"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" The Pilgrim (2002)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Darnell Martin

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Rene Balcer (developer)

TV Series:

"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)

Original Air Date:

17 November 2002 (Season 2, Episode 8)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

When a Pittsburgh cop's daughter goes missing, Goren and Eames find themselves on the trail of radical Muslims who will do anything to accomplish the next lesson for America. |

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
Rider Strong	...	Ethan Edwards
John Bolger	...	FBI Agent O'Dell
Manny Perez	...	Jorge Galvez
Reathel Bean	...	Joe Edwards
Mary Shultz	...	Vera Edwards
Sam Coppola	...	Neal Dornan
Daryl Edwards	...	Jorge's Employer
Adrianne Frost	...	Leslie Dornan
Andrea Ciannavei	...	Janey Woods
Kathleen Doyle	...	Nancy Dornan
Michelle Hurst	...	Audrey

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

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

Company:

Wolf Films

Trivia:

The name of the main criminal suspect in this episode, Ethan Edwards, appears to be a reference to the antihero of John Ford's 1956 western The Searchers (1956).

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ethan Edwards (Rider Strong) is being interrogated, there is about a 5 second period of time when you are watching Goren interrogating him and Edwards answering a question from the other side of the glass where the other officers and the D.A would be watching them. In this part of the scene, you can see through the glass that the words Edwards is saying are not matching with his lip movements.

Quotes:

Detective Alexandra Eames: [to Goren] Go ahead, impress me.

More L&O Religious Agenda Stuff, But Suspenseful

A woman who has an Arab boyfriend who just dumped her is missing. Her family is here from Pittsburgh and her dad's a policeman. His connections get him the high priority that puts Goren and Eames on the case.

The more Goren investigates the more he's convinced - without saying it - this could be something involving terrorism, especially when the police find traces of explosives and other evidence of homemade bombs. It turns out that, yes, there is going to be a suicide bombing and that there probably are two people involved, one being an American who has converted to being a Muslim after a long "search for God." They capture him but the other one is still out there somewhere with a vest and 25 pounds of explosives. They have to find him.

Along the way, this program gets its digs in once again against religion, not centering on these terrorists begin Islamic as much just people who do bad things in the name of God. Their unsaid message is obvious. It's still an interesting and fairly intense episode. Oddly, the only person looking "unhinged" is Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), not the terrorists!