The Best Episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Goren and Eames find a scrapbook belonging to a serial killer on death row. It suggests that he may have had more victims than previously known.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Julie Martin, Warren Leight

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 killer with a penchant for perfection. Goren attempts to prove this by setting up a scheme that puts his "fear of making a mistake" in jeopardy.

Director: Darnell Martin

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta

Eames re-opens the case into her husband's murder.

Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

Writer: Warren Leight, René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

Goren and Eames investigate the death of a writer, and whether her torture has ties to the 'hood she came from.

Director: Ken Girotti

Writer: Warren Leight, René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta

Captain Ross loses his objectivity, and jeopardizes the case, when an old flame becomes a suspect in the disappearance of her husband and his lover.

Director: Michael Smith

Writer: Diana Son

The squad continues the investigation into the murder of a teenage girl visiting from Iowa. The detectives uncover the sordid family life of a local judge whose son is linked to the Iowa teenager and another victim. Goren and Logan discover that the judge is a formidable foe as they come under scrutiny.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Stephanie Sengupta

When the murder of a city auditor and his family seems too perfect, Goren and Eames turn their attention towards law enforcement personnel after learning that the auditor was investigating a number of former cops upon suspicion of double-dipping.

Director: Constantine Makris

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Marlane Meyer, Marlane Gomard Meyer

Detectives Eames, Goren, Barek, and Logan must solve a case that involves a teenage girl missing in New York City. While Barek and Logan search around for another missing girl, Eames and Goren work to uncover a mystery with a judge and his son.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta

Captain Danny Ross closely oversees Goren and Eames as they hunt for a possible serial killer. This difficult and harrowing case brings Goren back in touch with his old mentor, a profiler, and his mentor's daughter.

Director: Norberto Barba

Writer: Warren Leight, Charlie Rubin

Captain Ross finds himself at the tragic center of an overseas conflict, galvanizing the assistance of Major Case detectives Goren, Eames and Nichols.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Walon Green

With an illegal arms deal and a hunt for Somali terrorists hanging in the balance, Detectives Goren, Eames, Nichols and newcomer Stevens combine resources in an attempt to bring justice.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Barbara Hall

After he gets into the head of an insane man driven to torture, murder, and cannibalism by overwhelming despair and loneliness, Goren surprises his colleagues with a passionate plea that the man be spared the death penalty, and engineers the confession that will save the man's life through a plea bargain.

Director: Frank Prinzi

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta, Elizabeth Benjamin

When city health inspector Larry Chapel is found dead in an elevator, a quick look into Chapel's home life introduces them to Chapel's recently widowed brother, Evan, and little girl Gwen. Goren isn't very surprised to learn that Nicole Wallace is Evan's fiancée and the future mother to his little girl, but Major Case soon realizes they're off the mark in who they believe the suspect is, and Goren's only hope is to get Nicole to help him trap the killer. Logan joins the Major Case squad, but isn't pleased with being relegated to the background while the other detectives solve the cases, and Deakins tries to find a partner for him.

Director: Frank Prinzi

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Marlane Meyer, Marlane Gomard Meyer

Logan and Barek investigate a series of home invasions that result in grisly murders and their search leads them to local foster mother Chesley Watkins who had a series of young men going in and out of her home throughout the years. One of the young men involved in the home invasions was one of her boys, and while trailing the young man, Logan shoots a suspect who was brandishing a weapon at himself and Barek. When the suspect turns out to be a cop, Logan finds himself in the hot seat, and Barek sticks up for her partner, knowing that the truth is on their side. The investigation leads to Watkins as a suspect, and Logan is forced to deal with memories from his own past as Watkins plays on the weaknesses she sees.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Charlie Rubin

Goren investigates when his nephew, a prisoner who's bipolar, claims that inmates are being abused to the point of murder.

Director: Ken Girotti

Writer: Warren Leight, René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta, Diana Son, Charlie Rubin

Detective Eames assists with Nichols' case involving the death of an addict who was just days from going straight when Wheeler is otherwise engaged in the labor and delivery of her baby.

Director: Christopher Zalla

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Andrew Lipsitz

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.

Director: David Platt

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf

When Goren and Eames search for a jewel thief who murdered her accomplice, they discover that the clever larcenies are the brainchild of her lover, Nicole Wallace, Goren's long-standing nemesis. As the detectives delve into the personal and working relationships between the two women, they uncover a plot to cause the death of Wallace's ex-husband, the only person who can lead them to evidence of the very first murder Wallace committed.

Director: Frank Prinzi

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Diana Son

Goren and Eames are called in when a jewelry heist leaves behind three bodies. After ruling out mafia involvement, they realise that the thefts are directly connected to recent credit card thefts and stolen identities. They're led to an extremely charismatic thief, and their only hope is convincing one of his partners to turn on him.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf

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.

Director: Gloria Muzio

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta

The detectives investigate a slain bank robber and check out his sister, who is involved with a bogus United Nations economist. As the detectives close in on the suspect, Goren learns the suspect wants his children's approval and must stop him before any more murders.

Director: Juan José Campanella

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Marlane Meyer, Marlane Gomard Meyer

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 frustrated, long-suffering daughter.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Warren Leight, René Balcer, Dick Wolf

When a bookkeeper goes missing, Goren and Eames are led back to the death of her brother, a hitman, two years earlier. An imprisoned mobster seems to be their best bet, but when another body turns up it takes the case to a whole new level.

Director: Constantine Makris

Writer: René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Stephanie Sengupta, Gerry Conway

A police officer is framed for a triple homicide by a greedy woman who takes advantage of his sleepwalking and is enmeshed in a bitter divorce settlement and out for revenge.

Director: Steve Shill

Writer: Warren Leight, René Balcer, Dick Wolf

When a prison guard is murdered, Eames and Goren investigate, only to discover they've riled the feathers of Mike Logan, a Staten Island police officer who happens to be dating the nurse at the prison. Logan joins the duo to find out exactly what is happening at the prison.

Director: Frank Prinzi

Writer: Warren Leight, René Balcer, Dick Wolf, Charlie Rubin