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a inverted hannibal lecture that involves the interogator doing the interogating is better said to be Break Them By Talking
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* BerserkButton: Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm Eames. Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
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* BerserkButton: Never, BerserkButton:
**Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm Eames. Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
**Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm Eames. Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
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* BreakThemByTalking
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* BreakThemByTalkingBreakThemByTalking: a favorite tactic of Goren's is to either play psychological mind games or confront the perp of the week with evidence of what a truly pathetic and inadequate person they really are until they crack.
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* HannibalLecture: Frequently inverted; a favorite tactic of Goren's in particular is to either play psychological mind games or basically confront the perp of the week with evidence of what a truly pathetic and inadequate person they really are until they eventually crack.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:Leslie Lezard]] when she lectures Goren about his self-destructive behavior ruining his and Eames' careers.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:Leslie Lezard]] when she lectures Goren about his self-destructive behavior ruining his and Eames' careers.
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* HannibalLecture: Frequently inverted; a favorite tactic of Goren's in particular is to either play psychological mind games or basically confront the perp of the week with evidence of what a truly pathetic and inadequate person they really are until they eventually crack.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:LeslieHannibalLecture:
**[[spoiler:Leslie Lezard]] when she lectures Goren about his self-destructive behavior ruining his and Eames' careers.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:Leslie
**[[spoiler:Leslie Lezard]] when she lectures Goren about his self-destructive behavior ruining his and Eames' careers.
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In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[Series/LawAndOrder original flavour]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (Creator/JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
The show was renewed for a tenth season that brought back D'Onofrio and Erbe for eight final episodes. ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' aired its finale on June 26, 2011, ending its run after ten years and 195 episodes.
The show was renewed for a tenth season that brought back D'Onofrio and Erbe for eight final episodes. ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' aired its finale on June 26, 2011, ending its run after ten years and 195 episodes.
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In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[Series/LawAndOrder original flavour]] series]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (Creator/JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
The show was renewed for a tenth season that brought back D'Onofrio and Erbe for eight final episodes.''Law & Order: Criminal ''Criminal Intent'' aired its finale on June 26, 2011, ending its run after ten years and 195 episodes.
The show was renewed for a tenth season that brought back D'Onofrio and Erbe for eight final episodes.
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* ActorAllusion: A possible one, to Goren being [[Film/FullMetalJacket in the military]]
** Goren was in the Army, not the Marines.
** Goren was in the Army, not the Marines.
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* ActorAllusion: A possible one, to Goren being [[Film/FullMetalJacket in the military]]
** Goren was in the Army, not the Marines.military.]]
** Goren was in the Army, not the Marines.
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-->EAMES: "No woman with a 40-slot shoe rack willingly walks around in a pair of crappy shoes."
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* BadassAdorable: Alexandra Eames is five-foot-two, adorable, and blonde. And she is just as terrifying as Goren when she gets going, if not ''more'' so.
* BestFriendManual: Alex Eames for Bobby Goren.
* BerserkButton: Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm Alexandra Eames. Robert Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
** Word of advice: Do NOT mess with Goren's mother or he will rip your head off.
* BestFriendManual: Alex Eames for Bobby Goren.
* BerserkButton: Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm Alexandra Eames. Robert Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
** Word of advice: Do NOT mess with Goren's mother or he will rip your head off.
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* BadassAdorable: Alexandra Eames is five-foot-two, adorable, and blonde. And she is just as terrifying as Goren when she gets going, if not ''more'' so.
* BestFriendManual:Alex Eames for Bobby Goren.
* BerserkButton: Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harmAlexandra Eames. Robert Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
** Word of advice: DoNOT not mess with Goren's mother or he will rip your head off.
* BestFriendManual:
* BerserkButton: Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm
** Word of advice: Do
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* ColbertBump: Creator/JeffGoldblum has shamelessly plugged the show on ''Series/TheColbertReport'', and Stephen Colbert himself guest starred in Season 3.
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* ColbertBump: Creator/JeffGoldblum has Goldblum shamelessly plugged the show on ''Series/TheColbertReport'', and Stephen Colbert himself guest starred in Season 3.
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* ExplosiveLeash: "Pas de Deux"
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* ExplosiveLeash: "Pas de Deux"Deux."
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* FocusGroupEnding: A blatant and unashamed example in the episode "Great Barrier" viewers were asked to vote on which would be the true ending on NBC's website. The losing non-canon ending had Goren shooting his nemesis Nicole Wallace.
* FriendlyLocalChinatown: "Chinoiserie"
* FriendlyLocalChinatown: "Chinoiserie"
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* FocusGroupEnding: A blatant and unashamed example in the episode "Great Barrier" viewers Barrier." Viewers were asked to vote on which would be the true ending on NBC's website. The losing non-canon ending had Goren shooting his nemesis Nicole Wallace.
* FriendlyLocalChinatown:"Chinoiserie""Chinoiserie."
* FriendlyLocalChinatown:
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* GuileHero: Arguably the entire premise of the show. The criminals are the most extraordinary collection of {{Magnificent Bastard}}s and [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]] you can imagine. But when Goren's on the case, they don't stand a chance.
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* GuileHero: Arguably the entire premise of the show. The criminals are the most extraordinary collection of {{Magnificent Bastard}}s {{magnificent bastard}}s and [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]] you can imagine. But when Goren's on the case, they don't stand a chance.
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* HannibalLecture: Frequently inverted; a favourite tactic of Goren's in particular is to either play psychological mind games or basically confront the perp of the week with evidence of what a truly pathetic and inadequate person they really are until they eventually crack.
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* HannibalLecture: Frequently inverted; a favourite favorite tactic of Goren's in particular is to either play psychological mind games or basically confront the perp of the week with evidence of what a truly pathetic and inadequate person they really are until they eventually crack.
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** Zig Zagged by Nicole and Goren as they tear into each other over the years.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'Onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in the Crime genre.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'Onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in the Crime genre.
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** Zig Zagged zagged by Nicole and Goren as they tear into each other over the years.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'Onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in theCrime crime genre.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'Onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in the
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* [[FromBadToWorse It Got Worse]]: [[spoiler:Goren's mentor killed everyone he knew and loved because he thought Goren would have fun trying to find out who did it.]]
** [[spoiler:It was also done so Goren would be "free" of the two biggest burdens in his life: his druggie brother Frank and Nicole Wallace.]]
** [[spoiler:It was also done so Goren would be "free" of the two biggest burdens in his life: his druggie brother Frank and Nicole Wallace.]]
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* [[FromBadToWorse It Got Worse]]: [[spoiler:Goren's mentor killed everyone he knew and loved because he thought Goren would have fun trying to find out who did it.]]
** [[spoiler:It It was also done so Goren would be "free" of the two biggest burdens in his life: his druggie brother Frank and Nicole Wallace.]]
** [[spoiler:It
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* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: A serial killer binds, gags and locks [[spoiler: Eames in a basement with an electronic door lock. She escapes using wire, nails, electricity and a GIANT HOOK left laying around the place.]]
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* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: A serial killer binds, gags and locks [[spoiler: Eames in a basement with an electronic door lock. She escapes using wire, nails, electricity and a GIANT HOOK ''giant hook'' left laying around the place.]]
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* MoreThanMindControl: This is the M.O. of two different villains, Randall Fuller in "Con-Text" and Bernard Fremont in "Slither." (Scarily, both are at least [[RippedFromTheHeadlines partially based]] on real people.)
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* MoreThanMindControl: This is the M.O. of two different villains, Randall Fuller in "Con-Text" and Bernard Fremont in "Slither." (Scarily, "Slither" (scarily, both are at least [[RippedFromTheHeadlines partially based]] on real people.)people).
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** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] another episode (where the overbearing nature of her husband causes a woman to kill two her children in a failed mass-suicide attempt) where Goren sucessfully caused the husband to break into a MotiveRant, but it ends up being all for naught because despite the husband being a world-class JerkAss, nothing that he did was technically illegal.
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** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] another episode (where the overbearing nature of her husband causes a woman to kill two her children in a failed mass-suicide attempt) where Goren sucessfully caused the husband to break into a MotiveRant, motive rant, but it ends up being all for naught because despite the husband being a world-class JerkAss, nothing that he did was technically illegal.
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* NoEnding: Criminal Intent doesn't indulge in this trope as much as SVU, but there are several episodes that end this way, one of the most notable being "Flipped". Logan and Wheeler get the perp, a cop killer, but he is [[spoiler: murdered by an undercover cop while the guards at Rikers turn the other way. The episode ends with the cop walking away]]
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* NoEnding: Criminal Intent ''Criminal Intent'' doesn't indulge in this trope as much as SVU, but there are several episodes that end this way, one of the most notable being "Flipped". Logan and Wheeler get the perp, a cop killer, but he is [[spoiler: murdered by an undercover cop while the guards at Rikers turn the other way. The episode ends with the cop walking away]]
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Goren's mother [[NotThatKindOfPartner doesn't understand that Eames is her son's partner]], and demands to meet his new girlfriend. (Goren's reaction is adorably bashful.)
