Episode no. Season 2
Episode 21 Story by Rene Balcer
Joe Gannon Cinematography by Frank Prinzi | Directed by Darnell Martin Teleplay by Joe Gannon Production code E3224 | |
"Graansha" is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
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Plot summary
In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the brutal murder of a probation officer, run over by a car three times.
The investigation leads Goren and Eames track down the last person to see her alive, an academic whose juvenile delinquent son becomes their prime suspect. They also suspect her boyfriend, the respected college anthropology professor who is father of the teenager. The professor then confesses to the crime, supposedly to protect his son. But they soon learn the victim's family is a nomadic group which goes around the country committing fraud on a seasonal/regular basis. As they probe further and deeper into the crime, Goren and Eames connect a few dots and discover that the dead woman vehemently opposed that lifestyle, which she intended to change for at least one relative, her niece – a young girl who may be used as a family restitution for a debt of her parents. Then, the detectives begin to take a closer look inside the clannish family. Is ultimately revealed her brother, Kyle Devlin, stole from another family and tried to cover the scandal by marrying off his granddaughter to them. When the victim gets closer to reveal this he murdered her. Using the professor notes Goren turns the family on Kyle and arrests him.