Capt. Danny Ross is a fictional character portrayed by Eric Bogosian on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Ross is the successor of Capt. James Deakins (Jamey Sheridan). He was given the position of captain of the Major Case Squad as a reward for a successful three-year stint as head of the NYPD's Joint Task Force on International Money Laundering. Ross is divorced and has two sons, ages 14 and 10. He is very protective of them; during a case involving a teacher having an affair with one of her students, Det. Mike Logan asks Ross what he would do if he found out a teacher was having sex with either one of his sons. Ross replied that he would "break [them] in half...male or female." In another episode, Ross and his sons witnessed a murder during a re-enactment of the famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Ross chose to keep his kids busy by having them collect the video cameras of all the other witnesses so they wouldn't be near the body. In the season 7 opener Amends, Ross reveals that his oldest son Danny, age 15, was caught sleeping with a girl, and that Ross' ex-wife wants him to have a talk with his son. Despite being divorced, Ross maintains something of a friendship with his ex-wife, Nancy Ross, and her new boyfriend, however. In a 2006 episode, the whole family is seen eating Thanksgiving dinner together before Ross was called away to a crime scene. Ross is Jewish, and at one point Logan accuses him of "being a Jew first and a cop second."
