Robert Goren quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Goren

Why didn't you call me when Donny was arrested?

Frank

I already told you, it was tough love.

Goren

No. You were trying to save that favor, because you knew it was just a matter of time before you could call in that favor for yourself.

Frank

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME, BOBBY?! What have you done for me? You gave me a coat? Slip me a couple bucks so you can feel good about yourself? Well guess what. I don't need that. Neither does Donny.

Goren

Donny's smart, Frank. He doesn't need you.

Frank

I'M SMART! I'M SMART! Everyone in this family forgets! I was the one.

Goren

[sighs] Look, we both caught a raw deal, okay? Could have brought us closer together, but this is it. This is us, y'know?

Frank

You don't wanna be my brother. Just get out.

Ross

Testarossa's lawyered up.

Goren

What about Melago?

Eames

What's going on here?

Goren

Is now okay?

Eames

You're undercover, you don't tell me?

Ross

Those were my orders. Came from the top.

Eames

I can't believe this.

Ross

It was a need-to-know case. I'm sorry. Eames, Melago is in holding downtown. You have a history with her. See if she'll deal.

There's a theme here, Bobby. Did you ever ask yourself "Why?" Why nobody ever came through for you? You think it was your fault?

Goren

Yes. I've thought that.

It isn't, you know. They failed you. You did everything you could for them. And more.

Goren

Thanks.

I can't do it. I'm too ashamed.

Goren

No, no. The shame will be his, not yours.

Goren

Your mother hired Di Rogga to kill Rick Siebert.

And you expect me to believe that? I don't believe that!

Of course not. You think you just got lucky. One more time that everything just seemed to work out for you.

Goren

You found a solution in your mother's illness.

My mother was, uh... she was a schizophrenic. There's no solutions in that.

Goren

Lace teddy, makeup...

Eames

And perfume. Either she was planning a matinee with the doctor or she was entertaining, as my mother might say.

I've read The Iliad in the original Attic Greek, detective. If you want to trip me up, you're gonna have to try a little harder than that.

Goren

[shrugs] It's actually Homeric Greek...

I've served evil.

Goren

Then break your servitude and put your God above all else.

Goren

[looking at an attractive redhead in a suit] She looks a little intimidating. Does she intimidate you?

It's the Versace. Beneath that is a scared little girl with fake breasts, a skinny bottom... a nothing.

Goren

I think you screwed up, Kev. A little too much rouge, y'know, scent...

Eames

There's nothing worse than having your makeup not right. I bet you can't wait to look in a mirror.

Goren

You've been talking to the DA.

Did I hurt your feelings? Don't be offended. I told my lawyer you'd be harder to play.

Goren

Well, if that's true, then what's the play?

[chuckles] You're good. I almost miss seeing you. But something's always in play. The game is endless.

Goren

[about the murder victim] He embraced good causes.

Eames

He also embraced any woman who got close enough for a smell test.

Goren

So he died covering for your little covert operation?

Look, no one regrets more than we do that...

Goren

Oh come on, with the regrets! You can't keep us from him! We do what our boss tells us, and you're not our boss, [points to Ross' body] our boss is over there. You're not gonna stop us!

[about Dekker] I see a little boy in a soldier suit. A narcissist. Desperate, craving self-aggrandizement.

Goren

You puff him up.

No problem. I'm a Hemingway fan.