Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Folie a Deux (2009)
Season 8, Episode 7
4/10
No con artist is that good
18 December 2015
Although this particular CI episode had a most interesting plot premise the rather unbelievable nature of one of the characters spoils it for the viewer. I could not wrap myself around the concept that Piper Perabo could be so self deluded.

When they go to stay at a swank hotel in Manhattan during a really well executed robbery of several guests their baby is reported kidnapped. Was in fact the robbery a cover for the kidnapping. The baby's grand aunt is Lynn Redgrave who is one stern Park Avenue society matron worth 75 million dollars and the infant is her heir.

Her nephew is Luke Kirby, married to Piper Perabo and he's a failed poet, but one great con artist. But the best of con artists couldn't con a mother.

There's also a ransom demand made and that gets solved quickly. It certainly is a tradition with kidnappings.

The end is a tragic story as Vincent D'Onofrio is at his interrogating best with Perabo. But her character is way too unreal.
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