The Unblinking Eye

"The Unblinking Eye" is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a young actress gunned down on the street after an evening out with her boyfriend.

At first, they focus their attention on a woman who had previously shown an unusual interest in the victim's boyfriend, also an actor, who was wounded in the shooting. But further evidence leads them to realize other people could have been involved. The list of suspects include the grieving boyfriend, who seems too good to be true, as well as his best friend, who never excelled as an actor.

Finally, Goren and Eames head down another path, one where the key to exposing the truth about the present depends on exposing the lies of the past.

Cast

Facts

• This episode features Matt Damon as himself in an unbilled cameo. Although he does not appear on screen, his voice is heard in a video of a screen test for the character Ed. Ed calls him "Mr. Damon" instead of his character name and he is referred to another off screen characters as "Matt".
• When the detectives look deeper into the case, they learn that the key, nevertheless, might turn on their probe of Geocaching – an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a GPS receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers.
• Inspired by the January 2005 East Village robbery-homicide of Nicole duFresne.

External links

• IMDb entry
• Official site