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Goren's mother [[NotThatKindOfPartner doesn't understand that Eames is her son's partner]], and demands to meet his new girlfriend. girlfriend (Goren's reaction is adorably bashful.)bashful).
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** ''Finally'', wonderfully, thankfully, mercifully ''averted'' in season ten, with mandatory therapy sessions being a condition of Goren's reinstatement.
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** ''Finally'', wonderfully, thankfully, mercifully ''averted'' Finally averted in season ten, with mandatory therapy sessions being a condition of Goren's reinstatement.
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* TheyFightCrime: He's a quirky detective with an uncanny ability to read human behavior. She's a normal, well-adjusted human being. They fight crime!
** Somewhat justified, given that it's a cop show.
** Somewhat justified, given that it's a cop show.
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* TheyFightCrime: He's a quirky detective with an uncanny ability to read human behavior. She's a normal, well-adjusted human being. They fight crime!
** Somewhat justified, given that it's a cop show.crime.
** Somewhat justified, given that it's a cop show.
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* WaifFu: Alexandra Eames is five feet and two inches of pure {{badass}}. And ''she's'' the senior detective in her partnership with Goren.
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* WaifFu: Alexandra Eames is five feet and two inches of pure {{badass}}. And ''she's'' the senior detective in her partnership with Goren.
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* WhodunnitToMe: "30"
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* WhodunnitToMe: "30""30."
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*** And then season 10 (and the series) ended with an equally open-ended possibility of them eventually getting together. Eames later guest-starred on [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]], where it was [[spoiler:implied that they weren't together, although she did take on some of Goren's personality traits]].
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*** And then season 10 (and the series) ended with an equally open-ended possibility of them eventually getting together. Eames later guest-starred on [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]], ''[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]]'', where it was [[spoiler:implied that they weren't together, although she did take on some of Goren's personality traits]].
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** Also worth mentioning that they call each other "Detective" when they're REALLY miffed.
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** Also worth mentioning that they call each other "Detective" when they're REALLY ''really'' miffed.
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** Actually, the killer was the significant other of the victim's brother [[spoiler: and Goren's ArchEnemy Nicole Wallace]].
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* CrossOver: With the original series, twice in the first season.
** One episode had a brief cameo by the lead character from ''InPlainSight''. Strangely enough, a criminal later taunts that said character's expectation that he'll break down and confess was a product of her having watched too much ''Law and Order''. Such confessions are more or less ''Criminal Intent'''s trademark.
** One episode had a brief cameo by the lead character from ''InPlainSight''. Strangely enough, a criminal later taunts that said character's expectation that he'll break down and confess was a product of her having watched too much ''Law and Order''. Such confessions are more or less ''Criminal Intent'''s trademark.
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* CrossOver: With the original series, twice three times in the first season.
** One episode had a brief cameo by the lead character from ''InPlainSight''. Strangely enough, a criminal later taunts that said character's expectation that he'll break down and confess was a product of her having watched too much''Law and Order''.''CSI''. Such confessions are more or less ''Criminal Intent'''s trademark.
** One episode had a brief cameo by the lead character from ''InPlainSight''. Strangely enough, a criminal later taunts that said character's expectation that he'll break down and confess was a product of her having watched too much
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* WatchingTheReflectionUndress: One killer was a voyeuristic doctor who strategically placed a stainless steel cabinet door in his office so he could watch his patients change in the reflection.
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* AllWomenLoveShoes: This line from Eames in "Ex Stasis":
-->"No woman with a 40-slot shoe rack willingly walks around in a pair of crappy shoes."
-->"No woman with a 40-slot shoe rack willingly walks around in a pair of crappy shoes."
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* AllWomenLoveShoes: This line from Eames in From "Ex Stasis":
-->"No -->EAMES: "No woman with a 40-slot shoe rack willingly walks around in a pair of crappy shoes."
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* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: Ms. Nobile insists it is pronounced "no-bee-lay", not "no-beel". It's seldom pronounced right except to her face.
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* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: ItIsPronouncedTroPAY Ms. Nobile insists it is pronounced "no-bee-lay", not "no-beel". It's seldom pronounced right except to her face.
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* [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]]: [[spoiler:Goren's mentor killed everyone he knew and loved because he thought Goren would have fun trying to find out who did it.]]
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* [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]]: Got Worse]]: [[spoiler:Goren's mentor killed everyone he knew and loved because he thought Goren would have fun trying to find out who did it.]]
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* {{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}}: Ms. Nobile insists it is pronounced "no-bee-lay", not "no-beel". It's seldom pronounced right except to her face.
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* {{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}}: {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: Ms. Nobile insists it is pronounced "no-bee-lay", not "no-beel". It's seldom pronounced right except to her face.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: The season 9 opener, where [[spoiler: Goren and Eames both left the show]], was left a bit open-ended in this regard, making this a case of NoRomanticResolution. It was definitely stated that they would see each other outside of the workplace, but the exact direction the relationship will take was not clarified. This was done so that those who [[DieForOurShip ship them]] can believe that they will, and those who don't want them together romantically can believe that they won't.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: The season 9 opener, where [[spoiler: Goren and Eames both left the show]], was left a bit open-ended in this regard, making this a case of NoRomanticResolution. It was definitely stated that they would see each other outside of the workplace, but the exact direction the relationship will would take was not clarified. This was done so that those who [[DieForOurShip ship them]] can believe that they will, and those who don't want them together romantically can believe that they won't.
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*** And then season 10 (and the series) ended with an equally open-ended possibility of them eventually getting together.
**** And then Eames guest starred on [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]] where it was pretty clear they weren't together, although she did take on some of Goren's personality traits.
**** And then Eames guest starred on [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]] where it was pretty clear they weren't together, although she did take on some of Goren's personality traits.
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*** And then season 10 (and the series) ended with an equally open-ended possibility of them eventually getting together.
**** And thentogether. Eames guest starred later guest-starred on [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]] SVU]], where it was pretty clear [[spoiler:implied that they weren't together, although she did take on some of Goren's personality traits.traits]].
**** And then
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-->'''Beatrice Mailer''': This won't hurt a bit. [Holding her father's bleeding hand, she squeezes lemon juice onto an open knife cut as he silently flinches] Remember the first time you told me that?
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-->'''Beatrice Mailer''': This won't hurt a bit. [Holding her father's bleeding hand, she squeezes lemon juice onto an open knife cut as he silently flinches] [[ParentalIncest Remember the first time you told me that?that?]]
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* ClearMyName: The Season 7 finale has Det. Goren being framed for the murder of his brother by his ArchNemesis Nicole Wallace and mentor Declan Gage.
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* ClearMyName: The Season 7 finale has Det. Goren being framed for the murder of his brother by his ArchNemesis ArchEnemy Nicole Wallace and mentor Declan Gage.
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In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[LawAndOrder original flavour]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (Creator/JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
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In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[LawAndOrder [[Series/LawAndOrder original flavour]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (Creator/JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Goren's mannerisms really give off this impression (especially when he tilts his head).
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* CloudCuckooLander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Goren's mannerisms really give off this impression (especially when he tilts his head).
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* ReTool: Started out focused entirely on the exploits of Goren and Eames until Vincent D'Onforio began suffering exhaustion. After this the show was retooled with Mike Logan (Chris Noth's character from the orignal L&O) being added in and alternating every other episode with Goren and Eames. Things stayed this way (though with Noth being replaced by Creator/JeffGoldblum in season 8.
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* ReTool: {{Retool}}: Started out focused entirely on the exploits of Goren and Eames until Vincent D'Onforio began suffering exhaustion. After this the show was retooled with Mike Logan (Chris Noth's character from the orignal L&O) being added in and alternating every other episode with Goren and Eames. Things stayed this way (though with Noth being replaced by Creator/JeffGoldblum in season 8.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: "Delicate," which is also an {{homage}} to ''HeavenlyCreatures''. The two girls' names begin with the same letters, and the nuttier of the two even has the PortmanteauCoupleName of Paulette (Pauline/Juliette).
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: "Delicate," which is also an {{homage}} to ''HeavenlyCreatures''.''Film/HeavenlyCreatures''. The two girls' names begin with the same letters, and the nuttier of the two even has the PortmanteauCoupleName of Paulette (Pauline/Juliette).
