Probability (16 Feb. 2003)

Detectives Goren and Eames are investigating the murders of several homeless people.

Director:

Frank Prinzi

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator), Rene Balcer (developer),

Stars:

Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Vincent D'Onofrio	...	Detective Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe	...	Detective Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan	...	Captain James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance	...	A.D.A. Ron Carver
Mark Linn-Baker	...	Wally Stevens
Matthew Arkin	...	Ben Gergis
Ken Cheeseman	...	Leo Gergis
Isabel Glasser	...	Elaine Gergis
Leslie Hendrix	...	Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
David Dollase
Lance Reddick	...	Jack Bernard
Olga Sosnovska	...	Jeanne Marie Lofficier
Les J.N. Mau	...	Mark Shen
Kate Rigg	...	Detective Hinson
Tom Bozell	...	Englehart

Storyline

Detectives Goren and Eames are investigating the murders of several homeless people.

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Plot Keywords:

furniture | blood test | insurance fraud | homeless man | asperger's syndrome | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 February 2003 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films, Universal Network Television

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The name of Wally Stevens, the Mark Linn-Baker insurance-fraud investigator character, is an inside joke: The name is taken from Wallace Stevens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who also worked as vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company.

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Quotes

Detective Robert Goren: We arrested his girlfriend.
Wally Stevens: She probably has the money. Women like money.
Detective Robert Goren: So do men.
Wally Stevens: That's because women like men with money.

User Reviews

A Crime For Serious Nerds

"Leo Gergis," a homeless shelter resident, is shown finishing up his physical and giving blood at a hotel room. It turns out he is getting paid for this but is going to pay with his life for it. He's a victim of an insurance scam in which a man "Jack Berard" (Lance Reddick)" finds healthy homeless people, Caucaisons in their 40s, and then bashes their skulls in. He makes each killing look like a freak accident. Each one of the victims had been insured a million dollars each with phony French company connections.

This has happened 14 times all around New York City and has been done well enough, obviously, to avoid detection. That is, until now when Det. Goren, with the help of a nerdy insurance expert (who provides Eames with more of her humorous sarcastic comments) track down the culprits. The problem is there are several people involved, not just the killer, as they find out when the killer is killed.

Mark Linn-Baker gives one of the more memorable performances as the oddball insurance expert "Wally Stevens." In what I thought might be a boring episode about insurance claims turned out to be a fascinating episode, one of the better ones.