"It's what dreams are made of..bad dreams."
A seriously warped woman, Trudy Pomeranski(J Smith-Cameron in a chilling performance), poisons bottles with cyanide so she can attain money from a settlement suit(it started when she murdered her own husband, poisoning others as a means to cover up her own crime!), with a panic starting to emerge. Goren and Eames are pressured by Deakens to catch the one responsible as his phone rings off the hook thanks to a concerned city worried about a poisoning terrorist epidemic. Goren believes that if he can indict Trudy's mother, she might damn herself by attempting another cyanide poisoning. What makes this particular episode so effective is how Goren will motivate Trudy to act, but what always grips me about these episodes of L&O:CI is how the detectives are able to find their suspects, the steps which lead them to the killers. Goren's talents as a profiler again are elaborated, such as how he keenly explains the methodology and pathology of Trudy's kind of psychopath. All of this for a business involving baby clothes just adds a whole other disturbing dimension to this specific episode. These "Angel of Death" stories always give me the shivers, to conduct such cold and calculating acts seemingly without any remorse or sense of moral guilt.
A seriously warped woman, Trudy Pomeranski(J Smith-Cameron in a chilling performance), poisons bottles with cyanide so she can attain money from a settlement suit(it started when she murdered her own husband, poisoning others as a means to cover up her own crime!), with a panic starting to emerge. Goren and Eames are pressured by Deakens to catch the one responsible as his phone rings off the hook thanks to a concerned city worried about a poisoning terrorist epidemic. Goren believes that if he can indict Trudy's mother, she might damn herself by attempting another cyanide poisoning. What makes this particular episode so effective is how Goren will motivate Trudy to act, but what always grips me about these episodes of L&O:CI is how the detectives are able to find their suspects, the steps which lead them to the killers. Goren's talents as a profiler again are elaborated, such as how he keenly explains the methodology and pathology of Trudy's kind of psychopath. All of this for a business involving baby clothes just adds a whole other disturbing dimension to this specific episode. These "Angel of Death" stories always give me the shivers, to conduct such cold and calculating acts seemingly without any remorse or sense of moral guilt.