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* XMeetsY: ''LawAndOrder'' meets ''Series/{{Columbo}}''
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* XMeetsY: ''LawAndOrder'' ''Series/LawAndOrder'' meets ''Series/{{Columbo}}''
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* YouLookFamiliar: [[TrueBlood Carrie Preston]] has appeared in three different episodes as three different characters.
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* YouLookFamiliar: [[TrueBlood [[Series/TrueBlood Carrie Preston]] has appeared in three different episodes as three different characters.
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* ActorAllusion: A possible one, to Goren being [[FullMetalJacket in the military]]
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* ActorAllusion: A possible one, to Goren being [[FullMetalJacket [[Film/FullMetalJacket in the military]]
* AllWomenLoveShoes: This line from Eames in "Ex Stasis":
-->"No woman with a 40-slot shoe rack willingly walks around in a pair of crappy shoes."
-->"No woman with a 40-slot shoe rack willingly walks around in a pair of crappy shoes."
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* SpinOff: From ''LawAndOrder''
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* SpinOff: From ''LawAndOrder''''Series/LawAndOrder''
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** Also the case with Julianne Nicholson; her first pregnancy was avoided by having the character PutOnABus for the first half of Season Seven, but the second time they wrote it in.
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** Goren was in the Army, not the Marines.
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* WaifFu: Alexandra Eames is five feet and two inches of pure {{badass}}.
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* WaifFu: Alexandra Eames is five feet and two inches of pure {{badass}}. And ''she's'' the senior detective in her partnership with Goren.
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** Jay O. Sanders played a memorable killer-of-the-week in one episode back in 2002; he plays Cpt. Hanna in the final season.
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** Jay O. Sanders played a memorable killer-of-the-week in one episode back in 2002; he plays Cpt. Hanna Capt. Hannah in the final season.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: In "Poison", Trudy Pomeranski uses poisoned [=OTC=] painkillers to murder her husband and slips the extras onto store shelves to allay suspicion and set up a lucrative class action lawsuit.
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* ColbertBump: Creator/JeffGoldblum has shamelessly plugged the show on TheColbertReport, and Stephen Colbert himself guest starred in Season 3.
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* ColbertBump: Creator/JeffGoldblum has shamelessly plugged the show on TheColbertReport, ''Series/TheColbertReport'', and Stephen Colbert himself guest starred in Season 3.
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Crosswicking from You Wont Feel A Thing.
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* YouWontFeelAThing: In the episode "Death Roe":
-->'''Beatrice Mailer''': This won't hurt a bit. [Holding her father's bleeding hand, she squeezes lemon juice onto an open knife cut as he silently flinches] Remember the first time you told me that?
-->'''Beatrice Mailer''': This won't hurt a bit. [Holding her father's bleeding hand, she squeezes lemon juice onto an open knife cut as he silently flinches] Remember the first time you told me that?
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**** And then Eames guest starred on [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]] where it was pretty clear they weren't together, although she did take on some of Goren's personality traits.
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It Got Worse rename
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* ItGotWorse: [[spoiler:Goren's mentor killed everyone he knew and loved because he thought Goren would have fun trying to find out who did it.]]
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* AnywhereButTheirLips: In the season 9 opener, after [[spoiler: Goren is fired, he and Eames are saying goodbye as partners for the last time. They full-on embrace for the first time in the series, and Goren presses a rather intense kiss to her cheek for several seconds. ]]
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* AnywhereButTheirLips: In the season 9 opener, after [[spoiler: Goren is fired, he and Eames are saying goodbye as partners for the last time. They full-on embrace for the first time in the series, and Goren presses a rather intense kiss to her cheek for several seconds. ]]
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** Played straight by [[spoiler:Leslie Lezard]] when she lectures Goren about his self-destructive behavior ruining his and Eames careers.
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* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in the Crime genre.
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* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'onofrio D'Onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in the Crime genre.
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In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[LawAndOrder original flavour]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
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In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[LawAndOrder original flavour]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (JeffGoldblum), (Creator/JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
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* ColbertBump: JeffGoldblum has shamelessly plugged the show on TheColbertReport, and Stephen Colbert himself guest starred in Season 3.
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* ReTool: Started out focused entirely on the exploits of Goren and Eames until Vincent D'Onforio began suffering exhaustion. After this the show was retooled with Mike Logan (Chris Noth's character from the orignal L&O) being added in and alternating every other episode with Goren and Eames. Things stayed this way (though with Noth being replaced by JeffGoldblum in season 8.
** This is until a WhamEpisode that [[spoiler: [[PutOnABus writes out]] [[TurnInYourBadge Goren]], [[UndyingLoyalty Eames]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Captain Ross]] in one fell swoop,]] which causes the show to return to the original format but with JeffGoldblum in the lead role, however, Goldblum decided to [[PutOnABus leave the show at the end of season 9]]. This in turn led to [[TheBusCameBack Vincent D'Onforio and Kathryne Erbe both returning for the 10th a final season]] thus bringing the show full circle.
** This is until a WhamEpisode that [[spoiler: [[PutOnABus writes out]] [[TurnInYourBadge Goren]], [[UndyingLoyalty Eames]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Captain Ross]] in one fell swoop,]] which causes the show to return to the original format but with JeffGoldblum in the lead role, however, Goldblum decided to [[PutOnABus leave the show at the end of season 9]]. This in turn led to [[TheBusCameBack Vincent D'Onforio and Kathryne Erbe both returning for the 10th a final season]] thus bringing the show full circle.
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* ReTool: Started out focused entirely on the exploits of Goren and Eames until Vincent D'Onforio began suffering exhaustion. After this the show was retooled with Mike Logan (Chris Noth's character from the orignal L&O) being added in and alternating every other episode with Goren and Eames. Things stayed this way (though with Noth being replaced by JeffGoldblum Creator/JeffGoldblum in season 8.
** This is until a WhamEpisode that [[spoiler: [[PutOnABus writes out]] [[TurnInYourBadge Goren]], [[UndyingLoyalty Eames]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Captain Ross]] in one fell swoop,]] which causes the show to return to the original format but withJeffGoldblum Creator/JeffGoldblum in the lead role, however, Goldblum decided to [[PutOnABus leave the show at the end of season 9]]. This in turn led to [[TheBusCameBack Vincent D'Onforio and Kathryne Erbe both returning for the 10th a final season]] thus bringing the show full circle.
** This is until a WhamEpisode that [[spoiler: [[PutOnABus writes out]] [[TurnInYourBadge Goren]], [[UndyingLoyalty Eames]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Captain Ross]] in one fell swoop,]] which causes the show to return to the original format but with
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** Karl Atwood, the bad guy in the very first episode ("One"), had a girlfriend and an old prison buddy with whom he was intimate. Goren theorizes that he uses anal sex as a means of dominating others, but the girlfriend refuses to comment. This one takes it into CompleteMonster territory; Atwood was really, ''really'' not a nice guy.
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** Karl Atwood, the bad guy in the very first episode ("One"), had a girlfriend and an old prison buddy with whom he was intimate. Goren theorizes that he uses anal sex as a means of dominating others, but the girlfriend refuses to comment. This one takes it into CompleteMonster territory; Atwood was really, ''really'' not a nice guy.
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* GuileHero: Arguably the entire premise of the show. The criminals are the most extraordinary collection of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastards]], [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]], and [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]] you can imagine. But when Goren's on the case, they don't stand a chance.
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* GuileHero: Arguably the entire premise of the show. The criminals are the most extraordinary collection of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastards]], {{Magnificent Bastard}}s and [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]], and [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]] Chessmasters]] you can imagine. But when Goren's on the case, they don't stand a chance.
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* DaChief: Captain Ross, who is rather obviously outclassed by Goren, though he isn't shy to call Goren out on more blatant shenanigans.
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* NastyGrace: Faith Yancy and Cindy Marino.
* ReverseWhodunnit: Each episode begins with the foul deed being done, and then goes back and forth between the perps' perspective(s) and the cops'.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Goren's mother doesn't understand that Eames is her son's partner, and demands to meet his new girlfriend. (Goren's reaction is adorably bashful.)
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* HeyItsThatGuy!: I'd probably be as off-center as Goren if ''my'' boss was [[TheStand Randall Flagg...]]
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->''"In New York City's war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Major Case Squad. These are their stories."'' '''''DONG DONG'''''
->''It's about yearning. He misses his partner.''
-->--'''Goren''', [[SarcasmMode not talking about himself, of course.]]
->''Detective Goren's style is definitely unique and an acquired taste.''
