Law & Order: Criminal Intent quotes

Goren

Your Honor, if we search his car and his apartment, and it turns out his wife is alive, where's the harm?

It's the fourth amendment, detective. Not the 3 and 2/3rds amendment.

Goren

You know us. We're like dumb dogs. We catch a scent and we follow it.

So let's check our status here. No corpus delicti, no evidence of foul play, no evidence Dr. Kelmer is guilty of anything except being a son of a bitch. I miss anything?

We work together. Any relationship we have is strictly business.

Goren

We got these photos from a private investigator. This thing you're doing to the doctor with your tongue. What business is that, strictly?

You stupid idiots.

Eames

Sticks and stones.

Carver

"Trust me." Hell of a closing argument.

Carver

I make my living putting trust in juries. Now is not the time to stop.

Goren

I'll take them any way they come.

Goren

Mr. Zainer, we're all working stiffs here. Anything you tell us right now stays between us.

Please. You're putting me in a lousy position.

Goren

Well, let's try it like this. What do you feel comfortable telling us?

Nothing. But that's not an option, is it?

Goren

It's good you have a sense of humor about it.

Eames

The only way Edward can sell that building is if the old man cleared out.

So they burn him out. I'll have to remember this the next time my mother-in-law comes for a visit.

Eames

AA meeting book, there're meetings marked off. If I were in this family, I'd probably drink too.

Eames

Suspicious dust balls?

[impatient] For the last time! You don't have a choice, you've got to let us in! [his partner furiously breaks the glass door window] You ain’t gonna need those.

Eames

What do you really think?

Goren

I'll tell you what I think when I get pregnant.

Eames

Promise me a margarita when this is all over.

He's invoking his right to be silent.

Eames

Well, he doesn't have the right to be deaf, so he's going to have to listen to what we have to say.