Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 4
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | |
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Season 4 | |
No. of episodes | 23 |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | September 26, 2004 May 25, 2005 | –
Season chronology | |
The fourth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered on NBC on September 26, 2004, and ended May 25, 2005. The series remained in its time slot of Sundays at 9 PM/8c, but the season finale episode "False-Hearted Judges" aired on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 10 PM ET/9 CT.
Stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, and Courtney B. Vance returned for the fourth season. Around mid-season, star Vincent D'Onofrio fainted twice from exhaustion, once on set and again at his home.[1] Writers René Balcer and Elizabeth Benjamin won an Edgar Award in the category Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay, for the episode "Want".[2] Almost three months before the fourth season finale, it was announced Chris Noth would join the show in the fifth season, alternating episodes with D'Onofrio, due to his health issues at the time.[3]
Production
NBC renewed Law & Order: Criminal Intent for a fourth season on May 12, 2004. On Sundays during the 2003-2004 broadcast network TV season, Law & Order: CI was undefeated in its third season against regular competition in 18–49 and was the only NBC regular series to win that time slot in the last eight years.[4]
In a broadcast network first, Law & Order: Criminal Intent viewers chose the fate of Detective Robert Goren's nemesis, Nicole Wallace (Olivia d'Abo): whether she lives or dies at the end of the episode "Great Barrier" (aired originally on October 17, 2004). Two versions of the episode were shot before the voting began on October 6 and ended October 20, 2004. The East Coast viewers saw Wallace live; the West Coast viewers saw her die. More than 116,000 viewers cast a vote online. "We are very gratified by the response," said show runner-executive producer René Balcer, "We've always seen this as a gift to our fans, to thank them for their continuing dedication to the series. Live or die, we'll abide by their decision."[5][6] The choice of Wallace living became the outcome, but Wallace is believed to be killed in the seventh season by Detective Goren's mentor, Dr. Declan Gage (John Glover). But having fooled Declan Gage and faked her own death, Wallace reappeared in 2012 in Paris in the "Catacombs" episode of the series Jo featuring Jean Reno and Jill Hennessy and created by René Balcer.
Previous original Law & Order actor Chris Noth guest-stars in the episode "Stress Position" as his character Detective Mike Logan before returning to join the cast for the fifth season.
Cast
Primary cast
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
- Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
- Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
- Courtney B. Vance as ADA Ron Carver
Recurring cast
- Leslie Hendrix as Chief Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
Notable guest stars
- Olivia d'Abo as Nicole Wallace
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- Neil Patrick Harris as John Tagman
- Francie Swift as Nelda Carlson
- Tatum O'Neal as Kelly Garnett
- Frank Whaley as Mitch Godel
- Mara Hobel as April Callaway
- Carrie Preston as Doreen Whitlock
- Sam Robards as Paul Whitlock
- Callie Thorne as Sheila Bradley
- Missy Doty as Anne Marie
- Robert Carradine as David Blake/Roger Withers
- Wayne Duvall as Unit Counselor Kurt Plumm
- Matt Servitto as Jim Radcliff
- Melissa Leo as Maureen Curtis
- Bronson Pinchot as Dr. Gregory Ross
- Darrell Hammond as Leonard Timmons
- Elizabeth Keifer as Marie Adair
- David Andrews as Lloyd Wilkes
- Michael Rispoli as Former Chief of Detectives Frank Adair
Episodes
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
67 | 1 | "Semi-Detached"[7] | Frank Prinzi | S : René Balcer; S/T : Gerry Conway | September 26, 2004 | E5404 | 12.67[8] |
68 | 2 | "The Posthumous Collection"[9] | Jean de Segonzac | S : René Balcer; S/T : Marlane Meyer | October 3, 2004 | E4525 | 11.00[10] |
