Purgatory (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
| "Purgatory" | |
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| Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 11 (#145 overall) |
| Directed by | Jesús Salvador Treviño |
| Written by |
Dick Wolf (creator) René Balcer (developer) Warren Leight (story) Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (story and teleplay) Stephanie Sengupta (story editor) |
| Production code |
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| Original air date | June 8, 2008 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Dean Winters as Mike Stoat |
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Dean Winters as Mike Stoat
Lauren Vélez as Officer Lois Melago
Seth Gilliam as Detective Daniels
Danny Mastrogiorgio as John Testarossa
Holt McCallany as Patrick Copa
"Purgatory" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) is alone in a bar. He is flashing back to his unauthorized undercover operation (which was covered in the previous episode, "Untethered"). He is approached by former Detective Patrick Copa (Holt McCallany), who clearly is angered with Goren’s presence at a “10-13” party being held at the bar for Copa's benefit. Goren caused this detective to lose his job and retirement (covered in a previous episode. “Amends”) where Goren uncovered the detective’s vision problems and caused the detective’s work to be questioned. A scuffle ensues, and another man, suspended cop Mike Stoat (Dean Winters) steps in to help break it up. Stoat tells Goren he knows who he is, and that he’s respected Goren for a long time. He wants to help Goren in his time of need. Since Goren has been suspended from his job for 6 months for the unauthorized undercover operation, Stoat offers Goren a job, and when Stoat leaves, Goren sees he left a gun on the bar counter, wrapped in a newspaper. Goren takes the gun.
Meanwhile, back at One Police Plaza, Eames (Kathryn Erbe) is given an assignment by Captain Danny Ross (Eric Bogosian), and clearly Eames misses her partner. But, she grudgingly goes to the scene of a murder of what appears to be a drug dealer and two innocent witnesses, who happened to be English tourists. At the scene, Eames is assisted by Detective Daniels (Seth Gilliam) who later Ross assigns to help Eames on the case, which Eames emphases should be temporary until Goren returns.
While Eames works the murder case, Goren is doing target practice at the firing range with his newly acquired weapon. Goren leaves the gun at the range, wrapped in the newspaper, and we see someone pick it up.
Goren places a call to Stoat, telling him he’ll take the job, which happens to be working security at the door of some sort of club. He stops someone trying to enter the club who was carrying a gun, only to find it was his new boss, Mr. Testarosa (Danny Mastrogiorgio).
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