Robert Goren quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Eames

Money's just been flying out of her pocket. Dance lessons, voice coaches--

Goren

She's servicing a long-suppressed ambition.

To star in the uptown Y's production of Mame?

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.

[To Eames] See what you missed?

Eames

[Turns away] I'm going to get the bomb guys.

Goren

[Reaches in to grab a tag off the briefcase.] There's an ID tag on the briefcase.

Goren

[Reading] It's B&C Copier Systems. Ernie Dominguez. [He turns it to show Eames.]

Eames

It's so nice to be back.

Eames

Three ties-- clip-ons.

Goren

In case they get caught in the rollers of the copier. He's careful.

Eames

He should've worn a clip-on bomb.

Goren

Just, um, one dance before you go?

Oh, I'm supposed to meet someone.

Goren

So is everyone. Who are you waiting for, Prince Charming or Valiant?

[to his lawyer] Must have got lost on a donut run.

Goren

[entering] I heard that.

Goren

[eating one of the pills] It's vitamin C.

Carver

I watched you very carefully, detective, but I missed you slipping them into his pocket.

Eames

Maybe because you watched the wrong detective? [Goren and Eames leave Carver to ponder that.]

Goren

You look angry, Mr. Buchanan.

"Angry" doesn't come close to describing how I feel.

Carver

Any bets which one the media will paint as the lesser evil?

Goren

There's no such animal.

Eames

"Transference Be-Bop"?

Goren

Those are psychotherapeutic terms. He was seeing a shrink.

Eames

Been better off seeing a lyricist.

Goren

You snatched the victory from the jaws of your mother. Showed your parents just how smart you really are.

They know, they raised me.

Eames

Raised you? Wolves would've done a better job.

Carver

You'd think two people with their credentials and education could raise a perfect child.

Goren

They thought they did. That's the problem.

[to her son] You are nothing but a common criminal!

Goren

There's nothing common about your son. Or his crime.

Goren

She took everything away from you. Everything that you loved. But she gave you this. She gave you the... the drive to develop this skill.

[softly] Yes.

Goren

And the venom to use it. Use it to cheat. And to kill. She gave you that.

Yes, Mother. That's what you gave me.

Eames

She worshiped a saint and raised a sinner.

Goren

The sinner raised himself.