With the writers' strike now wreaking havoc across the networks, a new emotionally charged episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent is set to air on December 13 called "Senseless" that sees Logan and Falacci investigate the execution-style murder of four young college students. On April 8, Law & Order: Criminal Intent also makes the leap to USA Network to give fans a chance to catch up on the previous seasons with a slew of repurposed episodes.

Late last week, The Deadbolt was part of a conference-call with both Noth and Witt who dished the dirt on the upcoming episode "Senseless", what they do in their down-time, working with the great Ben Vereen, and the impact of the ongoing writers' strike. And for all of you Sex and the City fans, Noth shares his thoughts on the upcoming big screen version of the series.

Chris Noth on whether he ever wished he could play a villain or a victim instead of Logan:

"No. When I’m doing the show, I’m not in that - my mind doesn’t go there. No. Honestly, I never went, 'Oh, I’d like to be playing this guy or...," instead of me. I like my character and it’s just that, you know, I can’t - I’ve never jumped over into going, 'Oh, this would have been a..., You know, I thought, 'Oh, I would like to play a different cop in a movie,' or something like that. But I never, on our show, I’ve never felt like not while we’re on, and I’m pretty much into what I’m doing."

Noth on where Criminal Intent stands with the writers' and how many episodes are complete:

"We’ve got a couple things going into the new year, I think. But we’re like everyone else. We’re going to have to wait. But we’ve got these shows going over to NBC, so I think we’ve got some time. I don’t know. You have to ask, actually, someone more informed than I am about how that works. But I would assume that we’re going to go whenever the strike is resolved and I’m hearing all kinds of different things. We’re going to go right back into making more new episodes and we’ll [there will be] some time that they show some repeats or something before they show the new ones. I’m not really clear to tell you the truth. [April 8th on USA] ... So that date is possibly - may have - may change. I don’t know. So far we’re still - next week we’ve got this one we shot and then all of these episodes that appear will go as new episodes on NBC. So...

Alicia Witt on what was it like to work with Ben Vereen in the "Senseless" episode:

"Oh, Ben was great. I wish we could have worked with him a lot more than we did. But we had such - I mean, he’s playing the father of oneof the victims,so it’s a rough role, you know. He was amazing and we did our scenes with him. But then in between scenes, he and I started to sing together. So that was really fun. We did some Sammy Davis, Jr. covers. So that was really awesome. It was like much needed levity to this extremely depressing day of being - so we started to sing. He’s a great singer, obviously."

Witt on being the new kid on the block on Criminal Intent:

"It’s been really great, you know. I’ve felt like I kind of have the most amazing gig doing this because it had all the benefits of coming into a show that was already running very smoothly after being on for seven years. So the glitches that you might have with a new show weren’t going to happen."

"Well I think they get it’s a TV show, you know. They’re not expecting, you know, complete reality. How can you have complete reality when you only have like 42 minutes to tell a story, you know, really? You know, you give the illusion of that reality and I think they understand the difference, you know. I think they’re pretty good natured about it and I like - I think we do a good job of presenting who the New York Police are and I think they like that, you know."

Alicia Witt on the emotion in "Senseless":

"It’s hugely emotional because - at least in my limited experience, it’s the most emotional episode that we’ve done. It’s - I think this episode is one where the detectives really end up getting invested in it in a way that doesn’t usually happen because they deal with this all the time. And obviously you feel something and you wish the people that you need to interrogate who just lost a family member weren’t having to go through this but you deal with it because it’s part of the job."

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