Mis-Labeled
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"Mis-Labeled" is a third season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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and Eames
investigate the murder of a pharmaceutical company executive, Clayton Sherwood, found chopped in half and stuffed in his suitcase to be shipped back to Bangkok
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Key findings:
1) Due to a manufacturing mishap in 2001, about $15 million of human plasma-derived Factor VIII
clotting factor were not cleared of HIV
. Those vials should have been destroyed after the senior corporate office was notified and had approved of their destruction. Now in 2004, those tainted vials were being shipped to Thailand where there was an HIV epidemic which was being used as a convenient cover for the HIV-tainted Factor VIII. After the manufacturing mishap, Clarendon Pharmaceuticals stopped selling human-derived clotting factor (white labelled vials) and started selling synthetic clotting factor (green labelled vials). The tainted vials being sold in 2004 in Thailand were labelled with green labels—old HIV-tainted human-derived Factor VIII was being sold as synthetic Factor VIII!
1) Eric Dunlow is actually an impostor
, Brian, who has assumed the identity of an Eric Dunlow who was a college yachtsman that had overdosed on MDMA and remains in a semi-vegetative state. The impostor Eric Dunlow is presently employed at Clarendon Pharmaceuticals as Gordon Buchanan's administrative secretary. This impostor was not going to let the corrupt and murderous blackmailers take advantage of him. Instead he turns the tables on them!
2) Bernard Mailer, Steve Johannsen, Clayton Sherwood are involved in the HIV-tainted Factor VIII scandal, deception, coverup. They discovered that Eric Dunlow is an impostor and decided to blackmail him in order to get him to plant false information into Gordon Buchanan's (their boss) computer.
3) Clayton Sherwood is Head of Sales for Southeast Asia for Clarendon Pharmaceuticals. He blackmailed Eric Dunlow to get Eric to plant false information into Gordon Buchanan's computer that would falsely implicate Gordon Buchanan in the tainted Factor VIII scandal.
4) Gordon Buchanan is the Head of Blood Products division of Clarendon Pharmaceuticals. He is openly gay, has a strong ethics code, and is a yachtsman. He was unaware of the tainted Factor VIII vials until Det. Goren informed him that the vials were tainted with HIV.
5) Dr. Pirapan was the Bangkok hemophilia specialist treating an 8 year old with the disease who became infected with HIV. Pirapan suspected that the Factor VIII administered to the boy was the source of the HIV infection and informed the drug distributor (who subsequently informed Clayton Sherwood).
Goren: Are you lovers?
Suspect: Give me a little credit. I don't chase after secretaries.
[After Goren asks an intimate question]
Woman: You ask the weirdest questions.
Eames: You have no idea.
[After suspects are arrested]
Carver: Any bets which one the media will anoint the lesser evil?
Goren: There's no such animal.
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
In this episode, 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...
investigate the murder of a pharmaceutical company executive, Clayton Sherwood, found chopped in half and stuffed in his suitcase to be shipped back to Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
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Key findings:
1) Due to a manufacturing mishap in 2001, about $15 million of human plasma-derived Factor VIII
Factor VIII
Factor VIII is an essential blood clotting factor also known as anti-hemophilic factor . In humans, Factor VIII is encoded by the F8 gene...
clotting factor were not cleared of HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
. Those vials should have been destroyed after the senior corporate office was notified and had approved of their destruction. Now in 2004, those tainted vials were being shipped to Thailand where there was an HIV epidemic which was being used as a convenient cover for the HIV-tainted Factor VIII. After the manufacturing mishap, Clarendon Pharmaceuticals stopped selling human-derived clotting factor (white labelled vials) and started selling synthetic clotting factor (green labelled vials). The tainted vials being sold in 2004 in Thailand were labelled with green labels—old HIV-tainted human-derived Factor VIII was being sold as synthetic Factor VIII!
1) Eric Dunlow is actually an impostor
Impostor
An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often to try to gain financial or social advantages through social engineering, but just as often for purposes of espionage or law enforcement....
, Brian, who has assumed the identity of an Eric Dunlow who was a college yachtsman that had overdosed on MDMA and remains in a semi-vegetative state. The impostor Eric Dunlow is presently employed at Clarendon Pharmaceuticals as Gordon Buchanan's administrative secretary. This impostor was not going to let the corrupt and murderous blackmailers take advantage of him. Instead he turns the tables on them!
2) Bernard Mailer, Steve Johannsen, Clayton Sherwood are involved in the HIV-tainted Factor VIII scandal, deception, coverup. They discovered that Eric Dunlow is an impostor and decided to blackmail him in order to get him to plant false information into Gordon Buchanan's (their boss) computer.
3) Clayton Sherwood is Head of Sales for Southeast Asia for Clarendon Pharmaceuticals. He blackmailed Eric Dunlow to get Eric to plant false information into Gordon Buchanan's computer that would falsely implicate Gordon Buchanan in the tainted Factor VIII scandal.
4) Gordon Buchanan is the Head of Blood Products division of Clarendon Pharmaceuticals. He is openly gay, has a strong ethics code, and is a yachtsman. He was unaware of the tainted Factor VIII vials until Det. Goren informed him that the vials were tainted with HIV.
5) Dr. Pirapan was the Bangkok hemophilia specialist treating an 8 year old with the disease who became infected with HIV. Pirapan suspected that the Factor VIII administered to the boy was the source of the HIV infection and informed the drug distributor (who subsequently informed Clayton Sherwood).
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... |
Att. 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... |
| 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... |
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers |
Quotes
[To male suspect about his male secretary]Goren: Are you lovers?
Suspect: Give me a little credit. I don't chase after secretaries.
[After Goren asks an intimate question]
Woman: You ask the weirdest questions.
Eames: You have no idea.
[After suspects are arrested]
Carver: Any bets which one the media will anoint the lesser evil?
Goren: There's no such animal.