-->--'''Eames'''
Second SpinOff from the popular ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' series, ''Criminal Intent'' basically shows the viewer what is happening from the criminal's perspective as well as the ongoing police investigation. Basically, what happens when ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' is brought into the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' universe, complete with a quirky genius detective - Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), an anti-social, twitchy detective in the NYPD Major Case Squad who has a very sharp mind for piecing together details and lateral thinking. Together with dryly sardonic partner Alex Eames (Kathryn Erbe), they investigate the most serious crimes that occur in New York (most of which seem to be murders or end up in murders), whilst the show also gives us the perspective of the people responsible for it (or at least people who are connected to the people responsible for it).
In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[LawAndOrder original flavour]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
The show was renewed for a tenth season that brought back D'Onofrio and Erbe for eight final episodes. ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' aired its finale on June 26, 2011, ending its run after ten years and 195 episodes.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AlwaysMurder, even though the real Major Case Squad does not handle murders.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Goren, he's all sorts of crazy, has multiple quirks and ticks, but avoids any specific disorder or symptom set.
* AndAnotherThing
* [[spoiler: AndTheAdventureContinues: How it all ends.]]
* AnywhereButTheirLips: In the season 9 opener, after [[spoiler: Goren is fired, he and Eames are saying goodbye as partners for the last time. They full-on embrace for the first time in the series, and Goren presses a rather intense kiss to her cheek for several seconds. ]]
** May be [[JustifiedTrope justified.]] Despite his excellent skill at understanding homicidal maniacs, Goren is seemingly awkward in interpersonal relationships. Something as personal and intimate as kissing her on the lips would be difficult for him.
** It had all the intensity of a more obvious kiss, but without the non-shippers' outrage.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Used all the time to break perps.
* BadassAdorable: Alexandra Eames is five-foot-two, adorable, and blonde. And she is just as terrifying as Goren when she gets going, if not ''more'' so.
* BestFriendManual: Alex Eames for Bobby Goren.
* BerserkButton: Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm Alexandra Eames. Robert Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
** Word of advice: Do NOT mess with Goren's mother or he will rip your head off.
** Don't disrespect your own mother in Goren's presence, either.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Goren is probably the sanest member of his family. That should tell you a lot.
* BoringButPractical: Thrill at the wonders of ''Forensic Accounting''!
* TheBoxingEpisode
* BrainsAndBrawn: Funnily enough, ''Eames'' is the muscle in her partnership with Goren. She's no slouch in the intellect department - she's shown to be much more computer-savvy than her partner - but she's physically very tough despite her size.
** Though it must be said that Goren himself, being both a police officer ''and'' a former military man, has proven to be more than capable of handling himself in a fight.
* BreakThemByTalking
* BrokenBird: Alex's husband was a cop killed in the line of duty.
* BrokenPedestal
* TheCastShowoff: In "Rock Star", Jeff Goldblum's first episode, he has a scene where he gets to demonstrate his skill as a pianist.
* ChannelHop: From [=NBC=] to [=USA=] with Season Seven.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Carver and Barek both left the series after Season Five without explanation, and each were mentioned exactly once afterwards.
* ChurchOfHappyology: The villain of "Con-Text" runs one of these, which he calls [=GraceNote=].
* ClearMyName: The Season 7 finale has Det. Goren being framed for the murder of his brother by his ArchNemesis Nicole Wallace and mentor Declan Gage.
* CloudCuckooLander: Goren's mannerisms really give off this impression (especially when he tilts his head).
** Nichols is Jeff Goldblum doing his Jeff Goldblum thing, so he counts too.
* ColbertBump: JeffGoldblum has shamelessly plugged the show on TheColbertReport, and Stephen Colbert himself guest starred in Season 3.
* ColdOpening
* ComatoseCanary: [[spoiler:Subverted]] in the episode based on the Terry Schiavo case.
* ComplexityAddiction: Several of the perps seem to suffer from this. For example, in the episode "Grow," a killer sets up a fake mugging to murder his brother, but kills him with an injection of poison under his tongue (to fake a heart attack), rather than just shooting or stabbing him like a mugger would do.
* CrimeTimeSoap, though perhaps not as much as ''Special Victims Unit''.
** Only since Rene Balcer left after Season Five.
* CrossOver: With the original series, twice in the first season.
** One episode had a brief cameo by the lead character from ''InPlainSight''. Strangely enough, a criminal later taunts that said character's expectation that he'll break down and confess was a product of her having watched too much ''Law and Order''. Such confessions are more or less ''Criminal Intent'''s trademark.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: The villain in the season 4 episode 'Gone' was this.
* TheDanza: James "Jamey" Sheridan as Capt. James Deakins.
* DeadpanSnarker: Detective Eames is made of this trope.
** Goren has his moments.
** And Wheeler gets her moments as well.
-->'''Detective Nichols''': "How's the, uh...how's the body?"
-->'''Detective Wheeler''': "Dead."
* DefectiveDetective: Goren, although Logan has his issues as well.
** Again, Goren has degenerated since creator Rene Balcer left.
* DepravedBisexual: Nicole Wallace. To be fair to the show, her bisexuality isn't actually portrayed as a negative, and they make it clear [[AntiVillain she's just plain messed up, period]]. Also, it appears [[ManipulativeBastard her only confirmed lesbian relationship may have been simply a means to an end]] rather than due to any actual desire.
** Karl Atwood, the bad guy in the very first episode ("One"), had a girlfriend and an old prison buddy with whom he was intimate. Goren theorizes that he uses anal sex as a means of dominating others, but the girlfriend refuses to comment. This one takes it into CompleteMonster territory; Atwood was really, ''really'' not a nice guy.
* DetectiveDrama
* DistaffCounterpart: Carolyn Barek was pretty much a female version of Goren.
* DonutMessWithACop: Terrorists wire a car door to high explosives with a box of donuts in clear view inside the car. Nichols breaks the glass, confirms his suspicions, and tells a cop on-scene to call the bomb squad.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Several in-universe examples in "Seizure."
-->'''Eames''': Serial killer groupies... And I thought I was pathetic with my {{ABBA}} fan club card.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Captain Ross]]
* EmptyCopThreat: Carried out. A killer Goren interviewed [[spoiler:(who was later proven to have been his biological dad)]] was executed. In Pennsylvania, where it was still legal.
* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe example in "Faith," in which an autobiography written by a LittlestCancerPatient had to be tightened up a bit by an editor for publication. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed the editor did more to improve the story than even she realizes, which gives Goren the psychological tools he needs to manipulate her into confessing to the episode's murder.]]
* ExplosiveLeash: "Pas de Deux"
* FalseFlagOperation
* FingerInTheMail: Inverted/subverted in a season finale episode when Goren receives a human heart while investigating the death of his brother Frank and possible kidnapping of his nephew. Turns out [[spoiler: it actually belongs to serial killer Nicole Wallace, who had killed Frank and was subsequently killed by Goren's unhinged mentor, who wanted to remove himself, Nicole and Frank from Goren's life in one fell swoop]].
* FlawExploitation: In "The Saint", this is the criminal's motivation: [[spoiler: he believes the church was taking advantage of his mentally ill mother, who insisted on donating everything she could to their cause, to the point of completely cleaning out their bank account because she thought the church needed the money more]].
* FocusGroupEnding: A blatant and unashamed example in the episode "Great Barrier" viewers were asked to vote on which would be the true ending on NBC's website. The losing non-canon ending had Goren shooting his nemesis Nicole Wallace.
* FriendlyLocalChinatown: "Chinoiserie"
* GilliganCut: In the episode "Weeping Willow". "Who's going on camera?"
* GoodCopBadCop: Goren and Eames ''love'' to play this, switching roles as needed. You can tell that Goren is winding up to be the bad cop when he adopts a [[BrooklynRage really exaggerated Brooklyn accent]]. Eames, meanwhile, is liable to take on a StrawFeminist persona.
* GuileHero: Arguably the entire premise of the show. The criminals are the most extraordinary collection of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastards]], [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]], and [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]] you can imagine. But when Goren's on the case, they don't stand a chance.
* HandyCuffs: Used at least twice
** A former military suspect asks to be cuffed in front out of respect for his family. He grabs a gun off one of the officers and kills himself. This immediately after attempting to kill himself and being stopped by the officers who arrested him. One wonders why they thought that was a good idea.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] when the police handcuff a deaf man with his hands in front, since handcuffing him with his hands behind his back would be akin to gagging him.
* HannibalLecture: Frequently inverted; a favourite tactic of Goren's in particular is to either play psychological mind games or basically confront the perp of the week with evidence of what a truly pathetic and inadequate person they really are until they eventually crack.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:Leslie Lezard]] when she lectures Goren about his self-destructive behavior ruining his and Eames careers.
