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| Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode | |||
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 11 (#77 overall) |
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| Directed by | Christopher Swartout | ||
| Written by | Dick Wolf (creator) René Balcer (developer and story) Stephanie Sengupta (story and teleplay) |
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| Production code | E5406 | ||
| Original air date | January 9, 2005 | ||
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"Gone" is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
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In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames are investigating the murder of a newly engaged woman, who is found slain and tossed in a garbage bin, while in town to visit her fiancée.
Goren pushes his investigative mind against a paranoid man who may be involved in the murder of the woman. Edging closer, the detective studies the passenger manifest on the victim's recent flight and he discovers the curious knight's chess strategy of the suspect who is later discovered to be a one-time chess master prodigy turned fugitive.
The investigators find they need one more missing link to make their case, and subsequently discover that the suspect was blackmailing his family for money.
Close to the ending, Goren matches wits with the disturbed man in the same place as he started his fame at an early age.
| Vincent D'Onofrio | Det. Robert Goren |
| Kathryn Erbe | Det. Alexandra Eames |
| Jamey Sheridan | Capt. James Deakins |
| Courtney B. Vance | A.D.A. Ron Carver |
Interestingly, this episode revealed many resemblances of the life of Bobby Fischer, who was one of the most celebrated chess masters of the 20th century. However, Fischer was never associated with any of the sordid activities attributed to the paranoid man of this story, though the connection was obvious. Fischer, before his death on January 17, 2008, was shown in interviews abroad to possess anti-Semitic views and a sense of paranoia.
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