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.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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.
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