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.