"Law & Order: Criminal Intent"
Bright Boy (2002)

Director:

Frank Prinzi

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Rene Balcer (developer)

TV Series:

"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)

Original Air Date:

6 October 2002 (Season 2, Episode 2)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor. |

Plot Keywords:

Prosecution | Prosecutor | Trial | Gun | Handcuffs

Cast

Vincent D'Onofrio	...	Detective Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe	...	Detective Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan	...	Captain James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance	...	A.D.A. Ron Carver
Tim Guinee	...	David Bishop
Liam Aiken	...	Robbie Bishop
Lisa Eichhorn	...	Dr. Leonard
John Hillner	...	Deputy Mayor Bill Webster
Phoebe Jonas	...	Kim Stevens
Joshua Burrow	...	Adolph Kulik
Charlotte Booker	...	Mrs. Rasmussen
Gabriel Millman	...	Charlie Rasmussen
Rick Shapiro	...	Manny
Aleta Mitchell	...	Phyllis Munroe
Eric McLendon	...	Dave Wood

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | New Zealand:M (DVD rating)

Company:

Wolf Films

Movie Connections:

References A Beautiful Mind (2001)

What's The Story Here?

The deputy mayor, trying to make the moves on a social worker, is denied and asks the woman as she is exiting his car to get him a newspaper. She comes back with it and is mugged. (We only see this from the driver's view.) A gun appears and the political official is shot and killed. A short time later, the social worker is found dead. At first, the prime suspect is a druggie father who just had his kids taken away earlier in the day by the social worker, but that's a smokescreen.

One of the boys' "on the bubble" of making a prestigious academic jump - a young genius attending a college, was not recommended to be accepted by the social worker the school had hired to evaluate kids' psychologically. Thus, the father, killed the worker before her report could be submitted to the school. Yet, later, it looks like that may not be true. It may be the kid lied to his dad because he didn't want to go to that school. It gets convoluted and it's up to Det. Goren and Eames to figure what the real story is here.