[Goren has explained that someone tampered with the victim's antidepressants to force him to commit suicide.]
Last time he tried to kill himself, his kids stopped him. This time, he was fighting chemistry. And chemistry won.
Murder by suicide.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
CCarlson
Don't you care about me at all? I know you do, I saw it.
I didn't mean for you to see it.
As murders go, it's pretty flashy.
Could be the point.
[At a crime scene, Goren finds an unknown substance wrapped in tin foil.]
Somebody bake a potato?
[smells the substance] It's residue. I don't know what it is.
[pleased] A smell you can't identify.
[Goren has discovered that the models in the photographs are dead.]
He killed them and then took photos of them.
Can hold the pose for hours and not complain. The perfect models.
You know, you can repress the memory of abuse all you want. But it always find a way to express itself.
Gerhardt's most humane work. And no one will ever see it.
[to Tagman] You've done evil things, but you're not evil.
Whatever you meant or didn't mean, they're now going to convict you of first-degree murder.
HHicks
Don't let them scare you. If they had the evidence, he wouldn't be here talking to you.
[slamming his hand down on the table] Do not mistake my meaning for being here! Do not! [to Tagman] Maybe he's right, John. Maybe you will walk out of here a free man - but you won't be free. Because you want what you want: someone who won't leave. Who won't judge you. Someone who will surrender herself to you. A girlfriend. Now, this need, it won't stop. You know that about yourself, don't you?
TTagman
[choking up] I... no. No. I'm not like that.
John, your loneliness is so deep you can't help but do this again. Hurt other women. Commit evermore depraved acts. You ate Amanda's flesh. You cooked it with potatoes and onions. Because you needed to be connected to her, to be close to her. That's what your life is always gonna be like. You're always gonna be looking for that connection, each day worse than the last. I know you want to stop. I know you want to be a good person. I can see it, because you have remorse. It's why you drink. John, take responsibility.
HHicks
Mr. Tagman, don't answer him.
This will never stop until you take responsibility.
HHicks
The interview is over...
She can't even remember her own name, John. She can't remember.
HHicks
Detective...
How many more?
[Tagman tears up for a moment, and then breaks down]
TTagman
[sobbing] I don't know why I do this! I wanna know why, I... oh, God, I'm so sorry! I just wanted... I'm sorry! What is wrong with me? Oh my God!
A heartfelt confession. So much for the death penalty.
[about Tagman] I hear he volunteered to be a guinea pig for an experiment on the criminal brain.
They should do tests on how one man can shed so many crocodile tears.
[Just then, Carver takes a phone call.]
[subdued] Mr. Tagman was beaten to death by another inmate in Sing Sing this morning. He was in the laundry working when he was attacked.
I guess now everybody has what they want.
[reading a plaque on the station wall] "The Greatest Detectives in the World". You have to wonder about people who need such positive reinforcement.
I came here for a truce, Bobby.
A truce?
Notwithstanding your "unrelenting pursuit of evil".
Evil, Nicole, is also unrelenting in its pursuits.
You're both so transparent, using Ella to get at me.
That's Nicole's maternal instinct rearing its little head.
You can't deny those feelings even if you can't have kids of your own.
Yes, thank you. We can't all be blessed with eggs ripe and ready for hire. Tell me, detective, did your sister at least let you keep the sonogram so you could have something to cuddle up with at night?
[angry but controlled] I see my nephew at least three times a week. Being pregnant was a great experience. Consider yourself robbed.
[Goren theorizes that Wallace killed her own child]
Who helped you concoct this theory, your mother?
In her wildest delusions, she never spawned anything like you, Nicole.
[Wallace has jumped to her apparent death, but her body is never found]
How long do you think it would have taken for Nicole to collect a quart of her own blood?
If the blood was a set-up, why wouldn't Ella say something about it when she saw it all over the room?
Maybe she was in on it. Maybe we never turned her.
And she had to learn the hard way.
It's just a thought.
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