Law and Order - Criminal Intent Quotes
Goren: [Looking around a suspect's computer collection] What're you running here, Raymond? A group home for computers?
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Bishop: A computer geek who can clone himself. Scary thought.
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Deakins: When we catch this guy, he's going to owe me a bottle of aspirin.
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[After Goren has lashed out a suspect who he thought was behind on his child support payments and is proved wrong.]
Goren: [To Bishop] Croydon. McVee is another Croydon.
Bishop: Who's-- Who's Croydon?
Goren: He ran out on his wife. Hitchens used him to get at me. And the pattern. One, one, two-- it's Wally Stevens.
Bishop: I don't know what you're talking about.
Goren: He was an actuary. He had a pattern of five. Five-- five notes. Five ... pins. [Pauses.] Eames would have known.
Goren: [To Bishop] Croydon. McVee is another Croydon.
Bishop: Who's-- Who's Croydon?
Goren: He ran out on his wife. Hitchens used him to get at me. And the pattern. One, one, two-- it's Wally Stevens.
Bishop: I don't know what you're talking about.
Goren: He was an actuary. He had a pattern of five. Five-- five notes. Five ... pins. [Pauses.] Eames would have known.
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Goren: [To Bishop] It's about yearning. He misses his partner.
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Carver: He killed her to drive his partner back into his arms? That's almost juvenile.
Goren: It's primitive. Panic is a primitive emotion. That's how he felt without his partner.
Goren: It's primitive. Panic is a primitive emotion. That's how he felt without his partner.
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Jack: [To Neil] I told you, I didn't even know her name. She was just a gamer.
Goren: [To Neil]Just a gamer? Your partner let a gamer get between you two. If my partner was putting me through that -- abandoning me, leaving me vulnerable, impotent, for a nobody -- That's unforgivable.
Goren: [To Neil]Just a gamer? Your partner let a gamer get between you two. If my partner was putting me through that -- abandoning me, leaving me vulnerable, impotent, for a nobody -- That's unforgivable.
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[Goren's cell phone rings. He opens it and looks at the message. He looks relieved.]
Goren: Seven pounds, eight ounces.
Carver: [smiling] Excellent.
Bishop: It's great. You-- You should call her. I'll handle the booking.
Goren: Seven pounds, eight ounces.
Carver: [smiling] Excellent.
Bishop: It's great. You-- You should call her. I'll handle the booking.
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Detective: [Describing the dead victim.] He had no ID, no cell phone, no watch. Punks used the whole buffalo.
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Goren: [Regarding the dead P.I.] He taught social sciences at I.S. 44, 15 years ago.
Bishop: In the Bronx. Should have been enough excitement for two lifetimes.
Bishop: In the Bronx. Should have been enough excitement for two lifetimes.
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[Goren and Bishop speak to some street basketball players.]
Guy in wheelchair: Marv, check out her dibs. [To Bishop] What do you got on, P. Diddy drapes? What you all, fashion police? [All laugh.]
Goren: Obviously, they don't know we're the hoops police, 'cause-- [to Marv] --we ought to lock you up for wearin' those kicks. Where'd you find those? on a telephone line?
Players: Wooo! [All laugh. The players throw the ball to Goren.]
Guy in wheelchair: Marv, check out her dibs. [To Bishop] What do you got on, P. Diddy drapes? What you all, fashion police? [All laugh.]
Goren: Obviously, they don't know we're the hoops police, 'cause-- [to Marv] --we ought to lock you up for wearin' those kicks. Where'd you find those? on a telephone line?
Players: Wooo! [All laugh. The players throw the ball to Goren.]
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Deakins: You played ball in school?
Goren: J.V. Power forward. Gave it up.
Goren: J.V. Power forward. Gave it up.
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Coach: You played?
Goren: Yeah. High school.
Coach: In the city? Maybe I saw you play.
Goren: No. I didn't stick with it.
Coach: Ah. Maybe with the right encouragement.
Goren: Yeah. High school.
Coach: In the city? Maybe I saw you play.
Goren: No. I didn't stick with it.
Coach: Ah. Maybe with the right encouragement.
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Student: I didn't actually see him selling weed. But everybody knows he was doin' it.
Goren: Well, then it must be true.
Goren: Well, then it must be true.
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Coach: [To Bishop] Does he always beat around the bush?
Goren: I can be direct. You're divorced. You got no kids. And basketball is pretty much it for you, Coach. You haven't won a championship in the last seven years. You might be hungry for a big win to cap your career. Hungry enough to go into business with Curtis Romney?
Coach: I can be direct, too. 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.
Goren: I can be direct. You're divorced. You got no kids. And basketball is pretty much it for you, Coach. You haven't won a championship in the last seven years. You might be hungry for a big win to cap your career. Hungry enough to go into business with Curtis Romney?
Coach: I can be direct, too. 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.
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Deakins: Convenience store. A gun's practically standard equipment.
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[In the Coach's apartment, Goren and Bishop look over some of the Coach's play strategies.]
Goren: Picket-fence play. Four players in a row, fifth dribbles behind. It's old school.
