aida
Aida
Aida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...
("One of the best nights of my life. Lennie Briscoe
Lennie Briscoe
Leonard W. "Lennie" Briscoe is a fictional character on NBC's long running police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order. He was featured on the show for 12 seasons, from 1992 to 2004. He was created by Walon Green and René Balcer, and was portrayed by Jerry Orbach...
took me.").
Rodgers also reads many crime novels; she reviews them for small magazines. In (L&O: "The Family Hour"), Rodgers named a book that may have influenced the defendant in the murder. When she named the book, the police had not been able to find when they searched the defendant's home, since he was also a crime novel reader. However, the book didn't include the details that she had thought, but instead that scenario was in another book (this scenario is a reference to Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
s role in the Andrea Yates
Andrea Yates
Andrea Yates is a former Houston, Texas resident who killed her five children on June 20, 2001 by drowning them in the bathtub in her house. She had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis...
case). Because of this, she wrote a letter to the judge explaining her mistake. When McCoy
Jack McCoy
John James "Jack" McCoy is a fictional character in the television drama Law & Order, created by Michael S. Chernuchin and played by Sam Waterston since 1994. He is the second-longest tenured character on the show, after Lt. Anita Van Buren . On January 28, 2009, McCoy's character ended the longest...
wanted to give the letter to the judge and leave the reference out of his summation, Branch
Arthur Branch
Arthur Branch is a fictional attorney and a regular character on the TV crime dramas Law & Order and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Branch has also appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Conviction....
stopped him and made Connie Rubirosa
Connie Rubirosa
Assistant District Attorney / Deputy District Attorney Consuela "Connie" Rubirosa is a fictional character, portrayed by Alana de la Garza, who joined the cast of long-running NBC drama series Law & Order during the 17th season premiere episode "Fame". She is the only second-chair ADA of Law &...
, the younger and less experienced ADA, do the summation instead. Though they ended up getting the guilty verdict without giving the judge the letter or mentioning the novel, Rodgers was upset by her mistake and thought it ruined her reputation as a good witness.
Rodgers is a regularly recurring character on Law & Order, as well as the spin-off Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...
. She also made several guest appearances during the first season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
, as well as a guest appearance on Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Law & Order: Trial by Jury is an American television drama about criminal trials set in New York City. It was the third spin-off from the long-running Law & Order. The show's almost exclusive focus was on the criminal trial of the accused, showing both the prosecution's and defense's preparation...
. She is currently the longest-running recurring character in Law & Order and one of only five characters who have appeared in all four series of the Law & Order franchise that are set in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The other four are Lennie Briscoe
Lennie Briscoe
Leonard W. "Lennie" Briscoe is a fictional character on NBC's long running police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order. He was featured on the show for 12 seasons, from 1992 to 2004. He was created by Walon Green and René Balcer, and was portrayed by Jerry Orbach...
, Ed Green
Ed Green
Edward "Ed" Green is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, created by Rene Balcer and portrayed by Jesse L. Martin.-Character overview:...
, Arthur Branch
Arthur Branch
Arthur Branch is a fictional attorney and a regular character on the TV crime dramas Law & Order and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Branch has also appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Conviction....
, and Elizabeth Olivet
Elizabeth Olivet
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet is a fictional character on the TV crime drama Law & Order. She was portrayed by Carolyn McCormick from 1991 to 1997 and in 1999. The character was revived in 2002, but made far less frequent appearances on the show....
.
Rodgers can often be seen eating in the morgue. In several episodes, characters comment on her lunch being near the bodies.
Although it is never officially mentioned on screen, there are several moments that point to a growing relationship between Rodgers and Captain Danny Ross of the Major Case Squad
Major case squad
The Major Case Squad is a division within some police departments. The detectives of these divisions typically investigate crimes beyond the scope of normal squads. These functions vary from department to department.-New York City Police Department:...
