The WORST episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Every episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent!
Law & Order: Criminal Intent takes viewers into the minds of its criminals while following the psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve the crimes.
#1 - Semi-Professional
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2002
The detectives investigate the murder of a judge's clerk, with their attention initially going to the judge himself, who had been having an affair with the young woman.
#2 - The Pardoner's Tale
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2001
The deaths of a reporter and his fiancée, gunned down on orders, leads the detectives to investigate political bribery involving the governor's office, which Deakins isn't pleased with.
#3 - The Good Doctor
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2001
A plastic surgeon reports his drug-abusing wife missing, and ends up being the prime suspect after detectives learn he had good reason to want her out of his life.
#4 - The Insider
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2002
When the father of a young woman who has been out all night clubbing is found dead in his boat house, Goren and Eames investigate the mysterious club owner only to realise that he is an undercover FBI agent and that the Bureau will not risk their undercover operation even to stop a killer.
#5 - Love Sick
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/11/2010
Detectives Nichols and Stevens investigate a nurse and the men who love her while looking into the death of a woman who was treated in the emergency room shortly before she was murdered.
#6 - Poison
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2001
The detectives investigate a murderer who poisons hospital victims with cyanide. They suspect a nurse whose profile is typical, but when they discover more murders away from the hospital they have to widen their search.
#7 - Sex Club
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/20/2005
When Goren and Eames investigate the death of the new owner of a "little black book" once belonging to legendary playboy George Merritt, they uncover the marital indiscretions of a U.S. Senatorial candidate involving sex clubs.
#8 - Inhumane Society
Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/6/2010
A boxer's career is derailed when authorities discover he leads a dog fighting ring
#9 - Crazy
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2002
A psychiatrist who provides expert testimony at criminal trials lays down an insanity defense to hide his obsession for his younger girlfriend after revealing to her that he hired a corrupt detective to murder her brother-in-law at his son's Bar Mitzvah after alleged reports that her niece had been abused by him.
#10 - Seeds
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2007
Genetics drive the murder of a doctor and the subsequent investigation.
#11 - Palimpsest
Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/29/2010
Nichols takes a very personal interest in a case that turns out to have many layers when an old friend is murdered, and somehow the reclusive book dealer's troubled daughter is also involved.
#12 - Cadaver
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/12/2011
A philanthropist goes missing after announcing the winner of his research grant.
#13 - Faith
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/2002
When a wealthy publisher is murdered to prevent him from exposing an elaborate confidence game that enveloped him, his company and one of his editors, Goren and Eames run their own con to extract a confession from the killer.
#14 - F.P.S
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/4/2004
Goren reaches into his own experience working with a partner to solve the murder of a gamer who appears to be connected to a network of thieves using spyware to commit fraud. Eames gives birth.
#15 - Homo Homini Lupus
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/3/2002
When an business executive's wife and two daughters are kidnapped for a loanshark because the loan hasn't been paid off, Goren and Eames are frustrated by the man's lack of cooperation, which stymies them further when the man's released daughter proves to have been sexually assaulted.
#16 - Abel & Willing
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/4/2010
A psychologist conducts unimaginable field experiments asking his human test subjects to make the impossible choice, but Detectives Nichols and Stevens are even more surprised by the man's inspiration.
#17 - Gods & Insects
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/27/2010
A body that's been decapitated, initially thought to be a mob hit, leads Detectives Nichols and Stevens to an escort service and the financial would-be gods who utilize it.
#18 - Disciple
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/1/2010
A new murder fits the style of a serial killer who was executed months earlier. Stevens must figure out if the killing is a copycat crime or if she helped convict an innocent man.
#19 - Love on Ice
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/18/2010
Four men who have been friends since high school discover they're being blackmailed over the death of another childhood friend. When one of the four turns up dead, it's up to Nichols and Stevens to uncover the truth behind a 22-year-old mystery.
#20 - Smile
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2007
When a dentist is murdered by the mother of one of his patients, Goren and Eames follow the trail of evidence to a company that appears to have been the victim of a criminal conspiracy involving contaminated mouthwash.
#21 - Contract
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/15/2008
A gossip columnist who used his insider knowledge to feed his habit is murdered, which leaves Wheeler and Logan to work through a list of suspects that grows longer the more they probe his life.
#22 - Traffic
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/25/2010
The murder of a magazine editor reveals his predilection for young girls, leaving Nichols and Stevens investigating not only his staff, but a Russian prostitution ring.
#23 - Alpha Dog
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/2/2009
A popular male model spends the night with a mysterious woman and after a night of love and drugs, is found dead. Goren and Eames uncover the sexual paranoia behind the murder.
#24 - All In
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/19/2009
When poker genius Josh Snow loses $80,000 in a card game, backer and bookie Lou Cardinale forces him into collections to work off the losses. Lou gives him a .38 and a box of blanks to extract gambling debts, and sends along his mistress, Angela, to keep an eye on the money. Detectives Goren and Eames enter an elaborate game where they must join in the play, or be played.
#25 - Bombshell
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2007
A woman who married a billionaire winds up dead under mysterious circumstances shortly after her son dies.