Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Dead
Sep 29, 2002 · 44 min
The murder of a mortician and the discovery of corpses at a crematorium lead the detectives to a family man claiming to have a consulting business but suspected of being a contract
Bright Boy
Oct 6, 2002 · 43 min
The double murder of a social services worker and a deputy mayor lead the detectives to suspect a couple who may have a grudge against the social worker for taking away their child
Anti-Thesis
Oct 13, 2002 · 44 min
As Goren and Eames sift through the likely suspects in the murder of a university president and his assistant, they discover that the culprit is a wily adversary who has more than
Best Defense
Oct 20, 2002 · 44 min
The detectives follow the trail when an assistant district attorney confronts and kills a hired gunman following a series of death threats. They first suspect his wife, a prominent
Chinoiserie
Oct 27, 2002 · 44 min
After a mother of two is shot dead in Chinatown, Goren and Eames first believe that her death may be connected to the Tianamen Square massacre, but then their investigation leads t
Malignant
Nov 3, 2002 · 44 min
A robbery that involved two fatalities leads to the discovery of a long-running case of tampering with drugs. Goren and Eames have to figure out a way of catching a pharmacist who
Tomorrow
Nov 10, 2002 · 44 min
The detectives investigate a triple murder, including the son and daughter of a wealthy businessman, that occurred in his apartment. After investigating the childrens' stepmother (
The Pilgrim
Nov 17, 2002 · 44 min
The detectives are called to investigate the adult daughter of a retired officer which takes them to a case of terrorism involving someone she knew that includes a shipment of expl
Shandeh
Dec 1, 2002 · 44 min
The investigation into the murder of a Jewish woman turns towards her family once Goren and Eames find out about her husband's affair.
Con-Text
Jan 5, 2003 · 44 min
Goren and Eames run a con of their own on a phony motivational speaker whom they suspect exploited a fragile disciple by convincing him to commit murder for profit.
Baggage
Jan 12, 2003 · 44 min
When an airline baggage supervisor is found murdered in the trunk of her car, the detectives investigate the employees listed in a sexual harrassment complaint which leads them to
Suite Sorrow
Feb 2, 2003 · 44 min
After the tyrannical owner of a Manhattan luxury hotel is found submerged in her bathtub, evidence seems increasingly to indicate that the woman's death was the work of her deeply
See Me
Feb 9, 2003 · 44 min
Detectives Goren and Eames come to believe a doctor conducted shameful experiments on the residents of a halfway house.
Probability
Feb 16, 2003 · 44 min
While probing the seemingly random murders of several homeless men, Goren and Eames uncover a scam involving a crooked insurance agent. However, an unsual twist leads the detective
Monster
Mar 2, 2003 · 44 min
The murder of a woman in her apartment results in her son, recently paroled after serving 15 years for murder, becoming the prime suspect. Having consulted with the lead detective
Cuba Libre
Mar 9, 2003 · 44 min
After the trophy wife of a recently released prison inmate is murdered, Goren plays on the man's paranoia to find a connection to another inmate with a hit list.
Cold Comfort
Mar 30, 2003 · 44 min
When a woman suing her brother over the disposition of their father's remains is found murdered, Goren and Eames discover a concealed parentage and a man willing to go to any extre
Legion
Apr 6, 2003 · 44 min
When a father and son have their throats slit, the detectives discovers that a group of adolescent boys have disappeared from the same neighborhood. When the locals don't cooperate
Cherry Red
Apr 27, 2003 · 44 min
The detectives try to figure out a mystery after an old woman dies in a fire. The mystery gets deeper when a young woman who is left some of the old woman estate is killed. The cas
Blink
May 4, 2003 · 44 min
The detectives investigate a murder of a math student who worked in a poker club as a card-counter. Their case brings the detectives to a group of computer nerds, but later they di
Graansha
May 11, 2003 · 44 min
Goren and Eames enter the closed world of a thieving Irish Traveller clan when they investigate the death of a Ann Lawson, a probation officer who was run over three times after me
Zoonotic
May 18, 2003 · 44 min
The investigation into the murder of a crooked cop leads to a preening veterinarian and his friend, an obsessive doctor whose ex-girlfriends who have all been infected with a rare
A Person of Interest
May 18, 2003 · 44 min
Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a former nurse and discover a possible anthrax terrorist plot. The case takes a turn for the worse when Goren is blamed for driving a susp