. In one episode, Ross and Rodgers can be seen getting into an elevator dressed for going to the theater. When Ross asks Rodgers for information on Det. Goren
Robert Goren
Det. Robert "Bobby" Goren is a fictional character featured in the NBC-USA Network police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio....
, Goren later confronts Ross with this, shouting at Ross, "Did your girlfriend tell you this?!" After Ross is murdered, Goren and Eames arrive at the crime scene to find Rodgers already there, visibly distraught over both his death and the fact that the FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
is denying her access to the body.
Doctor Paula Gyson
- Portrayed by: Julia OrmondJulia OrmondJulia Karin Ormond is an English actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage.-Early life and education:...
- Episodes: "The Consoler" - "To the Boy in the Blue Knit CapTo the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap"To the Boy In the Blue Knit Cap" is the eighth and final episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural television drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This episode is the final episode of the series. It first aired in the United States on the USA Network on June 26, 2011...
"
A police psychologist charged with conducting mandatory sessions with Detective Goren as a condition of his return to the NYPD.
Nicole Wallace
- Portrayed by Olivia d'AboOlivia d'AboOlivia d'Abo is an English actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Karen Arnold in The Wonder Years and Nicole Wallace, the recurring villain in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Acting career:...
.
Episodes: "Anti-Thesis
Anti-Thesis
"Anti-Thesis" is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This episode marks the debut of Nicole Wallace, main character Robert Goren's archnemesis.-Plot summary:...
", "A Person of Interest", "Great Barrier
Great Barrier
"Great Barrier" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Written by Diana Son and René Balcer, it is the third Criminal Intent episode to feature recurring character Nicole Wallace .-Plot summary:...
", "Grow
Grow (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Grow" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the season premiere episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of a city health inspector, found murdered in mysterious circumstances in an elevator. At first, the murder appears...
" and "Frame
Frame (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Frame" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot:In the Season 7 finale, Detective Goren brings flowers to his mother's grave and finds an old framed picture of him and his older brother Frank...
"
Nicole Wallace is Robert Goren's archnemesis. A brilliant, calculating sociopath
Antisocial personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder is described by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition , as an Axis II personality disorder characterized by "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood...
, she is one of the few criminals Goren encounters throughout the series who can get the better of him, particularly by confronting him about his unhappy childhood. Goren theorizes that she was molested by her father as a child, and that the trauma bred in her a pathological drive to use and destroy anyone who gets close to her; this is frequently implied to be true. Goren also believes that she murdered her own daughter in her native Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
because she saw the girl as a sexual rival (in the episode "Grow
Grow (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Grow" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In the season premiere episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of a city health inspector, found murdered in mysterious circumstances in an elevator. At first, the murder appears...
", she insists that her daughter's death was an accident).
She is introduced in the episode "Anti-Thesis
Anti-Thesis
"Anti-Thesis" is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This episode marks the debut of Nicole Wallace, main character Robert Goren's archnemesis.-Plot summary:...
" as a con artist and thief who is living in the U.S. under the alias "Elizabeth Hitchens". She personally murders nine people throughout her five appearances on the show, and it is explained in "Anti-Thesis" that, years before, she helped her then-lover — a criminal svengali
Svengali
Svengali is a fictional character of George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby. Svengali "would either fawn or bully and could be grossly impertinent. He had a kind of cynical humour that was more offensive than amusing and always laughed at the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in the wrong place...
named Bernard Fremont — rob and murder several men in Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
. Fremont is murdered off-screen in the episode "Slither
Slither (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Slither" is a fifth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of an out-of-town married couple found drugged in a slovenly hotel room, the husband having died from a drug overdose. Soon two...
"; Goren believes that Wallace is responsible.
Certain episodes suggest that Wallace is not entirely without humanity, however. In "Grow", for example, she puts herself at risk to save the young daughter of a man she is dating after discovering that the man is trying to kill the girl in order to collect on a multimillion dollar trust fund. She then kidnaps the girl, but lets her go in a brief moment of conscience. She then leaves a voicemail for Goren, cursing him for "taking away" her last chance at happiness.
