| "Gemini" | ||
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| ← | CI, Episode 3.02 | → |
| Production number: E4503 First aired: 5 October 2003 | ||
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| Teleplay By Jim Sterling Story By Jim Sterling & René Balcer Directed By Frank Prinzi | ||
A string of murders that include an optician, a plastic surgeon, and a hairstylist seems to have racial overtones.
Plot[]
In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of an eyeglass store clerk, shot to death during what appears to be an assault case.
When a second optician is later murdered in similar circumstances, Goren and Eames come to suspect that a company is involved here, somehow as cardboard counter-top advertising blue contact lenses have obviously been moved so that the police will notice them. Later, a third murder then takes place, involving same modus operandi, this time on a plastic surgeon. As they investigate further, the front flap of the case seems to have racial overtones. The finger of suspicion immediately points to a schizophrenic man obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, and his delusions about the damage caused by cosmetic beauty enhancements.
Even later, the detectives receive an anti-Semitic letter apparently not sent by the killer. But while the suspect is in custody another optician is killed. Then, Goren believes that a person close to the man may have taken advantage of his illness and his crimes to commit extortion.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
- Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
- Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
- Courtney B. Vance as A.D.A. Ron Carver
Guest cast[]
- Barry Del Sherman as Brent Anderson
- Anne Bobby as Betty Anderson
- Michel Gill as Spencer Anderson
- Ann Marie Lee as Stephanie Parton
- Rafael Sardina as Marty Ortega
- Milton James as Dr. Mishra
- Bob Sorenson as Mr. Pitt
- Steve Lebens as Detective Haggerty
- Robert Jimenez as Detective Thomas
- Melissa Hickey as Naomi
- Stephen Zinnato as Singer
- Lee Michael Buckman as Dryden
- Teagle F. Bougere as Campbell
- Sunita Param as Parveen
- Jeff Blumenkrantz as Grigori
- LaTonya Borsay as Cheryl
- Natalie Gold as Claudia
- Michael Genet as Brent's Attorney
- Roma Torre as TV Reporter
- Albert Macklin as unknown
References[]
Quotes[]
- Robert Goren: Y-you know, I-I find paranoid schizophrenics make excellent witnesses.
- Robert Goren: Excuse me. In the mornings, he straightens up out here… you went in the back?
- Store Clerk: Every morning for two years.
- Alexandra Eames: Killer must have had front row seats.
- Executive: The effect to our company would have been devastating. We had to think of our employees.
- Ron Carver: Yes, I'm sure they were foremost in your thoughts.
- Spencer Anderson: My file was expunged.
- Alexandra Eames: Expunged doesn't mean vaporized.
- Alexandra Eames: This is nice. Charles Darwin as a serial killer.
- Robert Goren: Our shooter didn't write that letter.
- Alexandra Eames: Great, another nut in the mix.
- Robert Goren: He considers Marilyn Monroe a prototype. An average brunette turned by cosmeticians and plastic surgeons into the first fake blue-eyed blonde.
- James Deakins: She's the vanguard of the master plan to pollute the gene pool of the pure white race.
- Robert Goren: The twisted tango of brotherly love.
- James Deakins: So our shooter's a racist who's worried people are changing their looks, why? So they can infiltrate the Klan?
- Robert Goren: Or he might feel threatened by people he thinks are masking their true identity.
- Spencer Anderson: None of this is true. You said so himself. He's crazy.
- Robert Goren: Yeah, he may be crazy, but you're evil.
- Alexandra Eames: The tango just goes on.
Background information and notes[]
- Gemini is the Zodiac sign associated with the Greek twins Castor and Pollux.
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