Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

Why do we love this Canadian Law & Order spinoff so much? It’s elementary, says showrunner Tassie Cameron: “At its heart, Criminal Intent is a Sherlock Holmes format. It’s quite a cerebral show, and we try to give enough clues that the audience can play along with our detectives as they [get to the truth].”

- Ileane Rudolph

This week’s puzzle begins with an unidentified young woman’s body stuffed in a trunk. The case goes to Frankie Bateman and Henry Graff (Kathleen Munroe and Aden Young, above), detective sergeants with the elite Specialized Criminal Investigations Unit. What they discover, Cameron says, “are assumptions that her bad cho