Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Season 4

2004 · 23 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 4 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent follows the Major Case Squad, a unit of the New York Police Department based at One Police Plaza in Manhattan. Its detectives handle high-profile crimes involving politicians, business leaders, or artists. Detective Robert Goren, who has a background in psychology, works alongside Detective Alexandra Eames, who comes from a family of police officers and is initially suspicious of his unconventional style. Each episode tries to understand the minds of killers and the motives that drive them to commit murder, showing scenes from the lives of suspects that investigators can only infer.

23episodes

Sep 26, 2004premiered

May 25, 2005latest episode

16.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Semi-Detached
Sep 26, 2004 · 44 min
The investigation into the deaths of a shock jock and the housekeeper who supplied the pain killers to which he was once addicted leads Goren and Eames to a detox clinic staff member whose mental illness hits Goren close to home.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Dick Wolf, Gerry Conway · Starring: Fisher Stevens, Leslie Hendrix, Francie Swift, Tatum O'Neal
4x02 The Posthumous Collection
Oct 3, 2004 · 44 min
The investigation into the death of a famous photographer leads to the discovery of multiple homicides committed by the collaborator on his latest project, who was attempting to exorcise demons from his past through an artistic expression the photographer soon found intolerable.
Directing: Jean de Segonzac · Writing: Marlane Meyer · Starring: James Ferazzi, Glenn Fitzgerald, Caroline Lagerfelt, Rob Campbell
4x03 Want
Oct 10, 2004 · 44 min
After he gets into the head of an insane man driven to torture, murder, and cannibalism by overwhelming despair and loneliness, Goren surprises his colleagues with a passionate plea that the man be spared the death penalty, and engineers the confession that will save the man's life through a plea bargain.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta, Elizabeth Benjamin · Starring: Leslie Hendrix, Neil Patrick Harris, Shannon McGinnis, David Fonteno
4x04 Great Barrier
Oct 17, 2004 · 44 min · ★ 6.0
When Goren and Eames search for a jewel thief who murdered her accomplice, they discover that the clever larcenies are the brainchild of her lover, Nicole Wallace, Goren's long-standing nemesis. As the detectives delve into the personal and working relationships between the two women, they uncover a plot to cause the death of Wallace's ex-husband, the only person who can lead them to evidence of the very first murder Wallace committed.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Dick Wolf, Diana Son · Starring: Olivia D'Abo, James Saito, Leslie Hendrix, Richard Joseph Paul
4x05 Eosphoros
Oct 24, 2004 · 44 min
When Goren and Eames investigate the death of a prominent atheist and her kidnappers, they discover that the crime, fueled by a need for sympathy and publicity as well as greed, began close to home.
Directing: Alex Zakrzewski · Writing: Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Mara Hobel, Frank Whaley, Tom Riis Farrell, Henry Stram
4x06 In the Dark
Oct 31, 2004 · 44 min
During the investigation into the deaths of several homeless people, Goren and Eames uncover a series of frauds that lead them to a woman in the early stages of dementia and the man who is willing to commit murder to demonstrate his devotion for her.
Directing: Alex Chapple · Writing: Jim Sterling · Starring: Devin Ratray, Leslie Hendrix, Amelia Campbell, Jim DeMarse
4x07 Magnificat
Nov 7, 2004 · 44 min
Goren and Eames are frustrated when the law has no provision for the arrest of a man whose abusive control of his family and neglect of his severely depressed wife led her to several murder-suicide attempts which he did nothing to prevent, and eventually resulted in the deaths of three of his sons.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Dick Wolf, Diana Son · Starring: Peggy Gormley, Arian Moayed, Carrie Preston, Pamela Burrell
4x08 Silver Lining
Nov 14, 2004 · 44 min
A master thief who specialises in stealing antique silver from wealthy families across the country is finally captured after his pregnant wife takes desperate measures when an appraiser threatens to ruin her white-picket-fence dreams of the future.
