Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 6)
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The sixth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
premiered September 19, 2006 and ended May 21, 2007; this was the last season to air original episodes on NBC
.
This season of Law & Order: CI premiered in the NBC Tuesday 9/8c time slot as a lead-in for episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
, NBC had acquired the rights to Sunday Night Football
for the 2006–2007 season. For its first six airings, it faced CBS's
The Unit
and baseball on Fox. In late October, Fox
's hit series House
moved opposite L&O: CI. It was hoped that the show could maintain second position, beating the then-marginal The Unit but that didn't occur.
The show's ratings suffered a steep drop and regularly finished fourth in its time slot. By the end of the season, Law & Order: CI saw its lowest ratings ever on NBC; the episodes "Endgame" and "Renewal" being shifted to original air on Monday nights.
This is the last season the original hard rock theme song was used in the opening sequence before changing to the fast-paced theme song of now defunct related series Law & Order: Trial by Jury
- coinciding with the show's move to USA Network
in Fall 2007.
wanted to depart the cast at the end of the fifth season
. Sheridan's Captain Deakins
retires from the Major Case Squad starting with the episode "On Fire", rather than battle a conspiracy to frame him instigated by former Chief of Detectives Frank Adair (Michael Rispoli
), whom Major Case detectives have arrested for killing a female acquaintance and her husband. Courtney B. Vance
who portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver
decided not to renew his contract at the end of the fifth season which resulted in his character being written out, the same with Annabella Sciorra
who portrayed Mike Logan's partner Detective Barek
; there were no reasons cited for Sciorra's departure.
Stars Vincent D'Onofrio
, Kathryn Erbe
, and Chris Noth
returned for the sixth season as Eric Bogosian
joined the cast as Captain Daniel Ross, Deakins' successor, who is a more by-the-book commanding officer, often getting in conflict with Detectives Goren and Logan. Julianne Nicholson
also joined the cast as Detective Megan Wheeler
, replacing Carolyn Barek as Logan's partner. Nicholson left the series temporarily to go on maternity leave at the end of the season.
Show runner Rene Balcer
and executive producer Fred Berner left the show at the end of season five, Balcer and Berner returning to the original Law & Order
series, it slowly falling in the ratings. CI was handed off to Warren Leight
, a longtime Criminal Intent staffer. Under Leight's leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone.
The mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of more personal stories involving the detectives. For example, Goren endured his mother's long battle with cancer, culminating with her death in the episode "Endgame". Also, Logan's anger issues often come and go in episodes like "Maltese Cross", "Flipped", and "Renewal". The show's look and editing style also changed in an effort to attract viewers of the newer CSI franchise. Norberto Barba
replaced Fred Berner as executive producer. The scene cards and sound effect were not used in this season, they were brought back as of the ninth season
.
guest starred in the season premiere episode "Blind Spot", as Jo Gage; as the serial killing daughter of Detective Goren's former mentor, Dr. Declan Gage; who was portrayed by John Glover
. Anne Dudek
portrayed a teacher named Danielle McCaskin, who falls madly in love with her student, Keith Tyler (Anton Yelchin
), after regrettably having sex with his father in the episode "Tru Love". In "Siren Call", Brook Shields portrays Kelly Sloane-Raines, a rich supermodel whose husband is believed to be involved in the murder of a small-town police officer's daughter. Rip Torn
guest stars as Jules Copeland, in "Bedfellows" as the wealthy and snide father of a wealthy and prominent historian. Liza Minnelli
guest stars as Beth Harner, a grieving mother who might get closure as a suspect is found that might have been involved in her daughter's brutal murder on Halloween night in the 1990s. The episode "Masquerade" revealed many resemblances to the case of JonBenét Ramsey
, a six-year-old girl made famous by her unsolved murder and subsequent media coverage.
Fran Drescher
and Michael Biehn
portray Elaine and Leland Dockerty; a couple who's military daughter disappears over Thanksgiving after she comes home from a tour of duty. Leland Dockerty was the Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD. Rita Moreno
also guest stars in "The War at Home" as Detective Robert Goren's mother, Frances, who's fallen ill from dealing with her cancer; she later returns in the Goren/Eames team season finale episode "Endgame", where she succumbs to her cancer; shortly after Goren brings up his paternity. Matt Keeslar
guest stars in "Blasters" as TV celebrity Willie "Kirk" Tunis, whose old screen friend is murdered by some mobsters. Michelle Trachtenberg
portrays; Lisa Willow Tyler in "Weeping Willow", a girl who is kidnapped during the middle of her web show broadcast. The story and the WeepingWillow17 character were inspired by the Lonelygirl15
video blogs on YouTube, which were originally believed the works of a real-life 15-year-old blogger, but were eventually discovered to be a professionally filmed hoax.
