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Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 3 Episode 4

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AIRED: 10/19/03

When a bookkeeper goes missing, Goren and Eames are led back to the death of her brother, a hitman, two years earlier. An imprisoned mobster seems to be their best bet, but when another body turns up it takes the case to a whole new level.

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By nandinisamant, Feb 15, 2013

Could they not of charged Isobel with obstruction of justice if she knew her husband was a hitman?
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A woman with no known enemies disappears, along with her dog, and it doesn’t appear that her husband is anything but loving. In the course of their investigation, the detectives solve several murder cases related to the new crime.moreless

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By Firefligh, Jul 14, 2006

The only tangible early clues are photos of a man who had been watching the woman, who worked as a bookkeeper. The detectives also learn that the missing woman's brother had been murdered on 9/11 and his case did not get the attention it ordinarily would have. One major clue in the brother's file was that coffee dust had been found on his person, and Goren and Eames equate it with coffee dust found on the woman's dog when it finds its way home.

The detectives eventually discover the abandoned warehouse where the brother was killed, with a scent of caffeine so strong it give a very pregnant Eames 'a buzz'. The remains of torture apparatus tell Bobby it was 'a killing room". Bro had been a hitman whose turn had come. Still no sign of the woman, but some of her dog's hair was found on the premises.

The investigation now centers on the dead brother's murder as it's the major lead. His widow, now apparently happily re-married to an ex-detective with a security business, appears shocked to learn her dead hubby was in the mob.

The dead hubby's 'business' dealings provide a sub-plot that eventually explains the entire mystery. His partners in crime had included both his wife's current husband, and the man who had been photographed watching his sister. When that man is fished out of the river, the detectives realize they can close several cases by bottoming this one out.

Carver terms the case 'operatic' as there are no easily discernable glue connecting the actors, but in the end the pieces of the puzzle fit nicely. The murder of a mistakenly assassinated lawyer and the involvement of a mobster soon to be paroled and his inept son figure into the plot as well.

The finale is well done - the wife knew for some time her new hubby, the dirty cop, killed 'her one husband' and she had the self discipline to wait for just the right time to indulge in what we all know is best served cold. She had quite 'unethically' involved her sister-on-law in a tax audit of her late husband's phony companies.……the act which forced the hand of new hubby, as he feared any prying into his late partner's affairs would uncover his relationship with him. But the necessity of sacrificing her sister-in-law hardly measured up to nailing the man she had married after he killed her 'one and only'.

A really interesting storyline, complicated, but never off the wall.

The exquisite olfactory sense of Detective Goren was in full play in this one, as the notorious "button nose" detects coffee dust on the doggie's hindlegs and probably WOULD have detected a cheese's Italian ancestry without the label. Pretty horrible Chinese accent tho..it's a tonal language, Bobby, and tone ain't intonation.

But OHH! An acting tidbit - Goren complements a waitress for noticing "the little things" (about the dead woman's friend)"that's the way an actor builds a character".

Don't tell me V D'O has been giving free acting lessons for five years. :)

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Vincent D'Onofrio	Det. Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe	Det. Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan	Capt. James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance	A.D.A. Carver

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Terry Serpico	Earl Carnicki	Guest Star
Liz Larsen	Frieda Merced	Guest Star
Don Amendolia	Michael Carling	Guest Star
Leslie Hendrix	Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers	Recurring Role

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- Goren finds dog hairs at the abandoned coffee warehouse. The presumption is they came from the missing woman's dog, however the dog is a Bichon Frise, which is a non-shedding dog. He could not have found hairs from her dog.
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- (Referring to a related murder case in another precinct.)
  James Deakins: I'd say they put in about two hours' work and called it quits.
  Alex Eames: Maybe because they had about 2,000 other homicides to solve that day.
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- Carver: I don't know whether to laugh or cry. You have an offended mobster and his son, a case of mistaken identity, an incompetent hitman, a hitman's widow, a hitman's missing sister, a corrupt cop and now another dead killer. It's operatic.
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- (Goren sniffs a missing woman's dog)
  Goren: This all came off the dog?
  Lacey: Mm, those crumbs. He must have stepped in something; it's all over his hind legs.
  Eames: I don't even want to know what that smells like.
  Goren: It smells like coffee.
  (Eames smells the crumbs.)
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- (Goren opens a container of cheese)
  Alex Eames: Ugh! And I thought that dog was ripe!
  Josie: Frieda didn't find any takers.
  Robert Goren: It's very uh uh assertive.
  Alex Eames: Yeah.
  Robert Goren: Sheep's milk. It's, uh, Rochetta.
  Alex Eames: You can tell that just from the smell?
  Robert Goren: Label.
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- James Deakins: They whacked the wrong lawyer.
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- (Goren examines the skull of a murder victim.)
  Alex Eames: You keep doing that, I'm going to drop this kid right here.
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- International Titles:
  Czech Republic Ta sladká příchuť pomsty (The sweet taste of revenge)
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- Special billing was given to Alicia Coppola (and) in this episode.
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- When Eames says, "Guess what? Lassie came home." it is an allusion to the 1943 movie 'Lassie Come Home'.
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- The character of Anson MacDonald is named after a pseudonym of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. The episode's writer, Gerry Conway, is himself a science fiction author.
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