Throughout the series, Major Case Squad was made up of various detectives and squad members who worked together to solve high-stakes cases on screen, including veteran detective Michael “Mike” Logan (Chris Noth) and his partners Carolyn Barek (Annabella Sciorra), Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) and Detective Nola Falacci (Alicia Witt). and Detective Zack Nichols (Jeff Goldblum). Serena Stevens (Saffron Burrows), captains James Deakins (Jamey Sheridan), Danny Ross (Eric Bogosian), Zoe Callas (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and Joseph Hannah (Jay O. Sanders), ADA Ron Carver (Courtney B. Vance) and psychiatrist Paula Gyson (Julia Ormond). Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American television series set in New York City, where it was primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001 as the third season of Wolf`s hit Law & Order franchise. Criminal Intent focuses on Major Case Squad`s investigation in a fictional version of the New York City Police Department at New York`s One Police Plaza. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often “ripped from the headlines” or loosely based on an actual crime that has attracted media attention. On September 30, 2001, NBC created the series with Vincent D`Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren, a Junior Major Case Squad detective who has a degree in psychology and a talent for solving difficult crimes, and Kathryn Erbe as his partner, Detective Alexandra Eames, a veteran detective from an NYPD family who initially challenges her partner`s eccentric style. But he learns to understand it over the course of the series.

Prior to joining the NYPD, Goren was a special agent in the U.S. Army`s Criminal Investigations Division. Jamey Sheridan plays Captain James Deakins; Although Deakin`s top priority is the success of criminal investigations, he is often forced to subdue and protect his most stubborn detectives, especially Goren and later Logan, to deal with the bad publicity they sometimes attract. While this creates friction between Deakins and his detectives, for the most part, they respect his professional judgment and authority. Courtney B. Vance`s assistant prosecutor, Ron Carver, is often in conflict with all detectives because they tend to rely on intuition and instinct when he wants more hard evidence. Despite this conflict, however, he has a strong working relationship with both teams. A Russian version of L&O:CI (filmed in Moscow with Russian actors) premiered in March 2007, where it was shown immediately along with the Russian version of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to become one of Russia`s highest-rated series. As a result, the original order was expanded from eight episodes to about 40 episodes.

The show is called Закон и порядок. Преступный умысел (Law & Order: Criminal Intent[54]) This series of the franchise is characterized by a strong focus on the motivations and actions of criminals and parallels the investigation with scenes from the lives of suspects, which show the circumstances of the audience that investigators can at most try to deduce. Each episode shows a cold opening of the victim and suspects in (at most) a few days before the crime; These scenes are depicted without context and maintain tension over the identity and often motive of the perpetrator until subsequent investigation reveals it. However, some episodes reveal the culprit at first, while other important details are omitted and a mystery is presented that detectives work on and torture themselves to find out. In doing so, they provide the episode`s plot conflict and (usually) the solution to the case: solving the crime and (also) suggesting a plea or verdict of “guilty”. Sometimes, however, detectives accept that a conviction is not feasible – or an acquittal or dismissal dramatizes the limits of prosecution. Unlike other Law & Order series, most episodes of criminal intent end with detectives making confessions instead of moving on to trial. Criminal Intent follows the NYPD Manhattan`s “Major Case Squad,” a group of detectives investigating high-profile cases (in most cases murders, kidnappings, or major robberies), such as VIPs, local government officials and employees, the financial industry, and the art world. On May 22, 2008, USA Network renewed Criminal Intent for an eighth season. Season 7 was the highest-rated TV series on Basic Cable, having more than quadrupled the audience at 10 p.m. Thursday on USA Network compared to last year`s ratings. Nielsen`s ratings for the week of July 13, 2008 showed that Criminal Intent ranked sixth in the top 20 cable ratings with an audience base of 4.899 million viewers.

The network ordered 16 episodes that were originally scheduled to air in November 2008, but the network pushed back the first, first to February 5, 2009, then with a scheduled date of spring/summer 2009, and finally announced the launch date of April 19.