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Kathryn Erbe's real life pregnancy was incorporated into the show's plot line by having her character be a surrogate mother, carrying her sister's child.
Uses a re-mixed version of the theme music from Law & Order, but a different re-mix than Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The episodes produced for the USA Network use the mix first heard on Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
Alexandra Eames once mentioned dating a man named "Terry", possibly a reference to Kathryn Erbe's real-life husband, Terry Kinney.
The following statement appears at the beginning of each episode: "In New York City's war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Major Case Squad. These are their stories." This is the only Law & Order series where the opening statement does not begin with the words "In the criminal justice system..."
To add a vulnerability to Goren's seeming invincibility, a backstory was added in which his mother was diagnosed as a schizophrenic during his adolescence.
'Vincent DOnofrio's contract is for seven consecutive years on the show.
'Olivia dAbo's fate as a recurring villain was once held in the balance by a phone-in poll. An overwhelming majority of fans voiced their desire for her to get away again.
The character of Detective Robert Goren is based on Sherlock Holmes, but instead of relying upon physical evidence like Holmes, D'Onofrio's character focuses on psychology to identify the perpetrators, whom he often draws into confessing or yielding condemning evidence. The character of Nicole Wallace is a direct attempt to play on the part of Sherlock Holmes' female antagonist Irene Adler, also known as "The Woman." Wallace is employed as a 'Professor of Literature' during her first appearance, which could be a parallel to Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty.
The show's format was partially inspired by the NBC Columbo mystery movies staring Peter Falk. Both started out with the crime being seen from the criminals point of view and with them confident that they can get away with it. However, they then get outsmarted by a brilliant detective. The shows differ in that "Columbo" usually shows the full crime in the beginning while in "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" the viewer is only shown enough to be a few steps ahead of the detectives in knowing what happened. Goren and Columbo also have very different styles in analyzing the crime and the suspects.
Beginning Season 5 (2005-2006) episodes' cast and opening credits alternate between Goran/Eames ('Vincent DOnofrio and Kathryn Erbe) and Logan/Barek (Chris Noth and Annabella Sciorra). In Season 6 Julianne Nicholson replaced Sciorra, and in Season 8, Jeff Goldblum replaced Noth.
When Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio joined the cast in season 9, her character was going to be named Sarah Brooks. At the last minute producers decided to change it to Zoe Callas.
'Vincent DOnofrio and Kathryn Erbe both previously guest starred in episodes of the series Homicide: Life on the Street, which crossed over with the original Law & Order
At the end of the 4th season, Jamey Sheridan suffered Bell's palsy, a facial paralysis that affected one half of his face. In the 5th season his character, Captain James Deakins, carried an eye patch over his left eye to hide the sequels of the paralysis.
(At 37:40) A red truck with two guys in it is visible. They roll down their window and wave at the camera.
The plot of Smothered is loosely based on the case of Pati Margello, her boyfriend Dean MacGuigan, his stepfather and his mother Lisa Dean Moseley.
Although they want to distance themselves from any real life events, the plot of this episode is very close to the case of Stella Nickell who did almost the exact same thing in order to kill her husband Bruce Nickell.
Joseph Siravo, Matt Servitto and John Heard all costarred on The Sopranos, but never shared a scene together on that show.
"The Good Doctor" strongly appears to have been inspired by the real-life disappearance of Gail Katz-Bierenbaum from her Manhattan home in July 1985. After years of investigation, Gail's husband, the plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, was convicted of his wife's murder in October 2000. Her body has never been recovered.
When Det. Goren asks who manages the building where Dr. Dwyer lives, the superintendent replies, 'Gump & Worsley.' Gump Worsley was the goaltender for the New York Rangers in 1952.
The episode title is Latin for "cursed," echoing specific Biblical warnings: "Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother" (Deuteronomy 27:16); and "Those who abandon their parents or give them cause for anger may as well be cursing the Lord; they are already under the Lord's curse" (Ecclesiasticus 3:16).
Goren's birthday is 20 August 1961.
The name of the main criminal suspect in this episode, Ethan Edwards, appears to be a reference to the antihero of John Ford's 1956 western The Searchers.
The plot revolves around credit card fraud. Keith Ramsey claims to be a vice president of Trans-Union Airlines. Trans Union is the name of one of the three US credit reporting agencies.
Like many "Law & Order" stories, this "ripped-from-the-headlines" episode has some basis in reality. The flamboyant murder victim here possesses many characteristics of the late hotel magnate Leona Helmsley (1920-1997), who was tarred by the Manhattan media with the nickname "The Queen of Mean." Although Helmsley served prison time (for tax evasion and mail fraud), she was released and died of natural causes at home, splitting her vast fortune among many worthy charities, family members ... and her Maltese dog Trouble.
The name of Wally Stevens, the Mark Linn-Baker insurance-fraud investigator character, is an inside joke: The name is taken from Wallace Stevens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who also worked as vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company.
This episode derives its storyline by fictionally linking and conflating two real-life (but entirely separate) crimes committed in Central Park during the late 1980s - crimes which were then relentlessly hawked by the New York mass media. The first was the August 1986 death of teenager Jennifer Levin at the hands of Robert E. Chambers; tabloids subsequently nicknamed Chambers "The Preppie Killer" (here cosmetically changed to "The Yuppie Killer"). The second was the April 1989 beating and rape of a young Manhattan investment banker, a woman whom newspapers dubbed the "Central Park Jogger" (here changed to the "Reservoir Runner").
The cars that Roger Coffman owns: - 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air - 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS - 1965 Jaguar XKE - 1966 Corvette Stingray - 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 - 1968 Chevrolet Camaro
This is the third time that Paul Dooley and 'Dennis Christopher' have played father and son. The two previous times were in movies: Liam and Hughie Brenner in "A Wedding" (1978), and Raymond and Dave Stoller in Breaking Away (1979).
The Irish clans in the show speak Shelta, an Irish nomadic language that is derived from Irish Gaelic, English, Roma, and some other languages. The name of the language is allegedly derived from Irish "siúlta", "of walking". The episode name means "strangers" in the Shelta language.
The book which Detective Goren cites as Prof. Malcolm Bryce's inspiration for investigating modern-day gypsy "Travelers" is an actual text. "The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity," by American sociologist Richard Louis Dugdale (1841-1883), was first published in 1877 and went through numerous editions, spurring intense debate on the topic of "nature vs. nurture" in the lives of career criminals.