Long before he joined the rebellion in a galaxy far, far away and eight years before he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Oscar Isaac was entangled in a web of urban voodoo, love potions, and a deadly scam involving a phony witch doctor.
One of the “Moon Knight” star’s earliest notable roles was a credit in a 2006 episode of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” — often ranked as one of the best spin-offs of the flagship series.
In the Season 5 episode titled “The Healer,” Isaac guest stars as Robbie Paulson, a college dropout who gets mixed up with performing dubious deeds for a con artist posing as a nurse. The plot kicks into gear when two corpses are discovered encased in layers of poly-wrap, having died of slow suffocation.
The Law & Order universe was a rite of passage for Oscar Isaac
Enter Detectives Logan (Chris Noth) and Barek (Annabella Sciorra). They eventually connect the foul play to a trio of suspects including Oscar Isaac’s Robbie, who is manipulated into sabotaging a radiator to freeze an apartment and conceal the odor of decaying corpses within.
Of course, the “Criminal Intent” gig was just a precursor to Isaac’s impressive trajectory in Hollywood. Two years after his procedural stint, the versatile actor appeared in Ridley Scott’s “Body of Lies.”
Isaac isn’t the only A-lister whose journey included a pit stop in the “Law & Order” universe. Other notable actors who made early career guest appearances on the flagship series include Timothée Chalamet, Sarah Paulson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and many, many more.
This story originally appeared on TVLine
