Law & Order: Criminal Intent

- Season 3

(2003)

Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a young architect.

A string of murder victims that include an optician, plastic surgeon, and hair stylist seems to have racial overtones.

A reporter is murdered, and the suspects include his father's mistress and a couple who practice Santeria.

An accountant disappears, and it seems to have something to do with the death of her brother several years ago.

A young African-American reporter's girlfriend is murdered at his apartment, and focus turns towards his editor.

Goren and Bishop investigate the brutal, execution-style slaying of two undercover cops and the trail leads them to a modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde".

When an Argentine immigrant is found slashed and beaten in the family's bathroom, Detectives Goren and Bishop believe the wounds were self-inflicted -- but her husband's history of violence makes the police think he could have been responsible for other racially motivated murders that were discovered by his wife. But since they cannot implicate the suspect in his wife's death, Goren explores the family's tragic history on both sides and struggles to find a link to the kneecap-murders of a string of Jewish men.

When someone spikes the punch - leaving three dead in an isolated island church - Detectives Goren and Bishop first believe the murders are related to parishioner politics, but then discover a sorrowful sexual lifestyle among the town's jaded youth that points to three teenaged girls who might be connected to the drownings of three former lovers. The heady Goren uses his knowledge of "Siddhartha" to query one of the girls whose undying allegiance to a male classmate is harrowing.

When a wealthy father is found savagely beaten to death, Detective Goren and temporary partner Bishop find a family album of suspects, including the victim's soon-to-be ex-wife, a nanny who cared for the couple's adopted Romanian sons and a suspicious aunt and uncle. However, after Goren delves deeper into the family's past, his only hope of sorting out the jumble of possible killers is to call for a clan reunion -- in family court.

The detectives probe the case of a woman thrown from her balcony, and end up immersing themselves in the world of gaming.

The murder of a private investigator leads back to basketball and the cutthroat competition for court time.

An aging actress is suspected of murdering her husband in order to pursue her dream.

When a bank robber is killed by a bomb strapped to his chest, Goren and Eames have to find his accomplice before he does the same to his next partner.

The cut up body of a pharmaceutical rep is found in his suitcases bound for Thailand, and the detectives must determine if it's related to tainted drugs or some other motive.

A musician is found brutally murdered in his recording studio. The detectives soon find a trail leading to a bizarre family of shrinks who are playing their own wicked game.

The detectives try to determine why a social worker was killed with a lye bomb, and whether it has anything to do with a Catholic saint.

A doctor is murdered, and Goren and Eames delve into the history of one of her patients in an extreme vegetative state.

A veterinarian's murder leads to a complex case involving drugs and stud services.

The murder of a mob witness and attempted murder of an undercover officer lead the detectives into a chess game being played by a fading mob don.

Goren and Eames take on a doctor whose belief in his own superiority is exceeded only by his brazen murders of his patients and helping himself to their jewelry.

A cop is accused of racially motivated killings, but the detectives delve a little deeper and find a complex plot of revenge.