'From a townhouse to a flophouse."
So says, with her usual seriousness and touch of dark humor, "Det. Alex Eames" (Kathryn Erbe) in another odd-and-interesting episode of "Criminal Intent."
She and "Det. Robert Goren" (Vincent D'Onofrio) wind up trying to find out how a well-to-do couple from the townhouse wound up in such bad shape at a flophouse. The husband was dead of a heroin overdose and the wife was nearly dead of the same. She would up surviving and helping to solve the case. Neither was a drug addict. They both were supposed to be killed.
This episode went from pretty good to very good two-thirds of the way through when Goren and Eames deduce that the villain has ties to the infamous "Nicole Wallace," Goren's nemesis and most interesting opponent over the years. In fact, the man - "Bernard Fremont" - apparently was Nicole's tutor! Yes, he taught one of the planet's worst killers how to kill, so he's even more dangerous, if that's possible. Making the story even better is that "Bernard" is played by veteran actor Michael York, who does a great job in here.
It seems Bernard is quite the ladies man, and seems to have them under his spell, a la Charles Manson. They do his bidding and the usual schemes involve getting rich people away from their townhouses for a few days and then robbing them of everything in the house....and I mean everything! It also involves murder to anyone who gets in the way. That also includes anyone in their circle who becomes untrustworthy, as we see in one terrifying scene.
There are a number of surprises in here, so I won't say more to ruin anything for anybody who hasn't seen this episode. My only disappointment - because I looked this up - is that we Criminal Intent fans have seen the last of Olivia d'Abo, who played Nicole Wallace. Her resume here at IMDb states her last episode was in the opening program of this season....but her presence is still very much felt in this episode.
So says, with her usual seriousness and touch of dark humor, "Det. Alex Eames" (Kathryn Erbe) in another odd-and-interesting episode of "Criminal Intent."
She and "Det. Robert Goren" (Vincent D'Onofrio) wind up trying to find out how a well-to-do couple from the townhouse wound up in such bad shape at a flophouse. The husband was dead of a heroin overdose and the wife was nearly dead of the same. She would up surviving and helping to solve the case. Neither was a drug addict. They both were supposed to be killed.
This episode went from pretty good to very good two-thirds of the way through when Goren and Eames deduce that the villain has ties to the infamous "Nicole Wallace," Goren's nemesis and most interesting opponent over the years. In fact, the man - "Bernard Fremont" - apparently was Nicole's tutor! Yes, he taught one of the planet's worst killers how to kill, so he's even more dangerous, if that's possible. Making the story even better is that "Bernard" is played by veteran actor Michael York, who does a great job in here.
It seems Bernard is quite the ladies man, and seems to have them under his spell, a la Charles Manson. They do his bidding and the usual schemes involve getting rich people away from their townhouses for a few days and then robbing them of everything in the house....and I mean everything! It also involves murder to anyone who gets in the way. That also includes anyone in their circle who becomes untrustworthy, as we see in one terrifying scene.
There are a number of surprises in here, so I won't say more to ruin anything for anybody who hasn't seen this episode. My only disappointment - because I looked this up - is that we Criminal Intent fans have seen the last of Olivia d'Abo, who played Nicole Wallace. Her resume here at IMDb states her last episode was in the opening program of this season....but her presence is still very much felt in this episode.
