Poison

Poison is a first season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. A woman kills her husband by putting cyanide in his painkillers. However, to hide the murder, she tampers with several boxes of the same medication. She plans to use the settlement from a wrongful death lawsuit she initiates against the pharmaceutical manufacturer to purchase a franchise from a trendy baby clothes company. Detectives Goren and Eames suspect a ... more

Poison is a first season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. A woman kills her husband by putting cyanide in his painkillers. However, to hide the murder, she tampers with several boxes of the same medication. She plans to use the settlement from a wrongful death lawsuit she initiates against the pharmaceutical manufacturer to purchase a franchise from a trendy baby clothes company. Detectives Goren and Eames suspect a hospital nurse who saved all the victims from heart failure, and she admits she caused their crises—and 31 others—in order to be a hero for saving them. Goren realizes she does not fit the profile of the killer. As the investigators widen their investigation, they trace the source to a tainted, over-the-counter painkiller. As the victims continue to pile up, the product-tampering goes public and threatens a panic. They need a motive to find the source of the tampered medication. When the pharmaceutical company reports one more victim than the... less