Law & Order: Crminal Intent. Or as I like to call it, Law & Order: D'Onofrio Ate All The Pies (The Fat Bastard).
You can always tell a Goren episode by the ridiculously edited pretitle sequence which, in this episode, uses the most crap-looking pixellation effect I've ever seen. And, of course, all is done to an obscure song that no one has ever heard of. And so we head into an episode that comes from Ross wanting to help a former girlfriend - clearly Major Case no longer actually has real cases to deal with, rather they just wait around til a friend or family member has a problem. Ross himself is clearly just a media whore as he is always at junkets. You wouldn't see poor old Deakins at one of these things.
Meanwhile, as soon as some former lover has a problem, Ross calls in Goren and Eames, who, despite being his best detectives, clearly have nothing better to do than go looking for a missing person. Thankfully Eames has the decency to express the audience's opinions, although rather bitchingly she asks "you need both of us for this?". Obviously she is happy for Goren to go doing this sort of rubbish.
And there is still the tension between Eames and Goren, and Goren still seems to be baiting Ross at every opportunity he can. I don't mind the tension between Goren and Ross, but really, the Eames/Goren situation needs to end quite soon. On the plus side, by about half way into the episode they seem to have gotten over their difficulties and are working together as effectively as they always have been.
To be frank, this episode wasn't terrible, and Eric Roberts gives a nice cameo performance as a complete sleaze, while there are some great little moments in the episode, particularly when Eames and Goren are both reluctant to handle a dirty tape.
But God, can't we just go back to the way CI used to be? And why is D'Onofrio trying to look like William Petersen????
"B"
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