Audience decides whether character lives or dies

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The producers of "Law & amp; Order: Criminal Intent" will let viewers decide whether a character lives or dies later this month.
In what it's touting as a first for network TV, NBC will show two endings to next Sunday's episode of the show, titled "Great Barrier." In the episode, Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) meets up again with his nemesis, seductive killer Nicole Wallace (returning guest star Olivia D'Abo).
Goren and his partner, Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe), discover that Wallace is manipulating a "diamond swallower" (Grace Shu) and track her down. The show has shot two endings -- one in which Wallace lives and one in which she dies.
Viewers in the Eastern time zone will see one of the endings next Sunday, while those in the Central, Mountain and Pacific zones will get the other. Following the episode, both endings will be posted on NBC.com, and viewers can vote for their favorite through Oct. 20.
The choice will be revealed during "Criminal Intent's" Oct. 24 episode.
The "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style ending for "Criminal Intent" may be a first for NBC, but the idea is not entirely new. Fox developed a comedy called "Nathan's Choice" in 2001 that would have let viewers make decisions for the main character, but it never made it to the air.
FX did a similar thing last year with its unscripted show "Todd TV," but viewers didn't warm to the idea.