Goren introduces himself as ‘Robert Goren’ not ‘Detective Goren’ to some other cops.
Bishop now feels comfortable enough to bagger him: Can I see? Can we go? Are you done?
Alex makes an appearance in the squad room and is good-natured and helpful, but Bishop blows her off.
Bishop has yet to blink.
Bishop’s desk has her back to Goren.
Goren pimps out Bishop to a gentleman in the medical profession. Bishop wears uncomfortable shoes and Goren calls her on it.
Goren pulls his gun in Times Square, then again to give Jerome a welcome home present: his gun to his temple. Goren is pretty tough this eppie.
Everyone’s all dressed up and Goren tells them Alex is meeting them at the church.
Clothes Call: Everyone’s handsome in their dress blues
Quotable:
[Bishop clears her throat as Goren scrolls down a list on a computer screen]
Goren: If I'm not scrolling fast enough–
Bishop: Sorry, I didn't mean to–
Goren: No, really, I don't mind, you know. Eames likes to drive, so she drives. You want to scroll? Scroll.
Eugene Thomas: (Goren opens his EMT bag) Oh, what you going in my bag for?
Goren: Because I can. You're low on Ace bandages.
Bishop: Where're you going?
Goren: Out for pancakes.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Pravada 3.5
Who is this redhead standing in the middle of the crime scene??? Why’s she asking questions??? Apparently Goren doesn’t know this chick either: they don’t even know who’s supposed to be taking notes. The local cop wanders what kind of cracker jack operation Major Case is runnin’.
Introducing Detective G. Lynn Bishop. We’re not happy to see her and neither is Goren, who copes by plowing full speed ahead doing his own thing and we’ll spend 7 long episodes watching her run after him, looking confused. Let the games begin!
She offers her own insight into the case, and when she doesn’t fall in line behind Goren’s line of thinking, he just up and walks away from her. Then is quick to throw her (and her theory) under the bus.
But just when we think all hope is lost, Eames waddles in (looking ab fab!), where Goren has an A and B conversation, and Bishop ain’t taking the hint to C her way out. Eames points out there’s a 10% premium on withdrawals at strip clubs, and you would think she just discovered America by the look of proud kudos that Goren gives her (which he NEVER gave her when she was actually working with him) and uses the opportunity to insult Bishop to her face for not working Vice like Eames and gives Eames a conspiratorial smile, but Eames knows what he’s up to and gives him a ‘cut-it-out’ look.
We thought these episodes were going to be boring! But watching Goren be so purposefully naughty and completely lose it (in a good way, not mother-dying way) is totally fun!
Goren nimbly jumps on and off a boat while Bishop stays ashore.
Goren drags Miss Pouty along to crash the guy from Taxi’s fancy dinner. Bishop does something not Eames-like and Goren practically skips at the opportunity to tell her so. Plagiarism is the problem. Goren and his dad once met Willie Maize – he wasn’t very nice.
Appropriately, Goren and Bishop go their separate ways. Alex’s gone and he got no one on his side. It’s Goren v. the World and he spends the entire episode trying to convince everyone of his theory. Goren almost trips, moderates a father/son argument.
Anyone else notice that Bishop never blinks? Seriously. I know I (like Goren) am looking for any and every opportunity to nitpick, but I’m serious.
Clothes Call: Eames’ pregnancy wear, Goren’s hot sunglasses, Carver’s shaved head, Goren looses the tie
Quotable:
Goren [to Bishop, gesturing between her and Eames]: See what you missed, not working Vice?
Bishop: So you know, I did not enjoy that.
Goren [gleefully]: No? Eames would've.
Bishop: If you were trying to show me how to turn a friendly witness into a hostile one, you succeeded.
Bishop: Gun cleaner. What part of the curriculum is that for?
Introducing Detective G. Lynn Bishop. We’re not happy to see her and neither is Goren, who copes by plowing full speed ahead doing his own thing and we’ll spend 7 long episodes watching her run after him, looking confused. Let the games begin!
She offers her own insight into the case, and when she doesn’t fall in line behind Goren’s line of thinking, he just up and walks away from her. Then is quick to throw her (and her theory) under the bus.
But just when we think all hope is lost, Eames waddles in (looking ab fab!), where Goren has an A and B conversation, and Bishop ain’t taking the hint to C her way out. Eames points out there’s a 10% premium on withdrawals at strip clubs, and you would think she just discovered America by the look of proud kudos that Goren gives her (which he NEVER gave her when she was actually working with him) and uses the opportunity to insult Bishop to her face for not working Vice like Eames and gives Eames a conspiratorial smile, but Eames knows what he’s up to and gives him a ‘cut-it-out’ look.
We thought these episodes were going to be boring! But watching Goren be so purposefully naughty and completely lose it (in a good way, not mother-dying way) is totally fun!
Goren nimbly jumps on and off a boat while Bishop stays ashore.
Goren drags Miss Pouty along to crash the guy from Taxi’s fancy dinner. Bishop does something not Eames-like and Goren practically skips at the opportunity to tell her so. Plagiarism is the problem. Goren and his dad once met Willie Maize – he wasn’t very nice.
Appropriately, Goren and Bishop go their separate ways. Alex’s gone and he got no one on his side. It’s Goren v. the World and he spends the entire episode trying to convince everyone of his theory. Goren almost trips, moderates a father/son argument.
Anyone else notice that Bishop never blinks? Seriously. I know I (like Goren) am looking for any and every opportunity to nitpick, but I’m serious.
Clothes Call: Eames’ pregnancy wear, Goren’s hot sunglasses, Carver’s shaved head, Goren looses the tie
Quotable:
Goren [to Bishop, gesturing between her and Eames]: See what you missed, not working Vice?
Bishop: So you know, I did not enjoy that.
Goren [gleefully]: No? Eames would've.
Bishop: If you were trying to show me how to turn a friendly witness into a hostile one, you succeeded.
Bishop: Gun cleaner. What part of the curriculum is that for?
But Not Forgotten 3.4
Has it really only been four episodes since Eames announced her pregnancy!? My how the time (and stomach growth) does fly.
We have the venerable Anthony Michael Hall on our hands. In season seven we’ll pick up the hotness that is Andrew McCarthy to add to our Brat-Pack collection.
Goren smells the bottom of a dog’s feet: they smell like coffee, but that could have gone wrong in so many ways, and Eames knows it. The dog’s soon followed by some very ‘assertive’ cheese, the cheese doesn’t have feelings, Goren, you don’t have to be so nice.
Goren tells the IRS how to do their job.
Goren tries to huddle with Carver too early in the game, but Deakins calls off the play.
Rogers! Haven’t seen you in a while. LOVE the Suri-bob!
Goren says ‘husband’ and ‘baby’ in Chinese.
Goren pulls up his usual window seat in Deakins’ office for Eames.
Oh, Eames! You actress you! Without any Goren-prompting (he’s not even in the vicinity), she plays a business-type for the fool, using her pregnancy (and a bookshelf) to get him to open up to her.
We don’t even make it into interrogation – it all goes down in Deakins’ office. The oldest cop trick in the book: hit on female crime victims. But, wait! There’s a twist – she no female victim at all! You can’t play a playa, Mr. Hall!
Clothes Call: Isabelle’s scarf in the very first scene
Quotable:
Deakins: They whacked the wrong lawyer.
[Goren is peeling skin off a corpse]
Eames: If you keep doing that I'm going to drop this kid right here.
Goren [after sitting through a crap story of Earl the hero]: Well, good job, Earl.
We have the venerable Anthony Michael Hall on our hands. In season seven we’ll pick up the hotness that is Andrew McCarthy to add to our Brat-Pack collection.
Goren smells the bottom of a dog’s feet: they smell like coffee, but that could have gone wrong in so many ways, and Eames knows it. The dog’s soon followed by some very ‘assertive’ cheese, the cheese doesn’t have feelings, Goren, you don’t have to be so nice.
Goren tells the IRS how to do their job.
Goren tries to huddle with Carver too early in the game, but Deakins calls off the play.
Rogers! Haven’t seen you in a while. LOVE the Suri-bob!
Goren says ‘husband’ and ‘baby’ in Chinese.
Goren pulls up his usual window seat in Deakins’ office for Eames.
Oh, Eames! You actress you! Without any Goren-prompting (he’s not even in the vicinity), she plays a business-type for the fool, using her pregnancy (and a bookshelf) to get him to open up to her.
We don’t even make it into interrogation – it all goes down in Deakins’ office. The oldest cop trick in the book: hit on female crime victims. But, wait! There’s a twist – she no female victim at all! You can’t play a playa, Mr. Hall!
Clothes Call: Isabelle’s scarf in the very first scene
Quotable:
Deakins: They whacked the wrong lawyer.
[Goren is peeling skin off a corpse]
Eames: If you keep doing that I'm going to drop this kid right here.
Goren [after sitting through a crap story of Earl the hero]: Well, good job, Earl.
The Gift 3.3
How in the world does some Joe on the street know so much about live video feeds?
Eames STILL wants one simple robbery case, but alas, complications arise.
Long Island City would not be Goren’s first choice of a body dumping site.
Goren says ‘Santeria’ with an accent, Eames makes a face, but they get a neat little crutch charm that we find interesting.
Eames is still getting use to morning sickness and takes a seat while her and Goren make a Santeria visit.
Goren straddles a rich woman’s couch instead of sitting on it like a civilized person.
The psychic lady sees visions of “a couple” aka our dynamic duo and Goren is ‘the man with the broken neck.’ The wife of the dead boy shuuuuuunnns our nonbelievers.
Clothes Call: The crutch charm and all the Santeria paraphernalia
Quotable:
Goren [slinging his arm around a reporter they tailed]: You were goin’ so fast, we almost lost you . . . . We’ll take over from here. [pats the reporter and closes the door in his face]
Ilene Maxwell: He never talked to me about animal sacrifices, my god, I don’t even wear fur!
Eames: I bet you know this one by heart, Julian Balante and Sylvia Campbell, you’re under arrest for fraud.
Eames STILL wants one simple robbery case, but alas, complications arise.
Long Island City would not be Goren’s first choice of a body dumping site.
Goren says ‘Santeria’ with an accent, Eames makes a face, but they get a neat little crutch charm that we find interesting.
Eames is still getting use to morning sickness and takes a seat while her and Goren make a Santeria visit.
Goren straddles a rich woman’s couch instead of sitting on it like a civilized person.
The psychic lady sees visions of “a couple” aka our dynamic duo and Goren is ‘the man with the broken neck.’ The wife of the dead boy shuuuuuunnns our nonbelievers.
Clothes Call: The crutch charm and all the Santeria paraphernalia
Quotable:
Goren [slinging his arm around a reporter they tailed]: You were goin’ so fast, we almost lost you . . . . We’ll take over from here. [pats the reporter and closes the door in his face]
Ilene Maxwell: He never talked to me about animal sacrifices, my god, I don’t even wear fur!
Eames: I bet you know this one by heart, Julian Balante and Sylvia Campbell, you’re under arrest for fraud.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Gemini 3.2
It’s the creepy guy who tries to change himself into Spike . . . blue eyes, bleached hair . . . Buffy anyone? If you haven’t gone there . . . you really should.
Goren’s seeing a theme. And Marilyn Monroe, of all people, comes into play.
Bobby and Alex are holding hands in the interrogation room, until Deakins comes in and they pull apart like guilty teenagers. Goren's all doin' the 'lean in' like he's showin' her something, but we know the truth.
An amateur tries to get one over on Goren and Eames to protect his drug-addict brother, but Goren knows ALL about having a drug-addict brother.
Eames puts on glasses and a dowdy skirt and plays a bank teller and Goren actually pulls out his gun and jams it into the head of our Spike look-alike (who we immediately sympathize for because he looks so hot with the eyes and hair!). I guess Goren’s finally pulling his weight in the manhandling department cuz normally petite Eames has to cuff everyone while seven foot Goren stands there and watches.
Goren saddles up to Carver and literally sweet talks him, then plays disguise and changes his hand color in Carver’s office.
Goren tells his little big brother story . . . he has a big brother and Bobby was always trying to get him to loosen up, but their dad never let up on the big brother.
Clothes Call: Goren looses the jacket in interrogation
Quotable:
Eames: Well this is nice, Charles Darwin is a serial killer.
Goren [to Brent’s lawyer]: Come on, you’re no fun. Look at him, he’s peein’ himself to tell us about this fake Arian cosmetics conspiracy!
Goren [sweet talking Carver]: You know I find paranoid schizophrenics excellent witnesses.
Goren: Yeah, he may be crazy, but you're evil.
Goren’s seeing a theme. And Marilyn Monroe, of all people, comes into play.
Bobby and Alex are holding hands in the interrogation room, until Deakins comes in and they pull apart like guilty teenagers. Goren's all doin' the 'lean in' like he's showin' her something, but we know the truth.
An amateur tries to get one over on Goren and Eames to protect his drug-addict brother, but Goren knows ALL about having a drug-addict brother.
Eames puts on glasses and a dowdy skirt and plays a bank teller and Goren actually pulls out his gun and jams it into the head of our Spike look-alike (who we immediately sympathize for because he looks so hot with the eyes and hair!). I guess Goren’s finally pulling his weight in the manhandling department cuz normally petite Eames has to cuff everyone while seven foot Goren stands there and watches.
Goren saddles up to Carver and literally sweet talks him, then plays disguise and changes his hand color in Carver’s office.
Goren tells his little big brother story . . . he has a big brother and Bobby was always trying to get him to loosen up, but their dad never let up on the big brother.
Clothes Call: Goren looses the jacket in interrogation
Quotable:
Eames: Well this is nice, Charles Darwin is a serial killer.
Goren [to Brent’s lawyer]: Come on, you’re no fun. Look at him, he’s peein’ himself to tell us about this fake Arian cosmetics conspiracy!
Goren [sweet talking Carver]: You know I find paranoid schizophrenics excellent witnesses.
Goren: Yeah, he may be crazy, but you're evil.
Undaunted Mettle 3.1
Bobby, dear, there MUST be other ways to examine a corpse at a crime scene other than curling yourself around it in the fetal position. There just must be.
Alex must have talked to Bobby about becoming a surrogate because he’s not even fazed by her talking about it . . . until she mentions a new partner and it looks like someone struck him in the back of the head with a baseball bat and pouts like a petulant child when Deakins is all happy about it.
Goren and Eames critique an architect’s apartment . . . then critique an assistant professor . . . to his face.
Our duo study photographs for hours and look suitably cross-eyed and like they're about to collapse on top of each other. And it’s a red letter day: EAMES is the one to find Waldo first: in this case, it’s a guy dressed like a big nickel. Funny that little detail escaped Goren's observational powers.
Goren and Eames camp out in their SUV trunk, admiring windows made for wives.
A visibly pregnant Eames pays her bills the day she gets them and she actually gets visibly excited to be catching the killer: when they find blood in a car, they give each other these great “yeah, baby, we are damn good” smirks. Pregnancy must make her feisty cuz in the episodes leading up to the maternity leave, Eames is an even tougher cookie than usual.
