Malignant (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)

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“Malignant”
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 6 (#28 overall)
Written by	Dick Wolf (creator) René Balcer (developer and story) Michael S. Chernuchin (story and teleplay)
Directed by	Juan José Campanella Frank Prinzi
Guest stars	Stephen Tobolowsky Jonathan Hogan Richard Bright Paul Wesley Julian Gamble Deirdre Lovejoy Ilana Levine J. R. Horne Stuart Zagnit Jon Bernthal
Production no.	E3208
Original airdate	November 3, 2002
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Malignant is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Cast 3 Fact 4 External links

[edit] Plot summary

In this episode, the murders of two deliverymen during a robbery lead Detectives Goren and Eames to discover a long-running case of tampering with drugs.

While investigating the murders, Goren and Eames focus their suspicion on a pharmaceutical supplier who has been tampering with the life-saving, cancer-fighting drugs needed by hundreds of patients, as many of the victims died despite positive survival prognoses from their personal doctors.

Nevertheless, the investigators cannot prove their theories until the exhumations of possible victims reveals evidence of an assisted suicide by an elderly husband, who reluctantly acted at his wife's request to end her suffering.

[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] Fact

• Interestingly, this episode revealed many resemblances with the case of pharmacist Robert Ray Courtney, who over a period of about nine years diluted an estimated 98,000 prescriptions of medications, affecting more than 4,200 patients, including many cancer patients who died after receiving intentionally diluted prescription of chemotherapy from him.

[edit] External links

• IMDb
• Official Website

v • d • e Law & Order: Criminal Intent Characters Robert Goren • Alexandra Eames • Mike Logan • Carolyn Barek • Megan Wheeler • Nola Falacci • James Deakins • Danny Ross • Ron Carver • Elizabeth Rodgers • Nicole Wallace Cast Vincent D'Onofrio • Kathryn Erbe • Chris Noth • Annabella Sciorra • Julianne Nicholson • Alicia Witt • Jamey Sheridan • Eric Bogosian • Courtney B. Vance • Theresa Randle • Samantha Buck • Leslie Hendrix • Olivia D'Abo Crew Dick Wolf • René Balcer • Elizabeth Benjamin • Peter Blauner • Juan J. Campanella • Alex Chapple • Joyce Chopra • Gerry Conway • Gina Gionfriddo • Peter Jankowski • Warren Leight • Constantine Makris • Darnell Martin • Marlene Meyer • Gloria Muzio • Marsha Norman • Frank Prinzi • Theresa Rebeck • Charlie Rubin • Jean de Segonzac • Stephanie Sengupta • Steve Shill • Michael Smith • Jim Sterling • Mike Post • Alex Zakrzewski • Steven Zirnkilton Miscellaneous List of episodes • List of actors and actresses who have appeared in the series