Law and Order - Criminal Intent Quotes

Eames: Elaine said Carlo was old world, but he's ahead of my time.
Ross: He gets the culture Amanda's part of. Would she leave a guy like that at the altar?
Eames: My husband Joe, he was a cop. He gave me a taser gun once for our anniversary. Sometimes you want to be more than your job.
Ross: I take it Joe is an ex.
Eames: He died. Eight years ago.
Ross: Sorry.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Commissioner: What do you know about my daughter? What about what kind of father I am?
Goren: As little as you know about who I am.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[After Goren has a public tantrum in the squad room.]
Eames: What the hell was that, Bobby? You want to throw it all away? Just-- I know--
Goren: Back off.
[Goren steps into the elevator and leaves.]

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[Goren trails Eames out of the Captain's office.]
Goren: It's hard to get a confession if he's capable of guilt. Maybe we should tell him he has nothing to feel guilty about?
Eames: [coldly] You do that. [She leaves him standing by his desk.]

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Ross: [As Goren leaves the interview room] Good job, detectives. You can give me your paperwork--
Goren: [leaving] You can save it, alright? I'm leaving. You want to fire me, fire me. [He tosses his notebook on his desk on the way out the door.] I don't care.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Ross: It's cyber-Rashomon. Reggie says Holden shot Todd, Holden says Reggie did it and Willow doesn't even believe anyone's dead.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[A sniper shoots a judge during a historical reenactment of the Hamilton/Burr duel in front of Captain Ross, leading Goren and Eames to investigate one of her personal heroes.]

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Mr. Pagolis: It's history, right? Can't fake it.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Eames: Woman politician taking the fall for her corrupt husband. You never see it going the other way.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Goren: Like my mother would say, if she stays in it, she's getting something out of it.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Mrs. Pagolis: He told us you were stalking him.
Goren: We're detectives. We don't stalk.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Journalist: NYPD, wake up. If this man isn't guilty, then Macy's doesn't sell pantyhose.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[Goren goes through the reading material of a man they've just found dead.]
Goren: He likes mysteries.
Eames: Now he gets to be in one.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Mr. Pagolis: If I'm the perp, I want the perp walk.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Mr. Pagolis: Killing is not my thing.
Eames: What is your thing, Mr. Pagolis?
Mr. Pagolis: French food, Nordic women, German cars...

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[At a bar, talking about their partnership.]
Goren: Are we good?
Eames: I hope so.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[In Mrs. Goren's hospital room, watching the news broadcast of the televangelist's wife's death.]
Mrs. Goren: You know, he wants a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Sure like to see what goes on in that bedroom. Why're you defending him?
Goren: I'm not defending him.
Mrs. Goren: They're charlatans, these people. He's supposed to be a believer. In which case he's supposed to believe that God had a reason for her death, right? So why's he crying?

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Mrs. Goren: [To Goren] If your brother were here, I wouldn't have gone through all of this. He would've taken care of me.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Eames: I checked her PDA. Found his cell number. When you call it, Diego directs you to a web site because, as he says, "seeing is believing."
[She clicks on a web site. Goren and Ross peer over her shoulder at a web site featuring half-naked photos of a man.]
Ross: You're kidding. "Rent this hunk. Diego. By the hour or by the night. Muscular, tanned, relentless--"
Goren: [watching Ross with interest] We can all read, Captain.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Lawyer: Mr. Diego's web site is purely in the realm of personal fantasy. No services are exchanged for--
Goren: My partner was in vice for five years.
Eames: Chelsea for two of those years. You're not my first rent boy, Diego.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Diego: But he likes crystal meth, especially booty bumps.
Eames: Booty bumps.
Diego: That's when y--
Eames: [hastily] I know what they are.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Eames: I miss Vice. People doing stuff for money-- guys like this, I get them.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Reverend: [glances away from pouring water] The guest list? [His glass overflows.]
Goren: Reverend, your cup runneth over.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[Confronting the Reverend with a photograph of his secret gay lover, and after the Reverend has denied knowledge of him.]
Reverend: Did you say his name?
Goren: Diego. We have other photos.
Reverend: You know, there is a Diego that's a professional massage therapist, but, uh, it's so dark in those rooms that I can't--
Goren: [impatiently] Do you have a massage therapist? Is he your massage therapist?
Reverend: I ... can't say for sure. I'm, uh, really sorry, detective, that I can't be more helpful, but, uh--
Eames: Actually, it's always helpful when we know someone is lying to us. There seem to be phone calls from your cell to his.
Reverend: [looking at picture again] Actually, this-- you know what? This is Diego. Yeah. Hah. Funny. Uh, the back pain I get is so crippling that I can't even think. I just lay there and I close my eyes--
Goren: [looking bored] --and wait for that booty bump....

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[Eames leaves Goren and the Reverend and enters the secretary's office.]
Secretary: How is he?
Eames: He seems almost ... stricken.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Reverend: Well, of course I have enemies.
Goren: What kind of enemies?
Reverend: Demons.
Goren: Your demons. Are they inside? Or are they outside?

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Frank: [gesturing to Eames, in the SUV] That woman. Is that your wife?
Goren: [shaking his head] That's-- that's my partner.
Frank: So what're you waiting for?
Goren: Not that kind of partner.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
Dr. Corliss: Must be frustrating, to try to conduct an investigation within a group that's entirely invested in irrationality.
Goren: Oh, well. Homicides are often irrational as well.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[Goren and Eames search through the Reverend's bookshelves and drawers.]
Goren: [pulling books off the shelf] G.K. Chesterton. C.S. Lewis....
Eames: ...and Ripped Boys magazine. Which one of these things is not like the others?

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent
[Ross tells Logan that the DA won't file charges on Logan's deceased neighbors murderer, she was believed to have commited suicide.]
Ross: How well did you know her?
Logan: We took a ride in an old convertible once.

TV Show: Law and Order - Criminal Intent