Want is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Written by Elizabeth Benjamin and René Balcer, the episode won the 2005 Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay. The personality and characteristics of villain John Tagman (Neil Patrick Harris) closely resemble those of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Edmund Kemper.
In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a night club st...
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Want is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Written by Elizabeth Benjamin and René Balcer, the episode won the 2005 Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay. The personality and characteristics of villain John Tagman (Neil Patrick Harris) closely resemble those of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Edmund Kemper.
In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a night club stripper found beaten to death with part of her calf missing. John Tagman, a shy, lonely young man, becomes the focus of the investigation. When another woman escapes his clutches, Goren and Eames track down this deeply sick man driven to torture, murder, and cannibalism by overwhelming despair and loneliness. It's possible Goren relates to the man's loneliness and awkwardness. When he gets into Tagman's mind, Goren surprises his partners with a passionate plea that the man be spared the death penalty, and engineers the confession that could...
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