History Series / LawAndOrderCriminalIntent

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Captain Ross, although we do see his sons wearing yarmulkes at [[spoiler:his funeral]].

* INeverSaidItWasPoison

* 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.]]

** "Loyalty:" [[spoiler: Captain Ross is murdered and Goren and Eames resign from the force.]]

* HideYourLesbians: "The Glory That Was..." was pulled from rotation after its original airing due to the ColdOpen featuring a scene with two women in bed together. Unfortunately, the episode is also missing from the season 8 [=DVD=] set.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the questioning of a witness in "Suite Sorrow," Goren casually snaps a picture of himself and Eames. As they're leaving, he slips the picture into his pocket.

* VehicleVanish: The victim from "Blink" and her partner were gamblers trying to escape from a pair of mobsters. While the man was far ahead of her, she had them hot on her trail when a garbage truck passed before the three of them. When the partner looked back to check on her, she and the mobsters were gone. She was later found murdered in a park.

** The [[AssholeVictim victims]] from "Con-Text" were found to be this. Naturally, Goren, while investigating their murders, [[{{Squick}} began to poke at their open eyes]]...which ended up being a clue to how and when they died.

* SympatheticMurderer: All over the place. The episode, "See Me" was shaping up to be an aversion of this trope due to the suspect's [[{{Squick}} disgusting]] means of [[spoiler: "curing" his patients and the apparent lack of guilt he had for his actions. After it was discovered by the detectives that there was a reason for his methods: trying to dissipate their symptoms of schizophrenia, namely the delusions, which he was ultimately discovered to be suffering from himself,]] his SmugSnake persona quickly faded away and he sheepishly begged them to let him return to his work and played this trope straight. Both Goren ''and'' Eames, who usually has a more cynical view of suspects, felt sympathy for the man and he ended up [[spoiler: being sent to an institution. Goren is then seen talking on the phone with his mother.]]

* ButNotTooBlack: Discussed in "Self-Made" when the detectives were interviewing a witness about the murder of an up and coming young Black author. The witness commented how the young man she was seeing was "more Black" than she was, which allowed [[DeadpanSnarker Goren]] to ask her, "Black? You mean obsidian?", to which she meant that he was more "hood" than she was.

* LongTitle: The season seven episode, "Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger." In syndication, the episode is either simply titled as "Please Note..." or "Kissinger."

* YouHaveFailedMe: One of Bernard Fremont's minions, Marceau, from "Slither" ends up receiving this fate due to his incompetency (mainly with allowing one of his cohorts to be arrested and ''leaving a man's head inside of a refrigerator''). His drink ends up being poisoned, which renders him completely paralyzed as he is then strangled with his own necktie.

** Nicole Wallace, in her initial appearance, portrayed herself as a intelligent and worldly college professor who was married to a wealthy businessman. While she remained intelligent and worldly, [[spoiler: her marriage was just a means to the end that she tried to kill after she got what she needed from him.]]

** "Albatross" was based on Geraldine Ferraro, the politician who ran for Vice President in 1984 with Walter Mondale, and her husband, [[CoattailRidingRelative John Zaccaro.]]

* TakeThat: The "Blasters" episode does this towards ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' with the show that the victim starred in as an {{Expy}} called ''Goofin' Around'' and he being based off of Screech/Dustin Diamond and his costar/friend being a composite of Zack/Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Slater/Mario Lopez.

** "Albatross" was based on of Geraldine Ferraro, the politician who ran for Vice President in 1984 with Walter Mondale, and her husband, [[CoattailRidingRelative John Zaccaro.]]

* DoorFu: The verbally abusive mother in "Unrequited" ends up being incapacitated this way, with the force knocking one of her front teeth out, was dragged back into her apartment and ultimately strangled by her assailant.

* JadedWashout: The record producer in "Rock Star" was a man still living on his past glories of being a hit in the ''60s'' and having the third-longest set at Woodstock. When he tries to bring up the impact he had and his musical talent, Nichols shuts him down by telling him that his band was terrible, he was on the stage at Woodstock so long because they wouldn't get off the stage in spite of the crowd's negative reaction and even declared his Grammy to be a joke, stating how even Music/MilliVanilli [[TakeThat has one.]]

* FakeAristocrat: In "Chinoiserie", Goren Eames encounter a man masquerading as a British nobleman. Goren and Eames pick him as fake immediately as [[OohMeAccentsSlipping his accent keeps jumping around the British Isles]]. He turns out to be an actor who thinks he is in a piece of performance art. He is actually an unwitting dupe hired to help establish a false provenance for Chinese antiquities.

** "Albatross" was based off of Geraldine Ferraro, the politician who ran for Vice President in 1984 with Walter Mondale, and her husband, [[CoattailRidingRelative John Zaccaro.]]

* SickCaptiveScam: Goren's incarcerated nephew Donny pulls this off to get his Uncle out of isolation in "Untethered" by faking appendicitis (Goren went undercover after being manipulated by Frank into thinking he needed assistance after being sent to prison on trumped up charges). He is then taken out of the prison and promptly escapes, never to be seen again, [[ManipulativeBastard though it begs the question of why he never tried to attempt this before.]]

* OddballInTheSeries: Initially, this series was more or less a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed version]] of such, as it was didn't follow the ''Law & Order'' tradition of being an ensemble show, focusing solely on Goren instead and was the only show that neither [[Series/LawAndOrder McCoy]] nor [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Munch]] ever made an appearance (McCoy was referenced in "Semi-Professional," but Munch was never mentioned). However around season six, this trope became more blatant, beginning with the loss of the "Order" part of the series (and with [[Creator/CourtneyBVance him]], the only regular cast member of color), the lack of the title cards as well as the accompanying [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound "DUN-DUN!"]] sound heard during them and [[{{Flanderization}} the changing personalities of the criminals, their motives and the members of the Major Case Squad themselves.]]

** Played straight again in "Magnificat", where an overwhelmed and emotionally abused mother attempted to kill herself and her four children with a car bomb because she felt (thanks to her husband's emotional abuse) that she wasn't a good enough mother to them, but didn't want to leave them with ''no'' mother either. She and her oldest son survived because [[SerendipitousSurvival he had absentmidendly opened the front passenger side window]] which reduced the force of the blast in the front; the three younger children, in the back seats, were killed.

* OddballInTheSeries: Initially, this series was more or less a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed version]] of such, as it was didn't follow the ''Law & Order'' tradition of being an ensemble show, focusing solely on Goren instead and was the only show that neither [[Series/LawAndOrder McCoy]] nor [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Munch]] ever made an appearance on or was even referenced. However around season six, this trope became more blatant, beginning with the loss of the "Order" part of the series (and with [[Creator/CourtneyBVance him]], the only regular cast member of color), the lack of the title cards as well as the accompanying [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound "DUN-DUN!"]] sound heard during them and [[{{Flanderization}} the changing personalities of the criminals, their motives and the members of the Major Case Squad themselves.]]

** "Beast" had a dentist who was more concerned with himself and his practice than in finding out who killed his wife. [[spoiler: Turns out, technically he wasn't guilty of killing her, but his former girlfriend killed her at his request.]]

* IAteWhat: Downplayed in "The Unblinking Eye". While the detectives are speaking to a witness at a bar, Goren is eating a bowl of peanuts...only for the witness to admit that a young woman had stuck her hand in the bowl [[{{Squick}} while she had some sort of ointment on top of a burn.]][[note]]Which begs the question as to why she would leave the bowl out even after that?[[/note]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He responds to this by silently sliding the remaining peanuts in his hand back into the bowl.]]