Michael "Mike" Logan (born July 11, 1958) is a now-retired homicide detective who worked for the New York City Police Department until 2008.
Biography
Early life
Logan had a complicated relationship with his mother. While he does say that his father beat his mother on occasion, he places the fault on her and not him. Logan once joked with his first Major Case partner, Carolyn Barek, that his mother used to make him rum punch. While interrogating a teenager, whose mother convinced him to commit several heists and felony murders, Logan reveals that his own mother used to make him buy liquor for her, which she would drink and then beat Mike.
Logan's father was a beat cop. His father also had a heart transplant in the late 1980s. Mike speaks far more highly of his father than his mother and once said while investigating a possible case of patricide, "if you'd given me a shotgun while my mom was slamming me against a wall, I would've blown her head off, but my father? Not even if he caught me killing the old lady". When Logan was a young man he had a girlfriend who had an abortion against his wishes (L&O: "Breeder").
Police force
Logan and Greevey
During his stint at the 27th Precinct, Logan served under Capt. Donald Cragen and later Lt. Anita Van Buren.
Logan's first two partners at the two-seven, Max Greevey and Phil Cerreta, were both shot within a year. Greevey was fatally shot outside of his home in connection with a corruption case in 1991, and Cerreta was wounded while undercover in a gun trafficking case and later transferred to a desk job at another precinct in 1992 (L&O: "Confession"; "Prince of Darkness").
Logan and Cerreta
As a result, Logan's next partner, Lennie Briscoe, joked that Logan had become jinxed by the time they were first assigned to each other (L&O: "Point of View"); though Briscoe and Logan would become a solid partnership over the next three years.
In 1995, Logan was transferred to Staten Island as punishment for punching a corrupt city councilman who got away with murder (L&O: "Pride"). Alexandra Eames once noted that action "made him a hero to guys like my dad", even while causing police administrators to punish him. Van Buren attempted three times to get him reassigned to the two-seven, but all were unsuccessful.
Logan and Briscoe
In 1998, Logan took on a mafia homicide case that reunited him with Cragen, Briscoe and Van Buren; in the hopes that solving this case would get him transferred back to Manhattan, but things turned ugly when he learned his old friend Tony Profaci was working as an informant for the same mafia family Logan was investigating ("Exiled: A Law & Order Movie"). In the end, Logan did not earn a transfer and remained on Staten Island for several more years.
In 2005, Capt. James Deakins returned Logan to Manhattan under his command in the Major Case Squad (CI: "Grow").
Retirement
Logan decided to leave the NYPD after discussions with a priest (who was also an old friend of Briscoe's) persuaded him to do so in in 2008 (CI: "Last Rites").
Behind the scenes
Mike Logan was played by Chris Noth on both Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Logan initially appeared on Law & Order from the show's first season in 1990 to Noth's dismissal from the series at the end of the fifth season in 1995. Noth returned as Mike Logan for "Exiled: A Law & Order Movie" in 1998. In 2005, the character was added to the Law & Order: Criminal Intent cast at the start of its fifth season, after a guest appearance in the fourth season episode "Stress Position".
Trivia
- It is not clear, what happened with his partner in Staten Island, Frankie Silveira.
- Logan is the third Law & Order character to be moved to one of the spin-off series. The others are Don Cragen, Lennie Briscoe and Connie Rubirosa. For Logan, he was moved from Law & Order, then given his own TV movie, Exiled, then to the Criminal Intent show.
 Law & Order - Main Characters
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Senior Detectives: Max Greevey • Phil Cerreta • Lennie Briscoe • Joe Fontana • Ed Green • Cyrus Lupo • Kevin Bernard • Frank Cosgrove • Jalen Shaw Junior Detectives: Mike Logan • Rey Curtis • Ed Green • Nick Falco • Nina Cassady • Cyrus Lupo • Kevin Bernard • Frank Cosgrove • Jalen Shaw • Vincent Riley Commanding Officers: Captain Donald Cragen • Lieutenant Anita Van Buren • Lieutenant Kate Dixon Executive Assistant District Attorneys: Benjamin Stone • Jack McCoy • Michael Cutter • Nolan Price Assistant District Attorneys: Paul Robinette • Claire Kincaid • Jamie Ross • Abbie Carmichael • Serena Southerlyn • Alexandra Borgia • Connie Rubirosa • Samantha Maroun District Attorneys: Adam Schiff • Nora Lewin • Arthur Branch • Jack McCoy • Nicholas Baxter | |
 Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Main Characters
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Senior Detectives: Alexandra Eames • Mike Logan • Zack Nichols Junior Detectives: Robert Goren • Carolyn Barek • Megan Wheeler • Nola Falacci • Serena Stevens Commanding Officers: James Deakins • Danny Ross • Zoe Callas • Joseph Hannah Others: A.D.A. Ron Carver • Dr. Paula Gyson | |