** Zig Zagged by Nicole and Goren as they tear into each other over the years.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in the Crime genre.
* HollywoodGameDesign
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The 6'4" Goren is much, ''much'' taller and brawnier than the petite and slender Eames.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison
* InTheBlood: Eames comes from a family of cops.
** More disturbingly, [[spoiler:Goren's real biological father turned out to have been a serial killer.]]
* ItGotWorse: [[spoiler:Goren's mentor killed everyone he knew and loved because he thought Goren would have fun trying to find out who did it.]]
** [[spoiler:It was also done so Goren would be "free" of the two biggest burdens in his life: his druggie brother Frank and Nicole Wallace.]]
* {{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}}: Ms. Nobile insists it is pronounced "no-bee-lay", not "no-beel". It's seldom pronounced right except to her face.
* ItsAllAboutMe
* ItsPersonal: The episode where they finally solved Joe Eames's murder.
* JurisdictionFriction: Goren, Nichols, and Eames vs. the FBI during the investigation of [[spoiler: Captain Ross' murder.]]
* LastNameBasis: Goren and Eames. [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious Usually.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Goren tells his season 10 therapist that this is his relationship with Eames. (The therapist doesn't seem convinced.)
** Vincent D'Onofrio has also stated that this is the real-life relationship between himself and Kathryn Erbe.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: A serial killer binds, gags and locks [[spoiler: Eames in a basement with an electronic door lock. She escapes using wire, nails, electricity and a GIANT HOOK left laying around the place.]]
* MadArtist: The killer from "The Posthumous Collection".
* [[TheMafiya Mafiya]] [[MafiaPrincess Princess]]: In "Maledictus."
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Devildis, the insane fundamentalist Christian, crossed the DespairEventHorizon and tries to save his family and friends by murdering them. Hilariously, his name isn't commented on.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome
* MoreThanMindControl: This is the M.O. of two different villains, Randall Fuller in "Con-Text" and Bernard Fremont in "Slither." (Scarily, both are at least [[RippedFromTheHeadlines partially based]] on real people.)
* MotiveRant: Inducing these are Goren's specialty.
** Averted on occasion, when he breaks a suspect who then confesses to a crime they haven't committed.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] another episode (where the overbearing nature of her husband causes a woman to kill two her children in a failed mass-suicide attempt) where Goren sucessfully caused the husband to break into a MotiveRant, but it ends up being all for naught because despite the husband being a world-class JerkAss, nothing that he did was technically illegal.
* MurderDotCom: The episode "Weeping Willow," although here the crime is kidnapping, not murder.
* MyBelovedSmother
* NastyGrace: Faith Yancy and Cindy Marino.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Nicole Wallace, though what is believed to be her heart was found. Interesting case, as Goren refuses to believe that she's dead despite proof.]]
* NewYorkCityCops
* NoEnding: Criminal Intent doesn't indulge in this trope as much as SVU, but there are several episodes that end this way, one of the most notable being "Flipped". Logan and Wheeler get the perp, a cop killer, but he is [[spoiler: murdered by an undercover cop while the guards at Rikers turn the other way. The episode ends with the cop walking away]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: "Inert Dwarf" had a Stephen Hawking {{expy}} who still had more mobility than he let on.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Goren has a tendency to do this at times.
* OddFriendship: Milton Winters and Dempsey Powers in "Cuba Libre." An AmbiguouslyJewish clothing store magnate and a MalcolmXerox drug kingpin.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In "Chinoiserie", Goren and Eames immediately identify a supposed British lord as a fake by his atrocious accent which keeps jumping around the UK. The outraged impostor, an actor unknowingly hired to play the part as part of a con, keeps insisting that it is "a perfectly valid British musical hall accent".
* OpeningNarration
* ThePlan:
** EvilPlan: Each criminal has one and it frames the episode's plot.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Goren and Eames.
* PlayingGertrude: Tony Goldwyn played Vincent D'Onofrio's older brother. Goldwyn is a year younger than D'Onofrio.
* PrettyInMink: Some of the guest characters, including a witness being identified by her Russian sable coat.
* TheProfiler: Goren.
* PutOnABus: All of the detectives who have exited the series over the years.
** TheBusCameBack: Goren and Eames return for the tenth and final season! AndTheFandomRejoiced.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: When Kathryn Erbe became pregnant with her second child, a pregnancy arc was written out for Eames in which she acted as the surrogate mother for her sister's child. This of course resulted in an ObviousPregnancy later that season.
** When Jamey Sheridan was affected with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Palsy Bell's Palsy]], so was Deakins (who donned an EyepatchOfPower). At times it was obvious the poor guy was visibly struggling with it and was having a hard time saying his lines.
* RequiredSpinoffCrossover
* ReTool: Started out focused entirely on the exploits of Goren and Eames until Vincent D'Onforio began suffering exhaustion. After this the show was retooled with Mike Logan (Chris Noth's character from the orignal L&O) being added in and alternating every other episode with Goren and Eames. Things stayed this way (though with Noth being replaced by JeffGoldblum in season 8.
** This is until a WhamEpisode that [[spoiler: [[PutOnABus writes out]] [[TurnInYourBadge Goren]], [[UndyingLoyalty Eames]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Captain Ross]] in one fell swoop,]] which causes the show to return to the original format but with JeffGoldblum in the lead role, however, Goldblum decided to [[PutOnABus leave the show at the end of season 9]]. This in turn led to [[TheBusCameBack Vincent D'Onforio and Kathryne Erbe]] [[AndTheFandomRejoiced both returning for the 10th a final season]] thus bringing the show full circle.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Subverted in "Weeping Willow"; Willow, unlike [[LonelyGirl15 Bree]], turns out to be an actual girl. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] when it turns out the kidnapping was a fake that had simply spiraled out of control.]]
** One noteworthy episode ("Want") was based on Jeffrey Dahmer, and included things like the killer being employed in a candy-related job, his longing for a permanent companion, cannibalism of body parts, boiling water being poured into holes drilled in the victim's head, and [[spoiler: the killer being murdered in prison while on work detail]]. NeilPatrickHarris even looked scarily similar to Dahmer in the episode.
** The killer from "Gone" is a murderous version of Bobby Fischer.
** In the episode "D.A.W." the killer is an American version of Dr. Harold Shipman.
** The [[YouLookFamiliar first]] character played by Jay O. Sanders was obviously based on famous mob hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski.
** The last two episodes are based on ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' and the [[{{Facebook}} Zuckerberg-Winkelvoss controversy]], respectively.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: "Delicate," which is also an {{homage}} to ''HeavenlyCreatures''. The two girls' names begin with the same letters, and the nuttier of the two even has the PortmanteauCoupleName of Paulette (Pauline/Juliette).
* RuthlessModernPirates: In "Loyalty".
* SadisticChoice: Holy hell, "Able & Willing." [[spoiler: The one forcing the choice is ''the son of a Holocaust survivor'' whose own father and grandparents had to choose (father and grandfather survived), who's also a therapist.]]
* SelfHarm: The daughter of one episode's suspect.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Goren's mother doesn't understand that Eames is her son's partner, and demands to meet his new girlfriend. (Goren's reaction is adorably bashful.)
** Goren's mother got the wrong impression from his brother Frank, who assumed partner meant domestic partner; Bobby weakly tries to correct him, but it doesn't sink in.
* {{Sleepwalking}}
* SpinOff: From ''LawAndOrder''
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Logan's multiple partners. One was more or less a female version of Goren.
** There was also a period when Goren got a new partner who acted ''exactly'' like Eames.
* SympatheticMurderer: All over the place.
* ThereAreNoTherapists
** And if there ''are'' therapists, watch out.
** ''Finally'', wonderfully, thankfully, mercifully ''averted'' in season ten, with mandatory therapy sessions being a condition of Goren's reinstatement.
** Back in Season Six, Eames also had to attend therapy sessions after [[spoiler: being kidnapped by Jo Gage.]]
* TheyFightCrime: He's a quirky detective with an uncanny ability to read human behavior. She's a normal, well-adjusted human being. They fight crime!
** Somewhat justified, given that it's a cop show.
* TheyWereHoldingYouBack: In a rather bizzare twist on this trope, [[spoiler: Declan Gage]] intended to get rid of ''himself'' for this reason, [[spoiler: along with Frank Goren and Nicole Wallace]].
* {{Transplant}}: Logan, from ''LawAndOrder''.
* TryingNotToCry: Eames barely manages to hold it together in court when a lawyer springs an old request for another partner on her.
