Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Please Note We are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger (Season Seven)

Goren's back to being clean shaven, and Eames has apparently forgotten why she was bitching and moaning about Goren not telling her about being undercover, so it looks as though the reset switch has been hit and the two detectives are back to being the way they were. Thank god, let's hope it's never brought up again.
Sadly, even though the pretitle sequence has gone back to being edited in the usual fashion, without any of the ridiculous decorations that usually precede a Goren episode, the rest of the episode is a bit ordinary. A person is killed, Goren and Eames go down the wrong path. A second is killed, and the detectives head down another route, but this one is wrong as well. A third one is murdered and this time they get the right motive. Lucky it wasn't too complicated, otherewise another few people would have to die before the Goren would work it out.

What's the most frustrating thing about this episode is that again Goren is being used as just a standard detective. The whole point of Goren was he was a Sherlock Holmes type character, able to pick up on small clues that no one else would see. Nowadays all he does is just go...oh, that guy had a gay lover...maybe it was him. Nope. Well maybe the two had a connection...yup, but it's not that...

I don't mind this kind of investigation, but not on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. When I want standard police procedure, I watch Law & Order. Criminal Intent seems to have almost jumped the shark, and I hope that the promise of next year's changes will bring the series back to where it is supposed to be.

"C+"