Smile (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)

"Smile" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a dentist which turns out to be connected to the death of one of his young patients. As Goren and Eames look into both murders, they follow a trail of counterfeit mouthwash from the streets of Harlem to the FDA and Wall Street ambit. Though initial suspicions by dentist's wife are levied against the local population, the victim was loved and embraced by the Harlem community. The detectives turn their attention to a man, whose close proximity to the clinic makes him an obvious choice for a good eye witness. The man tells them that he saw a woman, then two teen boys leaving the clinic the night of the murder. But when suspicious activity turns up on dentist's credit card, Goren and Eames zero in on the two teen boys. Then, the detectives bust the kids for stealing the credit card, but one of the boy's mother gives them an unexpected motive for the dentist's murder: the good doctor was a suspected pedophile. Goren suspects that the children are suffering from alcohol poisoning, and he thinks that mouthwash in the dentist's goody bag for his patients may be the culprit. Unfortunately for one of the boys, his toxicology report reveals that he did not die of alcohol poisoning, but in fact was killed by a lethal amount of Diethylene glycol in his system. The detectives realize that the FDA and a big Wall Street corporation may have had a hand in these deaths.

Ultimately the detectives figure out that their FDA employee insider, Leslie LeZard, has been scheming all along to use the tainted mouthwash crisis to her advantage and destroy her FDA boss and take his position.

Cast

External links

• IMDb entry
• Official Website