We like when Goren has a good time with women married to assholes, then he gestures grandly with a building top.
Clothes Call: Eames, we love your red coat in the first shot, so why, on your way to the next crime scene, do you change into a black one? They found the dead guys car, I find it hard to believe a day or more has passed by the time when you guys get there so you must have changed. You too, Goren. The architect’s suspenders and bow tie . . . I am an absolute sucker for a bow tie.
Quotable:
Eames [going through a dead guy’s wallet, talking to Goren]: Library card. Man after your own heart. [see Dead 2.1]
Eames [after telling Deakins she’s pregnant]: He gave me a big hug. He said it was a great thing I was doing for my sister and he said when the time comes he'll hook you up with a temporary partner.
Goren: Oh no! I didn't even think of that. What'd you say?
Eames: I pity the fool.
Deakins: How 'bout our gal, huh? Surrogate mom.
Architect: Whether you like it or not, my work has entered into your subconscious.
Eames: And here I thought it was last night’s potstickers.
Eames: Well, if he wanted to get inside Laurett’s head, he needed more blondes in his life.
One of Laurett’s Wives: The restaurant just gave you our address like that?
Eames: Well they didn’t really have a choice.
Alex must have talked to Bobby about becoming a surrogate because he’s not even fazed by her talking about it . . . until she mentions a new partner and it looks like someone struck him in the back of the head with a baseball bat and pouts like a petulant child when Deakins is all happy about it.
Goren and Eames critique an architect’s apartment . . . then critique an assistant professor . . . to his face.
Our duo study photographs for hours and look suitably cross-eyed and like they're about to collapse on top of each other. And it’s a red letter day: EAMES is the one to find Waldo first: in this case, it’s a guy dressed like a big nickel. Funny that little detail escaped Goren's observational powers.
Goren and Eames camp out in their SUV trunk, admiring windows made for wives.
A visibly pregnant Eames pays her bills the day she gets them and she actually gets visibly excited to be catching the killer: when they find blood in a car, they give each other these great “yeah, baby, we are damn good” smirks. Pregnancy must make her feisty cuz in the episodes leading up to the maternity leave, Eames is an even tougher cookie than usual.
We like when Goren has a good time with women married to assholes, then he gestures grandly with a building top.
Clothes Call: Eames, we love your red coat in the first shot, so why, on your way to the next crime scene, do you change into a black one? They found the dead guys car, I find it hard to believe a day or more has passed by the time when you guys get there so you must have changed. You too, Goren. The architect’s suspenders and bow tie . . . I am an absolute sucker for a bow tie.
Quotable:
Eames [going through a dead guy’s wallet, talking to Goren]: Library card. Man after your own heart. [see Dead 2.1]
Eames [after telling Deakins she’s pregnant]: He gave me a big hug. He said it was a great thing I was doing for my sister and he said when the time comes he'll hook you up with a temporary partner.
Goren: Oh no! I didn't even think of that. What'd you say?
Eames: I pity the fool.
Deakins: How 'bout our gal, huh? Surrogate mom.
Architect: Whether you like it or not, my work has entered into your subconscious.
Eames: And here I thought it was last night’s potstickers.
Eames: Well, if he wanted to get inside Laurett’s head, he needed more blondes in his life.
One of Laurett’s Wives: The restaurant just gave you our address like that?
Eames: Well they didn’t really have a choice.
A Person of Interest 2.23
The whole first half of the episode is dedicated to the Anthrax left over from Zoonotic and a guy who thinks the government is out to get him – until he hangs himself – and it’s all Bobby’s fault and Eames tells him so. So, he does what he always does in these situations . . . punches the wall and wrecks things. Goren gets called out on being an ex-Army Criminal Investigator and Eames calls him out on being a prick who’s bad at his job (because he is when Nicole is remotely involved) and he takes it out on a bulletin board.
But quickly our duo kiss and make up, well, Eames makes him laugh and asks him if he got any sleep.
Bobby’s at Sal’s Restaurant in Brooklyn for the fifth night in a row . . . that’s actually quite a sad peek into Bobby’s personal life, isn’t it? And he orders the same thing too: veal parmesan. He flirts with the waitress and gets a salad and date with Nicole for his troubles, who makes him keep his hands on the table where she can see ‘em.
Here’s another wallpaper/screensaver in the making: Bobby and Alex alone in a darkened interrogation room, their faces reflected off the one-way mirror as they talk quietly about Goren’s father. He feels like an idiot for being duped and Alex vows revenge.
A stuffy lawyer WEARING SUSPENDERS WITH IVY ON THEM threatens Goren. Ha.
Goren and Nicole do the ol’ tit for tat in interrogation: Goren’s parents are divorced, Goren’s dad was a playboy, and 11yr old Goren blamed his mother. Goren isn’t married because he thinks he’ll suck at husbandry like his dad did . . . blah blah blah
But Goren comes out of this one with his head above water – he wipes his hands of the matter and passes her (and a bag of scones) over to Carver and Deakins to deal with.
Clothes Call: Eames’ jean jacket, Bobby’s sky blue button down, and Carver and Deakins’ civilian clothes
Quotable:
[Goren is flipping through a stack of messages]
Eames: Admirers?
Goren: Reporters. They want a comment.
Eames: Can they print a hand gesture?
Waitress: You must really like veal parmesan. It’s the fifth night in a row you’ve ordered it.
Goren: I just like watching you write it down.
Elizabeth Hitchens’ husband’s lawyer [doubtfully, after being shown an old picture of Nicole]: You have a more recent photo?
Eames [pointing to their wedding photo]: There’s that.
Eames: Nicole Elizabeth Wallace Hitchens Haynes, whatever. All of you are under arrest for attempted bribery.
Goren [to Nicole who flirts with him in interrogation]: Don’t flatter yourself.
But quickly our duo kiss and make up, well, Eames makes him laugh and asks him if he got any sleep.
Bobby’s at Sal’s Restaurant in Brooklyn for the fifth night in a row . . . that’s actually quite a sad peek into Bobby’s personal life, isn’t it? And he orders the same thing too: veal parmesan. He flirts with the waitress and gets a salad and date with Nicole for his troubles, who makes him keep his hands on the table where she can see ‘em.
Here’s another wallpaper/screensaver in the making: Bobby and Alex alone in a darkened interrogation room, their faces reflected off the one-way mirror as they talk quietly about Goren’s father. He feels like an idiot for being duped and Alex vows revenge.
A stuffy lawyer WEARING SUSPENDERS WITH IVY ON THEM threatens Goren. Ha.
Goren and Nicole do the ol’ tit for tat in interrogation: Goren’s parents are divorced, Goren’s dad was a playboy, and 11yr old Goren blamed his mother. Goren isn’t married because he thinks he’ll suck at husbandry like his dad did . . . blah blah blah
But Goren comes out of this one with his head above water – he wipes his hands of the matter and passes her (and a bag of scones) over to Carver and Deakins to deal with.
Clothes Call: Eames’ jean jacket, Bobby’s sky blue button down, and Carver and Deakins’ civilian clothes
Quotable:
[Goren is flipping through a stack of messages]
Eames: Admirers?
Goren: Reporters. They want a comment.
Eames: Can they print a hand gesture?
Waitress: You must really like veal parmesan. It’s the fifth night in a row you’ve ordered it.
Goren: I just like watching you write it down.
Elizabeth Hitchens’ husband’s lawyer [doubtfully, after being shown an old picture of Nicole]: You have a more recent photo?
Eames [pointing to their wedding photo]: There’s that.
Eames: Nicole Elizabeth Wallace Hitchens Haynes, whatever. All of you are under arrest for attempted bribery.
Goren [to Nicole who flirts with him in interrogation]: Don’t flatter yourself.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Zoonotic 2.22
An episode more fun than a barrel of monkeys (Get it? Monkeys? . . . Zoonotic? . . . never mind . . .) It’s Alex vs. testosterone run amok, good thing she has Bobby there as a buffer (literally).
Trapped. Trapped like a ferret in a turnstile and stabbed to death.
Oh, Alex, you 8 year old tomboy, you!
Must-Watch-Scene-Alert!!! It’s the prostitute mistaking Goren and Eames as a couple interested in a three-way scene! How much would you love a screencap wallpaper of the two of them holding up their badges to the prostitute?
Goren and Eames send each other more psychic messages in perverted, creepy doctor Stern’s office.
Equally perverted and creepy Doctor Borman strips to his Speedos and does some poses for Eames before Goren cockblocks him. Borman asks Eames for his pants and she scoffs and looks at Goren, like, Yeah right. You do it. But Goren’s just as blown away by this ‘specimen’ and rubs his forehead to ward off the headache. But then he looks at Eames and almost busts out laughing.
Goren and Eames tagteam Borman and Goren systematically pulls his creepy gaze from Eames again and again. It’s so cute.
And we get the reoccurring theme of our two favs willing to bend the investigation to better suit the victim's family.
This episode is as close as we've ever gotten to a real cliffhanger -- are duo got themselves some missing grams of anthrax . . . I wonder who has it.
Clothes Call: Eames is really favoring the turtlenecks lately.
Quotable:
Eames (about Buzz's apartment): How come all divorced cops have the same decorator?
Goren: How many eight-year-old girls you know who like sports cars?
Eames: Besides me?
Prostitute: [seeing Eames] Oh, hi. He didn’t mention he had a friend.
Eames: Actually, I’m his partner.
Prostitute: Whatever. You’re cute.
Eames: Typhoid Roger. You dump him, you get sick.
Goren: Blackmail him, you get killed.
Deakins (about zoonotic viruses): Anything I could catch from my local vet?
Rodgers: Not unless he's been in the southern hemisphere, playing fetch with flying bats.
Carver: A voyeur and an exhibitionist. It's a wonder they found each other.
Eames: Isn't the world a swell place?
Trapped. Trapped like a ferret in a turnstile and stabbed to death.
Oh, Alex, you 8 year old tomboy, you!
Must-Watch-Scene-Alert!!! It’s the prostitute mistaking Goren and Eames as a couple interested in a three-way scene! How much would you love a screencap wallpaper of the two of them holding up their badges to the prostitute?
Goren and Eames send each other more psychic messages in perverted, creepy doctor Stern’s office.
Equally perverted and creepy Doctor Borman strips to his Speedos and does some poses for Eames before Goren cockblocks him. Borman asks Eames for his pants and she scoffs and looks at Goren, like, Yeah right. You do it. But Goren’s just as blown away by this ‘specimen’ and rubs his forehead to ward off the headache. But then he looks at Eames and almost busts out laughing.
Goren and Eames tagteam Borman and Goren systematically pulls his creepy gaze from Eames again and again. It’s so cute.
And we get the reoccurring theme of our two favs willing to bend the investigation to better suit the victim's family.
This episode is as close as we've ever gotten to a real cliffhanger -- are duo got themselves some missing grams of anthrax . . . I wonder who has it.
Clothes Call: Eames is really favoring the turtlenecks lately.
Quotable:
Eames (about Buzz's apartment): How come all divorced cops have the same decorator?
Goren: How many eight-year-old girls you know who like sports cars?
Eames: Besides me?
Prostitute: [seeing Eames] Oh, hi. He didn’t mention he had a friend.
Eames: Actually, I’m his partner.
Prostitute: Whatever. You’re cute.
Eames: Typhoid Roger. You dump him, you get sick.
Goren: Blackmail him, you get killed.
Deakins (about zoonotic viruses): Anything I could catch from my local vet?
Rodgers: Not unless he's been in the southern hemisphere, playing fetch with flying bats.
Carver: A voyeur and an exhibitionist. It's a wonder they found each other.
Eames: Isn't the world a swell place?
Graansha 2.21
Goren is lying all over a dead Irish girl. And we mean alllll over.
Eames gives an anthropologist with an adorable kid ‘our’ card.
Goren gives us lessons on Irish weddings.
Wow, there’s actually an actor out there taller than D’Onofrio.
Showdown in a white tent and Travelers are quick to turn on one of their own.
But it's Goren's world in this episode (surprise, surprise) and Eames just lives in it.
Clothes Call: Eames’ high necked black Matrix coat again.
Quotable:
Malcolm: As a matter of fact, I was there last night.
Eames: Well, as a matter of fact, we knew that.
[talking about Malcolm’s ‘adorable kid’]
Eames: Let’s see if he has an adorable record.
Lane Devlin: What do you people want from me?
Goren: I'd like a glass of water.
Goren: Let's just say we're not not suspecting him.
Eames: The whole idea is so primitive. An arranged marriage in this day and age.
Carver: Yes, especially in light of the stunning success people have choosing their own mates in this day and age.
Eames gives an anthropologist with an adorable kid ‘our’ card.
Goren gives us lessons on Irish weddings.
Wow, there’s actually an actor out there taller than D’Onofrio.
Showdown in a white tent and Travelers are quick to turn on one of their own.
But it's Goren's world in this episode (surprise, surprise) and Eames just lives in it.
Clothes Call: Eames’ high necked black Matrix coat again.
Quotable:
Malcolm: As a matter of fact, I was there last night.
Eames: Well, as a matter of fact, we knew that.
[talking about Malcolm’s ‘adorable kid’]
Eames: Let’s see if he has an adorable record.
Lane Devlin: What do you people want from me?
Goren: I'd like a glass of water.
Goren: Let's just say we're not not suspecting him.
Eames: The whole idea is so primitive. An arranged marriage in this day and age.
Carver: Yes, especially in light of the stunning success people have choosing their own mates in this day and age.
Blink 2.20
Before Kevin Spacey made 21, we had this Criminal Intent episode about the famous card counting math majors. And, well, if playing cards are involved, Goren’s never too far behind (see Cubra Libre among others).
A math lady says “food procurement for the Quartermaster Corps” and Eames psychically tells Goren, “ah, say wha?” And he fills her in (“mess hall supplies”) without giving away to the lady she didn’t know what it was. Eames makes Goren snicker about a math major’s party island workspace.
Hello, dude from Ugly Betty.
Goren sees a computer and quickly backs away and goes and plays with cds, a harmless form of technology, while trying to convince Eames of the pros of eating live octopus (Alex isn’t convinced).
Alex meets another one of Bobby’s buddies. Goren’s dad was a horse gambler. Ferdie, who can be found at Milligan’s after 7, mistakes Eames for a woman Goren may have brought to his dad’s funeral, who Ferdie was quite the fan of. But Goren says he didn’t bring anyone. What, may I ask, are we to gather from all of this????
How in the world would Goren know his notepad was missing the top sheet?
Maybe Alex won’t have to put in for a partner reassignment after all -- Goren purposefully almost does a header off the top of a building. We don’t see Alex’s reaction, but we imagine it can’t be good. And how did Alex become such a mountain goat???
Clothes Call: Eames has one of those hats in every color, doesn’t she?
Quotable:
Eames: San-nakji. That’s some hint.
Goren: It’s octopus stew. I did a six-month tour in South Korea. They use live octopus. The tentacles get up your nose. It’s hilarious.
Eames: A riot.
Ferdie: [to Eames] Are you the girl he brought to the funeral? ‘Cause if I didn’t say it then, you are very lovely.
