Revolution (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
| "Revolution" | |
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| Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 16 (#171 overall) |
| Directed by | John David Coles |
| Written by |
Dick Wolf (creator) René Balcer (developer) Michael S. Chernuchin (story) |
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| Original air date | August 9, 2009 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
Stephen Lang
Tania Raymonde
Deirdre Lovejoy
John Rothman
Michael Pemberton
Rob Devaney
Flaco Navaja
"Revolution" is an eighth-season finale episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 171st episode overall.
This is a unique episode, in that Detective Nichols and Detective Eames partner together, when usually they are part of separate teams. It is also worthy to note that both are NYPD Senior Detectives, when usually there is one 'Senior' and one 'Junior' in a team. This was the only episode of its kind, due to Detective Wheeler (Nichols' regular partner) being on maternity leave during the final two episodes of Season 8.
With the banks failing and public discontent high, aging revolutionary Axel Kaspers believes the time is ripe to galvanize public reaction and spark a populist uprising. With his disciples Birgit and Mel, Kaspers orchestrates the kidnapping of Continental Bankcorp president, Peter Evans. However, the carefully planned carjacking goes wrong and turns into a murder, leaving Detectives Nichols and Eames to pursue Kaspers' gang. As the police intensify their manhunt, discovering and defusing a car bomb along the way, Kaspers and Birgit kill the other members of the group and set off a second bomb on Wall Street as a diversion. Nichols and Eames soon discover that Birgit is Kaspers' daughter.
The detectives eventually arrest Kaspers, but not before Birgit purchases large quantities of the raw materials needed to make a triacetone triperoxide bomb. A call soon comes in that she has taken hostages in the Continental Bankcorp building and is threatening to blow it up unless Kaspers is put on a plane to Cuba. Nichols takes Kaspers into the lobby and gets him to admit to Birgit that his love for his daughter is more important to him than the radical ideology he has been trying to put into place. As Birgit begins to realize this, though, an FBI sniper outside the building gets a clear shot and kills her, knocking her backwards into Nichols' arms so that the tilt switch around her neck does not set off the bomb. As the hostages are freed and Kaspers and the body are taken away, Nichols muses to Eames that relationships such as the one between Kaspers and Birgit – or between himself and his own father – are the reason he never had any children.
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