Bright Boy

Episode aired Oct 6, 2002
TV-14
43m

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Rick Shapiro in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)

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Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor.Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor.Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor.

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Trivia
Captain Deakins remarks, "Dads kill over hockey, why not over education?"

This is a reference to real-world murder of Michael Costin, a referee for children's hockey, in July 2000. Thomas Junta, the father of one of the children coached by Costin, beat Costin to death and was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He served 8 years and was released in 2010.

It's also a possible reference to Thin Ice (2000) as all of the New York-based Law & Order series are related and often cross over.

Goofs
Goren states that Robbie's IQ was recorded as 246 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This is impossible as the scale's highest possible score is 160. Goren probably meant that Robbie's IQ was recorded as 146.

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References A Beautiful Mind (2001)

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What's The Story Here?

The deputy mayor, trying to make the moves on a social worker, is denied and asks the woman as she is exiting his car to get him a newspaper. She comes back with it and is mugged. (We only see this from the driver's view.) A gun appears and the political official is shot and killed. A short time later, the social worker is found dead. At first, the prime suspect is a druggie father who just had his kids taken away earlier in the day by the social worker, but that's a smokescreen.

One of the boys' "on the bubble" of making a prestigious academic jump - a young genius attending a college, was not recommended to be accepted by the social worker the school had hired to evaluate kids' psychologically. Thus, the father, killed the worker before her report could be submitted to the school. Yet, later, it looks like that may not be true. It may be the kid lied to his dad because he didn't want to go to that school. It gets convoluted and it's up to Det. Goren and Eames to figure what the real story is here.