Goren: I didn’t bring anyone to the funeral.
Goren: He's entered the lion's den. Bold?
Eames: He's out of his mind.
Goren: It's worse. He doesn't know fear
Eames: Well, will wonders never cease? He blinked.
Carver: He may be human after all.
Goren: Optimist.
A math lady says “food procurement for the Quartermaster Corps” and Eames psychically tells Goren, “ah, say wha?” And he fills her in (“mess hall supplies”) without giving away to the lady she didn’t know what it was. Eames makes Goren snicker about a math major’s party island workspace.
Hello, dude from Ugly Betty.
Goren sees a computer and quickly backs away and goes and plays with cds, a harmless form of technology, while trying to convince Eames of the pros of eating live octopus (Alex isn’t convinced).
Alex meets another one of Bobby’s buddies. Goren’s dad was a horse gambler. Ferdie, who can be found at Milligan’s after 7, mistakes Eames for a woman Goren may have brought to his dad’s funeral, who Ferdie was quite the fan of. But Goren says he didn’t bring anyone. What, may I ask, are we to gather from all of this????
How in the world would Goren know his notepad was missing the top sheet?
Maybe Alex won’t have to put in for a partner reassignment after all -- Goren purposefully almost does a header off the top of a building. We don’t see Alex’s reaction, but we imagine it can’t be good. And how did Alex become such a mountain goat???
Clothes Call: Eames has one of those hats in every color, doesn’t she?
Quotable:
Eames: San-nakji. That’s some hint.
Goren: It’s octopus stew. I did a six-month tour in South Korea. They use live octopus. The tentacles get up your nose. It’s hilarious.
Eames: A riot.
Ferdie: [to Eames] Are you the girl he brought to the funeral? ‘Cause if I didn’t say it then, you are very lovely.
Goren: I didn’t bring anyone to the funeral.
Goren: He's entered the lion's den. Bold?
Eames: He's out of his mind.
Goren: It's worse. He doesn't know fear
Eames: Well, will wonders never cease? He blinked.
Carver: He may be human after all.
Goren: Optimist.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Cherry Red 2.19
We begin with crazy cat ladies . . . and what’s wrong with that, I ask?
Goren can tell a dead body was right handed, Eames says “Whaaa?” But, as we’ve learned in the past, Bobby's a little nutty. For example, he will walk over hot coals to get and/or keep a girl – studying the Koran, dealing with a cat allergy . . .
Goren makes fun of Eames’ way of speaking.
Hello, Mr. Paul Dooley (the name of the guest actor that you recognize, but can’t place, who’s imdb list is a mile long). Anyway, Goren tricks him into opening a door for him after enjoying a game.
Goren and Eames are just so fun to watch, like a football team, they pass each other little clues behind the other teams’ backs and have a secret code.
Eames’ dad had a Cutless and she’d help him wax it (with the good stuff only). We like when Goren and Eames play with cars – it’s one of the things they have in common and Eames knows just as much as him.
The return of Lewis!!! Who plays with cars with Goren and swiftly hits on Alex.
And it’s the famous Goren-in-the-pretty-car-and-won’t-come-out scene that needs to be watched again and again.
Carver’s all business until Goren pulls out the model cars and then they both regress to seven year olds.
Clothes Call: Eames’ preppy blouse and sweater.
Quotable:
Eames: Mrs. Batchelder’s file, is it in your current basket over there?
Goren: You know, she always does that with me. She’ll say like, ‘Where’s the sugar?’, instead of, you know, just, ‘Pass the sugar.’
Goren: It's a homeopathic remedy for cat allergies. Microscopic cat dander you put on your tongue. I had a girlfriend named Lola, she had cats.
Eames: You ate furballs for her?
Stan: I can’t talk right now, they’re in the middle of overtime.
Eames: It’s two in the afternoon, where are they playing, Tokyo?
Stan Coffman: [referring to Goren] You know, you're awfully snoopy.
Eames: A lot of people point that out.
Goren: [to the criminal about the 1962 Ferrari GTO] [stammering even more than usual] Have you ever sat in one of these? No? I haven’t, either. I think I need to get inside. [quieter, to himself] I think I need to get inside.
[Sitting in a 1962 Ferrari GTO belonging to the criminal]
Goren: I wish I could tell you how this feels, I can't do it in mixed company, but I wish I could. [revs the engine and smiles] You have no idea.
Criminal: You son of a bitch.
Goren: [seriously] You have no idea.
[Goren is enjoying his time behind the wheel of the cherry red car]
Eames: [coming back to get her little boy] You have to come out now.
Eames: [Goren and Carver are playing with model cars]: You two have a play date?
Goren can tell a dead body was right handed, Eames says “Whaaa?” But, as we’ve learned in the past, Bobby's a little nutty. For example, he will walk over hot coals to get and/or keep a girl – studying the Koran, dealing with a cat allergy . . .
Goren makes fun of Eames’ way of speaking.
Hello, Mr. Paul Dooley (the name of the guest actor that you recognize, but can’t place, who’s imdb list is a mile long). Anyway, Goren tricks him into opening a door for him after enjoying a game.
Goren and Eames are just so fun to watch, like a football team, they pass each other little clues behind the other teams’ backs and have a secret code.
Eames’ dad had a Cutless and she’d help him wax it (with the good stuff only). We like when Goren and Eames play with cars – it’s one of the things they have in common and Eames knows just as much as him.
The return of Lewis!!! Who plays with cars with Goren and swiftly hits on Alex.
And it’s the famous Goren-in-the-pretty-car-and-won’t-come-out scene that needs to be watched again and again.
Carver’s all business until Goren pulls out the model cars and then they both regress to seven year olds.
Clothes Call: Eames’ preppy blouse and sweater.
Quotable:
Eames: Mrs. Batchelder’s file, is it in your current basket over there?
Goren: You know, she always does that with me. She’ll say like, ‘Where’s the sugar?’, instead of, you know, just, ‘Pass the sugar.’
Goren: It's a homeopathic remedy for cat allergies. Microscopic cat dander you put on your tongue. I had a girlfriend named Lola, she had cats.
Eames: You ate furballs for her?
Stan: I can’t talk right now, they’re in the middle of overtime.
Eames: It’s two in the afternoon, where are they playing, Tokyo?
Stan Coffman: [referring to Goren] You know, you're awfully snoopy.
Eames: A lot of people point that out.
Goren: [to the criminal about the 1962 Ferrari GTO] [stammering even more than usual] Have you ever sat in one of these? No? I haven’t, either. I think I need to get inside. [quieter, to himself] I think I need to get inside.
[Sitting in a 1962 Ferrari GTO belonging to the criminal]
Goren: I wish I could tell you how this feels, I can't do it in mixed company, but I wish I could. [revs the engine and smiles] You have no idea.
Criminal: You son of a bitch.
Goren: [seriously] You have no idea.
[Goren is enjoying his time behind the wheel of the cherry red car]
Eames: [coming back to get her little boy] You have to come out now.
Eames: [Goren and Carver are playing with model cars]: You two have a play date?
Legion 2.18
I really don’t like it when they show the murders. They’re really disturbing to watch. I’d much rather watch just the gun going off then cut to the credits, like they usually do.
This is a Logan episode before there were Logan CI episodes – rap music and punk kids and a tight-knit community who isn’t talking. But, just to give Goren an in, they throw in Marcus Aurelius.
Goren grooves to some Cuban tunes in a recording studio and plays with high-tech toys.
We got ourselves a Fagan (Oliver Twist metaphor, anyone?) of bicycles thieves.
Goren’s father ran around on his mother.
Deakins always has a humorous outlook on every murder.
Goren and Eames grill Frankie’s dad in a really funny, NY-accented, you-gotta-watch scene.
Clothes Call: More winter hats, especially Eames’ green one, and their matchy-matchy long black coats.
Quotable:
[Goren pushes a key on a keyboard.]
Keyboard: Baby!
Goren: Ooh, I like that!
Frankie’s dad: Frankie’s not home a lot of the time. Look, is there a reward for information or what?
Goren: [scoffs] A reward? Maybe we could scrounge something up. [to Eames] What do ya think?
Eames: Twenty bucks. We can handle twenty bucks.
Frankie’s dad: Twenty bucks?
Goren: Well, it’s not like he’s on the FBI’s top ten list.
[a young woman wearing very little clothing walks out of the bedroom]
Goren: Well, I can see Frankie’s mom has kept her youthful looks.
Deakins: Well, it’s nice to see the kids studying the classics.
This is a Logan episode before there were Logan CI episodes – rap music and punk kids and a tight-knit community who isn’t talking. But, just to give Goren an in, they throw in Marcus Aurelius.
Goren grooves to some Cuban tunes in a recording studio and plays with high-tech toys.
We got ourselves a Fagan (Oliver Twist metaphor, anyone?) of bicycles thieves.
Goren’s father ran around on his mother.
Deakins always has a humorous outlook on every murder.
Goren and Eames grill Frankie’s dad in a really funny, NY-accented, you-gotta-watch scene.
Clothes Call: More winter hats, especially Eames’ green one, and their matchy-matchy long black coats.
Quotable:
[Goren pushes a key on a keyboard.]
Keyboard: Baby!
Goren: Ooh, I like that!
Frankie’s dad: Frankie’s not home a lot of the time. Look, is there a reward for information or what?
Goren: [scoffs] A reward? Maybe we could scrounge something up. [to Eames] What do ya think?
Eames: Twenty bucks. We can handle twenty bucks.
Frankie’s dad: Twenty bucks?
Goren: Well, it’s not like he’s on the FBI’s top ten list.
[a young woman wearing very little clothing walks out of the bedroom]
Goren: Well, I can see Frankie’s mom has kept her youthful looks.
Deakins: Well, it’s nice to see the kids studying the classics.
Cold Comfort 2.17
*smile* Bobby’s never been so adorable than the ‘girl thing’ incident – we love him best when he’s awkward like that.
Oh, nothing’s uglier than a fighting family, especially when cryogenics AND politics are involved.
Eames inadvertently takes a shot at Goren: The disease is inherited. Nick could pass it to their kids. I can’t imagine any woman having children under those circumstances. But Goren does say: You have a conscience. Now you wouldn’t want to play Russian Roulette with the future of your kids.
Goren gives an Early Onset Alzheimer’s sufferer drugs and a picture book: Now that’s a man who’s worried . . . and looks it.
Clothes Call: Goren and Eames’ scarves that lend them a splash of color. Goren’s purple tie.
Quotable:
Eames: She hung her purse on the hook here.
Goren: Leather coat would’ve just been able to reach over and grab it. No, I think Miss Kittridge probably just put it on the floor.
Eames: No. She hung it up.
Goren: [Long pause] Right. A girl thing. So the purse is on the hook . . .
Goren: You mean like dipping your old man in a vat of liquid nitrogen? That probably wouldn’t be ‘appropriate,’ especially if you’re running a Senate campaign. I guess people might think you’re from a family of . . . fruitcakes.
Goren: It's not enough for you to be humanitarian of the year. You want to be humanitarian of the millennium. Shame on you
Oh, nothing’s uglier than a fighting family, especially when cryogenics AND politics are involved.
Eames inadvertently takes a shot at Goren: The disease is inherited. Nick could pass it to their kids. I can’t imagine any woman having children under those circumstances. But Goren does say: You have a conscience. Now you wouldn’t want to play Russian Roulette with the future of your kids.
Goren gives an Early Onset Alzheimer’s sufferer drugs and a picture book: Now that’s a man who’s worried . . . and looks it.
Clothes Call: Goren and Eames’ scarves that lend them a splash of color. Goren’s purple tie.
Quotable:
Eames: She hung her purse on the hook here.
Goren: Leather coat would’ve just been able to reach over and grab it. No, I think Miss Kittridge probably just put it on the floor.
Eames: No. She hung it up.
Goren: [Long pause] Right. A girl thing. So the purse is on the hook . . .
Goren: You mean like dipping your old man in a vat of liquid nitrogen? That probably wouldn’t be ‘appropriate,’ especially if you’re running a Senate campaign. I guess people might think you’re from a family of . . . fruitcakes.
Goren: It's not enough for you to be humanitarian of the year. You want to be humanitarian of the millennium. Shame on you
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Cuba Libre 2.16
Joel “Mr. Cellophane” Grey is tonight’s guest of honor, not coming with the dignity, though, as he and his blonde almost have a Cry Baby moment against the jailhouse glass. And WOW that’s a gratuitous sex scene!
Eames tries to communicate with Joel, but it doesn’t go well. That’s a nice track suit you got there, Joel. But he’s a pill, and he’s giving Goren all kinds of trouble.
Goren and Eames each get a turn saying “Gangsta flicks.” Goren gets the sense that Eames knows something he don’t know and chases her out of the beauty salon like an eager puppy. Eames knows the dates of Goren’s Germany stint.
Bobby cuts cards with one hand, shuffles, and counts cards in a hot way. And manhandles a gun in an even hotter way, showing off gangsta shooting styles, in interrogation – John Woo 180 cock! We could watch Goren handle his piece all day. Maybe cuz we rarely see him with his gun out.
Eames's father was a police officer in the 40th precinct.
Joel has the best doctor ever! What a great guy! Seriously, Dr. Chang is just neat.
Goren tries to do a bike messenger a solid by taking him on a ferry ride! The bike messenger almost pees himself.
Clothes Call: I love Criminal Intent winter hats. Goren’s corduroy jacket.
Quotable:
Goren: Didn’t Dempsy tell you not to mess with the bling-bling?
Criminal: You’re the devil.
Eames: You should see me in a blue dress.
Eames tries to communicate with Joel, but it doesn’t go well. That’s a nice track suit you got there, Joel. But he’s a pill, and he’s giving Goren all kinds of trouble.
Goren and Eames each get a turn saying “Gangsta flicks.” Goren gets the sense that Eames knows something he don’t know and chases her out of the beauty salon like an eager puppy. Eames knows the dates of Goren’s Germany stint.
Bobby cuts cards with one hand, shuffles, and counts cards in a hot way. And manhandles a gun in an even hotter way, showing off gangsta shooting styles, in interrogation – John Woo 180 cock! We could watch Goren handle his piece all day. Maybe cuz we rarely see him with his gun out.
Eames's father was a police officer in the 40th precinct.
Joel has the best doctor ever! What a great guy! Seriously, Dr. Chang is just neat.
Goren tries to do a bike messenger a solid by taking him on a ferry ride! The bike messenger almost pees himself.
Clothes Call: I love Criminal Intent winter hats. Goren’s corduroy jacket.
Quotable:
Goren: Didn’t Dempsy tell you not to mess with the bling-bling?
Criminal: You’re the devil.
Eames: You should see me in a blue dress.
Monster 2.15
This isn’t one to watch with the kiddies. Goren’s acting pretty wacky – yanking a poor dead woman’s dress up (but being very polite about it) then asking if Eames is ready to go for a ride. Well, at least he asked this episode – usually he takes her on a crazy ride regardless.
GE confer with a skanky pen-pal (consequently, the girl’s name ends in an “i”).
