Someone looking for a new thread? We aim to please. A Season 2 favorite...

MAJOR CASE COPS DISCOVER FRENCH CONNECTION IN SLAYINGS OF HOMELESS -- Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) poke around an insurance scam ring that passes off scrubbed-up homeless men for phony French executives -- and when the poor men turn up murdered, the suspects collect on lucrative life-insurance policies. However, after the cops recruit an extremely peculiar industry fraud expert (guest star Mark Linn-Baker, "Perfect Strangers") to help them profile the culprits, they are surprised to find one of the ringleaders slain in his apartment. Jamey Sheridan and Courtney B. Vance also star.

I loved Mark Linn-Baker in this episode.

I watched this last night--this is such a sad episode. It would be easy to have Linn-Baker's character as one of the typical anal twats that Goren annoys. Instead, his character, while obviously connected with the crime from the beginning, is just so...tragic. So you feel bad for him even though he's basically a serial killer. His ending bit about "the house being empty" and things needing to be the same is heartbreaking.

But hell, it's too bad he had to go to jail because I'd love to see this guy as a recurring character. Using probability and statistics to solve crimes: Take that Numbers!

Great Line: "You didn't tell me you had an older, geekier brother"...and Goren's grin at it.

Bumped to say...great to see Wally return in "Endgame." Apparently he's found religion.

The Aspberger trying to codify acting natural is echoed in Goren pointing it out in later seasons in Fico Di Capo and in Want. I liked the head grab when the actuary read the description of Aspberger's Syndrome for the first time.

I didn't like the first half of this episode. Did the actuary kill Jack Bernard? How?

I guess he fiddled with the propane stove, and Jack Bernard was overcome by the fumes & died of carbon monoxide poisoning. I think that's what happened....