The Posthumous Collection is a fourth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Plot summary

Detectives Goren and Eames pieces together a variety of clues in the murder of Gerhardt Heltman, a famous, avant-garde photographer, who was found murdered and handcuffed to the steering wheel of a crashed car.

Goren and Eames probe the victim's controversial works and his tortured past, but they make a discovery that a dead model had been used at the site of a former photo shoot. When other similarly beauty women are found missing, the investigators suspect that the secretive artist was exploiting them to gain a new and distressing perspective to revive his lagging career.

Finally, Goren studies the artwork and arrives upon a new theory: the multiple homicides were committed by Heltman's collaborator of on his latest project, who was attempting to exorcise demons from his past through an artistic expression the photographer soon found intolerable.

Fact

• Interestingly, in this episode the personality and photographic style of Heltman revealed many resemblances of the life and works of Helmut Newton, who was one of the most celebrated fashion and nude photographers of the 20th century. But Newton was never associated with any of the sordid activities attributed to Heltman in this story.

Cast

Vincent D'Onofrio	Det. Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe	Det. Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan	Capt. James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance	A.D.A. Ron Carver

External links

• IMDb
• Official Website