There’s a tense showdown at a frozen lake – but not so tense that Goren doesn’t have time to mock a dirty cop.
Clothes Call: Carver’s fuzzy earflaps
GE confer with a skanky pen-pal (consequently, the girl’s name ends in an “i”).
There’s a tense showdown at a frozen lake – but not so tense that Goren doesn’t have time to mock a dirty cop.
Clothes Call: Carver’s fuzzy earflaps
Friday, October 24, 2008
Probability 2.14
I think it’s safe to say we all love this episode, how could you not -- Wally Stevens!!! Never have I, and never will I ever again, wish our dynamic duo to fail more than when they had to go after Wally. The murderer should go free! (Just this once!)
Eames wants a magic jacket that will give her money. Goren offers to find one for her.
Wow, Rogers, it’s been awhile, we’ve missed you.
They encounter two eclectic characters – one a rocker dude who offers to spray Lysol in Eames’ face, the other a huffy guy who’s missing his lunch break (but don’t worry, Eames, who hasn’t eaten in a while, puts him in his place.) Must be all that low-blood sugar talking.
We like it when GE set up house in an empty interrogation room – it’s just so domestic and cozy. And awww – they put on little French brogues. As adorable as that is, they don’t know enough about insurance, so they’re being sent “an expert” . . . .
Wally Stevens, that’s your cue! Goren and Wally are just about as cute as a button together!!! Oh the quirky mannerisms, funny ways of talking, and disdain for coincidences are in abundance and on full display! And both so easily excitable! Eames is just about forced out of the room by the intense cuteness of it all!
And how could you not love a reminder of Perfect Strangers!?
Someone left the gas on! GE break in to the house to rescue a dead guy. Goren finds the dead guy’s furniture unacceptable, so he rearranges it.
Oh my! That’s quite a slow, sexy smirk Goren throws Eames’ way when the little French girl in interrogation starts to crumble. *blush* Goren counts to three in French.
Eames has no patience for Goren’s “little buddy” and is happy to pawn him off on her partner.
Chinese and a late night at Wally’s place. Alex does her little placating “Mmm” sound to Goren that she does when they’re lying. She says he’s sentimental. He says it’s all he can afford. They dig at each other like old marrieds.
But it’s Eames’ last line that chokes us up the most: “I’m sure he’d like a pen pal.”
Clothes Call: I don’t know if you’ve detected a pattern, but anytime Goren looses the tie, the temperature in the room goes up tenfold. And Eames, again with the velvet coats???
Quotable:
Eames [To Goren, after Stevens leaves the room]: I didn't know you had an older, geekier brother.
Wally: Women like money.
Goren: So do men.
Wally: That’s because women like men with money.
Eames wants a magic jacket that will give her money. Goren offers to find one for her.
Wow, Rogers, it’s been awhile, we’ve missed you.
They encounter two eclectic characters – one a rocker dude who offers to spray Lysol in Eames’ face, the other a huffy guy who’s missing his lunch break (but don’t worry, Eames, who hasn’t eaten in a while, puts him in his place.) Must be all that low-blood sugar talking.
We like it when GE set up house in an empty interrogation room – it’s just so domestic and cozy. And awww – they put on little French brogues. As adorable as that is, they don’t know enough about insurance, so they’re being sent “an expert” . . . .
Wally Stevens, that’s your cue! Goren and Wally are just about as cute as a button together!!! Oh the quirky mannerisms, funny ways of talking, and disdain for coincidences are in abundance and on full display! And both so easily excitable! Eames is just about forced out of the room by the intense cuteness of it all!
And how could you not love a reminder of Perfect Strangers!?
Someone left the gas on! GE break in to the house to rescue a dead guy. Goren finds the dead guy’s furniture unacceptable, so he rearranges it.
Oh my! That’s quite a slow, sexy smirk Goren throws Eames’ way when the little French girl in interrogation starts to crumble. *blush* Goren counts to three in French.
Eames has no patience for Goren’s “little buddy” and is happy to pawn him off on her partner.
Chinese and a late night at Wally’s place. Alex does her little placating “Mmm” sound to Goren that she does when they’re lying. She says he’s sentimental. He says it’s all he can afford. They dig at each other like old marrieds.
But it’s Eames’ last line that chokes us up the most: “I’m sure he’d like a pen pal.”
Clothes Call: I don’t know if you’ve detected a pattern, but anytime Goren looses the tie, the temperature in the room goes up tenfold. And Eames, again with the velvet coats???
Quotable:
Eames [To Goren, after Stevens leaves the room]: I didn't know you had an older, geekier brother.
Wally: Women like money.
Goren: So do men.
Wally: That’s because women like men with money.
See Me 2.13
Idiots, yet again, are duo are surrounded by idiots . . . dry lightning and a really squirrelly secretary are among their roadblocks. They’re completely nonplussed by the later – Goren plays a lively game of tug-of-war with her and Eames teases her about naughty pictures.
They get a delusional schizophrenic who thinks he’s ex-CIA in interrogation. Goren is rather restrained. Until he puts the guy’s bare foot in his face. Alex can’t bear to look . . . neither can we.
Goren reveals that his mother began to suffer from schizophrenia at the age of 32 – and her rommie must be a riot! Bright blue apples indeed!
Goren and Eames tail a Garcia House van – and get the honor of witnessing a guy “take a pee off the pier.” Glamorous. And classy.
Poor Carver, gold plated faucets make him disillusioned!
GE visit the eye-guy and play with his expensive toys and art. BA seem to be the only ones in this episode not living outside their means.
Listen up! Van Gogh lesson commin’ at cha! And I can’t even begin to explain how much you would have to pay me to be the actress getting a needle (fake or no) that close to my eye. That’s a trust game with your fellow actor I don’t wanna play.
Sad ending to the eppie: Goren on the phone with his mom. Eames [to Carver]: Don’t ask. Oh, Goren, it’s gonna get worse before it gets better, my friend.
Clothes Call: BA’s snow hats – especially Goren’s porkpie small-time-crime one! Eames, what’s with all the velvet jackets? You have one in every color. Carver and his hat collection!
Quotable:
Goren: I don’t know . . . this guy was . . . disoriented.
Eames: Maybe because somebody was trying to kill him.
Lupe Garcia: I love this painting. So full of hope.
Goren: Well, it's certainly ... full of something.
Carver: I’ve just been upstairs. Tell me I was imagining things.
Eames: The faucets really are gold plated.
Carver: It’s disillusioning, to say the least.
They get a delusional schizophrenic who thinks he’s ex-CIA in interrogation. Goren is rather restrained. Until he puts the guy’s bare foot in his face. Alex can’t bear to look . . . neither can we.
Goren reveals that his mother began to suffer from schizophrenia at the age of 32 – and her rommie must be a riot! Bright blue apples indeed!
Goren and Eames tail a Garcia House van – and get the honor of witnessing a guy “take a pee off the pier.” Glamorous. And classy.
Poor Carver, gold plated faucets make him disillusioned!
GE visit the eye-guy and play with his expensive toys and art. BA seem to be the only ones in this episode not living outside their means.
Listen up! Van Gogh lesson commin’ at cha! And I can’t even begin to explain how much you would have to pay me to be the actress getting a needle (fake or no) that close to my eye. That’s a trust game with your fellow actor I don’t wanna play.
Sad ending to the eppie: Goren on the phone with his mom. Eames [to Carver]: Don’t ask. Oh, Goren, it’s gonna get worse before it gets better, my friend.
Clothes Call: BA’s snow hats – especially Goren’s porkpie small-time-crime one! Eames, what’s with all the velvet jackets? You have one in every color. Carver and his hat collection!
Quotable:
Goren: I don’t know . . . this guy was . . . disoriented.
Eames: Maybe because somebody was trying to kill him.
Lupe Garcia: I love this painting. So full of hope.
Goren: Well, it's certainly ... full of something.
Carver: I’ve just been upstairs. Tell me I was imagining things.
Eames: The faucets really are gold plated.
Carver: It’s disillusioning, to say the least.
Baggage 2.11
Goren’s locker is on top, and Eames’ two down (I’m assuming the assignment was taking their heights into account).
Goren lights up in order to play good cop to Eames’ snippy bad cop. But we’re pretty sure she’s not in character when she says, “I can’t believe you touched that thing” -- meaning a glow stick that a stripper’s done a “thing with” that he’s been fiddling with all episode. Ewww.
Eames goes to her dad when she has a problem at work – wonder if Goren was ever one of those “problems.” But they at least pretend it is when Eames snaps at a suspect and leaves so Goren can talk to him about the “feminist” in her. The suspect thinks Eames is attractive. Bobby pretends like the thought never occurred to him, “attractive . . . if hostility turns you on.” Eames meets Goren at the bar and he tells her everything the guy just said. Eames doesn’t like “ineffectual nice guys.”
Serious sexual harassment doesn’t get a reaction out of Carver, but identity fraud sure does. Goren and Eames grill suspects separately and these guys sing like canaries. The FBI is a very wham-bam-thank you-mam operation.
BA break up a date in a rather ‘fabulous’ way.
Clothes Call: Deakins’ glasses
Quotable:
Airline Worker: You understand I'm bending our rules.
Eames: I think your rules are used to it.
Alex: Hi, I’m Alex.
Steffi: Steffi.
Alex: Steffi. What a cute name. And you remember Bob? Bob, the shipping magnate?
Goren: Hi, Keith. Did Alex tell you what she does for a living? She’s a queen. Queen of Sheeba.
Keith: They’re pulling your leg.
Goren: No, no. Shipping magnate. Queen of Sheeba. And what was it, Vice President of Trans Union Airlines?
Alex: So fabulous. Why don’t the three of us go back to our place and talk about our fabulous jobs?
Carver: That's the problem with most men: they want what they can't get and don't want what they have.
Eames: No, the problem with men is they talk too much.
Goren lights up in order to play good cop to Eames’ snippy bad cop. But we’re pretty sure she’s not in character when she says, “I can’t believe you touched that thing” -- meaning a glow stick that a stripper’s done a “thing with” that he’s been fiddling with all episode. Ewww.
Eames goes to her dad when she has a problem at work – wonder if Goren was ever one of those “problems.” But they at least pretend it is when Eames snaps at a suspect and leaves so Goren can talk to him about the “feminist” in her. The suspect thinks Eames is attractive. Bobby pretends like the thought never occurred to him, “attractive . . . if hostility turns you on.” Eames meets Goren at the bar and he tells her everything the guy just said. Eames doesn’t like “ineffectual nice guys.”
Serious sexual harassment doesn’t get a reaction out of Carver, but identity fraud sure does. Goren and Eames grill suspects separately and these guys sing like canaries. The FBI is a very wham-bam-thank you-mam operation.
BA break up a date in a rather ‘fabulous’ way.
Clothes Call: Deakins’ glasses
Quotable:
Airline Worker: You understand I'm bending our rules.
Eames: I think your rules are used to it.
Alex: Hi, I’m Alex.
Steffi: Steffi.
Alex: Steffi. What a cute name. And you remember Bob? Bob, the shipping magnate?
Goren: Hi, Keith. Did Alex tell you what she does for a living? She’s a queen. Queen of Sheeba.
Keith: They’re pulling your leg.
Goren: No, no. Shipping magnate. Queen of Sheeba. And what was it, Vice President of Trans Union Airlines?
Alex: So fabulous. Why don’t the three of us go back to our place and talk about our fabulous jobs?
Carver: That's the problem with most men: they want what they can't get and don't want what they have.
Eames: No, the problem with men is they talk too much.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Con-Text 2.10
Eames can’t stand all the “father-son bonding” so she goes in another corner of the crime scene.
Goren tosses his shoes to a lackey and does a nice spin on a dead guy’s desk.
Eames is the long-suffering housewife, talking away while husband-Goren isn’t even listening. But Goren didn’t sleep through Girls 101 cuz he not only states that he does care what his Alex has to say, but repeats her last sentence back to her! *The man’s just perfect*
GE are offered scrub booties by a chain smoking mother, but (oh no) there are not enough for the two of them. Eames defers to Goren– by the look he gives her, he assumed the honor would fall to him. Eames is flabbergasted when Goren refills the classy lady’s alcoholic beverage. She just about takes Goren’s head off, but Eames interferes and speaks the woman’s language (aka $$$$).
The subject is cults and motivational speaking . . . and it’s gobbledy-gook to Goren. Shuuunnn the nonbeliever!
Alex invites Goren to go on a “psychic drive” with her. Four hours later, she has to pee and he’s still not convinced.
It’s undercover time! BA are bickering marrieds. “Honey” gets thrown around a lot. But they’re made pretty early in the game. They do, unfortunately, bring their undercover work home with them, as they have quite the hollering match in Carver’s office. Carver wishes they’d take their domestic disputes elsewhere. And we notice that Goren gets really unsure of himself really fast when he knows Eames isn’t backing him up (interesting foreshadowing when they have their big blowup in season 7). Then they pretend fight out in public.
Ginger (whose lawyer is hilarious) tells Goren that he's 'not clear'. “Clear” is a condition in which a person is no longer influenced by any previous memories, traumas or negative emotions. More foreshadowing.
Clothes Call: That pumpkin-orange sweater on Ginger throughout the episode and Eames’ peacock feather blouse at her desk, and Carver’s hat.
Quotable:
[Pausing from giving background on the murder victim to watch Goren poking the corpse's eyeball]
Eames: Having fun?
Goren: No, go on. I'm listening.
Carver: It's gobbledy-gook.
Goren: It's high level gobbledy-gook.
Carver: Is it a cult? Mind control?
Goren: Yes.
Eames: No.
Carver: How reassuring.
Goren: They use the same psychological coercion as cults.
Eames: So did the guy who sold me my car.
Carver: [to Goren] Must be frustrating. A mind that even you can't unlock.
Goren tosses his shoes to a lackey and does a nice spin on a dead guy’s desk.
Eames is the long-suffering housewife, talking away while husband-Goren isn’t even listening. But Goren didn’t sleep through Girls 101 cuz he not only states that he does care what his Alex has to say, but repeats her last sentence back to her! *The man’s just perfect*
GE are offered scrub booties by a chain smoking mother, but (oh no) there are not enough for the two of them. Eames defers to Goren– by the look he gives her, he assumed the honor would fall to him. Eames is flabbergasted when Goren refills the classy lady’s alcoholic beverage. She just about takes Goren’s head off, but Eames interferes and speaks the woman’s language (aka $$$$).
The subject is cults and motivational speaking . . . and it’s gobbledy-gook to Goren. Shuuunnn the nonbeliever!
Alex invites Goren to go on a “psychic drive” with her. Four hours later, she has to pee and he’s still not convinced.
It’s undercover time! BA are bickering marrieds. “Honey” gets thrown around a lot. But they’re made pretty early in the game. They do, unfortunately, bring their undercover work home with them, as they have quite the hollering match in Carver’s office. Carver wishes they’d take their domestic disputes elsewhere. And we notice that Goren gets really unsure of himself really fast when he knows Eames isn’t backing him up (interesting foreshadowing when they have their big blowup in season 7). Then they pretend fight out in public.
