Best Defense (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)

"Best Defense"
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 4 (#26 overall)
Directed by Gloria Muzio
Written by Dick Wolf (creator)
René Balcer (story and developer)
Elizabeth M. Cosin (story and teleplay)
Stephanie Sengupta (story editor)
Production code E3201
Original air date October 20, 2002
Guest stars

David Marshall Grant
Susan Floyd
Carlos Leon
Olga Merediz
Jim Bracchitta
Keith Randolph Smith
Margaret Reed
T. Scott Cunningham
Nashawn Kearse
Sean McCourt

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"Best Defense" is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of an Assistant District Attorney who takes the law into his own hands by gunning down a burglar, or at least someone who supposedly was a hired killer following a series of death threats.

The detectives first suspect his wife, a prominent defense attorney, through a convict whose case was being prosecuted by the ADA as well the rumors of her romantic affairs.

As detectives discover, things are not what they seem with this prosecutor and his wife, and Goren has to keep ADA Carver in the dark about some details to prove his theory.

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

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