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.