Eosphoros

Episode aired Oct 24, 2004
TV-14TV-14
55m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

263

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Crime

Drama

Mystery

A leader of the Atheist movement is kidnapped and murdered despite the ransom paid, and the detectives find a suspect close to home.A leader of the Atheist movement is kidnapped and murdered despite the ransom paid, and the detectives find a suspect close to home.A leader of the Atheist movement is kidnapped and murdered despite the ransom paid, and the detectives find a suspect close to home.

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

263

YOUR RATING

Director
- Alex Zakrzewski
Writers
- Dick Wolf
- Rene Balcer(story by)
- Stephanie Sengupta(teleplay by)
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Trivia
This episode was inspired by the murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the founder of the "American Atheists". In 1995, O'Hair, her second son Jon Garth Murray, and her adopted daughter Robin Murray O'Hair (daughter of O'Hair's son William J. Murray and his high school girlfriend Susan) disappeared from Austin, Texas. They were later found murdered. David Roland Waters, a convicted felon and former employee of the American Atheists, led the authorities to the bodies and received multiple life sentences for the murders.

Goofs
The character April states that she has rheumatoid arthritis because of her weight; however, rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder and is not caused by obesity. Being overweight does increase the risk of osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis.

Quotes
[last lines]
Detective Robert Goren: She didn't believe in Heaven or Hell, so how would she know that the Devil was massaging her neck?

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9/10

Hidden Gold

In this episode, a prominent atheist and her daughter are kidnapped. The detectives investigate and come across multiple suspects... and red herrings.

This episode was pretty great in my opinion, although there a few gripes with it and thus, I do understand why some dislike this episode. I can see why some would disagree with how the atheists are portrayed here (didn't really mind, but it did feel one-sided at times). However, I really did like the plot and its interesting twists and turns but I did feel the antagonist was a tad annoying at times and he was pretty easy to hate in the denouement. Goren's last line is also really badly written in my personal opinion. Other than that, I felt this was a pretty great episode mainly because of its plot.

Overall, "Eosphoros" was a pretty interesting episode purely because of its plot which makes it watchable. However, I did feel the antagonist could've been more complex and that the portrayal of the characters here felt a bit biased and one-sided.

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