She makes her final appearance in the seventh season finale, "Frame
Frame (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Frame" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot:In the Season 7 finale, Detective Goren brings flowers to his mother's grave and finds an old framed picture of him and his older brother Frank...
", in which she kills Goren's brother Frank with an injection of succinylcholine
Suxamethonium chloride
Suxamethonium chloride , also known as suxamethonium or succinylcholine, is a paralytic drug used to induce muscle relaxation and short-term paralysis, usually to facilitate tracheal intubation. Suxamethonium is sold under the trade names Anectine, Quelicin, and Scoline. It is used as a paralytic...
after having sex with him. In turn, she is murdered by Goren's former mentor, Declan Gage. According to Gage, her final words were, "Tell Bobby he was the only man I've ever loved."
Declan Gage
- Portrayed by John GloverJohn Glover (actor)John Soursby Glover Jr. is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.-Personal life:...
. - Episodes: "Blind SpotBlind Spot (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Blind Spot" is a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary :In the season premiere episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of a former ambassador's daughter, who is found brutally murdered in her uptown home...
" and "FrameFrame (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Frame" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot:In the Season 7 finale, Detective Goren brings flowers to his mother's grave and finds an old framed picture of him and his older brother Frank...
"
Declan Gage, Goren's former mentor, appeared in two episodes. In "Blind Spot", his daughter Jo murders two people and kidnaps Eames to make her father notice her. In "Frame", it is revealed he is showing signs of diminishing capacity and concocts a plan to dispose of people whom Gage sees as destructive in Goren's life, "to set him free". Gage had even written a book about female murderers just to lure Nicole Wallace back to town. When she takes the bait, he lets her kill Goren's brother. He then kills Wallace and sends her heart to Goren. Using Wallace's M.O., he stages an attempt on his own life, although the autopsy on the heart reveals she was already dead at the time. He even gaslights
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory and perception...
Goren to make him re-engage with life by defending himself against the suspicion he murdered his brother for life insurance to be paid to a Swiss bank account in the name of one of Goren's undercover aliases. He described his relationship with his daughter ("Blind Spot") as "never better"; she is in a coma resulting from blood loss when she bit off her own tongue.
Conroy "Connie" Smith
- Portrayed by Billy LushBilly LushBilly Lush is an American actor from New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Coral Springs High School in Coral Springs, Florida in 1999. He later attended Florida State University to pursue theatre. He is known for his portrayal of Kevin Donnelly on the NBC drama The Black Donnellys, which was...
. - Episodes: "Sound BodiesSound Bodies"Sound Bodies" is a third season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Bishop investigate a rash of fatal poisonings in an isolated island church as well as the drowning deaths of three young students.Goren and Bishop try...
", "In the Wee Small Hours (Part 1)In the Wee Small Hours (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"In the Wee Small Hours" is a fifth season double episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It was originally presented as a two-hour telemovie, but was subsequently divided to air as two one-hour episodes, being listed as "In the Wee Small Hours, Part I" and "In the Wee Small...
"
He first appears in "Sound Bodies
Sound Bodies
"Sound Bodies" is a third season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Bishop investigate a rash of fatal poisonings in an isolated island church as well as the drowning deaths of three young students.Goren and Bishop try...
" as a charismatic, but deeply disturbed, young man who manipulates three girls into committing murder. In "In the Wee Small Hours
In the Wee Small Hours (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"In the Wee Small Hours" is a fifth season double episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It was originally presented as a two-hour telemovie, but was subsequently divided to air as two one-hour episodes, being listed as "In the Wee Small Hours, Part I" and "In the Wee Small...
", he takes up an offer from Goren and Eames to spy on a prisoner in exchange of postal privileges at Riker's, where he was transferred to for a few weeks.
