"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" Shrink-Wrapped (2004)

Director:

Jean de Segonzac

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Rene Balcer (developer)

TV Series:

"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)

Original Air Date:

7 March 2004 (Season 3, Episode 15)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A musician is found brutally murdered in his recording studio. The detectives soon find a trail leading to a bizarre family of shrinks who are playing their own wicked game. |

Plot Keywords:

Detective | New York City | Trial | Gun | Interrogation

Cast

  (Episode Credited 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
Brent Spiner	...	Graham Barnes
Taylor Roberts	...	Camilla Barnes
Richmond Hoxie	...	Penell
Gene Farber	...	Christian
Margaret Colin	...	Dr. Eloise Barnes
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patrick Boll	...	Frank Lasday
Jean Brassard	...	Phillipe
Danny Burstein	...	Luke Vinton
Walter Charles	...	David Clayton
Lyssandra Cox	...	Celeste
Danyon Davis	...	Curtis
Andy Dawson	...	(voice)
Kristoffer Falcones	...	Jamie Ortiz
Will Janowitz	...	Rico
Scott Johnsen	...	Detective Yeomans
Tasha Lawrence	...	Tanya Coker
Joseph McKenna	...	KJ Minkens
K.C. Ramsey	...	Mike Hollinger
Ed Setrakian	...	Judge Ross
Joe Suba	...	Security Guard
Robert Trumbull	...	Bill Hefferman
Eric Wippo	...	Derek
Cornell Womack	...	John Emery

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

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

Company:

Wolf Films

Quotes:

A.D.A. Ron Carver: [referring to the Barneses] This family makes me want to go home and kiss my wife.

An off-Broadway (Upper East Side) production of Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

... starring Drs. Graham and Eloise Barnes in the roles of George and Martha.

Dr. Graham Barnes (actor Brent Spiner), a psychologist, plays at being a naughty boy and considers himself an amateur anthropologist.

Meanwhile his wife Dr. Eloise Barnes (actress Margaret Colin), a psychiatrist, displays a certain contempt for aging bad boys — and for psychologists, as well.

These two middle-aged, ice-packed shrinks been playing mind games with each other for some twenty-odd (yes, increasingly odd) years, with their daughter Camilla serving as apologetic referee.

Over the past few weeks, however, their marital Cold War has escalated beyond the bounds of bourgeois propriety and even legality.

Now both spouses are considered persons of interest in the murder of a masochistic, emotionally needy, even infantile, jazz musician. (Sorry: "infantile jazz musician" is probably redundant.)

Did Dr. Barnes (homme) disfigure and murder his wife's handsome young lover in a jealous cuckold's rage? Or did Dr. Barnes (femme) perhaps kill her gauche, clingy suitor and then frame her husband — thus conveniently ridding herself of two annoying men at once? (Oops — "annoying men" ... another tautology, sorry.)

While both are brainy, neither Dr. Barnes (homme or femme) appears to able to produce a solid alibi for the time of the murder.

In any case, the rancorous banter and nasty antics of happy loving couples such as Graham & Eloise Barnes goes a long way towards explaining why Detective Robert Goren has never evinced any interest in matrimony or long-term relationships.

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