Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoilers)

[The Nth Doctor]

FULL TITLE: "Please Note We are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger."

Goren and Eames search for a killer slaying parents in front of their children.

I still don't have any idea how many more episodes are left (varying sources say 4, 6, and 8). Suffice to say, we have episodes for the time being, which can be only a good thing.

 

[Christopher]

Re: Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoil

Holy incredibly unwieldy and long-winded episode titles, Batman!

Also known as, "For the World is Hollow and I Have Snuffed This Guy."

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Re: Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoil

Nothing beats Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Loved the Bomb.

 

[Christopher]

Re: Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoil

^^Subtitles don't count.

 

[Aragorn]

Re: Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoil

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

 

[Christopher]

Re: Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoil

Okay, I'm puzzled. According to the episode, they were still accepting letters of recommendation from Henry Kissinger!

I was convinced from the start it was the uber-controlling harridan grandmother killing the kids (partly because the biggest-name guest star is usually the killer), though at first I thought she was bumping off parents she considered unfit or something. But when that gun fell out of her bag right in front of the cops, I wondered why she would do that if she knew it was there. I thought it was some roundabout way of turning herself in.

Still, I don't entirely buy it. How did Marla know that she would search her bag and pull out that particular thing just when the cops happened to be waiting to talk to her? That's too contrived. If not for that bit of happenstance, either the gun would've languished unnoticed in the bag of someone who wasn't even considered a suspect at the time, or else Eleanor would've found it herself and either gotten rid of it or reported it. It was a pretty unlikely way to frame someone, and highly unlikely that it worked so perfectly.

And maybe I'm thinking of some other show, but hasn't the L&O franchise already done an episode about someone killing to make sure their kid got into a super-exclusive private school?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Re: Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoil

^^Subtitles don't count.

I always refer to that film that way so I guess I don't really look at it as a subtitle. *shrug*

And maybe I'm thinking of some other show, but hasn't the L&O franchise already done an episode about someone killing to make sure their kid got into a super-exclusive private school?

Not only that, but it was a Goren/Eames Criminal Intent episode, which is one of the reasons why I didn't really care for this episode.

I also didn't care for the episode because of the stereotypical characters. The high-class, high-brow, snobbish grandmother who looks down upon other parents and her own daughter-in-law and cares more about a prestigious preschool than anything else (Oh, and blame the evil babysitters!). The white trash woman who means well but her mother-in-law is a bitch and pushes her over the edge and becomes a killer. Everything else was just fluff. A whole load of bleah added to a recycled storyline not just from the franchise, but from its own catalog.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Re: Law & Order: Criminal Intent "Please Note..." - Goren/Eames (spoil

And maybe I'm thinking of some other show, but hasn't the L&O franchise already done an episode about someone killing to make sure their kid got into a super-exclusive private school?

There was one (mothership) episode where the *superintendent* of a private school committed a murder, but that was to serve his own ends (i.e. get him a better apartment and all that).