The remaining twelve episodes resumed airing Sunday nights at 9:00PM/8:00PM (Central) – leading in new series In Plain Sight – starting June 8, 2008.

Production of the seventh season was interrupted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike when Executive Producer Warren Leight and the rest of the writing staff participated in the work stoppage.

[5] While Criminal Intent was in transition from NBC to USA Network, the salaries of cast members Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Chris Noth were frozen.

Michael O'Keefe guest starred in "Seeds" as Doctor Eli Rush in a case where an OB-GYN is murdered and posed in a ritualistic fashion.

In "Depths," Frederick Weller guest starred as Simon Harper, a wealthy man who finances the search for sunken treasure, which goes bad when one of the hunters, Tarek "Rick" Agiza (Amir Arison), turns up dead on a Coney Island beach.

To sort out who killed Rick, Goren and Eames hunt for the remaining hunters, Dana Stipe (Kelli Giddish), her husband Greg (Michael Cerveris), and Tom "Chilly" Chilton (Eric Sheffer Stevens).

Steve Guttenberg and Paula Devicq guest star in "Courtship" as a famous couple, Clay Darren and Christine Mayfield, in the middle of a divorce presided by Judge Harvey Frye (Bruce MacVittie).

Frye's wife Monica is murdered "pro" style, and a tip on "Client X" from Dr. Jay Alberstein (Remy Auberjonois) leads Logan and Falacci first to FBI Agent Frank Billings (Charles Borland), then to ex-CIA PI Ronald Hawk (John Ventimiglia).

Peter Coyote guest starred in "Self-Made" as Lionel Shill, a celebrated writer whose career is on the decline, as well as his young protégé T.J. Hawkins (Pablo Schreiber).

Her pot-dealing ex-boyfriend Dante "D Tour" Heath (Al Thompson) is the obvious first suspect, and sleazy agent Gareth Sage (Fisher Stevens) is the next.

When key witness Traci Kwon (Yin Chang) dies, Logan and Falacci re-interview everyone, including Tim's mom Grace (Peri Gilpin).

Frank is off the streets and clean, but his son Donny Carlson (Trevor Morgan) suspects foul play in the death of fellow inmate Jay Lowry (Kevin Townley) under the direction of Warden Pellis (Debra Monk).

Given Naomi's eye-witness account, Logan and Falacci track down Mendoza's two sons Hector (Reza Salazar) and Paco (Christian Navarro) to find "El Diablo" Felix Aguilar, played by Jesse Garcia.

When Law & Order: Criminal Intent returned from the Writer's Guild strike on 8 June 2008, it was the lead-in to the premiere of new series In Plain Sight, of which the show's star, Mary McCormack, appeared briefly in her role as U.S.

Richmond, a New York Ledger gossip columnist and prolific blackmailer, who dies in a car bomb, just as news anchor Elliot Falls (Paul DeBoy) is trying to gather evidence for the district attorney.

From the current screenwriter (Maury Ginsberg), they find the original writer is Frank Chess (Federico Castelluccio), and later discover he was a former mob capo, and contract hit-man.

Brenda Strong portrays Kathy Jarrow, who is "Betrayed" by her husband Woody Sage (Scott Evans) as he disappears with his lover Avery Hubert (Kim Allen).

Goren and Eames start looking where they were last seen by questioning a bodega clerk Amado (Adrian Martinez), then Avery's husband Roy Hubert (Eric Roberts), who is also cheating with his ex-wife, Trina Melda (Kate Miller).

Madhur Jaffrey plays her mother, Stephen Schnetzer her husband Ajay, Waleed Zuaiter her brother Rani, and Aadya Bedi her niece Jasmina Khan.

Sarah Jane Morris guest starred in "Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger" as Marla Reynolds, a woman who murders the parents of three children who are on an exclusive and long waiting list to get into a Day Care Center.

But they discover ten grand in Gabriel's room, and Wheeler thinks that "the fix was in," so she and Logan question fight promoter Ziggy Gold (Tony Roberts).

Sonequa Martin-Green plays Kiana Richmond, one of several lacrosse players who beat up geeky student Paul Phillips, who later turns up hanged in the tunnels beneath the school.

Dreama Walker is neighborhood girl Brenda Lally, who tip detectives to Ricky Moss (David Call), a local ne'er-do-well.

While recovering from the loss of his neighbor and the departure of his previous partner, Detective Logan and his new partner, Detective Nola Falacci, are on the case of a murder of an obstetrician killed in a ritualistic fashion while sorting out complex family dynamics, a doctor with a god complex, and so much spread around DNA that finding the real killer will be a miracle of genetics.

The list of suspects include a mobster whom the victim had some major gambling debts and a physician who has operated on many renowned athletes, as well as an unscrupulous filmmaker and his wife/assistant – a studio executive who is disturbed to hear about any drug involvement in relation to a huge star who recently died on set.

As Logan and Wheeler begin to stitch together the pieces, they discover a sordid secret life of sex and deceit that could be a motivating factor in the crime.

While taking his three-year-old son on an evening stroll in the park, stock analyst Skip Lowe (Jason Pendergraft) is gunned down by someone familiar to him.

Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of Paul Phillips, a student at an elite private school, found dead, hanging from overhead pipes in the boiler room.

The detectives survey the crime scene and meet a Renaissance art teacher, Mrs. Anna Nobile (Joanna P. Adler), who found the boy's body.

Later, a police computer technician shows them the video of a girls group, wearing sports goggles and masks, attacking Paul, knocking him down, kicking and punching him furiously.