69 | 3 | "Want"[11] | Frank Prinzi | S : René Balcer; S/T : Elizabeth Benjamin | October 10, 2004 | E5407 | 12.81[12] |
70 | 4 | "Great Barrier"[13] | Frank Prinzi | S : René Balcer; S/T : Diana Son | October 17, 2004 | E5402 | 11.92[14] |
71 | 5 | "Eosphoros"[15] | Alex Zakrzewski | S : René Balcer; T : Stephanie Sengupta | October 24, 2004 | E5401 | 12.40[16] |
72 | 6 | "In the Dark"[17] | Alex Chapple | S : René Balcer; S/T : Jim Sterling | October 31, 2004 | E5403 | 11.51[18] |
73 | 7 | "Magnificat"[19] | Frank Prinzi | S : René Balcer; S/T : Diana Son | November 7, 2004 | E5414 | 11.53[20] |
74 | 8 | "Silver Lining"[21] | Kevin Dowling | S : René Balcer; S/T : Marlane Meyer | November 14, 2004 | E5409 | 15.16[22] |
75 | 9 | "Inert Dwarf"[23] | Alex Chapple | S : René Balcer; S/T : Warren Leight | November 21, 2004 | E5408 | 13.47[24] |
76 | 10 | "View from up Here"[25] | Alex Chapple | S : René Balcer; S/T : Jim Sterling | January 2, 2005 | E5410 | 14.85[26] |
77 | 11 | "Gone"[27] | Christopher Swartout | S : René Balcer; S/T : Stephanie Sengupta | January 9, 2005 | E5406 | 13.23[28] |
78 | 12 | "Collective"[29] | Frank Prinzi | S : René Balcer; S/T : Gerry Conway | January 30, 2005 | E5411 | 14.26[30] |
79 | 13 | "Stress Position"[31] | Frank Prinzi | S : Warren Leight & René Balcer; S/T : Charlie Rubin | February 13, 2005 | E5416 | 13.53[32] |
80 | 14 | "Sex Club"[33] | Alex Chapple | S : René Balcer; S/T : Elizabeth Benjamin | February 20, 2005 | E5415 | 9.04[34] |
81 | 15 | "Death Roe"[35] | Rick Wallace | S : René Balcer; S/T : Warren Leight | March 13, 2005 | E5405 | 15.72[36] |
82 | 16 | "Ex Stasis"[37] | Bill L. Norton | S : René Balcer; S/T : Diana Son | March 20, 2005 | E5419 | 12.35[38] |
83 | 17 | "Shibboleth"[39] | Darnell Martin | S : René Balcer; S/T : Stephanie Sengupta | March 27, 2005 | E5418 | 10.70[40] |
84 | 18 | "The Good Child"[41] | Jean de Segonzac | S : René Balcer; S/T : Marlane Meyer | April 3, 2005 | E5421 | 12.98[42] |
85 | 19 | "Beast"[43] | Frank Prinzi | S : René Balcer; S/T : Gina Gionfriddo | April 10, 2005 | E5420 | 10.94[44] |
86 | 20 | "No Exit"[45] | Jean de Segonzac | S : René Balcer; S/T : Gerry Conway | May 1, 2005 | E5423 | 11.60[46] |
87 | 21 | "The Unblinking Eye"[47] | Frank Prinzi | S : René Balcer; S/T : Jim Sterling | May 8, 2005 | E5424 | 11.54[48] |
88 | 22 | "My Good Name"[49] | Alex Zakrzewski | S : René Balcer; S/T : Warren Leight | May 15, 2005 | E5422 | 10.32[50] |
89 | 23 | "False-Hearted Judges"[51] | Jean de Segonzac | S : René Balcer; S/T : Diana Son | May 25, 2005 | E5426 | 14.98[52] |
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- ^ "More Than 116,000 Viewers Cast Vote on Fate of Nicole Wallace, 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'S' Recurring Murderess Guest-Star". The Futon Critic. NBC. October 21, 2004. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ^ "Episode Guide: Semi-Detached". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: Want". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: Great Barrier". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. October 19, 2004. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: View from up Here". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: Stress Position". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. February 15, 2005. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ^ "Episode Guide: Sex Club". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. February 23, 2005. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ^ "Episode Guide: Death Roe". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: Ex Stasis". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: Shibboleth". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: The Good Child". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: Beast". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: No Exit". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: The Unblinking Eye". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Episode Guide: My Good Name". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
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- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. June 1, 2005. Retrieved February 3, 2012.