Shandeh

"Shandeh"
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 9 (#31 overall)
Directed by Steve Shill
Written by Dick Wolf (creator)
René Balcer (developer and story)
Production code E3216
Original air date December 1, 2002
Guest stars
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"Shandeh" is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames discover that the underpinning of the contract murder of a woman about to leave her husband was not his infidelity, but a secret agreement made with her mother-in-law, sealed by a substantial payoff, to raise her children in their father's faith.

While investigating the murder, Goren and Eames focus their suspicion on the stripper/girlfriend of the philandering husband, who not only had motive to arrange a hit, but also possesses a key piece of evidence.

Nevertheless, the investigators cannot connect all of the dots in the case and have it make sense until they find the hired killer, a suspect with large hands, who left an imprint on the victim's neck.

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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