Enemy Within

Enemy Within is a first season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of Harold Sternman, an elderly and paranoid banker who died in the penthouse suite of his own luxury apartment building duing an arson fire. The perpetrator is soon found dead as well. The investigation leads Goren and Eames to Harold's dysfunctional family, consisting of his young trophy ... more

Enemy Within is a first season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the death of Harold Sternman, an elderly and paranoid banker who died in the penthouse suite of his own luxury apartment building duing an arson fire. The perpetrator is soon found dead as well. The investigation leads Goren and Eames to Harold's dysfunctional family, consisting of his young trophy wife Kit and his incompetent, alcoholic son Edward. The pre-nuptial agreement between Harold and Kit stipulates that if Harold finds that Kit has been unfaithful to him, she will be cut out of his will altogether. Evidence soon turns up revealing that on the day of the fire, the security code to the penthouse suite elevator was changed so that Harold would be unable to use it and escape. While searching a safe deposit box at Harold's bank, Goren and Eames find some bedsheets that prove to contain DNA from both Kit and Edward; Harold had been... less