The second season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered September 29, 2002 and ended May 18, 2003 on NBC.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent was renewed a second season in May 2002 and production began in Summer 2002. Show runner/executive producer René Balcer became head writer this season, writing every episode of the season.
Peter Jankowski was promoted to executive producer this season; last season Jankowski was a co-executive producer. Co-executive producers this season were Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney, and Theresa Rebeck with John L. Roman and Michael Kewley serving as producers. Supervising producers were Roz Weinman and Marlane Gomard Meyer. Original Law & Order writer and co-executive producer at the time, Michael S. Chernuchin was consulting producer and Tim DeLuca as associate producer. Mary Rae Thewlis became co-producer starting with the 6th episode, "Malignant". Warren Leight, who later became co-executive producer and then show runner/executive producer, began as a producer with the 10th episode, "Con-Text". Balcer hired Leight from a recommendation by co-executive producer, Theresa Rebeck.
Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance as ADA Ron Carver
Leslie Hendrix as Chief Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers
Jay O. Sanders as Harry Rowan
Jim Gaffigan as Russell Matthews
Tim Guinee as David Bishop
Liam Aiken as Robbie Bishop
Lisa Eichhorn as Dr. Leonard
Olivia d'Abo as Nicole Wallace / Elizabeth Hitchens
Linda Emond as Dr. Christine Fellowes
Peter Gerety as George Dawkins
Daniel London as Mark Bayley
Reg E. Cathey as Professor Roland Sanders
David Marshall Grant as Assistant District Attorney Peter Bonham
Susan Floyd as Attorney Linda Bonham
Peter Frechette as Stuart Gaston
Frank Wood as George Weems
Kim Chan as Mr. Hsu
Elizabeth Wilson as Lucille Mobray
Stephen Tobolowsky as Jim Halliwell
Paul Wasilewski as Luke "Miller
Deirdre Lovejoy as Penny Halliwell
Tammy Blanchard as Sarah Eldon
Merritt Wever as Hannah Price
Rider Strong as Ethan Edwards
Linda Lavin as Ursula Sussman
Ned Eisenberg as Danny Sussman
John Benjamin Hickey as Randall Fuller
Mark Blum as Dr. Philip Oliver
Karen Black as Vera Morgan
Lee Tergesen as Keith Ramsey
Amy Ryan as Julie Turner
Hal Linden as Mr. Turner
Christopher Welch as Dr. Thomas Dysart
Victor Argo as Mr. Garcia
Mark Linn-Baker as Wally Stevens
Matthew Arkin as Ben Gergis
Ken Cheeseman as Leo Gergis
Isabel Glasser as Elaine Gergis
Lance Reddick as Jack Bernard
Adam Storke as Mark Dietrich
Mike Starr as Ted Marston
Joel Grey as Milt Winters
Josef Sommer as Spencer Durning
Dennis Christopher as Roger Coffman
Paul Dooley as Stan Coffman
William Sadler as Kyle Devlin
James McCaffrey as Daniel Croydon