* TurnInYourBadge
* UndyingLoyalty: In the season 9 opener, not only does Eames fight with Nichols about investigating Goren over the murders, but [[spoiler: she accepts the captain's post only long enough to ensure that she's the one who fires Goren (so she knows he will be treated well in the exit interview). Once he leaves, she resigns rather than stay without her beloved partner.]] The episode is even called "Loyalty," a reference both to the MCS detectives' loyalty to their captain and the partners' loyalty to each other.
* TheUnfavourite: Despite Bobby being the only one of her two sons who takes care of her and is always there for her, Frances Goren makes it clear that his brother Frank is the one she really loves. This causes a lot of issues for Goren.
** This might stem from [[spoiler: Bobby's true parentage. Mrs. Goren told him that "she just never knew for sure".]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Finally acknowledged in one episode by Goren's brother Frank, who irritably told his brother to "take Eames to a motel and get it out of your system." Bobby's reaction was... [[BerserkButton not pretty]].
* VillainousBreakdown: OnceAnEpisode. Inducing these is Goren's shtick.
* VomitingCop: A twist on the trope in this series; in one episode, Wheeler has been pregnant for a while and has been throwing up every day. The crime scene she visits is one of the less disturbing ones she's seen, but in her condition it's enough to bring her breakfast back up.
** Well, to be fair, she didn't get sick until she realized that the victim had been scrubbed inside and out with bleach. That's pretty disturbing.
* WaifFu: Alexandra Eames is five feet and two inches of pure {{badass}}.
* TheWatson: Eames seems to be an interface between Goren and the rest of the world, much as the TropeNamer is for his partner-in-crimesolving. Her main function is to help him interact with the rest of humanity, and to maneuver the suspect into a position where Goren can let loose with his Goren brilliance.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ADA Ron Carver. He left without explanation.
* WhatTheHellHero: For the entire ''unit''; a black drug dealer suspect points out that the crime they're investigating wouldn't be "high priority" if a white tourist hadn't gotten caught in the crossfire.
* WheresTheFunInThat: In the episode "The Unblinking Eye"
-->'''Detective Alexandra Eames:''' [while observing a suspect in the interrogation room] She could confess, but where's the fun in that?
* WhodunnitToMe: "30"
* WillTheyOrWontThey: The season 9 opener, where [[spoiler: Goren and Eames both left the show]], was left a bit open-ended in this regard, making this a case of NoRomanticResolution. It was definitely stated that they would see each other outside of the workplace, but the exact direction the relationship will take was not clarified. This was done so that those who [[DieForOurShip ship them]] can believe that they will, and those who don't want them together romantically can believe that they won't.
** Of course, then TheBusCameBack and proved that they did not become a couple.
*** And then season 10 (and the series) ended with an equally open-ended possibility of them eventually getting together.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: The show's very last perp.]]
* WrittenInAbsence: Both Eames and Wheeler had absences from the series due to their actresses' respective pregnancies.
* XMeetsY: ''LawAndOrder'' meets ''Series/{{Columbo}}''
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Eames occasionally addresses Goren as "Bobby," but he very rarely calls her "Alex." When he does, it gets her attention fast.
** Also worth mentioning that they call each other "Detective" when they're REALLY miffed.
* YouGotMurder
* YouLookFamiliar: [[TrueBlood Carrie Preston]] has appeared in three different episodes as three different characters.
** So has Susan Misner.
** Jay O. Sanders played a memorable killer-of-the-week in one episode back in 2002; he plays Cpt. Hanna in the final season.
* YoureInsane: ''[[AvertedTrope Averted]]'' in the episode "Gemini", where the perp [[spoiler:manipulated his schizophrenic brother into murdering people]]. The final interrogation included this memorable exchange:
-->[[spoiler:'''Spencer Anderson''']]: "None of this is true. You said so yourself. He's crazy."
-->'''Detective Goren''': "Yeah, he may be crazy, but you're ''evil''."
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->''It's about yearning. He misses his partner.''
-->--'''Goren''', [[SarcasmMode not talking about himself, of course.]]
->''Detective Goren's style is definitely unique and an acquired taste.''
-->--'''Eames'''
Second SpinOff from the popular ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' series, ''Criminal Intent'' basically shows the viewer what is happening from the criminal's perspective as well as the ongoing police investigation. Basically, what happens when ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' is brought into the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' universe, complete with a quirky genius detective - Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), an anti-social, twitchy detective in the NYPD Major Case Squad who has a very sharp mind for piecing together details and lateral thinking. Together with dryly sardonic partner Alex Eames (Kathryn Erbe), they investigate the most serious crimes that occur in New York (most of which seem to be murders or end up in murders), whilst the show also gives us the perspective of the people responsible for it (or at least people who are connected to the people responsible for it).
In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[LawAndOrder original flavour]] - joined the cast when Vincent D'Onofrio began to suffer from exhaustion. The episodes alternated between Goren and Eames one week, and Logan and his partner the other from that point. In 2009, Logan was replaced by Zach Nichols (JeffGoldblum), though Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) has stayed. In 2010, Goren and Eames left the show at the conclusion of the second half of season 9's two-part premiere. Eric Bogosian also left the show and was replaced as the Major Case captain by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Nicholson's character, too, has left the show and was replaced by Saffron Burrows as new detective Serena Stevens.
The show was renewed for a tenth season that brought back D'Onofrio and Erbe for eight final episodes. ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' aired its finale on June 26, 2011, ending its run after ten years and 195 episodes.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AlwaysMurder, even though the real Major Case Squad does not handle murders.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Goren, he's all sorts of crazy, has multiple quirks and ticks, but avoids any specific disorder or symptom set.
* AndAnotherThing
* [[spoiler: AndTheAdventureContinues: How it all ends.]]
* AnywhereButTheirLips: In the season 9 opener, after [[spoiler: Goren is fired, he and Eames are saying goodbye as partners for the last time. They full-on embrace for the first time in the series, and Goren presses a rather intense kiss to her cheek for several seconds. ]]
** May be [[JustifiedTrope justified.]] Despite his excellent skill at understanding homicidal maniacs, Goren is seemingly awkward in interpersonal relationships. Something as personal and intimate as kissing her on the lips would be difficult for him.
** It had all the intensity of a more obvious kiss, but without the non-shippers' outrage.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Used all the time to break perps.
* BadassAdorable: Alexandra Eames is five-foot-two, adorable, and blonde. And she is just as terrifying as Goren when she gets going, if not ''more'' so.
* BestFriendManual: Alex Eames for Bobby Goren.
* BerserkButton: Never, ever, ''ever'' threaten or harm Alexandra Eames. Robert Goren will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
** Word of advice: Do NOT mess with Goren's mother or he will rip your head off.
** Don't disrespect your own mother in Goren's presence, either.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Goren is probably the sanest member of his family. That should tell you a lot.
* BoringButPractical: Thrill at the wonders of ''Forensic Accounting''!
* TheBoxingEpisode
* BrainsAndBrawn: Funnily enough, ''Eames'' is the muscle in her partnership with Goren. She's no slouch in the intellect department - she's shown to be much more computer-savvy than her partner - but she's physically very tough despite her size.
** Though it must be said that Goren himself, being both a police officer ''and'' a former military man, has proven to be more than capable of handling himself in a fight.
* BreakThemByTalking
* BrokenBird: Alex's husband was a cop killed in the line of duty.
* BrokenPedestal
* TheCastShowoff: In "Rock Star", Jeff Goldblum's first episode, he has a scene where he gets to demonstrate his skill as a pianist.
* ChannelHop: From [=NBC=] to [=USA=] with Season Seven.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Carver and Barek both left the series after Season Five without explanation, and each were mentioned exactly once afterwards.
* ChurchOfHappyology: The villain of "Con-Text" runs one of these, which he calls [=GraceNote=].
* ClearMyName: The Season 7 finale has Det. Goren being framed for the murder of his brother by his ArchNemesis Nicole Wallace and mentor Declan Gage.
* CloudCuckooLander: Goren's mannerisms really give off this impression (especially when he tilts his head).
** Nichols is Jeff Goldblum doing his Jeff Goldblum thing, so he counts too.
* ColbertBump: JeffGoldblum has shamelessly plugged the show on TheColbertReport, and Stephen Colbert himself guest starred in Season 3.
* ColdOpening
* ComatoseCanary: [[spoiler:Subverted]] in the episode based on the Terry Schiavo case.
* ComplexityAddiction: Several of the perps seem to suffer from this. For example, in the episode "Grow," a killer sets up a fake mugging to murder his brother, but kills him with an injection of poison under his tongue (to fake a heart attack), rather than just shooting or stabbing him like a mugger would do.