Maulik Pancholy
was Dani Hasni in the episode "World's Fair" where his younger sister is initially to believed to have been murdered being victim of a hate crime. The detectives later discover that Dani was the one who committed the murder because she shamed their family. Doris Roberts
guest stars as Virginia Harrington the ill mother of an aristocratic New York family; she almost dies until Detectives Goren and Eames discover she's been mistreated by her family. In "Albatross", Donna Murphy
and Xander Berkeley
guest starred as George and Maureen Pagolis, a political couple that has some involvement in the murder of judge during a reenactment of the Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr duel. Mike Colter
also guest starred as the Pagolis's driver, Dave Oldren.
Fab Five Freddy
guest starred in the opening of the episode "Flipped" as rapper Fulla-T who's killed on the streets. Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones portrayed gang-unit Detective Harry Williams who turns from lead investigator to lead suspect in Fulla-T's murder really quick. Aunjanue Ellis
portrayed Carmen Rivera, the girlfriend of Fulla-T who refused to "snitch" to the police on who killed him. Tony Goldwyn
guest stars in "Brother's Keeper" as Detective Goren's brother Frank, who is first seen homeless, and possibly high, on the streets; Goren gives him his coat and a few dollars. Goldwyn returns in the Goren/Eames finale episode "Endgame" where their mother Frances is still suffering from cancer. Lee Tergesen
guest stars as Josh Lemle, an old friend of Detective Logan's who's a popular journalist. It's discovered that someone used Polonium-210 to poison Lemle, but he is reluctant to reveal the whole story to Logan because not all of it is pretty. John Dossett
portrayed Judge Nicholas Fenner Sr.; his son is murdered as soon as he put a rapper who his son idolized in prison.
Bill O'Brien
guest starred in "Silencer" as Detective Peter Lyons, a detective who can read hand-signals and translate them into words that people can hear. Tate Donovan
guest starred in "Rocketman" as Commander Luke Nelson, who is the professional rival and ex-boyfriend of a murdered astronaut was he having an affair with. In "Bombshells", Kristy Swanson
portrayed Lorelai Mailer, a woman whose son died after she gave birth, only to die herself days later; the case becomes a homicide investigation that seems to involve the paternity of the newborn. The episode revealed many resemblances with the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith
and her son Daniel Wayne Smith
, which, like this episode, is a story with characters motivated by misadventures of rich and famous people.
Roy Scheider
guest starred as serial killer Mark Ford Brady in "Endgame"; Brady drives Goren irritable as he has to deal with Brady's near end confessions and his mother's (Rita Moreno) cancer, but it turns out the two are connected. Mark Linn-Baker
returned briefly as Wally Stevens, as an unwitting conduit between Goren and Brady, who is in the same penitentiary. In the season finale, "Renewal"; Kelli Williams
guest stars as Logan's neighbor and possible girlfriend, Holly Lauren. But when she turns up dead, it drives Logan mad to where he stops focusing on the case at hand - a police recruits murder - and focuses on Lauren's death, which may have possibly been a suicide. Brooke Tansley guest stars as Belle Duffy, a girl who follows in Nicole Wallace's (Olivia d'Abo
, who doesn't appear in the episode) footsteps. Kathryn Erbe
(Detective Alex Eames
) guest stars in the episode to help out Detective Wheeler close the police recruits murder case.
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...
premiered September 19, 2006 and ended May 21, 2007; this was the last season to air original episodes on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
.
This season of Law & Order: CI premiered in the NBC Tuesday 9/8c time slot as a lead-in for episodes 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...
, NBC had acquired the rights to Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color...
for the 2006–2007 season. For its first six airings, it faced CBS's
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
The Unit
The Unit
The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...
and baseball on Fox. In late October, Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's hit series House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
moved opposite L&O: CI. It was hoped that the show could maintain second position, beating the then-marginal The Unit but that didn't occur.
The show's ratings suffered a steep drop and regularly finished fourth in its time slot. By the end of the season, Law & Order: CI saw its lowest ratings ever on NBC; the episodes "Endgame" and "Renewal" being shifted to original air on Monday nights.
This is the last season the original hard rock theme song was used in the opening sequence before changing to the fast-paced theme song of now defunct related series 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...
