Goren and Eames suspect a nurse of poisoning several hospital patients with cyanide.Goren and Eames suspect a nurse of poisoning several hospital patients with cyanide.Goren and Eames suspect a nurse of poisoning several hospital patients with cyanide.
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- TriviaHydrogen cyanide emits an odor similar to bitter almonds, but only people with a certain genetic trait can detect the odor. This genetic trait is only present in about 60 percent of the human population.
- GoofsWhen the nurse came in to give the elderly woman her medication the woman said that she was tired and just wanted to sleep, to which the nurse replied "it's okay hon you can take your pills when you wake up" and places the pills on her night stand. This is totally against hospital policy and is something a nurse would never do. When it is time for a patient to take their medication a nurse would insist that they do so as it is important to take medication at regular intervals. The only type of medication that is usually optional for a hospital patient is pain medication, if someone feels they don't need any they can decline it. But either way a nurse would never leave medication sitting on a table unattended, especially if the medication is a narcotic.
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Detective Robert Goren: [to DA Carver] Don't you have the grand jury eating out of your hand? I bet you could indict that clock.
- ConnectionsReferences Law & Order (1990)
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Amoral turned deadly
Have a lot of love for detective/mystery shows/dramas and have done for perhaps half my life since reading my first Agatha Christie book ('And Then There Were None') and watching the Joan Hickson version of 'A Murder is Announced'. Don't consider 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent' one of the very best of them, 'Inspector Morse' is my personal favourite, but still hold it in very high regard if not as much as prime years-'Law and Order'.
"Poison" is in my view one of the better 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent' episodes at this very early, and also remarkably promising, stage. Don't consider it as good as "The Faithful" (the first "outstanding" episode) and "Jones" (manages to be even better). At the same time, it is a step up from the still very good, having really liked to loved all the episodes up to this point of the show, but slightly disappointing previous episode "The Extra Man".
Did feel that the perpetrator was revealed a little too early, but that is personal preference.
At the same time, it did mean that we were really able to enjoy Goren's methods of getting to the truth and how he works, which have always been unique and unorthodox. It did also mean that one of the show's most amoral and reprehensible characters, with a bone-chilling performance from J. Smith Cameron, was also very interesting.
The case is a gripping and suspenseful one with an unnerving ending, the investigative elements always intriguing. The production values are stylish and not overly-gloomy. The music knows when to have presence and tone things down, with the main theme catchy still. The writing is a good balance of mature and un-simplistic, always provoking thought.
Smith-Cameron steals the show here, even achieving the seemingly impossible feat of out-shining a still splendid Vincent D'Onofrio.
In conclusion, great. 9/10
"Poison" is in my view one of the better 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent' episodes at this very early, and also remarkably promising, stage. Don't consider it as good as "The Faithful" (the first "outstanding" episode) and "Jones" (manages to be even better). At the same time, it is a step up from the still very good, having really liked to loved all the episodes up to this point of the show, but slightly disappointing previous episode "The Extra Man".
Did feel that the perpetrator was revealed a little too early, but that is personal preference.
At the same time, it did mean that we were really able to enjoy Goren's methods of getting to the truth and how he works, which have always been unique and unorthodox. It did also mean that one of the show's most amoral and reprehensible characters, with a bone-chilling performance from J. Smith Cameron, was also very interesting.
The case is a gripping and suspenseful one with an unnerving ending, the investigative elements always intriguing. The production values are stylish and not overly-gloomy. The music knows when to have presence and tone things down, with the main theme catchy still. The writing is a good balance of mature and un-simplistic, always provoking thought.
Smith-Cameron steals the show here, even achieving the seemingly impossible feat of out-shining a still splendid Vincent D'Onofrio.
In conclusion, great. 9/10
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