* CrimeTimeSoap, though perhaps not as much as ''Special Victims Unit''.
** Only since Rene Balcer left after Season Five.
* CrossOver: With the original series, twice in the first season.
** One episode had a brief cameo by the lead character from ''InPlainSight''. Strangely enough, a criminal later taunts that said character's expectation that he'll break down and confess was a product of her having watched too much ''Law and Order''. Such confessions are more or less ''Criminal Intent'''s trademark.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: The villain in the season 4 episode 'Gone' was this.
* TheDanza: James "Jamey" Sheridan as Capt. James Deakins.
* DeadpanSnarker: Detective Eames is made of this trope.
** Goren has his moments.
** And Wheeler gets her moments as well.
-->'''Detective Nichols''': "How's the, uh...how's the body?"
-->'''Detective Wheeler''': "Dead."
* DefectiveDetective: Goren, although Logan has his issues as well.
** Again, Goren has degenerated since creator Rene Balcer left.
* DepravedBisexual: Nicole Wallace. To be fair to the show, her bisexuality isn't actually portrayed as a negative, and they make it clear [[AntiVillain she's just plain messed up, period]]. Also, it appears [[ManipulativeBastard her only confirmed lesbian relationship may have been simply a means to an end]] rather than due to any actual desire.
** Karl Atwood, the bad guy in the very first episode ("One"), had a girlfriend and an old prison buddy with whom he was intimate. Goren theorizes that he uses anal sex as a means of dominating others, but the girlfriend refuses to comment. This one takes it into CompleteMonster territory; Atwood was really, ''really'' not a nice guy.
* DetectiveDrama
* DistaffCounterpart: Carolyn Barek was pretty much a female version of Goren.
* DonutMessWithACop: Terrorists wire a car door to high explosives with a box of donuts in clear view inside the car. Nichols breaks the glass, confirms his suspicions, and tells a cop on-scene to call the bomb squad.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Several in-universe examples in "Seizure."
-->'''Eames''': Serial killer groupies... And I thought I was pathetic with my {{ABBA}} fan club card.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Captain Ross]]
* EmptyCopThreat: Carried out. A killer Goren interviewed [[spoiler:(who was later proven to have been his biological dad)]] was executed. In Pennsylvania, where it was still legal.
* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe example in "Faith," in which an autobiography written by a LittlestCancerPatient had to be tightened up a bit by an editor for publication. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed the editor did more to improve the story than even she realizes, which gives Goren the psychological tools he needs to manipulate her into confessing to the episode's murder.]]
* ExplosiveLeash: "Pas de Deux"
* FalseFlagOperation
* FingerInTheMail: Inverted/subverted in a season finale episode when Goren receives a human heart while investigating the death of his brother Frank and possible kidnapping of his nephew. Turns out [[spoiler: it actually belongs to serial killer Nicole Wallace, who had killed Frank and was subsequently killed by Goren's unhinged mentor, who wanted to remove himself, Nicole and Frank from Goren's life in one fell swoop]].
* FlawExploitation: In "The Saint", this is the criminal's motivation: [[spoiler: he believes the church was taking advantage of his mentally ill mother, who insisted on donating everything she could to their cause, to the point of completely cleaning out their bank account because she thought the church needed the money more]].
* FocusGroupEnding: A blatant and unashamed example in the episode "Great Barrier" viewers were asked to vote on which would be the true ending on NBC's website. The losing non-canon ending had Goren shooting his nemesis Nicole Wallace.
* FriendlyLocalChinatown: "Chinoiserie"
* GilliganCut: In the episode "Weeping Willow". "Who's going on camera?"
* GoodCopBadCop: Goren and Eames ''love'' to play this, switching roles as needed. You can tell that Goren is winding up to be the bad cop when he adopts a [[BrooklynRage really exaggerated Brooklyn accent]]. Eames, meanwhile, is liable to take on a StrawFeminist persona.
* GuileHero: Arguably the entire premise of the show. The criminals are the most extraordinary collection of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastards]], [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]], and [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]] you can imagine. But when Goren's on the case, they don't stand a chance.
* HandyCuffs: Used at least twice
** A former military suspect asks to be cuffed in front out of respect for his family. He grabs a gun off one of the officers and kills himself. This immediately after attempting to kill himself and being stopped by the officers who arrested him. One wonders why they thought that was a good idea.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] when the police handcuff a deaf man with his hands in front, since handcuffing him with his hands behind his back would be akin to gagging him.
* HannibalLecture: Frequently inverted; a favourite tactic of Goren's in particular is to either play psychological mind games or basically confront the perp of the week with evidence of what a truly pathetic and inadequate person they really are until they eventually crack.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:Leslie Lezard]] when she lectures Goren about his self-destructive behavior ruining his and Eames careers.
** Zig Zagged by Nicole and Goren as they tear into each other over the years.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the special features of the Season 1 DVD, the producers say that after hiring Vincent D'onofrio they basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted, leading to many FunnyMoments and one of the most distinctive characters in the Crime genre.
* HollywoodGameDesign
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The 6'4" Goren is much, ''much'' taller and brawnier than the petite and slender Eames.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison
* InTheBlood: Eames comes from a family of cops.
** More disturbingly, [[spoiler:Goren's real biological father turned out to have been a serial killer.]]
* ItGotWorse: [[spoiler:Goren's mentor killed everyone he knew and loved because he thought Goren would have fun trying to find out who did it.]]
** [[spoiler:It was also done so Goren would be "free" of the two biggest burdens in his life: his druggie brother Frank and Nicole Wallace.]]
* {{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}}: Ms. Nobile insists it is pronounced "no-bee-lay", not "no-beel". It's seldom pronounced right except to her face.
* ItsAllAboutMe
* ItsPersonal: The episode where they finally solved Joe Eames's murder.
* JurisdictionFriction: Goren, Nichols, and Eames vs. the FBI during the investigation of [[spoiler: Captain Ross' murder.]]
* LastNameBasis: Goren and Eames. [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious Usually.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Goren tells his season 10 therapist that this is his relationship with Eames. (The therapist doesn't seem convinced.)
** Vincent D'Onofrio has also stated that this is the real-life relationship between himself and Kathryn Erbe.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: A serial killer binds, gags and locks [[spoiler: Eames in a basement with an electronic door lock. She escapes using wire, nails, electricity and a GIANT HOOK left laying around the place.]]
* MadArtist: The killer from "The Posthumous Collection".
* [[TheMafiya Mafiya]] [[MafiaPrincess Princess]]: In "Maledictus."
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Devildis, the insane fundamentalist Christian, crossed the DespairEventHorizon and tries to save his family and friends by murdering them. Hilariously, his name isn't commented on.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome
* MoreThanMindControl: This is the M.O. of two different villains, Randall Fuller in "Con-Text" and Bernard Fremont in "Slither." (Scarily, both are at least [[RippedFromTheHeadlines partially based]] on real people.)
* MotiveRant: Inducing these are Goren's specialty.
** Averted on occasion, when he breaks a suspect who then confesses to a crime they haven't committed.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] another episode (where the overbearing nature of her husband causes a woman to kill two her children in a failed mass-suicide attempt) where Goren sucessfully caused the husband to break into a MotiveRant, but it ends up being all for naught because despite the husband being a world-class JerkAss, nothing that he did was technically illegal.
* MurderDotCom: The episode "Weeping Willow," although here the crime is kidnapping, not murder.
* MyBelovedSmother
* NastyGrace: Faith Yancy and Cindy Marino.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Nicole Wallace, though what is believed to be her heart was found. Interesting case, as Goren refuses to believe that she's dead despite proof.]]
* NewYorkCityCops
* NoEnding: Criminal Intent doesn't indulge in this trope as much as SVU, but there are several episodes that end this way, one of the most notable being "Flipped". Logan and Wheeler get the perp, a cop killer, but he is [[spoiler: murdered by an undercover cop while the guards at Rikers turn the other way. The episode ends with the cop walking away]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: "Inert Dwarf" had a Stephen Hawking {{expy}} who still had more mobility than he let on.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Goren has a tendency to do this at times.
* OddFriendship: Milton Winters and Dempsey Powers in "Cuba Libre." An AmbiguouslyJewish clothing store magnate and a MalcolmXerox drug kingpin.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In "Chinoiserie", Goren and Eames immediately identify a supposed British lord as a fake by his atrocious accent which keeps jumping around the UK. The outraged impostor, an actor unknowingly hired to play the part as part of a con, keeps insisting that it is "a perfectly valid British musical hall accent".
* OpeningNarration
* ThePlan:
** EvilPlan: Each criminal has one and it frames the episode's plot.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Goren and Eames.