Wally Stevens
- Portrayed by Mark Linn-BakerMark Linn-BakerMark Linn-Baker is an American actor and director famous for his role as Larry Appleton on the television sitcom Perfect Strangers.-Early life and career:...
- Episodes: "ProbabilityProbability (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)Probability is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames are called in to investigate the mysterious murder of a homeless man....
", "EndgameEndgame (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Endgame" is a sixth season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This is the Goren/Eames finale of the sixth season.-Synopsis:As condemned serial killer Mark Ford Brady gets closer to his execution date, he asks to see Goren in hopes to extend his sentence and leads him to hidden scrapbooks...
"
Wally Stevens first appeared in "Probability
Probability (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
Probability is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames are called in to investigate the mysterious murder of a homeless man....
" as an eccentric employee at a insurance company. It is through evidence of repetition and patterns that Goren and Eames conclude that Wally is on the autism spectrum as well orchestrating several murders of homeless people for insurance money. Eames remarks that Goren and Wally have many things in common, and wryly suggests that the two of them should be penpals. He reappears in "Endgame
Endgame (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Endgame" is a sixth season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This is the Goren/Eames finale of the sixth season.-Synopsis:As condemned serial killer Mark Ford Brady gets closer to his execution date, he asks to see Goren in hopes to extend his sentence and leads him to hidden scrapbooks...
" as an unwitting conduit between Goren, with whom he has been corresponding, and Mark Ford Brady, who is in the same penitentiary.
Detective Daniels
- Portrayed by Seth GilliamSeth GilliamSeth Gilliam is an American actor. He is known for his HBO television roles, first as corrections officer-turned-prisoner Clayton Hughes on Oz, and later as Baltimore police detective promoted to sergeant Ellis Carver on The Wire. On both of these series, he co-starred with Lance Reddick and J.D....
- Episodes: "PlayersPlayers (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Players" is a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate the murder of a judge's son, found shot to death, shortly after a notorious rap artist is sentenced in court...
", "AmendsAmends (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Amends" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This is the first original episode to air on the USA Network.-Plot summary:...
", "SenselessSenseless (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Senseless" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:The episode starts with a flashback to 1995 of two young boys in a barber shop....
", and "PurgatoryPurgatory (Law & Order: Criminal Intent Episode)"Purgatory" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:The episode resumes where "Untethered" left off. Detective Goren, under suspension pending a psychiatric evaluation, decides to prove himself by going undercover to take down a high-level...
"
Detective Daniels is a detective who worked in conjunction with the Major Case Squad and the narcotics unit when drugs and gangs were possibly involved in the murder cases at hand. Daniels is introduced in the sixth season episode, "Players" where a judge's son is found shot to death, shortly after a notorious rap artist is sentenced in court. He later returns in the season seven premiere where a police officer is shot - initially believed to be committed by a high-level drug dealer, until he is killed. Daniels briefly appears in the episode "Senseless" where three kids with no criminal related backgrounds were murdered on a playground by a murderous Mexican drug dealer who felt his victim looked down on him. Dainels helps Detectives Logan and Falacci bust an MS13 dealer believed to be involved in the killings.
Daniels last episode was "Purgatory" where Goren gets involved with an ex-cop involved in a high-profile murder of two tourists, Goren later is fully placed undercover by the Chief of Detectives in order to get his badge back after losing it prematurely going undercover in a prison in New York State. Daniels is partnered with Detective Eames; working on the tourists's murder; when a connection is finally made he and Eames wind up busting in on Goren who is undercover. It was never mentioned what happened to Daniels after this episode.
Faith Yancy
- Portrayed by Geneva CarrGeneva CarrGeneva Carr is an American television and stage actress, with an extensive acting resume, yet is best known for her role of the "mom" in AT&T Mobility's mobile phone commercials.-Rollover Mom:...