Ginger (whose lawyer is hilarious) tells Goren that he's 'not clear'. “Clear” is a condition in which a person is no longer influenced by any previous memories, traumas or negative emotions. More foreshadowing.
Clothes Call: That pumpkin-orange sweater on Ginger throughout the episode and Eames’ peacock feather blouse at her desk, and Carver’s hat.
Quotable:
[Pausing from giving background on the murder victim to watch Goren poking the corpse's eyeball]
Eames: Having fun?
Goren: No, go on. I'm listening.
Carver: It's gobbledy-gook.
Goren: It's high level gobbledy-gook.
Carver: Is it a cult? Mind control?
Goren: Yes.
Eames: No.
Carver: How reassuring.
Goren: They use the same psychological coercion as cults.
Eames: So did the guy who sold me my car.
Carver: [to Goren] Must be frustrating. A mind that even you can't unlock.
Shandeh 2.9
Boobs. Strip clubs. Boobs and strip clubs.
BA got a couple of amateurs on there hands (killers, not strippers). And don’t blink too much around Goren – it’s a sign of stress.
Some guy says “charity event” and “bubble bath” and BA perk right up. Which sends them to a strip club.
Oh, we love when BA encounter girls with “i” names – this one’s ‘Sandi’. They try to embarrass her – Eames, are resident style guru, goes straight for the clothes, while Bobby stumbles over the word “flexible.”
And they head right back to another strip club. Watch in the background (if you can take your eyes off of this stripper’s ample, um, cleavage) Bobby gets tangled up in the stripper décor. He does a real good job at keeping his eyes on the prize.
Ohhhh – now we know the Yiddish word for ‘prostitute’! We wish we had a Yiddish grandma-ma! Except when she’s trying to kill us.
Eames says “bottle blonde boom-boom girl” and her and Goren share a laugh. They also get a chuckle when Goren finds drugs in Big Louie’s apartment: G: Crystal meth. E: No thanks.
In this corner we have the Jewish mother/grandmother and in this corner we have the Catholic mother/grandmother . . . who gives the most effective guilt trip? . . . it’s anybody’s call.
We love when Goren plays “incompetent” cop.
Clothes Call: Goren’s hot sunglasses that make an appearance 2 times
Quotable:
[looking over a “charity event” list]
Goren: What’s this abbreviation for?
Dude: A bubble bath setup. It’s a clear Lucite bathtub.
Eames: Charity events. “Charity” must be the girl who takes the bubble baths.
[Regarding one of the murderers]
Eames: Murderer, arsonist. Jack of all trades.
Goren: Yeah, and master of none.
Stripper [to Eames]: Didn’t your mother ever tell you? Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Goren [in the corner, muttering to himself] Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for . . . [shakes his head].
Eames: “Nashot Chayl”?
Goren: Nashot Chayl. [Stuttering] Nashot, that’s Hebrew. Women, woman.
Eames: Figures you’d know that.
BA got a couple of amateurs on there hands (killers, not strippers). And don’t blink too much around Goren – it’s a sign of stress.
Some guy says “charity event” and “bubble bath” and BA perk right up. Which sends them to a strip club.
Oh, we love when BA encounter girls with “i” names – this one’s ‘Sandi’. They try to embarrass her – Eames, are resident style guru, goes straight for the clothes, while Bobby stumbles over the word “flexible.”
And they head right back to another strip club. Watch in the background (if you can take your eyes off of this stripper’s ample, um, cleavage) Bobby gets tangled up in the stripper décor. He does a real good job at keeping his eyes on the prize.
Ohhhh – now we know the Yiddish word for ‘prostitute’! We wish we had a Yiddish grandma-ma! Except when she’s trying to kill us.
Eames says “bottle blonde boom-boom girl” and her and Goren share a laugh. They also get a chuckle when Goren finds drugs in Big Louie’s apartment: G: Crystal meth. E: No thanks.
In this corner we have the Jewish mother/grandmother and in this corner we have the Catholic mother/grandmother . . . who gives the most effective guilt trip? . . . it’s anybody’s call.
We love when Goren plays “incompetent” cop.
Clothes Call: Goren’s hot sunglasses that make an appearance 2 times
Quotable:
[looking over a “charity event” list]
Goren: What’s this abbreviation for?
Dude: A bubble bath setup. It’s a clear Lucite bathtub.
Eames: Charity events. “Charity” must be the girl who takes the bubble baths.
[Regarding one of the murderers]
Eames: Murderer, arsonist. Jack of all trades.
Goren: Yeah, and master of none.
Stripper [to Eames]: Didn’t your mother ever tell you? Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Goren [in the corner, muttering to himself] Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for . . . [shakes his head].
Eames: “Nashot Chayl”?
Goren: Nashot Chayl. [Stuttering] Nashot, that’s Hebrew. Women, woman.
Eames: Figures you’d know that.
The Pilgrim 2.8
Despite the seriousness of the episode, Goren and Eames are really quite adorable in this episode. And they better be, cuz this episode is pretty intense. (literally, I could blog every word, it just needs to be seen)
Dead girl’s father is perhaps the smartest secondary character ever to pass through CI canon “use your cell phone and don’t touch anything.” GE should thank their lucky stars. Half the cops they work with aren’t this helpful.
Smarty Pants Alert: Bobby knows Aramaic to see it. Also, when Moroccans speak English they sound French. To top it all off he reads The Smithsonian. And, later, knows his ARMY history.
Bobby’s very cultured, tough and no nonsense today! If we were Eames, we’d be getting hot in that purple sweater – no wonder it’s three-quarter sleeved! But she can’t stand the Goren heat for long – she quick changes into a tank top. We don’t blame her.
Wow, chubby slutty girls are not being portrayed well at all!
And look at Eames, being all open-minded, “Boyfriend? Girlfriend?” Way to not assume! And BA are really gentle with an Islamic follower, since they’ve had a rough year.
Eames would really rather not know how little of customs gets checked. The word “explosives,” a quick pan-in, and “So much for sleep.”
Rider Strong what are you doing!? Where are your baggy jeans and flannel? Well, he isn’t the first Boy Meet’s World cast member to get screwed by Goren. And he’s got family trouble here too.
Goren reveals to Ryder that his mother was a librarian. But to Ryder’s parent’s their boy can do no wrong. Regardless, Goren questions Ryder’s mom while juggling seven different religious texts.
But, of course, Goren’s read them all: he read the Koran to impress a Turkish girl while he was in the ARMY and stationed in Germany. We and Eames listen jealously. And Goren gives us a nice lesson in the Koran and a post-9/11 snapshot.
And we travel to the Veteran’s Day parade down 5th Avenue. BA are rockin’ camo and berets. Goren chats up a known suicide bomber – just jaunts rights up and starts talkin’, even when the guy puts his hand in his pocket to set the thing off – Goren just gift-of-gabs his way down 5th Ave. And pops a cigarette in his mouth. Only when he asks the guy for a light does he seem nervous.
We see Bobby in an all-out, old school tussle! But a sniper takes the guy out right between the eyes and BA march off into the sunset.
Clothes Call: BA’s both rockin’ good hair at the same time, which is rare. Bobby in interrogation with the dress shirt and tie, but no jacket. Bobby strips in a later interrogation.
Quotable:
[a foreign language is scribbled on the wall]
Alex Eames: Go ahead. Impress me.
Robert Goren: It's Aramaic. It's the language that Christ spoke. Parts of the New Testament were written in it. But don't ask me what it means.
Deakins: Something put him back on the straight and narrow.
Eames: A religious conversion?
Goren: He wouldn’t be the first person to find God behind bars.
Deakins: Some people find Allah. Some people find Jesus. There are a lot of teams in the league.
Ethan: I'm one of five people who actually reads the Smithsonian magazine.
Goren: Six. One of six.
(Later in the episode.)
Eames: You actually read this?
Goren: It's the perfect size for my treadmill.
[gesturing between two pictures]
Carver: Which one’s the designated martyr?
Extremist Ethan: I was sent by God!
Eames: So were we.
Dead girl’s father is perhaps the smartest secondary character ever to pass through CI canon “use your cell phone and don’t touch anything.” GE should thank their lucky stars. Half the cops they work with aren’t this helpful.
Smarty Pants Alert: Bobby knows Aramaic to see it. Also, when Moroccans speak English they sound French. To top it all off he reads The Smithsonian. And, later, knows his ARMY history.
Bobby’s very cultured, tough and no nonsense today! If we were Eames, we’d be getting hot in that purple sweater – no wonder it’s three-quarter sleeved! But she can’t stand the Goren heat for long – she quick changes into a tank top. We don’t blame her.
Wow, chubby slutty girls are not being portrayed well at all!
And look at Eames, being all open-minded, “Boyfriend? Girlfriend?” Way to not assume! And BA are really gentle with an Islamic follower, since they’ve had a rough year.
Eames would really rather not know how little of customs gets checked. The word “explosives,” a quick pan-in, and “So much for sleep.”
Rider Strong what are you doing!? Where are your baggy jeans and flannel? Well, he isn’t the first Boy Meet’s World cast member to get screwed by Goren. And he’s got family trouble here too.
Goren reveals to Ryder that his mother was a librarian. But to Ryder’s parent’s their boy can do no wrong. Regardless, Goren questions Ryder’s mom while juggling seven different religious texts.
But, of course, Goren’s read them all: he read the Koran to impress a Turkish girl while he was in the ARMY and stationed in Germany. We and Eames listen jealously. And Goren gives us a nice lesson in the Koran and a post-9/11 snapshot.
And we travel to the Veteran’s Day parade down 5th Avenue. BA are rockin’ camo and berets. Goren chats up a known suicide bomber – just jaunts rights up and starts talkin’, even when the guy puts his hand in his pocket to set the thing off – Goren just gift-of-gabs his way down 5th Ave. And pops a cigarette in his mouth. Only when he asks the guy for a light does he seem nervous.
We see Bobby in an all-out, old school tussle! But a sniper takes the guy out right between the eyes and BA march off into the sunset.
Clothes Call: BA’s both rockin’ good hair at the same time, which is rare. Bobby in interrogation with the dress shirt and tie, but no jacket. Bobby strips in a later interrogation.
Quotable:
[a foreign language is scribbled on the wall]
Alex Eames: Go ahead. Impress me.
Robert Goren: It's Aramaic. It's the language that Christ spoke. Parts of the New Testament were written in it. But don't ask me what it means.
Deakins: Something put him back on the straight and narrow.
Eames: A religious conversion?
Goren: He wouldn’t be the first person to find God behind bars.
Deakins: Some people find Allah. Some people find Jesus. There are a lot of teams in the league.
Ethan: I'm one of five people who actually reads the Smithsonian magazine.
Goren: Six. One of six.
(Later in the episode.)
Eames: You actually read this?
Goren: It's the perfect size for my treadmill.
[gesturing between two pictures]
Carver: Which one’s the designated martyr?
Extremist Ethan: I was sent by God!
Eames: So were we.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Tomorrow 2.7
It’s the peas episode!!! For over half the investigation, that’s all Goren has, and Eames does him a solid by adding that at least they’re “pretty spooky” peas.
BA don’t take to being gaslighted well. Goren plays with a half-naked dead woman’s top (but not in a sexual way).
But really, there’s modern-day slavery all over the place. Way to play to the working class! One rich person is more obnoxious than the next! A lot of anti-anxiety drugs and ‘knowing of one’s place.’ Though it’s always the working-class that does the crime. Hmm. And the little orphan girl in this episode ain’t portrayed too hot either.
A lot of recognizable young actress faces in this eppie: the girl from Signs and another chick from (ironically) Guiding Light.
Yet again, BA show us what good parents they’d make when they prepare lunch for a little girl together – downright adorable.
Western PA gets a big shout-out on the “red up” line (that’s West PA slang for ‘clean up’ for those of you that don’t call rubber bands and soda by their proper names of ‘gum bands’ and ‘pop’, respectively).
Goren and Eames are super attractive undercover – Goren bare arms alert!!!
Goren watches hours and hours of soaps. Goren and Eames work overtime (after 7pm). The worst criminal defendant would be named something like Stan, wouldn’t he?
Clothes Call: By far (and per usual) Goren’s undercover wear – black pants, black belt, and black t-shirt under a tan open jacket. Then he loses the jacket at a house and the hotness factor in the room goes up twelve notches.
Quotable:
James Deakins: The evil stepmother had the kids whacked? By who, the big bad wolf?
A.D.A. Carver: All you have are peas and corn kernals. You're a few lima beans short of succotash, Detectives.
Goren: [shoots Eames a look] Ah, succotash?
Carver: Your evidence is anecdotal. I line up my shoes at night.
Eames: Why am I not surprised?
Robert Goren: Do you or your husband take anti-anxiety pills?
Ms. Whilden: In the first place, I am divorced. In the second place, that's none of your business.
Alex Eames: Sounds like a 'yes' on the pills.
Eames: We already looked through Sarah’s room.
Rich Lady Majorie: Well, I can assure you that I look through Hannah’s room on a regular basis and I have never found anything wrong.
Eames: Stupid us, going to the trouble to get search warrants.
BA don’t take to being gaslighted well. Goren plays with a half-naked dead woman’s top (but not in a sexual way).
But really, there’s modern-day slavery all over the place. Way to play to the working class! One rich person is more obnoxious than the next! A lot of anti-anxiety drugs and ‘knowing of one’s place.’ Though it’s always the working-class that does the crime. Hmm. And the little orphan girl in this episode ain’t portrayed too hot either.
A lot of recognizable young actress faces in this eppie: the girl from Signs and another chick from (ironically) Guiding Light.
Yet again, BA show us what good parents they’d make when they prepare lunch for a little girl together – downright adorable.
Western PA gets a big shout-out on the “red up” line (that’s West PA slang for ‘clean up’ for those of you that don’t call rubber bands and soda by their proper names of ‘gum bands’ and ‘pop’, respectively).
Goren and Eames are super attractive undercover – Goren bare arms alert!!!
Goren watches hours and hours of soaps. Goren and Eames work overtime (after 7pm). The worst criminal defendant would be named something like Stan, wouldn’t he?
Clothes Call: By far (and per usual) Goren’s undercover wear – black pants, black belt, and black t-shirt under a tan open jacket. Then he loses the jacket at a house and the hotness factor in the room goes up twelve notches.
Quotable:
James Deakins: The evil stepmother had the kids whacked? By who, the big bad wolf?
A.D.A. Carver: All you have are peas and corn kernals. You're a few lima beans short of succotash, Detectives.
Goren: [shoots Eames a look] Ah, succotash?
Carver: Your evidence is anecdotal. I line up my shoes at night.
Eames: Why am I not surprised?
Robert Goren: Do you or your husband take anti-anxiety pills?
Ms. Whilden: In the first place, I am divorced. In the second place, that's none of your business.
Alex Eames: Sounds like a 'yes' on the pills.
Eames: We already looked through Sarah’s room.
Rich Lady Majorie: Well, I can assure you that I look through Hannah’s room on a regular basis and I have never found anything wrong.
