Mary McCormack's In Plain Sight character will make an appearance on Law and Order:CI

[Brian Damage]

Speaking of casting, in the June 15 episode of "CI," duly note the brief promotional appearance by Mary McCormack as her character from USA's "In Plain Sight." Utterly useless.

That episode, called "Contract," focuses on Logan (Chris Noth) and the newly returned Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson). If I'm charting the places "CI" went wrong, I have to put a big star next to the show's bringing in Logan — Noth's character from the original "CI" — supposedly to ease the burden D'Onofrio felt from carrying the show every week. While Logan fit nicely in the original "L&O," that never suggested he was a crime-solving brain. On "CI," his cases have felt more pedestrian, and his confrontations with perps nowhere near as engaging as Goren's.

Anyway, "Contract" is muddled, an invocation of the movie "Sweet Smell of Success" but also a reworking of the scandal where a New York Post gossip columnist was accused of extorting money from one of his gossip subjects. The cast is intriguing — Jeff Gaspin, Illeana Douglas, Furio from "The Sopranos" — but the story is weak and the finale absurd. "CI" has already been picked up for another season, but it's clearly running out of inspiration.

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