SERIES PREMIERE
LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT: MIAMI - IN PLAIN SIGHT
The following story is fictional. No actual person or event is depicted.
"In the City of Miami's War on Crime; the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the city homicide unit… these are their stories."
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Two construction workers were on a street with jackhammers, fixing a sewer grate. David Wilcox was a younger man who just got a career in construction. His partner was Bart Anderson; a quiet elder man who had been in construction since the early 1980s. They stopped drilling in the street when a black car, feet away, felt rock and gravel hit their car. The driver laid on the horn and yelled out; "Hey! Those damn drills are getting debris on my car! Is the city gonna pay for it?"
"Why don't you go on about your business?" Wilcox yelled to the angered driver.
The driver aimed a gun out the window, Wilcox and Anderson putting their hands in the air. "What'd you say man?" The driver asked. "I'll shoot you and drive!" the driver yelled. Wilcox nor Anderson said a word. "I didn't think so." The driver said taking off at full speed, the tires screeching.
"You ever have gun pulled on you Bart?" Wilcox asked placing down his jackhammer to mess with the sewer grate. Anderson didn't say a word. Wilcox's eyebrows doing a quick rise and fall.
Detective Nate Kendall was at Dr. Gibbs's office; they were sitting and talking about the previous case; "I was thinking about the kid a few weeks ago; he masqueraded as a cop, just for sex." Kendall said to her in thought.
"Are you thinking about the kid, or his actions?" Dr. Gibbs asked.
Kendall shook his head and asked her, "What do you mean?"
"I mean you're not thinking this kid was playing cop; you saw how the victim reacted when all she saw was a police officer; an "officer" who was about to "send her to jail" unless she gave into his demands… it makes you wonder if ordinary citizens lie and abuse their power and masquerade as cops, what about the actual police? How far will they go to get what they want… how far will you go to get what you want?" Dr. Gibbs questioned.
Detective Kendall stared at his psychiatrist in thought at what she was saying to him. [1]
It was a nice evening out and David Wilcox was outside his house messing with his car… he heard a car creeping up to his house. He acknowledged the dark car, "Hey–!" But before he could say anything else, he was shot twice; falling to the ground instantly, one more shot being fired. The car screeched off as fast as it could then.
David Wilcox was on the cold hard ground, slowly dying.
[Fade to black]
LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT: MIAMI
Created by:
DICK WOLF & JOSHUA MORTON
Law & Order: Criminal Intent Developed by:
RENE BALCER
Original character Detective Nate Kendall Created by:
JUDITH McCREARY
NEAL BAER
DICK WOLF
Developer & Executive Producer:
JOSHUA MORTON
Written & Directed by:
JOSHUA MORTON
Story #: 1x3 (1.3)
Title: In Plain Sight
Writer & Director: Joshua Morton
Original Post Date: July 16, 2011
Production Code: JMCIM03
Summary: A SERIAL KILLER IS ON THE LOOSE IN PLAIN SIGHT. A construction worker is murdered outside his home but before Detectives Kendall and Alexander can catch all leads, another person is killed. The detectives have to beat the clock on a serial killing case that goes back 20 years. Meanwhile ASA Kim Barnes is being pressured to get this murderer off the streets and Detective Nate Kendall begins to risk his entire career after a therapy session.
1. I have written two story's before this one – titled: "The Pilot" and "Masquerade" (which dealt with a kid masquerading as a police officer for sex, which was in Miami's local headlines at the time) – due to computer problems, the fic is stuck on my old computer. It might get posted one day as a "lost" story, but it won't be anytime soon. Anymore questions on this scene, just ask.