Eames: Stupid us, going to the trouble to get search warrants.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Malignant 2.6
See what happens when you mouth off to the youth of America? They shoot you in the face and then they steal your drugs. Then they try to poorly imitate Shawn Michaels (old school WWF, anyone?).
Goren tries to convince a punk to get in the ring with him. Punk declines and Goren and Eames take out a pharmacy kid instead -- during which Goren actually draws his gun!
Goren’s doing all kinds of wacky things in the pharmacy. He climbs up on the counter (unnerving a pharmacist, but Eames doesn’t even bat an eyelash), buys a lighter, and holds it up to the sprinkler system. We get a great shot of him with the light – and something in his eyes tells us he REALLY hopes he’s right and the thing doesn’t flood the place (it doesn’t).
Goren actually turns down food while questioning a birthday boy drug rep, but (don’t worry) he accepts cake later.
In one of the most heartbreaking B-stories of CI, BA meet a vegetable growing widower. Goren struggles to find the words to explain that his wife died unnecessarily, and Eames steps in, but quickly figures out the widower and his widow did a agreed upon euthanization.
BA takes this to Carver as a hypothetical. Carver doesn’t like hypotheticals and wants it straight, but BA stand firm with their “do you think we’re stupid?” looks. But it does light a fire under their asses to get better evidence to hide the widower.
BA do some dumpster diving, too bad we don’t get to see it. Eames probably had something witty to say about it.
BA get mad props from a pastor. Oh, do they love taking on ‘pillars of the community’!
Theme of the episode: Good people doing good deeds by bending the rules a little bit. Eames doesn’t even blink when Goren suggests she heard ‘one hour’ and not ‘two days’. *wink wink* *nudge nudge*
Goren’s giving a nice speech on the church steps, but all we can think is this: Why haven’t D’Onofrio and Mark Ruffalo ever played brothers? I mean look at them – they’re Method acting twins!
Clothes Call: Eames is growing her hair out and her stripped shirt in the very last scene
Quotable:
[Goren climbs up on a pharmacy counter]
Pharmacist: Excuse me, but . . .
Eames: Don’t worry, he does this all the time.
Rogers: Nine families gave me permission to exhume the bodies.
Goren: Only nine? You must have some bedside manner.
Rogers: There's a reason I work with dead people.
Goren: You see, we did a little dumpster diving. It’s pretty nasty.
Pastor: You two make a very good team.
Goren tries to convince a punk to get in the ring with him. Punk declines and Goren and Eames take out a pharmacy kid instead -- during which Goren actually draws his gun!
Goren’s doing all kinds of wacky things in the pharmacy. He climbs up on the counter (unnerving a pharmacist, but Eames doesn’t even bat an eyelash), buys a lighter, and holds it up to the sprinkler system. We get a great shot of him with the light – and something in his eyes tells us he REALLY hopes he’s right and the thing doesn’t flood the place (it doesn’t).
Goren actually turns down food while questioning a birthday boy drug rep, but (don’t worry) he accepts cake later.
In one of the most heartbreaking B-stories of CI, BA meet a vegetable growing widower. Goren struggles to find the words to explain that his wife died unnecessarily, and Eames steps in, but quickly figures out the widower and his widow did a agreed upon euthanization.
BA takes this to Carver as a hypothetical. Carver doesn’t like hypotheticals and wants it straight, but BA stand firm with their “do you think we’re stupid?” looks. But it does light a fire under their asses to get better evidence to hide the widower.
BA do some dumpster diving, too bad we don’t get to see it. Eames probably had something witty to say about it.
BA get mad props from a pastor. Oh, do they love taking on ‘pillars of the community’!
Theme of the episode: Good people doing good deeds by bending the rules a little bit. Eames doesn’t even blink when Goren suggests she heard ‘one hour’ and not ‘two days’. *wink wink* *nudge nudge*
Goren’s giving a nice speech on the church steps, but all we can think is this: Why haven’t D’Onofrio and Mark Ruffalo ever played brothers? I mean look at them – they’re Method acting twins!
Clothes Call: Eames is growing her hair out and her stripped shirt in the very last scene
Quotable:
[Goren climbs up on a pharmacy counter]
Pharmacist: Excuse me, but . . .
Eames: Don’t worry, he does this all the time.
Rogers: Nine families gave me permission to exhume the bodies.
Goren: Only nine? You must have some bedside manner.
Rogers: There's a reason I work with dead people.
Goren: You see, we did a little dumpster diving. It’s pretty nasty.
Pastor: You two make a very good team.
Chinoiserie 2.5
BA gets the call because of a connection to the treasury department.
It’s the Tienemen Square episode.
Eames and Deakins make fun of Goren for being such a nerd, but they both go to the Met for a joint lesson in calligraphy.
Which, believe it or not, leads to, I think, my favorite secondary character Criminal Intent has ever supplied me with: Lord Pembridge. As the nice lady at the desk tells our dynamic duo; “He wears an ascot, you can’t miss him.”
BA gives the SAG guy a hilariously hard time about his bad accent, even Eames is like “what the f??” The poor guy thinks he’s on Whose Line Is It Anyway? He boggles Bobby’s mind in interrogation and it gives me my most favorite line that bears repeating: “You don’t look so plump and happy now, George.”
A frantic, chipmunk of a man thinks he can get rid of Goren easily and Goren’s pretty geeked that he’s obviously guilty.
Goren’s really entertaining in this episode, one of his best. Goren throws around antiques: “Give me the name, lady, or the camel here gets it!” And Eames thinks his bad cop antics are pretty funny.
Goren does a cock ‘n’ lean and him and Eames are big on the threats and mockery this episode. Dishboy drops a plate and they make fun of him while taking him away.
And SAG boy saves the day!!!
Goren’s dishin’ out homework. Low man on the totem pole looks to Eames to save him, but to no avail.
Sorry, kid, your horse and carriage toy is taken away and Grandma’s goin’ to the slammer.
That’s a priceless Chinese artifact, Goren, you might want to not leave it sittin’ there on your desk for all to see.
Clothes Call: The pink Chinese vest in Chinatown
Quotable:
[Goren gives Eames and Deakins a long spiel on Chinese calligraphy]
Eames: He got that off his box of Wheaties this morning.
G: Cut it out. Isn’t that the worst English accent you’re ever heard?
E: Next to the Irish Srping guy, it’s the worst accent period.
Lord Pembrige: I beg your pardon.
G: The mishmash of Cockney, Welsh. But miraculously, I think I heard a shred of the north of England in one of your R’s.
E: There are so many sounds in there, how could you tell?
G: You don’t look so plump and happy now, George.
G: This must be some kind of situation you got on your hands here.
Man: Why do you say that?
G: Well, you’ve loosened your tie, you got a drink on your desk, you got three phone lines blinking, and you’re chewing the inside of your cheeks like some kind of frantic chipmunk. [Pause] Are you under a lot of stress?
G: He smuggled that piece into the country, and someone stole it right out from under his nose.
E: Don’t look so happy.
E: Look what we have here. Forged documents.
G: Why in the world would you spend so much money for forged documents?
Ms. Mobray: I thought it would be fun to have them.
E: We think it would be fun if you accompanied these gentlemen down to our offices.
It’s the Tienemen Square episode.
Eames and Deakins make fun of Goren for being such a nerd, but they both go to the Met for a joint lesson in calligraphy.
Which, believe it or not, leads to, I think, my favorite secondary character Criminal Intent has ever supplied me with: Lord Pembridge. As the nice lady at the desk tells our dynamic duo; “He wears an ascot, you can’t miss him.”
BA gives the SAG guy a hilariously hard time about his bad accent, even Eames is like “what the f??” The poor guy thinks he’s on Whose Line Is It Anyway? He boggles Bobby’s mind in interrogation and it gives me my most favorite line that bears repeating: “You don’t look so plump and happy now, George.”
A frantic, chipmunk of a man thinks he can get rid of Goren easily and Goren’s pretty geeked that he’s obviously guilty.
Goren’s really entertaining in this episode, one of his best. Goren throws around antiques: “Give me the name, lady, or the camel here gets it!” And Eames thinks his bad cop antics are pretty funny.
Goren does a cock ‘n’ lean and him and Eames are big on the threats and mockery this episode. Dishboy drops a plate and they make fun of him while taking him away.
And SAG boy saves the day!!!
Goren’s dishin’ out homework. Low man on the totem pole looks to Eames to save him, but to no avail.
Sorry, kid, your horse and carriage toy is taken away and Grandma’s goin’ to the slammer.
That’s a priceless Chinese artifact, Goren, you might want to not leave it sittin’ there on your desk for all to see.
Clothes Call: The pink Chinese vest in Chinatown
Quotable:
[Goren gives Eames and Deakins a long spiel on Chinese calligraphy]
Eames: He got that off his box of Wheaties this morning.
G: Cut it out. Isn’t that the worst English accent you’re ever heard?
E: Next to the Irish Srping guy, it’s the worst accent period.
Lord Pembrige: I beg your pardon.
G: The mishmash of Cockney, Welsh. But miraculously, I think I heard a shred of the north of England in one of your R’s.
E: There are so many sounds in there, how could you tell?
G: You don’t look so plump and happy now, George.
G: This must be some kind of situation you got on your hands here.
Man: Why do you say that?
G: Well, you’ve loosened your tie, you got a drink on your desk, you got three phone lines blinking, and you’re chewing the inside of your cheeks like some kind of frantic chipmunk. [Pause] Are you under a lot of stress?
G: He smuggled that piece into the country, and someone stole it right out from under his nose.
E: Don’t look so happy.
E: Look what we have here. Forged documents.
G: Why in the world would you spend so much money for forged documents?
Ms. Mobray: I thought it would be fun to have them.
E: We think it would be fun if you accompanied these gentlemen down to our offices.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Best Defense 2.4
Carver makes the pre-credits bit! And he’s even all detectivey!
Eames has no patience for jailhouse lawyer-ing, but Goren is more than happy to have a hypothetical chess match with him.
Ok, Goren, even we know that “break fluid detecting wipe” is just a plain ol’ towlette.
Goren gives the cheap lawyer one “Ah, dude?” look, and the guy spills his (fake, lying) guts. Jeez, if I had to spend my free time with those caviar-distincting people I’d plan my own death too.
Eames, Goren and Goren’s big mouth harass a dead guy’s clueless girlfriend: it’s really quite a cute banter.
Is it just me, or is JoJo Martinez being played by Madonna’s ex-boyfriend, that Ponce de Leon guy? Hey! I just imdb’d him . . . it IS him! I guess the guy’s not a prick in real life cuz he’s been on regular L&O a couple times and then Criminal Intent asked him back for Blind Spot. (Real name: Carlos Leon)
A really great scene: Goren pantomimes a rich effeminate man behind his back for Eames’ enjoyment, but isn’t above throwing her in front of the train a little bit, personality-wise (but we’re laughing with them because we know our Eames isn’t one for ‘rumor and innuendo’). Plus, the looks Eames gives him are priceless.
I’d love to go back in time and tally the number of times Goren opens the door for Eames, he does it a couple times here. They have a quiet tete-a-tete alone in the dark viewing room.
Goren convinces Eames to walk on the wild side and keep Carver in the dark. Then, our resident bad-boy tampers with a witness statement, throwing the secretary he steals it from, and everyone else, a “I’m doing this, don’t bother me, ask questions later, I know what I’m doing” wave.
Well, when they do put the bad guy away, at least he’ll know his banking is in order as Goren and Eames are at a table balancing his checkbook. And we now know what kind of health insurance Goren and Eames have – they get reimbursement checks.
Wow, times they are a changin’ – who stops for $12 worth of gas now a days??? I doubt they were in a Prius.
Now, I know Eames is scrappy, but why is she always the one arresting the bad guys when her SUBORDINATE partner is 6’5”??? Just a thought.
Carver gets the whole story and vows revenge on Goren.
Clothes Call: Carver’s gold shirt and tie, JoJo’s sweaters made for him by his mom (I think that’s just adorable! And he stutters no less!)
Quotable:
Ex-prisoner: I just asked what would happen if Bonham up and died.
Goren: And you said it just like that, out of intellectual curiosity?
Ex-prisoner: [dumbfounded] Yeah, outta that.
Eames [leaning over a guy with a huge bullet hole in the middle of his forehead]: Gary Burke. Work ID. Bartneder downtown. He’s gonna be late.
Goren: You're really good at keeping secrets. Me, I just run off at the mouth.
Rich Effeminate Man: Well, some law partnerships are forged in the courtroom, some in the boardroom . . .
Goren: And in the bedroom.
Rich Wife: Oh, Jerry, knock it off.
Goren: Oh, no, please, my partner loves rumor and innuendo.
Deakins: The guy's a prosecutor. He knows losing a case is part of the game.
Eames: There's losing and there's losing to your wife.
Goren: And then there's getting your balls handed to you on a platter.
Eames has no patience for jailhouse lawyer-ing, but Goren is more than happy to have a hypothetical chess match with him.
Ok, Goren, even we know that “break fluid detecting wipe” is just a plain ol’ towlette.
Goren gives the cheap lawyer one “Ah, dude?” look, and the guy spills his (fake, lying) guts. Jeez, if I had to spend my free time with those caviar-distincting people I’d plan my own death too.
Eames, Goren and Goren’s big mouth harass a dead guy’s clueless girlfriend: it’s really quite a cute banter.
Is it just me, or is JoJo Martinez being played by Madonna’s ex-boyfriend, that Ponce de Leon guy? Hey! I just imdb’d him . . . it IS him! I guess the guy’s not a prick in real life cuz he’s been on regular L&O a couple times and then Criminal Intent asked him back for Blind Spot. (Real name: Carlos Leon)
A really great scene: Goren pantomimes a rich effeminate man behind his back for Eames’ enjoyment, but isn’t above throwing her in front of the train a little bit, personality-wise (but we’re laughing with them because we know our Eames isn’t one for ‘rumor and innuendo’). Plus, the looks Eames gives him are priceless.
I’d love to go back in time and tally the number of times Goren opens the door for Eames, he does it a couple times here. They have a quiet tete-a-tete alone in the dark viewing room.
Goren convinces Eames to walk on the wild side and keep Carver in the dark. Then, our resident bad-boy tampers with a witness statement, throwing the secretary he steals it from, and everyone else, a “I’m doing this, don’t bother me, ask questions later, I know what I’m doing” wave.
Well, when they do put the bad guy away, at least he’ll know his banking is in order as Goren and Eames are at a table balancing his checkbook. And we now know what kind of health insurance Goren and Eames have – they get reimbursement checks.
Wow, times they are a changin’ – who stops for $12 worth of gas now a days??? I doubt they were in a Prius.
Now, I know Eames is scrappy, but why is she always the one arresting the bad guys when her SUBORDINATE partner is 6’5”??? Just a thought.
Carver gets the whole story and vows revenge on Goren.
Clothes Call: Carver’s gold shirt and tie, JoJo’s sweaters made for him by his mom (I think that’s just adorable! And he stutters no less!)
Quotable:
Ex-prisoner: I just asked what would happen if Bonham up and died.
Goren: And you said it just like that, out of intellectual curiosity?