- coinciding with the show's move to USA Network
USA Network
USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...
in Fall 2007.
Cast and crew changes
It was announced Jamey SheridanJamey 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...
wanted to depart the cast at the end of the fifth season
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 5)
The fifth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered September 25, 2005 and ended May 14, 2006.Chris Noth and Annabella Sciorra joined the cast and the show began alternating episodes with Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe on account of D'Onofrio's health at the time. Annabella Sciorra,...
. Sheridan's Captain 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...
retires from the Major Case Squad starting with the episode "On Fire", rather than battle a conspiracy to frame him instigated by former Chief of Detectives Frank Adair (Michael Rispoli
Michael Rispoli
Michael Rispoli is an American character actor. He was formerly part of the HBO television series The Sopranos as Jackie Aprile, Sr...
), whom Major Case detectives have arrested for killing a female acquaintance and her husband. 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...
who portrayed Assistant District Attorney 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...
decided not to renew his contract at the end of the fifth season which resulted in his character being written out, the same with 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...
who portrayed Mike Logan's partner Detective 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...
; there were no reasons cited for Sciorra's departure.
Stars 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"...
, 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:...
, and 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...
returned for the sixth season as 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,...
joined the cast as Captain Daniel Ross, Deakins' successor, who is a more by-the-book commanding officer, often getting in conflict with Detectives Goren and Logan. 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:...
also joined the cast as Detective 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...
, replacing Carolyn Barek as Logan's partner. Nicholson left the series temporarily to go on maternity leave at the end of the season.
Show runner Rene Balcer
René Balcer
René Balcer is a Canadian television writer, director and producer.-Early life:He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and attended Lower Canada College in Montreal. He earned his B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Communication Studies from Concordia University in 1978. He began his career as a journalist,...
and executive producer Fred Berner left the show at the end of season five, Balcer and Berner returning to the original 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,...
series, it slowly falling in the ratings. CI was handed off to Warren Leight
Warren Leight
Warren Leight is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Lights Out and the showrunner for In Treatment and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit....
, a longtime Criminal Intent staffer. Under Leight's leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone.
The mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of more personal stories involving the detectives. For example, Goren endured his mother's long battle with cancer, culminating with her death in the episode "Endgame". Also, Logan's anger issues often come and go in episodes like "Maltese Cross", "Flipped", and "Renewal". The show's look and editing style also changed in an effort to attract viewers of the newer CSI franchise. Norberto Barba
Norberto Barba
Norberto Barba is an American cinematographer, television and film director. He is known for his collaborations for the Law & Order franchise.- Biographical details :...
replaced Fred Berner as executive producer. The scene cards and sound effect were not used in this season, they were brought back as of the ninth season
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...
.
Primary cast
| Actor/Actress | Character |
|---|---|
| Team A | |
| 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"... |
Detective 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:... |
Detective 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... |
| Team B | |
| 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... |
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:... |
| 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:... |
Detective 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... |
| Both | |
| 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 Danny Ross |
Recurring cast
| Actor/Actress | Character |
|---|---|
| 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... |
Chief Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers |
| Theresa Randle Theresa Randle Theresa E. Randle is an American stage, film and television actress.Randle was born in Los Angeles, California. She began her performing career by studying dance and comedy. She entered Beverly Hills College with a special program for the exceptionally gifted... |
Assistant District Attorney Patricia Kent |
| Geneva Carr Geneva Carr Geneva 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:... |
News Reporter Faith Yancy |
| 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:... |
Frank Goren |
| Bridget Regan Bridget Regan Bridget Catherine Regan is an American film, television and theater actress, best known for her portrayal of Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker.-Career:... |
Assistant District Attorney Claudia Shankly |
| Neal Jones Neal Jones Marvin Neal Jones, Jr. is an American stage, film, and television actor. His roles range from Billy Kostecki in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing to Sergeant Major John Sixta in the 2008 HBO original miniseries Generation Kill.Jones was born in Wichita, Kansas to Marvin Neal Jones, Sr. and Marian Myrl... |
Chief of Detectives Bradshaw |
Guest stars
Martha PlimptonMartha Plimpton
Martha Campbell Plimpton is an American actress and singer and former model. Plimpton is a screen, stage and television actress. She first appeared as Jonsy in the feature film River Rats before rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies portraying the character Stef...
guest starred in the season premiere episode "Blind Spot", as Jo Gage; as the serial killing daughter of Detective Goren's former mentor, Dr. Declan Gage; who was portrayed by John Glover
John 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:...