. - Episodes: "In the Wee Small Hours (Parts 1 & 2)In the Wee Small Hours (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"In the Wee Small Hours" is a fifth season double episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It was originally presented as a two-hour telemovie, but was subsequently divided to air as two one-hour episodes, being listed as "In the Wee Small Hours, Part I" and "In the Wee Small...
", "MasqueradeMasquerade (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Masquerade" is a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames bring a suspect to New York from Vietnam for trial, who has confessed to the long-unsolved murder of a child beauty queen...
", "AlbatrossAlbatross (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Albatross" is a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of a respected judge killed during a historical reenactment of the Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr duel in front of Captain Ross...
", "Neighborhood WatchNeighborhood Watch (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Neighborhood Watch" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot:A neighborhood receives notices from a watch group that a sex offender is moving in. The entire community is soon making the offender's life miserable...
", and "Lady's ManLady's Man (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)"Lady's Man" is an eighth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 166th episode overall.-Plot:Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder and castration of a man who Eames has encountered before; she had worked the case of his first wife's murder 10 years earlier...
"
Faith Yancy is a TV journalist who sometimes reports on the Major Case Squad's high-profile cases. The character is an apparent parody of Nancy Grace
Nancy Grace
Nancy Ann Grace is an American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has won her both praise and condemnation...
, considering she helms a sensationalist news show in the vein of the real-life Grace's HLN
HLN
HLN can refer to*HLN , a cable network formerly known as Headline News*The IATA airport code for Helena Regional Airport*The Horizon League Network—see Horizon League#Horizon League Network*The shorthand notation of Phenolphthalein...
program; in addition, her name itself can be seen as a parody of Nancy Grace's - "Faith" instead of "Grace," and "Yancy" instead of "Nancy." She also speaks with a slight Southern twang similar to Grace's.
Stanley Maas
- Portrayed by David ZayasDavid ZayasDavid Zayas is a Puerto Rican theatrical, film, and television actor. He is most known for his roles as Angel Batista on Showtime's series Dexter and as Enrique Morales on the HBO prison drama Oz.- Life and career :...
. - Episode: "Loyalty (Parts 1 & 2)Loyalty (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)"Loyalty" is the two-part season premiere episode and is the first and second episodes of the ninth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Part 1:...
"
Maas joined as a temporary replacement for Captain Danny Ross, who was murdered working a RICO
RICO
-Music:*Rico , a 2000 album by Matt Bianco*"Rico" , a 1998 song the Matthew Good Band from the album Underdogs*Rico International, a manufacturer of reeds, mouthpieces, and woodwind accessories...
case with the FBI. Maas is the first Lieutenant to be the commanding officer of the Major Case Squad. He lets Goren, Eames, and Nichols work on the case at hand along with the murder of Ross. After Goren gets heated and shoves Jan Van Dekker in court, Maas suspends him from duty. He later puts Eames up for recommendation to Chief of Detectives Moran that she be the next Captain of the squad, on condition that she fire Goren. She does, but quits immediately thereafter. Both Maas and Eames are replaced by Zoe Callas.
Robert Goren's family
- Rita MorenoRita MorenoRita Moreno is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the only Hispanic and one of the few performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award....
- Frances Goren, mother (2006–2007) - Tony GoldwynTony GoldwynAnthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated Tarzan.-Early life:...
- Frank Goren, brother (2006–2008) - Roy ScheiderRoy ScheiderRoy Richard Scheider was an American actor. He was best known for his leading role as police chief Martin C...
- Mark Ford Brady, biological father (2007) - Trevor MorganTrevor Morgan (actor)Trevor John Morgan is an American actor. He has appeared in the films Genius, The Sixth Sense, The Patriot, A Rumor of Angels, Jurassic Park III, The Glass House, Chasing 3000, Mean Creek, Barney's Great Adventure, Local Color, Family Plan and Uncle Nino.-Early life:Trevor John Morgan was born...
- Donny Carson, nephew (2007)