"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" Art (2001)

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Director:

David Platt

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Rene Balcer (developer)

TV Series:

"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)

Original Air Date:

7 October 2001 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Detectives Goren and Eames sort through a palette of colorful characters when they probe the slayings of a museum curator and an art authenticator...

Plot Keywords:

Prosecutor | Trial | Prosecution | District Attorney | Gun

Cast

Vincent D'Onofrio	...	Detective Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe	...	Detective Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan	...	Captain James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance	...	A.D.A. Ron Carver
Tomas Arana	...	Rudy Langer
Linda Gehringer	...	Mrs. Jackson
Sam Freed	...	William Blunt
Tom Bloom	...	Bernard Jackson
Marceline Hugot	...	Gloria
Toby Poser	...	Anne Ellis
Richard Thompson	...	Mr. Ellis
Lisby Larson	...	Rachel Blunt
Isiah Whitlock Jr.	...	Detective
Elizabeth Marvel	...	Sylvia Moon
Lynn Cohen	...	Mina Cohen

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color

Certification:

New Zealand:M (DVD rating) | USA:TV-14

Company:

Wolf Films

Quotes:

Sylvia Moon: [crying] You don't know what it's like!
Detective Robert Goren: What, to work so hard?
Sylvia Moon: Yes.
Detective Robert Goren: And still be a nobody.
Sylvia Moon: Yes.
Detective Robert Goren: Welcome to the human race.

The Crazy World Of Art

Something shady appears to be going on in the art world but nothing is revealed until a couple of minutes into the introduction when an art authenticator's wife comes down to her husband's workshop to see if he's there since he didn't come home at night. To her horror, she finds him dead on the floor, shot in the chest. What's more, not far away is a dead woman hanging from a rope! She turns out to be a curator from a museum in Troy. It looks like a murder-suicide....but, of course, that's not the case.

Goren and Eames investigate to find out what the connection is, what really transpired and who is responsible. Right off the bat it's puzzling, especially since there many valuable pieces of artwork worth big bucks that were in the workshop and not stolen in the double homicide. Then again, most episodes in this series tend to be fairly complex, as is shown here in this murder involving artists and just plain greedy, cold people.

Tomas Arana is excellent as the villain "Rudy Langer" and Elizabeth Marvell is good as the bizarre artist "Sylvia Moon."