. Anne Dudek
Anne Dudek
Anne Louise Dudek is an American actress, known for her role as Dr. Amber Volakis on the television show House and her leading role on UK television series The Book Group as well as playing Francine Hanson in the series Mad Men...
portrayed a teacher named Danielle McCaskin, who falls madly in love with her student, Keith Tyler (Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, as well as the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis...
), after regrettably having sex with his father in the episode "Tru Love". In "Siren Call", Brook Shields portrays Kelly Sloane-Raines, a rich supermodel whose husband is believed to be involved in the murder of a small-town police officer's daughter. Rip Torn
Rip Torn
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn, Jr. , is an American actor of stage, screen and television.Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated...
guest stars as Jules Copeland, in "Bedfellows" as the wealthy and snide father of a wealthy and prominent historian. Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....
guest stars as Beth Harner, a grieving mother who might get closure as a suspect is found that might have been involved in her daughter's brutal murder on Halloween night in the 1990s. The episode "Masquerade" revealed many resemblances to the case of JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty pageant contestant who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's body was found in the basement of the family home nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck on the head and strangled...
, a six-year-old girl made famous by her unsolved murder and subsequent media coverage.
Fran Drescher
Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher is an American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer, author, singer, talk show host, political lobbyist and health activist...
and Michael Biehn
Michael Biehn
Michael Connell Biehn is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in James Cameron's science fiction action films The Terminator as Kyle Reese, Aliens as Cpl. Dwayne Hicks, and The Abyss as Lt. Coffey. He has also acted in such films as Tombstone, The Rock, and Planet Terror...
portray Elaine and Leland Dockerty; a couple who's military daughter disappears over Thanksgiving after she comes home from a tour of duty. Leland Dockerty was the Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD. Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno
Rita 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....
also guest stars in "The War at Home" as Detective Robert Goren's mother, Frances, who's fallen ill from dealing with her cancer; she later returns in the Goren/Eames team season finale episode "Endgame", where she succumbs to her cancer; shortly after Goren brings up his paternity. Matt Keeslar
Matt Keeslar
Matt Keeslar is an American actor.Keeslar was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Fred Keeslar and Ann Ferguson, who divorced in 1977....
guest stars in "Blasters" as TV celebrity Willie "Kirk" Tunis, whose old screen friend is murdered by some mobsters. Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and as Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl...
portrays; Lisa Willow Tyler in "Weeping Willow", a girl who is kidnapped during the middle of her web show broadcast. The story and the WeepingWillow17 character were inspired by the Lonelygirl15
Lonelygirl15
lonelygirl15 was an interactive web-based video series which began in June 2006 and ran through to August 1, 2008. Developed under the working title The Children of Anchor Cove, the show gained worldwide media attention when it was outed as fictional in September 2006.-Overview:lonelygirl15...
video blogs on YouTube, which were originally believed the works of a real-life 15-year-old blogger, but were eventually discovered to be a professionally filmed hoax.
Maulik Pancholy
Maulik Pancholy
Maulik Pancholy is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Sanjay on Weeds from 2005 to present, and his role as Jonathan on 30 Rock, which he has played since the show began in 2006....
was Dani Hasni in the episode "World's Fair" where his younger sister is initially to believed to have been murdered being victim of a hate crime. The detectives later discover that Dani was the one who committed the murder because she shamed their family. Doris Roberts
Doris Roberts
Doris Roberts is an American character actress of film, stage and television. She has received five Emmy Awards. She began her career in 1952, and may be best-known as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996–2005....
guest stars as Virginia Harrington the ill mother of an aristocratic New York family; she almost dies until Detectives Goren and Eames discover she's been mistreated by her family. In "Albatross", Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy is an American stage, film, television actress and singer.Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens...
and Xander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley
Alexander Harper "Xander" Berkeley is an American actor. His roles include George Mason on the television series 24.-Early life:Berkeley was born in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey...
guest starred as George and Maureen Pagolis, a political couple that has some involvement in the murder of judge during a reenactment of the Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr duel. Mike Colter
Mike Colter
Mike Colter is an American actor.He was born in Columbia, South Carolina and grew up in St. Matthews, South Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree in theater from the University of South Carolina in 1999...
also guest starred as the Pagolis's driver, Dave Oldren.