Directing: Kevin Dowling · Writing: Marlane Meyer · Starring: Callie Thorne, Bruce Norris, Pamela Gray, Beth Dixon
4x09 Inert Dwarf
Nov 21, 2004 · 44 min
A world-renowned physicist resorts to murder to avoid being humiliated by his failure to prove a controversial theory of quantum physics that he has spent his career espousing.
Directing: Alex Chapple · Writing: Warren Leight · Starring: Austin Pendleton, Ann Dowd, Pamela Dunlap, Aasif Mandvi
4x10 View from up Here
Jan 2, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 5.2
A nanny confesses to a murder and an attempted murder that she claims God told her to commit. The link is that both victims lived in the same building, which was poorly constructed, and were rumored to be having an affair.
Directing: Alex Chapple · Writing: Jim Sterling · Starring: Missy Doty, Hardy Rawls, Amy Redford, Jordan Clarke
4x11 Gone
Jan 9, 2005 · 44 min
Goren matches wits with a one-time chess prodigy who has become a fugitive when the body of a young woman is found tossed in the trash.
Directing: Christopher Swartout · Writing: Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Amanda Loncar, Robert Carradine, Michelle Federer, Leslie Ayvazian
4x12 Collective
Jan 30, 2005 · 44 min
A woman con artist who hounded fantasy conventions is found dead, and the reason can only be discovered in the stifling confines of the small literary fandom her latest victim belonged to.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Gerry Conway · Starring: Kim Director, Jamie Harrold, Jordan Gelber, Peter Y. Kim
4x13 Stress Position
Feb 13, 2005 · 44 min
When a prison guard is murdered, Eames and Goren investigate, only to discover they've riled the feathers of Mike Logan, a Staten Island police officer who happens to be dating the nurse at the prison. Logan joins the duo to find out exactly what is happening at the prison.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Dick Wolf, Charlie Rubin · Starring: Chris Noth, Joe Lisi, Harvey Atkin, Wayne Duvall
4x14 Sex Club
Feb 20, 2005 · 44 min
When Goren and Eames investigate the death of the new owner of a "little black book" once belonging to legendary playboy George Merritt, they uncover the marital indiscretions of a U.S. Senatorial candidate involving sex clubs.
Directing: Alex Chapple · Writing: Dick Wolf, Elizabeth Benjamin · Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Catherine Hickland, Peter Bogdanovich, Eddie Marrero
4x15 Death Roe
Mar 13, 2005 · 44 min
After a food critic is found beaten to death, Goren and Eames turn their suspicion to the chef at the last restaurant she visited. Unfortunately, Joshua Mailer has also gone missing, and their investigation then turns to his father-in-law, the owner and head chef of another very popular restaurant in the city. An off-the-cuff comment tips Goren off to the fact that not all is well in the Onorato household.
Directing: Rick Wallace · Writing: Warren Leight · Starring: Chris Penn, Monica Keena, Leslie Hendrix, Daniel Oreskes
4x16 Ex Stasis
Mar 20, 2005 · 44 min
When a young woman is shot at an appointment she never should have been at, Goren and Eames investigate her death and learn she had received a kidney transplant a few years earlier. Initially they believe that Vanessa Nikos may have been killed so that her organs could be harvested, but soon learn that her death was more closely connected with the organ she initially received from living donor Boyce Wainwright. When her shooter, also awaiting an organ transplant, is also found dead, the police realise they're on to something.
Directing: Bill L. Norton · Writing: Diana Son · Starring: Denise Burse, Socorro Santiago, Ron Orbach, Kate Goehring
4x17 Shibboleth
Mar 27, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 5.4
When Phoebe Morton is murdered on the phone with a 911 operator, Goren and Eames take the case and soon realize Morton is one of five women murdered with a similar bent, the killer known as Body By Jake (B.B.J.). Their investigation leads them to Keith Durbin, a recently released parolee who seems to be perfect. Goren has his suspicions about Durbin, who doesn't seem right to him, and when they learn that there are similar killings going much further back, Goren and Eames soon focus their attention on a new suspect, and soon realize that even though he's not guilty, Durbin is the key.
