Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 2

The second season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered September 29, 2002 and ended May 18, 2003 on NBC.

Production
Law & Order: Criminal Intent was renewed a second season in May 2002 and production began in Summer 2002. Show runner/executive producer René Balcer became head writer this season, writing every episode of the season.

Peter Jankowski was promoted to executive producer this season; last season Jankowski was a co-executive producer. Co-executive producers this season were Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney, and Theresa Rebeck with John L. Roman and Michael Kewley serving as producers. Supervising producers were Roz Weinman and Marlane Gomard Meyer. Original Law & Order writer and co-executive producer at the time, Michael S. Chernuchin was consulting producer and Tim DeLuca as associate producer. Mary Rae Thewlis became co-producer starting with the 6th episode, "Malignant". Warren Leight, who later became co-executive producer and then show runner/executive producer, began as a producer with the 10th episode, "Con-Text". Balcer hired Leight from a recommendation by co-executive producer, Theresa Rebeck.

Primary cast

 * Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
 * Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
 * Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
 * Courtney B. Vance as ADA Ron Carver

Recurring cast

 * Leslie Hendrix as Chief Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers

Notable guest stars

 * Jay O. Sanders as Harry Rowan
 * Jim Gaffigan as Russell Matthews
 * Tim Guinee as David Bishop
 * Liam Aiken as Robbie Bishop
 * Lisa Eichhorn as Dr. Leonard
 * Olivia d'Abo as Nicole Wallace / Elizabeth Hitchens
 * Linda Emond as Dr. Christine Fellowes
 * Peter Gerety as George Dawkins
 * Daniel London as Mark Bayley
 * Reg E. Cathey as Professor Roland Sanders
 * David Marshall Grant as Assistant District Attorney Peter Bonham
 * Susan Floyd as Attorney Linda Bonham
 * Peter Frechette as Stuart Gaston
 * Frank Wood as George Weems
 * Kim Chan as Mr. Hsu
 * Elizabeth Wilson as Lucille Mobray
 * Stephen Tobolowsky as Jim Halliwell
 * Paul Wesley as Luke Miller
 * Deirdre Lovejoy as Penny Halliwell
 * Tammy Blanchard as Sarah Eldon
 * Merritt Wever as Hannah Price
 * Rider Strong as Ethan Edwards
 * Linda Lavin as Ursula Sussman
 * Ned Eisenberg as Danny Sussman
 * John Benjamin Hickey as Randall Fuller
 * Mark Blum as Dr. Philip Oliver
 * Karen Black as Vera Morgan
 * Lee Tergesen as Keith Ramsey
 * Amy Ryan as Julie Turner
 * Hal Linden as Mr. Turner
 * Christopher Welch as Dr. Thomas Dysart
 * Victor Argo as Mr. Garcia
 * Mark Linn-Baker as Wally Stevens
 * Matthew Arkin as Ben Gergis
 * Ken Cheeseman as Leo Gergis
 * Isabel Glasser as Elaine Gergis
 * Lance Reddick as Jack Bernard
 * Tom Atkins as Mr. Monahan
 * Adam Storke as Mark Dietrich
 * Mike Starr as Ted Marston
 * Joel Grey as Milt Winters
 * Josef Sommer as Spencer Durning
 * Paul Calderon as Jojo Rios
 * Dennis Christopher as Roger Coffman
 * Paul Dooley as Stan Coffman
 * William Sadler as Kyle Devlin
 * James McCaffrey as Daniel Croydon