No Exit (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)

"No Exit"
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 21 (#86 overall)
Directed by	Jean de Segonzac
Written by	Dick Wolf (creator) René Balcer (developer and story) Gerry Conway (story and teleplay) Stephanie Sengupta (story editor)
Production code	E5423
Original air date	May 1, 2005
Guest stars
Darrell Hammond Jason Antoon Susan Bigelow Frank Girardeau Arye Gross
Episode chronology
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"No Exit" is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the deaths of five young adults who parked their car on railroad tracks and waited for a fatal crash.

During the investigation, the detectives first write them off as suicides, but further evidence leads them to realize that one of the victims tried to escape the vehicle, meaning that he could have been set up to be killed alongside the members of a suicide club. Although initially they begin looking into a website that gives instructions on how to commit suicide, their investigation leads them to the unsolved suicide of a woman, one of the innocent victim's co-workers, against whom he had once testified in a harassment suit.

Goren soon realizes that another of the company's employees is trying very hard to push them to a satisfactory answer. Then, he wonders if office politics and an illicit romance were factors in the tragedy, as well as the subsequent coverup.

Cast

Vincent D'Onofrio	Det. Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe	Det. Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan	Capt. James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance	A.D.A. Ron Carver

Facts

Capt. Deakins starts wearing an eye patch due to Bell's palsy. Jamey Sheridan himself actually had Bell's palsy when those episodes were filmed.

External links

• IMDb entry
• Official Website