Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent Season 1 Episode Guide
Recaps of every episode of the first season of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, which aired on Citytv from February to May 2024.
Season 1 recap
The Canadian Criminal Intent is set in the Toronto Police Service’s Major Crime Unit, and its ten-episode first season aired on Citytv from February to May 2024. DS Henry Graff (Aden Young) and DS Frankie Bateman (Kathleen Munroe) take the cases for Insp. Vivienne Holness (Karen Robinson), Deputy Crown Attorney Theo Forrester (K.C. Collins) tests their evidence, and pathologist Dr. Lucy Da Silva (Nicola Correia-Damude) and Mark Yohannes (Araya Mengesha), who pulls evidence off devices and video, round out the team. In “The Key to the Castle” a crypto founder vanishes from his own boat party with about $300 million, and his partner, a con man, gives himself away when told the victim survived.
A magazine journalist chasing a story about the mayor is killed at Union Station in “Crack Reporter” as a video of him smoking crack surfaces mid-campaign; her killer, a councillor’s apparently dying husband, agrees to say he acted alone if it stays quiet until the vote. A shooting of four condo board members in “Good Neighbours” uncovers a girl buried in concrete on the roof since 2003, and an old X-ray clears the dead man and points to his brother, who also admits the shooting. In “Boys Will Be Boys” a junior hockey captain is beaten to death by a teammate’s billet mother after the coach secretly staged a hazing to keep his stars out of Game 7.
Money and fame drive others. A staged suicide in “Minnow and the Shark” exposes a $40 million bread price-fixing deal, and both company heads are arrested. “The Sound of Silence” ties a strangled former radio staffer to a star host who abused women and the staff who covered for him, and in “Three Points” glitter links three killings to a limo driver who kills people who turn him away. Emmanuel Kabongo plays Det. Langston James of Guns and Gangs in the romance-scam case “Bleeding Hearts.”
The finale, “Cul-De-Sac,” turns on defence lawyer Willa Fenwick, shot in an alley. Her neighbour Susan Wright is really Ruth Keller, who helped a boyfriend kill his mother in the 1990s, took a plea deal likened to the Homolka case and vanished in 2013 with a new face and name. Willa found out, and Ruth’s daughter, Penny, shot her with her father’s pistol to keep the secret. Penny breaks after a detective confides having a father once suspected of something terrible.
Episodes
- 1
The Key to the Castle
Toronto’s Major Crime Unit hunts for a crypto fund founder who disappears from his own boat party, along with about $300 million of his clients’ savings.
- 2
Good Neighbours
Toronto’s Major Crime Unit investigates the shooting of four condo board members, which uncovers a teenager’s body hidden in concrete on the building’s roof for 20 years.
- 3
The Real Eve
Toronto’s Major Crime Unit investigates the stabbing of a celebrated painter and art professor, whose estranged husband wakes up drugged with no memory of the night.
- 4
Crack Reporter
Toronto’s Major Crime Unit investigates the murder of a magazine journalist killed while chasing a story about the mayor in the middle of a heated election.
- 5
Bleeding Hearts
Toronto’s Major Crime Unit investigates the beating death of a young car thief found inside a car carrier, and finds a crime syndicate and a romance scam behind him.
- 6
Minnow and the Shark
A grocery chain executive is found dead in what looks like a suicide, and the hired killer behind it leads the detectives to a secret price-fixing deal between her company and a rival bakery.
- 7
The Sound of Silence
A young woman fired from a hit radio show is found strangled in a suitcase, and the detectives uncover the star host’s abuse of women and the staff who kept it quiet.
- 8
Boys Will Be Boys
A junior hockey captain suspended over a hazing scandal is found beaten to death at his arena, and the detectives uncover the adults who used the team’s young players for their own ends.
- 9
Three Points
A hip-hop producer’s savage murder leads the detectives to an influencer’s killing and then a bank teller’s, all the work of a man who strikes at anyone who rejects him.
- 10
Cul-De-Sac
A respected defence lawyer is shot dead in an alley, and the detectives look past a vengeful client to her quiet street, where a neighbour is hiding a notorious past.