"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" Slither (2006)

Director:

Bill L. Norton

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Rene Balcer (developer)

TV Series:

"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)

Original Air Date:

15 January 2006 (Season 5, Episode 11)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Goren and Eames pursue the people who killed a banker so they could loot his apartment. |

Plot Keywords:

Detective | New York City | Trial | Gun | Interrogation

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
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson	...	Hilary Marsden
Michael Stuhlbarg	...	Marcel Costas
Mariann Mayberry	...	Monica Corbett
Wynn Everett	...	Mala Marsden
Brette Taylor	...	Sammie
Stephen Kunken	...	Contractor
Lee R. Sellars	...	Lenny Dupar (as Lee Sellars)
Leslie Hendrix	...	Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
John Bolger	...	Russ Corbett
Michael York	...	Bernard Fremont
Judith Hawking	...	Amy Ford

Runtime:

Netherlands:50 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Certification:

New Zealand:M (DVD rating) | USA:TV-14 | Netherlands:12

Company:

Wolf Films

Trivia:

The psychopathic charisma and globe-spanning criminal exploits of Bernard Fremont [Michael York] strongly appear to have been inspired by real-life murderer Charles Sobhraj, now serving a life sentence in a Nepalese prison. Compare, for example, the title of this episode with that of journalist Thomas Thompson's 1979 non-fiction bestseller about Sobhraj, Serpentine.

Quotes:

Bernard Fremont: Empty carcasses, devoid of dreams and ambitions.

Nicole Wallace's Teacher

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

'From a townhouse to a flophouse."

So says, with her usual seriousness and touch of dark humor, "Det. Alex Eames" (Kathryn Erbe) in another odd-and-interesting episode of "Criminal Intent."

She and "Det. Robert Goren" (Vincent D'Onofrio) wind up trying to find out how a well-to-do couple from the townhouse wound up in such bad shape at a flophouse. The husband was dead of a heroin overdose and the wife was nearly dead of the same. She would up surviving and helping to solve the case. Neither was a drug addict. They both were supposed to be killed.

This episode went from pretty good to very good two-thirds of the way through when Goren and Eames deduce that the villain has ties to the infamous "Nicole Wallace," Goren's nemesis and most interesting opponent over the years. In fact, the man - "Bernard Fremont" - apparently was Nicole's tutor! Yes, he taught one of the planet's worst killers how to kill, so he's even more dangerous, if that's possible. Making the story even better is that "Bernard" is played by veteran actor Michael York, who does a great job in here.

It seems Bernard is quite the ladies man, and seems to have them under his spell, a la Charles Manson. They do his bidding and the usual schemes involve getting rich people away from their townhouses for a few days and then robbing them of everything in the house....and I mean everything! It also involves murder to anyone who gets in the way. That also includes anyone in their circle who becomes untrustworthy, as we see in one terrifying scene.

There are a number of surprises in here, so I won't say more to ruin anything for anybody who hasn't seen this episode. My only disappointment - because I looked this up - is that we Criminal Intent fans have seen the last of Olivia d'Abo, who played Nicole Wallace. Her resume here at IMDb states her last episode was in the opening program of this season....but her presence is still very much felt in this episode.