Season 4 of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent has a new detective investigating high-profile crime and corruption in Canada’s largest city.
Luke Kirby’s Detective Sergeant John Darcy replaces Aiden Young’s Det. Sgt Henry Graff as partner to Kathleen Munroe’s Det. Sgt. Frankie Bateman in the unit.
Production on the new season got underway in mid-April.
All the cases are set against a backdrop of real locations in the city as Toronto becomes a character in the series just as New York City is a character in the original series and spinoffs.
Like most of the original Law & Order stories, each of our episodes is inspired by a Canadian headline (sometimes even two or three). Our goal is take a story you may already know and turn it in a different and unexpected direction from what actually happened. — Law & Order Toronto’s Taissie Cameron and other producers.
Season 3 locations:
Season 3 featured some wintery scenes in Toronto.
Season 2 locations:
SkyDome.
Season One Cases & Locations:
Law & Order Toronto premiered with what-would-be-the-show’s first victim celebrating at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club (where I occasionally crewed) on Toronto Island, with the CN Tower, SkyDome and downtown skyline behind him.
And later with the show’s detectives and crown attorney striding past Toronto City Hall.
Season one cases were inspired by ripped from Toronto headlines like Rob Ford ‘s “Crack Mayor” scandal in 2013, when a video of the then-Mayor smoking crack cocaine went viral.
Another case fictionalized former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi’s BDSM/rough sex scandal.
And the season finale had Karla Homolka vibes with the accomplice to a convicted killer living a nice life with her new husband in a Toronto cul-de-sac until a neighbour discovers who she really is.
The series premiere also featured the Toronto Harbourfront, Little India and Chinatown.
With multiple locations per episode, Location Managers Andrew Gainor and Bryn Garrison and Locations Scout Malcolm McCulloch told DGC Ontario that they sometimes scout up to five different locations a day.
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent – Season 4
Toronto filming dates: April 13 2026 – August 12 2026
Showrunner: Rookie Blue’s Tassie Cameron.
Cast: Kathleen Munroe, Luke Kirby, Karen Robinson, K.C. Collins, Nicola Correia-Damude, Araya Mengesha
Producers: Lark Productions, Cameron Pictures, Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment, Citytv, Universal Entertainment.
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent season 4 premieres this Fall on CityTV.