"Law & Order: Criminal Intent"
Dead (2002)

Director:

Darnell Martin

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Rene Balcer (developer)

TV Series:

"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)

Original Air Date:

29 September 2002 (Season 2, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Several people are murdered and Goren and Eames must find what connected them. Soon the detectives realize they are after a very intelligent and dangerous killer. |

Plot Keywords:

Prosecution | District Attorney | Trial | Prosecutor | Gun

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bob Ader	...	Lawrence Auerbach
Tina Benko	...	Susan Rowan
L.J. Bologna	...	Harry Rowan Jr.
Louis Butelli	...	CSU Technician
Magaly Colimon	...	Ella
Emilio Del Pozo	...	Mr. Rivera
Jim Gaffigan	...	Russell Matthews
Patrick Garner	...	Doug Hagman
Phillip Goodwin	...	Fritz Vaughn
Leslie Hendrix	...	Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
David Lenthall	...	Damon Tyler
Leslie Lyles	...	Mrs. Hagman
Nick Plakias	...	Medical Examiner Augente
Naelee Rae	...	Molly Rowan
Armando Riesco	...	Scott Calderon
Jay O. Sanders	...	Harry Rowan
James Stovall	...	Detective Nunez
Peter Van Wagner	...	Anti-Desecration Fanatic

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

New Zealand:M (DVD rating)

Company:

Wolf Films

Finally, We Get The Second-Season DVD and It's Off To A Good Start

An embalmer at a funeral home is killed, with strange markings on his chest. He had received a strange phone call a few weeks ago from a man saying embalming was not something God at favorably. Goren finds that man and interviews and quickly deduces that the killer set it up so it looked like a "religious fanatic" (the only kind, according to L&O writers) did it but that is not the case since the man wouldn't have desecrated the body. So, who is this clever killer and what's his motive?

Things get really bizarre when it is discovered the guy who was supposed to cremating bodies the past few years was not, and that the bodies were buried or half buried nearby the crematory and cleverly used for other crime scenes. Did the embalmer find out about this scam and was killed for having that knowledge?

Veteran movie actor J.O Sanders guest-stars in this episode, and he is fascinating.

Overall, an interesting beginning the second season of this series. It took several years for this DVD to be released, even though the third year had been released at least two years. That's another mystery but will never be "solved" by us viewers.