Law and Order - Criminal Intent Quotes

Goren: I need to use my most important investigative tool. My library card.

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[Two suspects discussing the dead mortician.]
Russell: Harry, he got killed over the weekend. Right in the funeral home.
Harry: God has a very peculiar sense of humor.

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Eames: The fake boils, the crucifixion pose, it was all just to throw us off.
Goren: It's impressive.
Deakins: It's demented.
Goren: It worked.

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Goren: Pacemakers have to be removed before cremation. Otherwise the lithium batteries explode. Gives off a toxic fume and could damage the cremation chamber.
Deakins: Yeah, I heard silicon implants had to be removed. My buddy Martinelli in the 3-7 married a stripper.

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Carver: Did the autopsy on Mr. Ferguson prove he'd been frozen, then thawed?
Deakins: The autopsy proved when it comes to medical science, you're better off asking The Magic 8-ball.

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[A social worker and a deputy mayor are killed, bringing the Major Case squad in to investigate a school for young geniuses.]

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[Goren uses tweezers to pick a piece of lint off the dead driver's suit.]
Goren: Looks like Webster had a passenger, sat close to him. Wore a purple cashmere sweater.
Eames: Tight-fitting size 2 with a plunging neckline.
[Goren inspects the lint with interest.]
Goren: Mm. That I can't tell from this.
Eames: I can tell from the bull he was feeding his wife.

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[Deakins watches Goren and Eames enter the observation room after questioning a witness.]
Deakins: I smell square one up ahead.

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[Goren pauses to look into a classroom where small children are working on a complicated math problem on the chalkboard.]
Dr. Leonard: Please. You're going to disturb the children.
Goren: Are they working on that problem on the board?
Dr. Leonard: Yes. This is a special math tutorial.
Goren: Really? These little kids are gonna solve that?
Dr. Leonard: These are profoundly gifted children.
Eames: You'll have to forgive my partner, Dr. Leonard. He's feeling very humble right now.

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[Regarding a test that tests social adjustment.]
Eames: I remember this. We had to take it the last year of high school.
Goren: So did we.
Eames: How did you do?
Goren: I had to go to my counselor's office and have a talk with the school shrink.
[Eames chuckles.]
Goren: How about you?
Eames: Me? I was so well adjusted, they elected me prom queen.

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[When a university professor is killed, the detectives encounter a convoluted plot masterminded by an Australian woman who isn't who she seems. Marks the first appearance of Nicole Wallace.]

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Dr. Fellowes: You know why the battles in academia are so vicious. It's because the stakes are so low.

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Wallace: Everyone knows academics are all talk and no action.

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[Teaching a university class.]
Wallace: In American literature, the descent into madness is usually preceded by obsession. A consuming obsession. Example, anyone?
[The class is unresponsive.]
Wallace: Alright, I'll get you started. Moby Dick. What characterizes Ahab's obsession?
[Goren raises his hand in the back of the room.]
Wallace: Yes. In the back.
[Wallace realizes that it is Goren.]
Goren: The dogged, unrelenting pursuit of evil.
Wallace: Interesting. Evil. I always fancied it was man's unrelenting pursuit of his own potency.

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Goren: Sometimes a whale is just a whale.

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[Discussing a grad student's poor quality thesis.]
Wallace: It wouldn't butter your parsnips.

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[Discussing Nicole Wallace.]
Goren: This woman is very, very good.

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[In the interrogation room, Wallace shows Goren a pad of paper on which she's written a date and a social security number.]
Goren: That's my social security number and my birthdate.
Wallace: Yes. Remarkable. The fountain of information that can spring from those little numbers. Home address. Next of kin. Mother's maiden name. Mother's address. Tell me, Robert, how often do you get up to the Carmel Ridge Center?

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[To Nicole Wallace about the exchange of information.]
Goren: No. You want to play, then it has to be tit for tat.

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Wallace: I did meet Nicole before I left for England. She told me things.
Goren: Where is she now?
Wallace: I don't know. Carried away by dingoes? It happens a lot in Australia.

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Wallace: My turn. How old were you when you first realized your mommy wasn't like all the other mommies?
[Goren slams out of his chair and stands. He walks around the table and sits down next to Wallace. He loosens his collar.]
Goren: Seven.
Wallace: Were you ashamed?
Goren: And frightened. My turn. How old were you when your father first molested you? [Wallace appears flustered] It's the only explanation for your intense hatred of men.

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[To Nicole Wallace]
Goren: When I met you, you wanted me to know who you truly were; how smart, how funny, how charming you were. You wanted me to know you, Nicole Wallace, a sparking, little girl who survived horrible abuse with her wits intact.

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[Goren and Eames arrive too late to arrest Wallace and find she has already abandoned her apartment.]
Eames: What did you think, she'd have scones and a glass of sherry for us?

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Goren: You're really good at keeping secrets. Me, I just run off at the mouth.

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Martinez: Gary Burke is dead.
Eames: How do you know that?
Martinez: PNN. Prison News Network.
Goren: That's the same place we get our news from.

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Goren: That's a nice, uh, what you're wearing. I mean, where'd you get that from? From Peru? What do they call that? A serap-- s ... serape. No it's a s... s... s--
Martinez: ...Sweater.

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Deakins: ' The guy's a prosecutor. He knows losing a case is part of the game.
Eames: There's losing, and then there's losing to your wife.
Goren: And then there's getting your balls handed to you on a platter.

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[Goren calls Eames over to inspect the contents of an oven found in a warehouse.]
Eames: Aha. Illegal baking.

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[Goren explains the calligraphy found on scraps of paper to an increasingly bewildered Deakins.]
Goren: This type of calligraphy, the elongated character, the sharp brush strokes, is in the Imperial style of early Qing dynasty, 18th century. It evolved from the thin gold calligraphy developed by the Emperor Huizong.
Eames: He got that off his box of Wheaties this morning.

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Eames: You look familiar.
Weems: My last gig. I was the plump and happy raisin in a snack food commercial. Am I in trouble?
Eames: You tell us. You checked into a hotel under an assumed name, forged papers were delivered to your room, an associate of yours is suspected of murdering a woman.
Goren: You don't look so plump and happy now, George.

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