Episode
Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Death Roe
Overview
After a food critic is found beaten to death, Goren and Eames turn their suspicion to the chef at the last restaurant she visited. Unfortunately, Joshua Mailer has also gone missing, and their investigation then turns to his father-in-law, the owner and head chef of another very popular restaurant in the city. An off-the-cuff comment tips Goren off to the fact that not all is well in the Onorato household.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2005-03-13
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Death Roe is Episode 15 in Season 4 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It aired on 2005-03-13. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 14: Sex Club
When Goren and Eames investigate the death of the new owner of a "little black book" once belonging to legendary playboy George Merritt, they uncover the marital indiscretions of a U.S. Senatorial candidate involving sex clubs.
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When a young woman is shot at an appointment she never should have been at, Goren and Eames investigate her death and learn she had received a kidney transplant a few years earlier. Initially they believe that Vanessa Nikos may have been killed so that her organs could be harvested, but soon learn that her death was more closely connected with the organ she initially received from living donor Boyce Wainwright. When her shooter, also awaiting an organ transplant, is also found dead, the police realise they're on to something.
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