Unrequited 3.12

THE RETURN OF EAMES! We're so happy we could do a jig ... and Goren does! Everybody does! 

We got ourselves a Norma Desmond. And Bishop in the cold opener! And Eames gets the first line of questioning and whole fistfuls of dialog while Goren putters around in the background! Since Eames isn't giving an inch, the guy in the tux goes over to Goren for sympathy, but Goren ignores him and Eames continues being awesome. Welcome back, Eames! We MISSED you! And she really gets to run this whole case while Goren dances around and putters in the background, which is such a great change of pace. She even gets to find the evidence!

Marion Whitney salsas her way through an interrogation. Eames' and Goren's looks are priceless. But Goren doesn't even care she's a kook. He's just so happy to have his partner back he dances circles around Eames.

Goren and Bishop have a productive pow wow.

Goren interpretive dances his way through an interrogation.

Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran from Wings does a great cold hearted bitch. Goren tries to dance his way around her into her apartment, but she ain't havin' it! Goren and Eames are lovin' the challenge.

Eames attended a benefit for first responders and made a donation. \Deakins and Goren give her a hard time about going on a date while pregnant. She gets rightly defensive and Goren funnily backs off. The whole first part of the case is a game of "follow Eames' date's check." 

Eames and Goren are Unit #229.

Goren drags Harvey's ankle bracelet around Marion's stage. It's another sad heel story -- poor Harvey. Another sad sack guy who murders cuz he's being used. But Goren arrests him in the most gentle way.

Clothes Call: Marion Whitney's sparkly getup. Eames' bouncy bob haircut. And Goren's short attractive one. Goren's blue shirt and no tie at his desk. Marion's flower wrap in interrogation. Really every single one of Marion's outfits.

Quotable:

Goren: We can come back tomorrow.
Marion Whitney: That would be so much better.
Goren: Yeah. But since we're here --

Marion: I'm a student of the dance.
Eames: The dance of the merry widow.

Harvey Gruenwald: Who did you think did it?
Eames: We're keeping an open mind. 

Goren: If it's like most simple motor tics, it's developed in early childhood.
Deakins: [to Eames] See what you missed?
Eames: [Sighs]

[Deakins and Goren give Eames a look when they found out she went to a benefit a few months ago with a date (Terry)]
Eames: What was I supposed to do while I was pregnant? Sit home and knit?

Eames: So Harvey's having to rob Peter to pay the pandas.

Goren: You are tough, Mrs. Gruenwald, 'cause normally Detective Eames and I, we'd be in the living room by now.

[Harvey poses and smiles for a photo while being led away in handcuffs]
Goren: Done?

Mad Hops 3.11

Dry your tears CIers, we've made it! The end of the Bishop Era. Our Watson comes home to us next eppie.

Anyway, fathers of basketball players split up with their mothers so their kids can switch schools and play for a better team. 

The guy from Ed is here! We miss Ed. Why is Ed not out on dvd???

A bunch of ballers make fun of little white girl Bishop's outfit. Even though this is much more of a Detective Mike Logan atmosphere, Goren is having a blast trading barbs and talking smack with this crew. Suburban girl Bishop is insanely uncomfortable with this inner-city crew.  

JOHN KRASINSKI!? John Krasinski, you got this role based on your height alone, we are certain of this.

Goren tries to take over Rodgers's ME room and do the autopsy himself. He sticks a long Q-Tip of a guy's nose and it is disgusting! Literally, the grossest thing he's ever done in the ME room.

A Social Sciences teacher takes Goren to school and blows. his. mind.: I see a problem with authority figures. You defy them. You disrespect them. But the truth is, you're intimidated by them. It's the mark of a boy with an indifferent father. His absence took the joy out of playing basketball. He coolly shuts Goren down and turns to Bishop to continue his story. Slick. Bobby's our boy but it is interesting to get him shut down for a change by someone other than She Who Will Not Be Named.   

Goren gives up a lot of his back story to Bishop this case, which he totally doesn't have to because she's gone after this case and we don't care about her, but that's probably why he did it. Goren's dad's sad plant was avocado pits in a glass of water. His dad also ate over the kitchen sink while he watched tv, something Goren does not do. He makes a loooong reach with the meaning of a cranberry plant, but at least he calmly defends his decision: I know this guy. He's a lonely man with a shot at happiness. 

Other than the earlier smack down, Coach is a real dull heel. It's sad, really, he's lonely old man who's being used. Goren looks pretty cute in the last scenes with Coach though, his hair is adorable cut short, with his long coat and suit.  

Clothes Call: Goren's and Bishop's scarves. Bishop's maroon velvet jacket.

Quotable:

Deakins: You played ball in school?
Goren: [looks completely confused. As if he never gets asked this question, based on his height] J.V. Power forward. Gave it up.

[Goren moves to stick a cotton swab up a dead guy's nose in the ME room]
Rodgers: Uh -- Let me do that. [Sighs]

High School teacher [blowing Goren's mind by correctly analyzing him]: I see a problem with authority figures. You defy them. You disrespect them. But the truth is, you're intimidated by them. It's the mark of a boy with an indifferent father. His absence took the joy out of playing basketball.

Bishop: These must be his former players and their kids. It's beginning to look a little like Goodbye, Mr. Chips in here.
Goren: At least Mr. Chips had a wife.  

Goren: [looking at a single guy's sad plant] Cranberry seedling. With my dad, it was avocado pits in a glass of water.

Goren: You know, when my father died, [long pause] he had just enough to, uh, cover his funeral. 

Goren: And you paid attention to him, Coach paid attention to Ben, Ben's stats kept improving. It's nice how that worked out, isn't it?

Goren: Well, that's how I beat all my men on the court, Coach -- head fake.

Goren: No, he's right. I stopped lovin' the game ... when I saw it -- it wasn't getting me what I wanted.