Graansha

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Graansha
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 21 (#43 overall)
Written by Dick Wolf (creator)
René Balcer (developer and story)
Joe Gannon (story and teleplay)
Stephanie Sengupta (story editor)
Directed by
Darnell Martin
Guest stars Tom Noonan
Sally Murphy
William Sadler
Angela Reed
Production no. E3224
Original airdate May 11, 2003
Episode chronology
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Graansha is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

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[edit] Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the brutal murder of a probation officer, run over by a car three times.

The investigation leads Goren and Eames track down the last person to see her alive, an academic whose juvenile delinquent soon becomes their prime suspect. They also suspect her boyfriend, a respected college anthropology professor, who is the father of the troubled teenager. The professor then confesses to the crime, supposedly to protect his son. But they soon learn the victim's family is a nomadic group which goes around the country committing frauds on a seasonal/regular basis.

As they probe further and deeper into the crime, Goren and Eames connect a few dots and discover that the dead woman vehemently opposed to that lifestyle, which she intended to change for at least one relative, her niece – a young girl who may be used as a family restitution for a debt of her parents. Then, the detectives begin to take a closer look inside the clannish family.

[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

[edit] Quotes

[To Eames]
Goren: Let's just say we're not not suspecting him.

Suspect: What do you people want from me?
Goren: I'd like a glass of water

[edit] Fact

  • The title of this episode, Graansha, means 'stranger' in Shelta, a secret language of the Irish Travellers people.

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