The Posthumous Collection
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"The Posthumous Collection" is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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and Eames
piece together a variety of clues in the murder of Gerhardt Heltman, a famous, avant-garde
photographer, who was found murdered and handcuffed to the steering wheel of a crashed car.
Goren and Eames probe the victim's controversial works and his tortured past, but they make a discovery that a dead model had been used at the site of a former photo shoot. When other similarly beautiful women are found missing, the investigators suspect that the secretive artist was exploiting them to gain a new and distressing perspective to revive his lagging career.
Finally, Goren studies the artwork and arrives upon a new theory: the multiple homicides were committed by Heltman's collaborator of on his latest project, who was attempting to exorcise demons from his past through an artistic expression the photographer soon found intolerable.
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...
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Plot summary
Detectives GorenRobert 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....
and 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...
piece together a variety of clues in the murder of Gerhardt Heltman, a famous, avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
photographer, who was found murdered and handcuffed to the steering wheel of a crashed car.
Goren and Eames probe the victim's controversial works and his tortured past, but they make a discovery that a dead model had been used at the site of a former photo shoot. When other similarly beautiful women are found missing, the investigators suspect that the secretive artist was exploiting them to gain a new and distressing perspective to revive his lagging career.
Finally, Goren studies the artwork and arrives upon a new theory: the multiple homicides were committed by Heltman's collaborator of on his latest project, who was attempting to exorcise demons from his past through an artistic expression the photographer soon found intolerable.
Cast
| 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"... |
Det. 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.... |
| 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:... |
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... |
| 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... |
Capt. 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... |
| 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... |
A.D.A. 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... |