Plot summary
Wealthy wine importer Bing Cullman (AKA Arnold Binder) ( Michael Cumpsty ) is found dead of a heart attack after being locked in his wine cellar. Detectives Goren and Eames are informed that he was killed by a drug cocktail and begin to investigate his rare wine dealing activities including that was selling counterfeit product. Suspects include the butler Loy ( Juan Luis Acevedo ), wealthy wine collector Mason Kent ( Adrian Pasdar ), premiere sommelier Hutton "The Nose" Mays ( Bryan Batt ), wine auctioneer Ev Dilahunt ( Munson Hicks ), Bing’s wife Avery ( Andrea Roth ), her new boyfriend, male model Shane Berlin ( Scott Evans ) and budding actress and part-time escort, Emily ( Kay Copeland ).
The detectives uncover that Cullman had planned to divorce Avery before their 10th anniversary so she would receive none of his estate and hired Shane to romance her to provide grounds for the divorce. However Avery found out about the impending divorce and engineered his heart attack.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 10. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.