The writers for "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" must have been reading about Litvinenko a lot last fall. Tonight's episode had an American journalist - Josh - who is suffering from "polonium-210 poisoning." According to him, at least at first, it's due to a story he's writing on an Afghan oil pipeline, which involves "billions of dollars," and, naturally, the "Russian mafia."
Josh became poisoned after dining with one Rebecca, another journo and sometime lover of his who he first met in Chechnya (and with whom he took tea with Gorbachev), and who turns out to have been the actual target. Josh guessed one of her email passwords because it was a Chechen word. But it turns out Rebecca was actually doing a story that didn't involve Russia at all, but was an intricate yarn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, involving spies and martyrs.
Also involved for a bit: a guy named Yuri - one of Josh's sources - with a fake story about being an ex-KGB agent, a bad fake Russian accent and a big fur hat.
At one point Yuri says, about the fake story he was concocting for Josh, "I translated articles from Russian papers. Blogs! Everything I gave him I took of the web."
Another bit of dialogue from later in the episode: "There were two businessmen in Germany. Said they were Russians. But these days, who knows?"
Who knows, indeed...
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And if knowing really IS half the battle, i'd have to say we're fucked. Thank you Rhythm Nation.
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