Years after Dennis Christopher got his first big break as the bicycle racing town kid in Breaking Away he and his screen dad Paul Dooley are reunited in this Criminal Intent episode. The father/son dynamic from the film is light years from what we have here.
Christopher got obsessed with those Italian bikers and was speaking some kind of pidgin Italian that drove Dooley bonkers. Here Christopher has another obsession and it's the basis for what happens in the story.
Dooley is a very sick man on dialysis and Dennis is a dutiful son accompanying him on every trip, taking time off from the Public Administrator's office to do this. In New York's five counties, the Public Administrator works for the Surrogate and administers the estates of those who die intestate without a will. It's an opportunity for a little looting as well.
What brings Major Case into the scene is the murder of one young woman which in turn reopens a case where an elderly woman died in a fire thought to be accidental. No accident as you gather. Someone was down on the job not catching what Goren and Eames do.
Christopher and Dooley's scenes with each other and Vincent D'Onofrio's interrogation of both of them are priceless.
Christopher got obsessed with those Italian bikers and was speaking some kind of pidgin Italian that drove Dooley bonkers. Here Christopher has another obsession and it's the basis for what happens in the story.
Dooley is a very sick man on dialysis and Dennis is a dutiful son accompanying him on every trip, taking time off from the Public Administrator's office to do this. In New York's five counties, the Public Administrator works for the Surrogate and administers the estates of those who die intestate without a will. It's an opportunity for a little looting as well.
What brings Major Case into the scene is the murder of one young woman which in turn reopens a case where an elderly woman died in a fire thought to be accidental. No accident as you gather. Someone was down on the job not catching what Goren and Eames do.
Christopher and Dooley's scenes with each other and Vincent D'Onofrio's interrogation of both of them are priceless.