Ex-prisoner: [dumbfounded] Yeah, outta that.
Eames [leaning over a guy with a huge bullet hole in the middle of his forehead]: Gary Burke. Work ID. Bartneder downtown. He’s gonna be late.
Goren: You're really good at keeping secrets. Me, I just run off at the mouth.
Rich Effeminate Man: Well, some law partnerships are forged in the courtroom, some in the boardroom . . .
Goren: And in the bedroom.
Rich Wife: Oh, Jerry, knock it off.
Goren: Oh, no, please, my partner loves rumor and innuendo.
Deakins: The guy's a prosecutor. He knows losing a case is part of the game.
Eames: There's losing and there's losing to your wife.
Goren: And then there's getting your balls handed to you on a platter.
Anti-Thesis 2.3
*SIGH*
So it begins.
Personally, I’m not a fan of Nicole Wallace and her storyline(s) AT ALL, but for those of you who are . . . *one last SIGH, I’ll try to contain myself* here we go . . .
Goren reads between the lines and gives Eames a quick history lesson and impresses a rappin’ prof, but gets his ass handed to him on an Ezra Pound question.
Goren and Eames raid a professional student’s makeshift dorm and Goren (who has no room to talk whatsoever) critiques his eating habits – but we forgive him cuz he gives Eames a big cute grin as he pops snacks into his mouth – and Eames takes a potshot as well, aiming for the kid’s IQ. And if that wasn’t enough they get all up on his footwear (a really great scene). Apparently, boys, you’re not supposed to wear tan shoes to a wedding – who knew? (Well, Eames, our resident fashion expert, of course!) Hey! In his defense, maybe it was a daytime ceremony!
Which brings us to . . .
Shoe shopping! One of THE most entertaining scenes of the series (any Goren/Eames undercover scene is notable). But perhaps our team should’ve taken a minute to discuss their backstory: they claim they’re married, but Goren is obviously batting for the other team (but really, the unbelievable designer-brand name-check from the previous scene makes us wonder ourselves . . .) But this isn’t the first or last time Goren will equate going undercover with bringing out his feminine side . . . not that there’s anything wrong with that. But, really, watch it, the scene commentates itself.
Nicole and Goren are off on cloud nine together, but Eames breaks the spell and gets down to business. Behind her, Bobby blinks as if coming out of a daze. Nicole name dropped a couple of opera people and Bobby was a goner. Despite Nicole giving Goren all the credit, it’s Eames that catches onto the lesbian relationship.
Robert O. Goren better watch his bank account, he was born August 20, 1961. His Social Security number is 845-67-3906. But we hope his identity isn’t stolen, cuz he such a good boy: Goren visits his mother once a week and telephones her every day.
Professor Nicole and Goren discuss “the dogged unrelenting pursuit of evil” but Nicole thinks it’s all just one big pissing contest – read Moby Dick, people. They discuss Goren’s ‘parsnips’ and what ‘butters’ them and later, Goren does an imitation accent.
Goren and Nicole play a tense, depressing game of ‘tit for tat’ but we’ll call a spade a spade – it was a lover’s spat and they might as well have been having it under the Eiffel Tower. And they speak to each other in a high-literate language only they understand.
But Eames brings him back down to earth in the last line of the episode.
Ok, okay, that wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it was.
Clothes Call: Eames’ deep red coat and leather trench, and she’s rockin’ a Seinfeld pirate shirt in interrogation. And I really like the length of Goren's hair here.
Quotable:
Nicole Wallace: Very good, detective, did you memorize the Oxford tour guide on your way here?
Robert Goren: No. No, I spent a couple of weeks there once… chasing co-eds.
Nicole Wallace: It took you that long to catch one? I'm shocked.
Robert Goren: Well, that's very funny, professor.
Alex: Men only let two kinds of women buy shoes for them, their mommies and their significant others.
Mark Bayley: I didn't tell them about the shoes. It's that big detective; he noticed them.
Nicole Wallace: That 'big detective' is smart.
Robert Goren: Sometimes a whale is just a whale.
Nicole Wallace: Nothing is ever just something. Not even detectives.
Alex Eames: (to Goren about Wallace) What'd you think, she'd have scones and a glass of sherry for us?
So it begins.
Personally, I’m not a fan of Nicole Wallace and her storyline(s) AT ALL, but for those of you who are . . . *one last SIGH, I’ll try to contain myself* here we go . . .
Goren reads between the lines and gives Eames a quick history lesson and impresses a rappin’ prof, but gets his ass handed to him on an Ezra Pound question.
Goren and Eames raid a professional student’s makeshift dorm and Goren (who has no room to talk whatsoever) critiques his eating habits – but we forgive him cuz he gives Eames a big cute grin as he pops snacks into his mouth – and Eames takes a potshot as well, aiming for the kid’s IQ. And if that wasn’t enough they get all up on his footwear (a really great scene). Apparently, boys, you’re not supposed to wear tan shoes to a wedding – who knew? (Well, Eames, our resident fashion expert, of course!) Hey! In his defense, maybe it was a daytime ceremony!
Which brings us to . . .
Shoe shopping! One of THE most entertaining scenes of the series (any Goren/Eames undercover scene is notable). But perhaps our team should’ve taken a minute to discuss their backstory: they claim they’re married, but Goren is obviously batting for the other team (but really, the unbelievable designer-brand name-check from the previous scene makes us wonder ourselves . . .) But this isn’t the first or last time Goren will equate going undercover with bringing out his feminine side . . . not that there’s anything wrong with that. But, really, watch it, the scene commentates itself.
Nicole and Goren are off on cloud nine together, but Eames breaks the spell and gets down to business. Behind her, Bobby blinks as if coming out of a daze. Nicole name dropped a couple of opera people and Bobby was a goner. Despite Nicole giving Goren all the credit, it’s Eames that catches onto the lesbian relationship.
Robert O. Goren better watch his bank account, he was born August 20, 1961. His Social Security number is 845-67-3906. But we hope his identity isn’t stolen, cuz he such a good boy: Goren visits his mother once a week and telephones her every day.
Professor Nicole and Goren discuss “the dogged unrelenting pursuit of evil” but Nicole thinks it’s all just one big pissing contest – read Moby Dick, people. They discuss Goren’s ‘parsnips’ and what ‘butters’ them and later, Goren does an imitation accent.
Goren and Nicole play a tense, depressing game of ‘tit for tat’ but we’ll call a spade a spade – it was a lover’s spat and they might as well have been having it under the Eiffel Tower. And they speak to each other in a high-literate language only they understand.
But Eames brings him back down to earth in the last line of the episode.
Ok, okay, that wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it was.
Clothes Call: Eames’ deep red coat and leather trench, and she’s rockin’ a Seinfeld pirate shirt in interrogation. And I really like the length of Goren's hair here.
Quotable:
Nicole Wallace: Very good, detective, did you memorize the Oxford tour guide on your way here?
Robert Goren: No. No, I spent a couple of weeks there once… chasing co-eds.
Nicole Wallace: It took you that long to catch one? I'm shocked.
Robert Goren: Well, that's very funny, professor.
Alex: Men only let two kinds of women buy shoes for them, their mommies and their significant others.
Mark Bayley: I didn't tell them about the shoes. It's that big detective; he noticed them.
Nicole Wallace: That 'big detective' is smart.
Robert Goren: Sometimes a whale is just a whale.
Nicole Wallace: Nothing is ever just something. Not even detectives.
Alex Eames: (to Goren about Wallace) What'd you think, she'd have scones and a glass of sherry for us?
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Bright Boy 2.2
Poor Alex, who has no faith in city officials, is surrounded by geniuses and Alex and Bobby try parenting on for size, and are pretty good at it. Bobby plays daddy to a meth addict first, helping him feed himself.
Goren helps a homeless man rob The Ledger.
The word “geniuses” comes up for the first time in the investigation and Bobby just about wets himself with the prospect.
A baby genius’ mom tells Eames that she has “no idea what a challenge it is parenting a gifted child” – oh, we think she has SOME idea. And actually, BA show how good parents they can be and in fact they would be awesome parents to a gifted child. They each get to bond with the kid individually.
B quizzes a fellow right-brainer on the Yankees. By the look on Goren’s face, we take it he’s a Met’s fan and we love him all the more for it.
A kid’s father calls Bobby a “know-it-all” and we get a great, relaxed, informal BA hanging out in an empty interrogation room reliving their high school years. Goren can’t believe he’s partnered with a former prom queen. Oh, and Goren’s left-handed.
Bobby asks Alex out to a Little League game and shows off his moves with a ball. They really should have adopted Robbie, they both love him, but Alex is more than pleased to lock up his dad.
Clothes Call: By far, Bobby’s no tie, open shirt look while he’s doing math both in interrogation and at the school. And his sunglasses and long brown coat at the Little League game.
Quotable:
[Goren holds a fiber in a tweezer]
G: Looks like Webster had a passenger, sat close to him, wore a purple cashmere sweater.
E: Tight-fitting size 2 with a plunging neckline.
G: Hmm. That I can’t tell from this.
G: Are they working on the problem on the board?
Dr. Lenard: Yes. This is a special math tutorial.
G: Really? These little kids are gonna solve that?
Dr. Lenard: These are profoundly gifted children.
E: You’ll have to forgive my partner, Dr. Lenard. He’s feeling very humble right now.
G: Says here they gave him a MMPI. Do you have it over there?
E: Well, if you tell me what it is in plain English, I might be able to find it.
G: Minnesota Muliphasic Personality Inventory. It tests social adjustment.
E: I remember this. We had to take it the last year of high school.
G: So did we.
E: How did you do?
G: I had to go to my counselor’s office and have a talk with the school shrink. How about you?
E: Me? I was so well adjusted they elected me prom queen.
Goren helps a homeless man rob The Ledger.
The word “geniuses” comes up for the first time in the investigation and Bobby just about wets himself with the prospect.
A baby genius’ mom tells Eames that she has “no idea what a challenge it is parenting a gifted child” – oh, we think she has SOME idea. And actually, BA show how good parents they can be and in fact they would be awesome parents to a gifted child. They each get to bond with the kid individually.
B quizzes a fellow right-brainer on the Yankees. By the look on Goren’s face, we take it he’s a Met’s fan and we love him all the more for it.
A kid’s father calls Bobby a “know-it-all” and we get a great, relaxed, informal BA hanging out in an empty interrogation room reliving their high school years. Goren can’t believe he’s partnered with a former prom queen. Oh, and Goren’s left-handed.
Bobby asks Alex out to a Little League game and shows off his moves with a ball. They really should have adopted Robbie, they both love him, but Alex is more than pleased to lock up his dad.
Clothes Call: By far, Bobby’s no tie, open shirt look while he’s doing math both in interrogation and at the school. And his sunglasses and long brown coat at the Little League game.
Quotable:
[Goren holds a fiber in a tweezer]
G: Looks like Webster had a passenger, sat close to him, wore a purple cashmere sweater.
E: Tight-fitting size 2 with a plunging neckline.
G: Hmm. That I can’t tell from this.
G: Are they working on the problem on the board?
Dr. Lenard: Yes. This is a special math tutorial.
G: Really? These little kids are gonna solve that?
Dr. Lenard: These are profoundly gifted children.
E: You’ll have to forgive my partner, Dr. Lenard. He’s feeling very humble right now.
G: Says here they gave him a MMPI. Do you have it over there?
E: Well, if you tell me what it is in plain English, I might be able to find it.
G: Minnesota Muliphasic Personality Inventory. It tests social adjustment.
E: I remember this. We had to take it the last year of high school.
G: So did we.
E: How did you do?
G: I had to go to my counselor’s office and have a talk with the school shrink. How about you?
E: Me? I was so well adjusted they elected me prom queen.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Dead 2.1
Comedian Jim “Problems are just solutions in work clothes” Gaffigan plays it straight and if you haven’t seen him in My Boys, you really gotta Netflix that now.
Someone’s been sniffin’ the embalming fluid and Goren, after disgusting us and his partner playing with some really gross sores, shows his steady hand and tweezers prowess.
BA interrogate a guy who’s high as a kite on weed before Goren and Deakins play “Know Your Bible Quotes.” And Goren utters his famous library card line.
Alex is squeamish about embalming – and if a guy asked you if you wanted your anus stuffed with cotton, like he does Goren, wouldn’t you be?
Deakins’ buddy married a stripper with fake breasts . . . oh, Captain, TMI.
Gaffigan won’t let BA take a nature walk to his mass grave, which is really quite a disturbing sight.
“Fing-a-nails” Goren? You really are a New York boy, or is it just because you’re talking about the Masucci mob? Goren has either seen or read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
A hitman who should’ve used Ziplock tries to intimidate our duo, but they don’t bat an eyelash and instead, Goren makes him crazy paranoid.
Bobby highkicks a tire to make himself a seat.
Clothes Call: Goren’s library card (we’ll call it a fashion accessory), Alex’s vivid blue interrogation shirt, the precious professor outfit of the zealot
Quotable:
[Goren presses on a dead guy’s goopy sores]
E: You must have been so much fun in biology class.
G: [smelling puss] Actually, my biology teacher, Mr. Dixon, didn’t think I was much fun at all.
Goren: I need to use my most important investigative tool. My library card.
[After getting evidence on his hands.]
Robert Goren: I need to get my hands to a lab.
[a dead woman with a pacemaker who was apparently cremated]
Alex Eames: You think he would have remembered if she'd exploded in his oven.
Someone’s been sniffin’ the embalming fluid and Goren, after disgusting us and his partner playing with some really gross sores, shows his steady hand and tweezers prowess.
BA interrogate a guy who’s high as a kite on weed before Goren and Deakins play “Know Your Bible Quotes.” And Goren utters his famous library card line.
Alex is squeamish about embalming – and if a guy asked you if you wanted your anus stuffed with cotton, like he does Goren, wouldn’t you be?
Deakins’ buddy married a stripper with fake breasts . . . oh, Captain, TMI.
Gaffigan won’t let BA take a nature walk to his mass grave, which is really quite a disturbing sight.
“Fing-a-nails” Goren? You really are a New York boy, or is it just because you’re talking about the Masucci mob? Goren has either seen or read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
A hitman who should’ve used Ziplock tries to intimidate our duo, but they don’t bat an eyelash and instead, Goren makes him crazy paranoid.
Bobby highkicks a tire to make himself a seat.
Clothes Call: Goren’s library card (we’ll call it a fashion accessory), Alex’s vivid blue interrogation shirt, the precious professor outfit of the zealot
Quotable:
[Goren presses on a dead guy’s goopy sores]
E: You must have been so much fun in biology class.
G: [smelling puss] Actually, my biology teacher, Mr. Dixon, didn’t think I was much fun at all.
Goren: I need to use my most important investigative tool. My library card.
[After getting evidence on his hands.]
Robert Goren: I need to get my hands to a lab.
[a dead woman with a pacemaker who was apparently cremated]
Alex Eames: You think he would have remembered if she'd exploded in his oven.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Tuxedo Hill 1.22
BA take a venture into capitalist, white-collar crime.
Goren questions a little girl really sweetly and shows himself to be quite the child advocate.
