Cold Comfort (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
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| Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 17 (#39 overall) |
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| Written by | Dick Wolf (creator) René Balcer (developer and story) Stephanie Sengupta (story and teleplay) |
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| Directed by | Constantine Makris | ||||||
| Guest stars | Josef Sommer Jay Goede Tim Ransom Robert Lupone Mark Zeisler John Gould Rubin Tom Atkins Wendy Hoopes Donnell Rawlings |
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| Production no. | E3217 | ||||||
| Original airdate | March 30, 2003 | ||||||
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Cold Comfort is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
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[edit] Plot summary
An esteemed former senator succumbs to cancer, while his son and daughter wrangle over a codicil to his will providing that his body be cremated of cryogenically frozen after his death. But when the daughter of the senator is found murdered, and her father's brain apparently was removed by someone for research, Detectives Goren and Eames uncover a few startling facts about the family and start looking at murder suspects and their motives.
[edit] Cast
| Vincent D'Onofrio | Det. Robert Goren |
| Kathryn Erbe | Det. Alexandra Eames |
| Jamey Sheridan | Capt. James Deakins |
| Courtney B. Vance | A.D.A. Ron Carver |
| Leslie Hendrix | Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers |
[edit] Quotes
Eames: This isn't a robbery gone bad.
Goren: This is a murder gone good.
Deakins: Nothing like a two-thousand degree fire to destroy evidence.
Eames: Don't tell me they took his brain! [after Goren explains what certain tools that were used on a man about to cremated are for]
Eames: His polyp didn't get to save mankind from some terrible disease.
Goren: You'd be worth bringing back.
Suspect: I don't plan on dying.
Eames: Maybe they wanted to see how he talked out of both sides of his mouth [while wondering why doctors wanted to study a healthy politician's brain]
Goren: Will a show-and-tell help?
Goren: Shame on you.
Eames: I hear skeletons in the family closet.
Goren: [disgusted] His future? Your future! You don't plan on dying, remember? You want to be immortal, you got to be immortal! And not in a tub of nitrogen, no! Your vessel to eternity is your foundation. To keep your candle burning bright for centuries. No, forget being humanitarian of the year! You got to be humanitarian of the millennium!
Goren: As much as you claim to love humanity, it's people you can't stand.
[edit] Fact
- Interestingly, this episode revealed some resemblances with the controversy over whether Ted Williams wanted to be cremated or frozen, which has remained as a black cloud since the death of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame outfielder in July 2002. The episode also bears resemblance to the history of Senator Edmund Muskie. The Senator in the episode cried at a press conference while running for President in 1976, which lead to the end of his campaign. Muskie cried at a press conference in his run for the Presidency in 1972, which lead to the end of his campaign.
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