Graansha

"Graansha" is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the brutal murder of a probation officer, run over by a car three times.

The investigation leads Goren and Eames track down the last person to see her alive, an academic whose juvenile delinquent son becomes their prime suspect. They also suspect her boyfriend, the respected college anthropology professor who is father of the teenager. The professor then confesses to the crime, supposedly to protect his son. But they soon learn the victim's family is a nomadic group which goes around the country committing fraud on a seasonal/regular basis. As they probe further and deeper into the crime, Goren and Eames connect a few dots and discover that the dead woman vehemently opposed that lifestyle, which she intended to change for at least one relative, her niece – a young girl who may be used as a family restitution for a debt of her parents. Then, the detectives begin to take a closer look inside the clannish family. Is ultimately revealed her brother, Kyle Devlin, stole from another family and tried to cover the scandal by marrying off his granddaughter to them. When the victim gets closer to reveal this he murdered her. Using the professor notes Goren turns the family on Kyle and arrests him.

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

Fact

Lyric Benson, murdered shortly thereafter, as a waitress in "Graansha"

• The title of this episode, Graansha, means "stranger" in Shelta, a secret language of the Irish Travellers.
• The episode featured a young actress named Lyric Benson, who plays a waitress in the episode. Benson herself was subsequently murdered later that year by her ex-fiance, in a high-profile case which attracted widespread tabloid coverage.^[1][2]

References

External links

• IMDb entry
• Official Website