Law and Order - Criminal Intent Quotes

Deakins: [About Logan] He's one of those cops. Always looking for the crook in the room.

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[Discussing the discovery that the victim had a second sexual partner]
Eames: There was a second shooter.

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[Barek and Deakins watch Logan interviewing a witness through a glass window. They do not have access to audio.]
Barek: He's got an interesting interview style. Very affable. Cuddly cop. Not what I expected.
[Inside the interview room]
Logan: [To witness] And I'll owe you. I'm good for it. Ask anybody. Mike Logan. How about it? [Witness nods.] Now I'm going to pound my fist on the table. Okay?
[Logan slams his hand on the table and stands up abruptly, looking angry. Outside the room, Barek looks at Deakins.]
Barek: Now that's the Logan I expected.

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Logan: So just in case I need an interpreter, how many languages do you speak?
Barek: Spanish, Yiddish, Italian, Polish, some Creole, some Russian, some Cantonese from working in Chinatown. You?
Logan: I can say "Stop, police" and "What's your sign?" in fifteen different languages.

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Logan: Have smack, will travel.

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Logan: You know, I had a partner -- ohh what a great stick man he was -- here's something he had way too much decency to teach me.
[Logan snaps a pool cue in half with his foot.]
Fence: What're you gonna do with that?
[Logan grabs the fence by the jeweler's loop around his neck and shoves the broken pool cue under his jaw. He drives the fence around the pool hall while Barek follows, looking alarmed.]
Logan: I'm a rage-a-holic cop who took a swing at a city councilman. Everybody thinks that I'm a ticking bomb. Maybe today's the day I blow, I don't know. It's up to you.
Fence: You're sick, man. Don't hurt me.
Logan: Hurt you? Hurt you? How much you pay Johnny for those rocks? You profit from the people he kills. You encourage him to kill more. I have absolutely zero compassion for you. You know, Rudy's not the mayor anymore, but that doesn't mean we can't have some fun.

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Barek: What kind of mother sends her kid on a trip without a change of pants?
Logan: Besides mine?

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Deakins: [Turns off a TV news show.] Smell the rotting meat in the air? That's the vultures gathering.

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Eames: The girls don't remember anything about the place except that it's down a flight of stairs and it has a red bar.
Barek: Oh. Ah ... The Shock and Awe club. It's on Harrison between Greenwich and Hudson.
[The other detectives stare at her.]
Barek: There's this DJ there that I know.
[She leaves. Logan grins at Goren and Eames.]

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[Goren questions a waitress at a club, showing her sketches of two teenagers.]
Waitress: I don't remember them. Are they your grandkids or something?

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Father of witness: She engaged in reckless and inappropriate behavior.
Eames: I think we know what that means.

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[After Goren and Logan begin exchanging tidbits about the Rat Pack and its history in New York City landmarks]
Eames: [To Barek] Let's put them out of our misery.

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[Goren and Logan head off to a club to look for their suspect. Baren and Eames watch them go.]
Eames: There they go. Ocean's Two.

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Logan: Well. I guess we go to the show part of show and tell.

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Carver: Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves. We are flying into the eye of the hurricane.

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[When a member of the press attempts to get into the Peterson's house to interview her about her missing daughter.]
Mrs. Peterson: I know how it is with you people. If she's white put her in the spotlight. If she's black, put her in the back. I'll take your interest now any way it comes, but do not mistake my desperation with gratitude.

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Goren: He resisted the cavity search.
Deakins: I don't blame him.

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[Upon learning that a suspect's father hired a hooker for his son's 16th birthday]
Logan: Geez, all I got for my birthday was a transistor radio.

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Branch: It's not enough doing good. You have to be seen doing good.

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[Eames watches Goren peel back a blotter and touch all the stains underneath.]
Goren: I'm just checking which ones are fresh.
Eames: They must love you in the produce section.

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Attorney: The suit alleges civil rights violations including the use of excessive force, going back to 1993.
Logan: This is crap. These were all investigated and dismissed by the review board.
Attorney: All except the last one. Greg Sanchez. He alleges you threatened him with a pool cue and tried to drag him to a bathroom.
Logan: Oh, yeah. Him. The fence. I never actually threatened him.
Attorney: Mr. Sanchez named Detective Barek as a witness.
Barek: Nobody talked to me about it. If they had I would've said I saw a smart detective use the power of suggestion to get life-saving information from a known criminal.

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Logan: Hey, thanks for saying that.
Barek: Don't thank me. That's what I saw.
Logan: Well, hey. Thanks for seeing what you saw.

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Barek: [About the FBI] Those people couldn't stop an asthma attack.

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Carver: For a man who admitted having sex with a 16 year old murder victim, arrogance is not the best defense.

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Attorney: Do you recognize it, Detective Eames?
Eames: Yes. It's a letter I wrote to my superior officer five years ago.
Attorney: Please summarize the contents.
Eames: It's a request for a new partner, but I withdrew my request.
Attorney: Please read the highlighted passage.
Eames: "Detective Goren's erratic and antisocial behavior, his volatile and bizarre interrogation techniques, lead me to have seroius doubts about his judgment and his mental stability--" I want to explain.
Attorney: Thank you. No more questions.
Carver: Redirect, your honor. Detective Eames, please explain why you withdrew your request.
Eames: I was used to working with more conventional detectives. Detective Goren's style is definitely unique and an acquired taste. Over time I came to see that his approach was based on a deep understanding of human behavior. I came to appreciate him as an ethical person, and an effective police officer.
Carver: Thank you. No further questions.

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[Outside the courtroom.]
Eames: I'm sorry, Bobby. I should have told you.
Goren: I am an acquired taste. I'm lucky you withdrew your letter.

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Sean: I don't know where I heard it. Maybe I read it. On the internet.
Logan: No, we googled and doodled it. It's not anywhere.

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Carver: Justice is a jagged road.

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[Outside the courtroom seeing Judge Harold Garrett escaping the press.]
Eames: Guess the Garretts will be sharing orange jumpsuits for Christmas.

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[A dead car salesman leads Logan and Barek to a woman who is using her son to blackmail multiple men into paying child support.]

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