Plot summary
Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate when Josh Lemle ( Lee Tergesen ), a reporter friend who had backed Logan after he had gotten himself exiled years earlier, comes to Major Case to report his own murder as he is dying from polonium-210 poisoning. Both Hazmat and the FBI get involved as the search turns city-wide, with both the mayor and Homeland Security wanting answers. Lemle is reluctant to reveal the whole story but it turns out the true target was his long-time friend and sometimes lover, Rebecca Slater ( Miriam Shor ) who writing a story about the shooting of a US activist in the Middle East that no-one wants to be told. Inspired by the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and death of Rachel Corrie.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 6. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.