Premiering on NBC in 2001 and lasting ten seasons, Law & Order: Criminal Intent is the second spin-off of the highly successful crime drama series Law & Order and focuses on the criminal justice system from the criminal's point of view. In the style of the original L&O, episodes are often 'ripped from the headlines' or loosely based on a real crime that received media attention.

"As a child, artist and potter Dani Bennett witnessed the brutal murder of her parents. With no memory of the incident or her true identity, she was forced to take on a new name and a new life, hidden away in Montana for the past 25 years. Mae Richmond has spent the same stretch of time searching for her granddaughter, who went missing the night her daughter and son-in-law were murdered. Convinced the woman she saw in a pottery magazine feature is...

"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...

The Missing Persons Unit of the FBI is back again, using advanced psychological profiling techniques to find where the victim is. Contains 24 episodes and includes: The Bus; Coming Home; Doppelganger; Bait; and more.

This spinoff focuses on the criminals as much as the investigators, allowing the viewer to see the execution of a crime as the investigative team try to crack the case.