Bishop: Everything about Powell's old school. I think he stopped buying jackets when Wilt Chamberlain retired.
Goren: Picket-fence play. Four players in a row, fifth dribbles behind. It's old school.
Bishop: Everything about Powell's old school. I think he stopped buying jackets when Wilt Chamberlain retired.
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Goren: [Picks up a plant in a pot on the Coach's counter.] Cranberry seedling. With my dad, it was avocado pits in a glass of water.
[He looks over the kitchen sink counter and spots the television across the room.]
Goren: TV. He stood over the sink and he ate while he watched TV.
Bishop: Something you do?
Goren: No. No, I found the same arrangement when I cleaned out my dad's apartment.
[He looks over the kitchen sink counter and spots the television across the room.]
Goren: TV. He stood over the sink and he ate while he watched TV.
Bishop: Something you do?
Goren: No. No, I found the same arrangement when I cleaned out my dad's apartment.
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Goren: I know this guy. He's a lonely man with a shot at happiness. He's gonna fight for it.
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Goren: [To Coach] Look, you shouldn't lose everything because you tried to help this kid. You know, when my father died, he had just enough money to, uh, cover his own funeral. That shouldn't happen to you.
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Goren: You know how to pick 'em, Coach.
Coach: Now, you go ahead, Goren. You get it all out, all that defiance.
Goren: You see that? His understanding of what makes a young man tick -- it's like a gift.
Coach: Now, you go ahead, Goren. You get it all out, all that defiance.
Goren: You see that? His understanding of what makes a young man tick -- it's like a gift.
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Coach: You really beat the old man good, didn't you?
Goren: Well, that's how I beat all my men on the court, Coach-- head fake.
Coach: The way you talk about the game, it's just as well you stopped playing. You got no love for it.
[Uniforms take the Coach away in cuffs.]
Bishop: Well, he's hardly one to talk.
Goren: No, he's right. I stopped loving the game, when I saw it-- it wasn't getting me what I wanted.
Goren: Well, that's how I beat all my men on the court, Coach-- head fake.
Coach: The way you talk about the game, it's just as well you stopped playing. You got no love for it.
[Uniforms take the Coach away in cuffs.]
Bishop: Well, he's hardly one to talk.
Goren: No, he's right. I stopped loving the game, when I saw it-- it wasn't getting me what I wanted.
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Lawyer: I would have thought the police knew better than to put stock in an anonymous letter. I assume that since you didn't bother to inform Mrs. Whitney of the exhumation, that this letter also names her as a suspect.
Eames: Like you said, we know better than to put stock in anonymous letters.
Eames: Like you said, we know better than to put stock in anonymous letters.
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Mrs. Whitney: You're interrupting a very important evening.
Goren: We could come back tomorrow....
Mrs. Whitney: That would be so much better.
Goren: Yeah. But since we're here--
Goren: We could come back tomorrow....
Mrs. Whitney: That would be so much better.
Goren: Yeah. But since we're here--
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Bradley: What the hell are you imagining? I'm interested in her acting. I signed her own as a student four weeks ago.
Goren: [Copying a mime taking place in the other room] Do you have a lot of students in their 60s?
Bradley: No.
Goren: Fifties, forties--
Eames: I'm guessing 25 is the cutoff for actresses. Twenty-six if they're pretty.
Goren: [Copying a mime taking place in the other room] Do you have a lot of students in their 60s?
Bradley: No.
Goren: Fifties, forties--
Eames: I'm guessing 25 is the cutoff for actresses. Twenty-six if they're pretty.
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Eames: Money's just been flying out of her pocket. Dance lessons, voice coaches--
Goren: She's servicing a long-suppressed ambition.
Deakins: To star in the uptown Y's production of Mame?
Goren: She's servicing a long-suppressed ambition.
Deakins: To star in the uptown Y's production of Mame?
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Goren: [Describing a person they've just met] And the facial tic-- it's, uh, disarming. The more anxious he gets, the worse it gets. If it's like most simple motor tics, it developed in early childhood.
Deakins: [To Eames] See what you missed?
[Eames sighs]
Deakins: [To Eames] See what you missed?
[Eames sighs]
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[Reviewing the photocopy of a donation Eames made during a recent First Responders benefit]
Eames: Here's the check for the First Responders benefit, front and back.
Deakins: [Reading over her shoulder] Five hundred bucks. Who's Terry?
Eames: My date.
[Deakins and Goren look at her.]
Eames: Well, what was I supposed to do while I was pregnant? Sit home and knit?
Eames: Here's the check for the First Responders benefit, front and back.
Deakins: [Reading over her shoulder] Five hundred bucks. Who's Terry?
Eames: My date.
[Deakins and Goren look at her.]
Eames: Well, what was I supposed to do while I was pregnant? Sit home and knit?
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[Upon discovering that a donation paid to benefit one group was used to pay for party favors for a wildlife benefit several months prior]
Eames: So Harvey's having to rob Peter to pay the pandas.
Eames: So Harvey's having to rob Peter to pay the pandas.
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