Fab Five Freddy
Fab Five Freddy
Fred Brathwaite , more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist...
guest starred in the opening of the episode "Flipped" as rapper Fulla-T who's killed on the streets. Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones portrayed gang-unit Detective Harry Williams who turns from lead investigator to lead suspect in Fulla-T's murder really quick. Aunjanue Ellis
Aunjanue Ellis
Aunjanue L. Ellis is an American actress known for her roles in Ray, in Undercover Brother, and on The Mentalist....
portrayed Carmen Rivera, the girlfriend of Fulla-T who refused to "snitch" to the police on who killed him. 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:...
guest stars in "Brother's Keeper" as Detective Goren's brother Frank, who is first seen homeless, and possibly high, on the streets; Goren gives him his coat and a few dollars. Goldwyn returns in the Goren/Eames finale episode "Endgame" where their mother Frances is still suffering from cancer. Lee Tergesen
Lee Tergesen
Lee Allen Tergesen is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Tobias Beecher in HBO’s prison drama Oz and as Evan Wright in Generation Kill.-Early life:...
guest stars as Josh Lemle, an old friend of Detective Logan's who's a popular journalist. It's discovered that someone used Polonium-210 to poison Lemle, but he is reluctant to reveal the whole story to Logan because not all of it is pretty. John Dossett
John Dossett
John Dossett is an American actor and singer.-Early life and education:Dossett attended Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Delaware from 1972 through 1976, where he was an announcer for the school's radio station, WMPH, and appeared in student theater productions.-Career:Dossett made his...
portrayed Judge Nicholas Fenner Sr.; his son is murdered as soon as he put a rapper who his son idolized in prison.
Bill O'Brien
Bill O'Brien (actor)
Bill O'Brien is a television series actor, and the Director of Theatre and Musical Theatre for the National Endowment for the Arts.Bill O'Brien was appointed as the NEA's Director of Theater and Musical Theater in July 2006. O'Brien designs and directs national leadership initiatives, such as the...
guest starred in "Silencer" as Detective Peter Lyons, a detective who can read hand-signals and translate them into words that people can hear. Tate Donovan
Tate Donovan
Tate Buckley Donovan is an American actor. He is known for his role in the FX drama Damages, as Tom Shayes, and for his role as Jimmy Cooper in the American teen drama television series The O.C....
guest starred in "Rocketman" as Commander Luke Nelson, who is the professional rival and ex-boyfriend of a murdered astronaut was he having an affair with. In "Bombshells", Kristy Swanson
Kristy Swanson
Kristen Nöel "Kristy" Swanson is an American actress best known for playing Buffy in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she also played Catherine "Cathy" Dollanganger in the movie version of the V.C...
portrayed Lorelai Mailer, a woman whose son died after she gave birth, only to die herself days later; the case becomes a homicide investigation that seems to involve the paternity of the newborn. The episode revealed many resemblances with the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith
In 1992 Smith was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed as Vickie Smith, wearing a low-cut evening gown. The centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. Smith said she planned to be "the next Marilyn Monroe". Becoming one of Playboys...
and her son Daniel Wayne Smith
Daniel Wayne Smith
Daniel Wayne Smith was the son of the model and actress Anna Nicole and Billy Smith. He infrequently appeared in his mother's E! Network reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Show...
, which, like this episode, is a story with characters motivated by misadventures of rich and famous people.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor. He was best known for his leading role as police chief Martin C...
guest starred as serial killer Mark Ford Brady in "Endgame"; Brady drives Goren irritable as he has to deal with Brady's near end confessions and his mother's (Rita Moreno) cancer, but it turns out the two are connected. Mark Linn-Baker
Mark Linn-Baker
Mark 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:...
returned briefly as Wally Stevens, as an unwitting conduit between Goren and Brady, who is in the same penitentiary. In the season finale, "Renewal"; Kelli Williams
Kelli Williams
Kelli Renee Williams is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lindsay Dole on the Legal drama The Practice and as psychologist and deception expert Dr. Gillian Foster on Lie to Me....
guest stars as Logan's neighbor and possible girlfriend, Holly Lauren. But when she turns up dead, it drives Logan mad to where he stops focusing on the case at hand - a police recruits murder - and focuses on Lauren's death, which may have possibly been a suicide. Brooke Tansley guest stars as Belle Duffy, a girl who follows in Nicole Wallace's (Olivia d'Abo
Olivia d'Abo
Olivia 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:...
, who doesn't appear in the episode) footsteps. 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:...
(Detective Alex 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...
) guest stars in the episode to help out Detective Wheeler close the police recruits murder case.
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