I’m with Deakins on this one, Goren makes a case out of nothing: a few words from a kid, a missing glove, a random mint rapper (above everything else, Goren knows his mint brands). Either way, the mints are described as “an acquired taste” – no wonder our boy knows them! They’re practically related!
She fought it in the beginning, but Eames is now trusting Goren wherever he may go. All he has is less than a box of $50 mints and she’s backing him up 100% and raiding offices with him.
Goren asserts himself with an office woman; she takes one look at big strapping Bobby and is eager to seductively gossip. Eames is too busy wondering where to get a plumber on a Saturday, but not too busy to place bets with her partner.
In interrogation, Goren fights to keep a serious face while choking on a mint, Eames offers that “they’re real zesty” and tries to grill a suspect with the gross mint in her mouth. Bobby still acts as the mint pusher.
Our gang isn’t afraid of big business, even though they may have no idea what in the world the business does, and boards its plane anyway. Eames zips around the compartment, but Goren is restrained.
Goren plays with an “itty-bitty little doggy” and takes on a conversational tone – a beauty-before-brains girlfriend runs her mouth about a diamond collar and makes Goren a very happy man. Eames is all smiles at the prospect of an engagement party, at which Ron “The Closing Bell” Carver (greatest description of the man EVER) is more concerned about his stock options.
Clothes Call: We could do without Alex’s boxy suit jackets, apparently she used up all her fashion mojo last episode.
Who was it that said the greatest fashion accessory of all time is a smile? We’ll give this one to Goren, who gives a great smirk before fade to black.
Quotable:
Deakins [to Goren]: Something for the rest of the class?
Lady: It’s ridiculous. Ms. Dawson wouldn’t have a gun in here. She’d have to get it past security.
Eames: You mean the old lady downstairs knitting a sweater?
Karyn Milner: A gun? Why on earth are you looking for a gun here?
Goren: That’s what we do.
Alex Eames: That makes it two coincidences.
Robert Goren: One more and it's a conspiracy.
Robert Goren: V.P.C.F.
Jack Crawley: I'm not familiar with that acronym.
Robert Goren: Oh, I just made it up.
(Crawley rattles off a financial-jargon explanation of Tuxedo Hill, Goren and Eames exchange glances.)
Alex Eames: We have no idea what you just said.
[BA board a private plane]
G: It’s a tight fit.
E: Fine for me.
[A crooked businessman’s fiancé goes off on him in interrogation, rats him out, them storms out]
Goren [claps his hands]: Well.
Eames: Put your hands behind your back.
Businessman: No, look, I can give you names!
[Carver enters the room]
Goren: Too late. There’s the closing bell.
Goren questions a little girl really sweetly and shows himself to be quite the child advocate.
I’m with Deakins on this one, Goren makes a case out of nothing: a few words from a kid, a missing glove, a random mint rapper (above everything else, Goren knows his mint brands). Either way, the mints are described as “an acquired taste” – no wonder our boy knows them! They’re practically related!
She fought it in the beginning, but Eames is now trusting Goren wherever he may go. All he has is less than a box of $50 mints and she’s backing him up 100% and raiding offices with him.
Goren asserts himself with an office woman; she takes one look at big strapping Bobby and is eager to seductively gossip. Eames is too busy wondering where to get a plumber on a Saturday, but not too busy to place bets with her partner.
In interrogation, Goren fights to keep a serious face while choking on a mint, Eames offers that “they’re real zesty” and tries to grill a suspect with the gross mint in her mouth. Bobby still acts as the mint pusher.
Our gang isn’t afraid of big business, even though they may have no idea what in the world the business does, and boards its plane anyway. Eames zips around the compartment, but Goren is restrained.
Goren plays with an “itty-bitty little doggy” and takes on a conversational tone – a beauty-before-brains girlfriend runs her mouth about a diamond collar and makes Goren a very happy man. Eames is all smiles at the prospect of an engagement party, at which Ron “The Closing Bell” Carver (greatest description of the man EVER) is more concerned about his stock options.
Clothes Call: We could do without Alex’s boxy suit jackets, apparently she used up all her fashion mojo last episode.
Who was it that said the greatest fashion accessory of all time is a smile? We’ll give this one to Goren, who gives a great smirk before fade to black.
Quotable:
Deakins [to Goren]: Something for the rest of the class?
Lady: It’s ridiculous. Ms. Dawson wouldn’t have a gun in here. She’d have to get it past security.
Eames: You mean the old lady downstairs knitting a sweater?
Karyn Milner: A gun? Why on earth are you looking for a gun here?
Goren: That’s what we do.
Alex Eames: That makes it two coincidences.
Robert Goren: One more and it's a conspiracy.
Robert Goren: V.P.C.F.
Jack Crawley: I'm not familiar with that acronym.
Robert Goren: Oh, I just made it up.
(Crawley rattles off a financial-jargon explanation of Tuxedo Hill, Goren and Eames exchange glances.)
Alex Eames: We have no idea what you just said.
[BA board a private plane]
G: It’s a tight fit.
E: Fine for me.
[A crooked businessman’s fiancé goes off on him in interrogation, rats him out, them storms out]
Goren [claps his hands]: Well.
Eames: Put your hands behind your back.
Businessman: No, look, I can give you names!
[Carver enters the room]
Goren: Too late. There’s the closing bell.
Faith 1.21
It’s the Night Listener episode and Goren and Eames are Bad. Ass. – pushin’ people around, totally tough and crazy cool – the only smart people in the room. They also do everything together and show real teamwork, though Goren does put most of the pieces together. They walk around the entire episode looking at each other like, are they for real? Do they think we’re complete idiots?
Douglas sounds a lot like one of the characters from “Beauty and the Beast” . . . Belle’s father and CI prostitutes are always good for a laugh.
Eames sure was paying attention in Arson 101 and identifies nail polish remover as the agent used . . . always putting that good fashion sense to good use.
BA putter around a dead “sentimental old bird” of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s house and play with his belongings. Alex, for not the last time, shows herself to be the much more technologically advanced of our duo.
Goren calls medical equipment a hobby/special interest. Really?
Captain Deakins helps flip some switches for Goren as he cutely thinks out the murder’s gender.
Goren leans a little to get the Pulitzer’s daughter’s attention – she and her brother are pretty quick to label their dead patriarch a “sex addict”. That’s devotion.
Deakins’ apparently got better things to do as BA do their report walk-n-talk style and is quick to delegate.
Goren pretends to be well-read and Eames goes along and plays dumb. Everyone’s trying to make Eames feel bad for this little girl and leave her alone . . . Eames ain’t havin’ it.
Goren throws around the super-personal questions (Deakins: If I hadn’t heard it with my own ears . . .) and “Erica” spews some self-help mumbo-jumbo on the phone in Deakins’ office. But she is quick to notice through Alex’s voice that she spends a lot of time talking to kids (we learn that she has none, but we all now know she has a bunch of nieces and nephews). “Erica” hopes Eames has kids one day . . . all very much foreshadowing Eames surrogating for her sister in a couple years. Alex brings them coffee.
Our dynamic duo has an adorable back and forth with Carver and look cutely pleased with each other.
Undercover Alex plays an eager grad student and Bobby her “thesis” partner: How ya doin’? Alex can’t believe people are this easily hoodwinked and BA spend the whole episode going, “Ah, people!? Hello!?”
Undercover again, this time Goren takes the lead. Goren bullies a pharmacist and almost drops a check for $800 and looks kinda nervous about it: 800? This girl never heard of medical insurance? and is quick to grab it back.
In interrogation, the looney foster mother has Goren speechless for a second and Goren plays with gravel then has to explain things to the angel-talking foster mother like a child, but he is impressed with her delusional commitment. Her poor husband just seems to be along for the ride, does this guy even say one word the entire episode? Apparently we were looking to cut costs and didn’t want to pay this guy to so much as sneeze.
Well, while we’re throwin’ around the word “delusional” let’s not forget to mention the editor – who earlier in the episode gets one of the best character reveals (we see her in the opener, but have no idea who she is until a door opens later in the episode).
Not an emotionally trying episode for our pair, a whole investigation later and BA are still unmoved by the whole thing: “Erica will be so disappointed in them.”
Clothes Call: Alex dresses with a lot of personality in this eppie: her baby blue embellished sweater-shirt in interrogation, the crazy coat with the fur trim when undercover as a grad student.
Goren in the Captain’s office – look at that big mop of black curls!
Quotable:
Cop: Lucy Hotpants there thinks the guy died of spontaneous combustion.
G: Right after he’s “spontaneously” hit in the head.
[after reading an engraving on a watch]
Woman: Romantic, don’t you think?
Eames: You don’t want to know what I think.
Medic: She’s already been through a lot. I mean, you read the book.
Goren: Yeah, sure – the book.
Carver: Cantler – the geneticist with the bestseller?
Goren: Two bestsellers and four wives. Apparently the professor likes the ladies. . . . and vice-a-versa.
Eames: You know us – we like men who play with the building blocks of life.
Douglas sounds a lot like one of the characters from “Beauty and the Beast” . . . Belle’s father and CI prostitutes are always good for a laugh.
Eames sure was paying attention in Arson 101 and identifies nail polish remover as the agent used . . . always putting that good fashion sense to good use.
BA putter around a dead “sentimental old bird” of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s house and play with his belongings. Alex, for not the last time, shows herself to be the much more technologically advanced of our duo.
Goren calls medical equipment a hobby/special interest. Really?
Captain Deakins helps flip some switches for Goren as he cutely thinks out the murder’s gender.
Goren leans a little to get the Pulitzer’s daughter’s attention – she and her brother are pretty quick to label their dead patriarch a “sex addict”. That’s devotion.
Deakins’ apparently got better things to do as BA do their report walk-n-talk style and is quick to delegate.
Goren pretends to be well-read and Eames goes along and plays dumb. Everyone’s trying to make Eames feel bad for this little girl and leave her alone . . . Eames ain’t havin’ it.
Goren throws around the super-personal questions (Deakins: If I hadn’t heard it with my own ears . . .) and “Erica” spews some self-help mumbo-jumbo on the phone in Deakins’ office. But she is quick to notice through Alex’s voice that she spends a lot of time talking to kids (we learn that she has none, but we all now know she has a bunch of nieces and nephews). “Erica” hopes Eames has kids one day . . . all very much foreshadowing Eames surrogating for her sister in a couple years. Alex brings them coffee.
Our dynamic duo has an adorable back and forth with Carver and look cutely pleased with each other.
Undercover Alex plays an eager grad student and Bobby her “thesis” partner: How ya doin’? Alex can’t believe people are this easily hoodwinked and BA spend the whole episode going, “Ah, people!? Hello!?”
Undercover again, this time Goren takes the lead. Goren bullies a pharmacist and almost drops a check for $800 and looks kinda nervous about it: 800? This girl never heard of medical insurance? and is quick to grab it back.
In interrogation, the looney foster mother has Goren speechless for a second and Goren plays with gravel then has to explain things to the angel-talking foster mother like a child, but he is impressed with her delusional commitment. Her poor husband just seems to be along for the ride, does this guy even say one word the entire episode? Apparently we were looking to cut costs and didn’t want to pay this guy to so much as sneeze.
Well, while we’re throwin’ around the word “delusional” let’s not forget to mention the editor – who earlier in the episode gets one of the best character reveals (we see her in the opener, but have no idea who she is until a door opens later in the episode).
Not an emotionally trying episode for our pair, a whole investigation later and BA are still unmoved by the whole thing: “Erica will be so disappointed in them.”
Clothes Call: Alex dresses with a lot of personality in this eppie: her baby blue embellished sweater-shirt in interrogation, the crazy coat with the fur trim when undercover as a grad student.
Goren in the Captain’s office – look at that big mop of black curls!
Quotable:
Cop: Lucy Hotpants there thinks the guy died of spontaneous combustion.
G: Right after he’s “spontaneously” hit in the head.
[after reading an engraving on a watch]
Woman: Romantic, don’t you think?
Eames: You don’t want to know what I think.
Medic: She’s already been through a lot. I mean, you read the book.
Goren: Yeah, sure – the book.
Carver: Cantler – the geneticist with the bestseller?
Goren: Two bestsellers and four wives. Apparently the professor likes the ladies. . . . and vice-a-versa.
Eames: You know us – we like men who play with the building blocks of life.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Badge 1.20
Vacuum patterns are an important clue. Goren puts a blood soaked shirt on, which is kinda disturbing. Eames’s old man was a double dipper – he retired from being a cop and got a job with City Parks working with kids (drawing both pension and salary) and had to pay back fifty grand. A security guard shoots himself in the precinct. L&O’s Anita Van Buren makes an appearance.
Goren roughs up a kid on a playground: “I’m gonna play dodgeball wit’ ya head!” and lights up a cigarette with a crazy accent. He disrespects a school guard with a fun, wavy salute and gets play-scolded by Alex: “Goren, knock it off!” When they’re alone, he immediately puts out the ciggie and gives her a “yuck” face.
Goren is currently sleeping with the Chief of Detective’s assistant, Denise, as he can account for her Tuesday and Wednesday morning and Alex calls him out on it: “Denise? You dog.” I like to believe Denise is a seventy-five year old woman that Goren sweet-talked into helping out while he worked late.
A female Lieutenant says there’s nothing innocent about Goren’s baby face. Terry’s got Goren, who’s not all that frugal, pegged all the way down to his expensive suit. BA pretend to have a knock-down-drag-out fight in front of Terry and her mother. One of his hobbies is to study the laws Terry breaks: “It’s surprisingly cheap.”
Clothes Call: Eames’ sideswept ‘do.
Quotable:
G [poking around in a suspect’s grocery bag]: Hasn't stopped you from living large, Phil. What you got in here? Prime rib and ... wow! Is that a lobster wiggling around down there?!
[Goren thinks a she is a he]
E: Funny how that detail escaped your powers of observation.
Goren roughs up a kid on a playground: “I’m gonna play dodgeball wit’ ya head!” and lights up a cigarette with a crazy accent. He disrespects a school guard with a fun, wavy salute and gets play-scolded by Alex: “Goren, knock it off!” When they’re alone, he immediately puts out the ciggie and gives her a “yuck” face.
Goren is currently sleeping with the Chief of Detective’s assistant, Denise, as he can account for her Tuesday and Wednesday morning and Alex calls him out on it: “Denise? You dog.” I like to believe Denise is a seventy-five year old woman that Goren sweet-talked into helping out while he worked late.
A female Lieutenant says there’s nothing innocent about Goren’s baby face. Terry’s got Goren, who’s not all that frugal, pegged all the way down to his expensive suit. BA pretend to have a knock-down-drag-out fight in front of Terry and her mother. One of his hobbies is to study the laws Terry breaks: “It’s surprisingly cheap.”
Clothes Call: Eames’ sideswept ‘do.
Quotable:
G [poking around in a suspect’s grocery bag]: Hasn't stopped you from living large, Phil. What you got in here? Prime rib and ... wow! Is that a lobster wiggling around down there?!
[Goren thinks a she is a he]
E: Funny how that detail escaped your powers of observation.
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