Directed by: Darnell Martin · Written by: Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Kevin Conway, Leslie Hendrix, Paul Sparks, Candy Buckley
4x18
4x18 The Good Child
Apr 3, 2005 · 44 min
After Dennis and Camille Burnett are found dead in their home, the only survivor is their twenty-year-old daughter, Rachel. Goren and Eames initially suspect that someone connected with the Marinko family had the Burnetts killed, since they were in witness relocation, but the detectives soon realise that the connection isn't the parents, it's the daughter. Suspicion then turns to the daughter's biological parents and her birth father's very jealous wife.
Directed by: Jean de Segonzac · Written by: Marlane Meyer · Starring: Gaby Hoffmann, Melissa Leo, Deirdre O'Connell, Bruce McCarty
4x19
4x19 Beast
Apr 10, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 5.8
When Lisa Ross is brought into the emergency room with a severe case of cloracne, suspicion quickly turns to her husband Greg, a well-known dentist, especially after she dies. During their investigation, Goren and Eames hear whispers about Lisa's infidelities, but the real break comes with they learn that Lisa is not the first woman Greg Ross has been connected to who died of the same symptoms years earlier. After discovering Lisa's connection to Greg's former fiancée Morgan Dexler, Goren and Eames believe they have the answer, but they're not there yet.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Gina Gionfriddo · Starring: Celia Weston, Bronson Pinchot, Lucas Caleb Rooney, Karen Shallo
4x20 No Exit
May 1, 2005 · 44 min
When five young people are found dead by the tracks, Goren and Eames initially write them off as a suicide until their investigation reveals that one of the victims, Carmine Ruggiero, had no desire to be part of a suicide pact. Although initially they begin looking into a website that gives instructions on how to committ suicide, their investigation leads them to the unsolved suicide of Edie Elverson, one of Ruggiero's co-workers, whom he had once testifed against in a harrassment suit. Goren soon realises that another of the company's employees, Hubert Skoller, is trying very hard to push them to an answer.
Directing: Jean de Segonzac · Writing: Gerry Conway · Starring: Darrell Hammond, Jason Antoon, Susan Bigelow, Arye Gross
4x21 The Unblinking Eye
May 8, 2005 · 44 min
After a young actress is gunned down after an evening out with her boyfriend, Goren and Eames initially focus their attention on a young man who had showed an unusual interest in the couple, but soon realise that there is more to this case than meets the eye. A jealous and seemingly obsessive ex-girlfriend, a best friend who never made it as an actor, and a grieving boyfriend who seems too good to be true lead Goren and Eames down another path, one where the key to exposing the truth about the present depends on exposing the lies of the past.
Directing: Frank Prinzi · Writing: Jim Sterling · Starring: Matt Damon, Pablo Schreiber, Kat Foster, Christine Farrell
4x22 My Good Name
May 15, 2005 · 44 min
When the body of a man is found and it soon becomes obvious the body has been moved, Eames and Goren investigate the death of Walter Czabo, whose wife has been sleeping with a decorated former police officer who happens to have close ties to Deakins. The suspects start piling up, starting with Frank Adair and leading to his controlling publicist, but Deakins is reluctant to go after his friend, who wields a lot of local influence, without good, hard proof.
Directing: Alex Zakrzewski · Writing: Warren Leight · Starring: Michael Rispoli, Jenna Stern, Roxanna Hope Radja, Elizabeth Keifer
4x23 False-Hearted Judges Season Finale
May 25, 2005 · 44 min
It's open season in New York when not one but two powerful judges are executed. At first they seem to have no connection; one was a family court judge whose entire family was attacked, the other is an appellate court judge. After investigating the judges more thoroughly, Goren and Eames realise that their first set of suspects was simply a smokescreen, and there is a far more insidious threat. Their investigation leads them to a non-custodial father who has a beef with the court system.
Directed by: Jean de Segonzac · Written by: Diana Son · Starring: David Andrews, Jeremy Blackman, Susan Angelo, Terry Beaver