* PlayingGertrude: Tony Goldwyn played Vincent D'Onofrio's older brother. Goldwyn is a year younger than D'Onofrio.
* PrettyInMink: Some of the guest characters, including a witness being identified by her Russian sable coat.
* TheProfiler: Goren.
* PutOnABus: All of the detectives who have exited the series over the years.
** TheBusCameBack: Goren and Eames return for the tenth and final season! AndTheFandomRejoiced.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: When Kathryn Erbe became pregnant with her second child, a pregnancy arc was written out for Eames in which she acted as the surrogate mother for her sister's child. This of course resulted in an ObviousPregnancy later that season.
** When Jamey Sheridan was affected with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Palsy Bell's Palsy]], so was Deakins (who donned an EyepatchOfPower). At times it was obvious the poor guy was visibly struggling with it and was having a hard time saying his lines.
* RequiredSpinoffCrossover
* ReTool: Started out focused entirely on the exploits of Goren and Eames until Vincent D'Onforio began suffering exhaustion. After this the show was retooled with Mike Logan (Chris Noth's character from the orignal L&O) being added in and alternating every other episode with Goren and Eames. Things stayed this way (though with Noth being replaced by JeffGoldblum in season 8.
** This is until a WhamEpisode that [[spoiler: [[PutOnABus writes out]] [[TurnInYourBadge Goren]], [[UndyingLoyalty Eames]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Captain Ross]] in one fell swoop,]] which causes the show to return to the original format but with JeffGoldblum in the lead role, however, Goldblum decided to [[PutOnABus leave the show at the end of season 9]]. This in turn led to [[TheBusCameBack Vincent D'Onforio and Kathryne Erbe]] [[AndTheFandomRejoiced both returning for the 10th a final season]] thus bringing the show full circle.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Subverted in "Weeping Willow"; Willow, unlike [[LonelyGirl15 Bree]], turns out to be an actual girl. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] when it turns out the kidnapping was a fake that had simply spiraled out of control.]]
** One noteworthy episode ("Want") was based on Jeffrey Dahmer, and included things like the killer being employed in a candy-related job, his longing for a permanent companion, cannibalism of body parts, boiling water being poured into holes drilled in the victim's head, and [[spoiler: the killer being murdered in prison while on work detail]]. NeilPatrickHarris even looked scarily similar to Dahmer in the episode.
** The killer from "Gone" is a murderous version of Bobby Fischer.
** In the episode "D.A.W." the killer is an American version of Dr. Harold Shipman.
** The [[YouLookFamiliar first]] character played by Jay O. Sanders was obviously based on famous mob hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski.
** The last two episodes are based on ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' and the [[{{Facebook}} Zuckerberg-Winkelvoss controversy]], respectively.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: "Delicate," which is also an {{homage}} to ''HeavenlyCreatures''. The two girls' names begin with the same letters, and the nuttier of the two even has the PortmanteauCoupleName of Paulette (Pauline/Juliette).
* RuthlessModernPirates: In "Loyalty".
* SadisticChoice: Holy hell, "Able & Willing." [[spoiler: The one forcing the choice is ''the son of a Holocaust survivor'' whose own father and grandparents had to choose (father and grandfather survived), who's also a therapist.]]
* SelfHarm: The daughter of one episode's suspect.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Goren's mother doesn't understand that Eames is her son's partner, and demands to meet his new girlfriend. (Goren's reaction is adorably bashful.)
** Goren's mother got the wrong impression from his brother Frank, who assumed partner meant domestic partner; Bobby weakly tries to correct him, but it doesn't sink in.
* {{Sleepwalking}}
* SpinOff: From ''LawAndOrder''
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Logan's multiple partners. One was more or less a female version of Goren.
** There was also a period when Goren got a new partner who acted ''exactly'' like Eames.
* SympatheticMurderer: All over the place.
* ThereAreNoTherapists
** And if there ''are'' therapists, watch out.
** ''Finally'', wonderfully, thankfully, mercifully ''averted'' in season ten, with mandatory therapy sessions being a condition of Goren's reinstatement.
** Back in Season Six, Eames also had to attend therapy sessions after [[spoiler: being kidnapped by Jo Gage.]]
* TheyFightCrime: He's a quirky detective with an uncanny ability to read human behavior. She's a normal, well-adjusted human being. They fight crime!
** Somewhat justified, given that it's a cop show.
* TheyWereHoldingYouBack: In a rather bizzare twist on this trope, [[spoiler: Declan Gage]] intended to get rid of ''himself'' for this reason, [[spoiler: along with Frank Goren and Nicole Wallace]].
* {{Transplant}}: Logan, from ''LawAndOrder''.
* TryingNotToCry: Eames barely manages to hold it together in court when a lawyer springs an old request for another partner on her.
* TurnInYourBadge
* UndyingLoyalty: In the season 9 opener, not only does Eames fight with Nichols about investigating Goren over the murders, but [[spoiler: she accepts the captain's post only long enough to ensure that she's the one who fires Goren (so she knows he will be treated well in the exit interview). Once he leaves, she resigns rather than stay without her beloved partner.]] The episode is even called "Loyalty," a reference both to the MCS detectives' loyalty to their captain and the partners' loyalty to each other.
* TheUnfavourite: Despite Bobby being the only one of her two sons who takes care of her and is always there for her, Frances Goren makes it clear that his brother Frank is the one she really loves. This causes a lot of issues for Goren.
** This might stem from [[spoiler: Bobby's true parentage. Mrs. Goren told him that "she just never knew for sure".]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Finally acknowledged in one episode by Goren's brother Frank, who irritably told his brother to "take Eames to a motel and get it out of your system." Bobby's reaction was... [[BerserkButton not pretty]].
* VillainousBreakdown: OnceAnEpisode. Inducing these is Goren's shtick.
* VomitingCop: A twist on the trope in this series; in one episode, Wheeler has been pregnant for a while and has been throwing up every day. The crime scene she visits is one of the less disturbing ones she's seen, but in her condition it's enough to bring her breakfast back up.
** Well, to be fair, she didn't get sick until she realized that the victim had been scrubbed inside and out with bleach. That's pretty disturbing.
* WaifFu: Alexandra Eames is five feet and two inches of pure {{badass}}.
* TheWatson: Eames seems to be an interface between Goren and the rest of the world, much as the TropeNamer is for his partner-in-crimesolving. Her main function is to help him interact with the rest of humanity, and to maneuver the suspect into a position where Goren can let loose with his Goren brilliance.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ADA Ron Carver. He left without explanation.
* WhatTheHellHero: For the entire ''unit''; a black drug dealer suspect points out that the crime they're investigating wouldn't be "high priority" if a white tourist hadn't gotten caught in the crossfire.
* WheresTheFunInThat: In the episode "The Unblinking Eye"
-->'''Detective Alexandra Eames:''' [while observing a suspect in the interrogation room] She could confess, but where's the fun in that?
* WhodunnitToMe: "30"
* WillTheyOrWontThey: The season 9 opener, where [[spoiler: Goren and Eames both left the show]], was left a bit open-ended in this regard, making this a case of NoRomanticResolution. It was definitely stated that they would see each other outside of the workplace, but the exact direction the relationship will take was not clarified. This was done so that those who [[DieForOurShip ship them]] can believe that they will, and those who don't want them together romantically can believe that they won't.
** Of course, then TheBusCameBack and proved that they did not become a couple.
*** And then season 10 (and the series) ended with an equally open-ended possibility of them eventually getting together.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: The show's very last perp.]]
* WrittenInAbsence: Both Eames and Wheeler had absences from the series due to their actresses' respective pregnancies.
* XMeetsY: ''LawAndOrder'' meets ''Series/{{Columbo}}''
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Eames occasionally addresses Goren as "Bobby," but he very rarely calls her "Alex." When he does, it gets her attention fast.
** Also worth mentioning that they call each other "Detective" when they're REALLY miffed.
* YouGotMurder
* YouLookFamiliar: [[TrueBlood Carrie Preston]] has appeared in three different episodes as three different characters.
** So has Susan Misner.
** Jay O. Sanders played a memorable killer-of-the-week in one episode back in 2002; he plays Cpt. Hanna in the final season.
* YoureInsane: ''[[AvertedTrope Averted]]'' in the episode "Gemini", where the perp [[spoiler:manipulated his schizophrenic brother into murdering people]]. The final interrogation included this memorable exchange:
-->[[spoiler:'''Spencer Anderson''']]: "None of this is true. You said so yourself. He's crazy."
-->'''Detective Goren''': "Yeah, he may be crazy, but you're ''evil''."
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