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{{quote|''Detective Goren's style is definitely unique and an acquired taste.''|Eames. }}
Second [[Spin-Off]] from the popular ''[[Law and
In 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) - formerly of the [[Law and Order|original
The show was renewed for a tenth season that brought back D'Onofrio and Erbe for eight final episodes. ''[[Law and Order: Criminal
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* [[Always
* [[Ambiguous
* [[And Another
* {{spoiler|[[And the Adventure Continues...]]: How it all ends.}}
* [[Anywhere but Their
** May be [[Justified Trope|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.
* [[Armor-Piercing
* [[Badass
* [[Best Friend Manual]]: Alex Eames for Bobby Goren.
* [[Berserk
** Word of advice: Do NOT mess with Goren's mother or he will rip your head off.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Thrill at the wonders of ''Forensic Accounting''!
* [[The Boxing
* [[Brains and
** 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.
* [[Break Them by
* [[Broken Bird]]: Alex's husband was a cop killed in the line of duty.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: In "Rock Star", Jeff Goldblum's first episode, he has a scene where he gets to demonstrate his skill as a pianist.
* [[Channel Hop]]: From NBC to USA with Season Seven.
* [[Church of
* [[Clear My
* [[
** Nichols is Jeff Goldblum doing his Jeff Goldblum thing, so he counts too.
* [[Colbert Bump]]: [[Jeff
* [[Cold
* [[Comatose
* [[Complexity
* [[Crime-Time Soap]], though perhaps not as much as ''Special Victims Unit''.
** Only since Rene Balcer left after Season Five.
* [[
** One episode had a brief cameo by the lead character from ''[[In Plain
* [[Crazy People Play
* [[The
* [[Deadpan
** Goren has his moments.
** And Wheeler gets her moments as well.
{{quote|'''Detective Nichols''': "How's the, uh...how's the body?"
'''Detective Wheeler''': "Dead." }}
* [[Defective
** Again, Goren has degenerated since creator Rene Balcer left.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Nicole Wallace. To be fair to the show, her bisexuality isn't actually portrayed as a negative, and they make it clear [[Anti-Villain|she's just plain messed up, period]]. Also, it appears [[Manipulative Bastard|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 [[Complete
* [[Detective
* [[Distaff
* [[Donut Mess with a Cop]]: 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.
* [[Draco in Leather
{{quote|'''Eames''': Serial killer groupies... And I thought I was pathetic with my [[
* [[Dropped a Bridge on
* [[Empty Cop
* [[Executive
* [[Explosive Leash]]: "Pas de Deux"
* [[False-Flag
* [[Finger in the Mail]]: 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}}.
* [[Flaw
* [[Focus Group
* [[Friendly Local
* [[Gilligan
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: 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 [[Brooklyn Rage|really exaggerated Brooklyn
* [[Guile
* [[Handy
** 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.
** [[Justified Trope|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.
* [[Hannibal
** 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.
* [[Harpo Does Something
* [[Hollywood Game
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: The 6'4" Goren is much, ''much'' taller and brawnier than the petite and slender Eames.
* [[I Never Said It Was
* [[In the Blood]]: Eames comes from a family of cops.
** More disturbingly, {{spoiler|Goren's real biological father turned out to have been a serial killer.}}
* [[It Got
** {{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.}}
* [[It's All About
* [[It's Personal]]: The episode where they finally solved Joe Eames's murder.
* [[Jurisdiction
* [[Last-Name
* [[Like Brother and
** Vincent D'Onofrio has also stated that this is the real-life relationship between himself and Kathryn Erbe.
* [[Mad
* [[The Mafiya|
* [[Meaningful
* [[Missing White Woman
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: This is the M.O. of two different villains, Randall Fuller in "Con-Text" and Bernard Fremont in "Slither." (Scarily, both are at least [[Ripped from the Headlines|partially based]] on real people.)
* [[Motive
** Averted on occasion, when he breaks a suspect who then confesses to a crime they haven't committed.
** [[Deconstructed Trope|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 [[Motive
* [[Murder.
* [[My Beloved
* [[Nasty
* [[Never Found the
* [[New York City
* [[No
* [[Obfuscating
* [[Obfuscating
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Milton Winters and Dempsey Powers in "Cuba Libre." An [[Ambiguously Jewish]] clothing store magnate and a [[Malcolm Xerox]] drug kingpin.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's
* [[Opening
* [[The
** [[Evil
* [[Platonic Life
* [[Playing
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Some of the guest characters, including a witness being identified by her Russian sable coat.
* [[The
* [[Put on a
** [[The Bus Came Back]]: Goren and Eames return for the tenth and final season! [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]].
* [[Real Life Writes the
** When Jamey Sheridan was affected with [[wikipedia:Bell's Palsy|Bell's
* [[Required Spinoff
* [[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 [[Jeff
** This is until a [[Wham!
* [[Ripped from the
** 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}}. [[Neil Patrick
** 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 [[You Look Famililar|
** The last two episodes are based on ''[[Spider Man Turn Off the Dark]]'' and the [[Facebook|Zuckerberg-Winkelvoss
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: "Delicate," which is also an [[
* [[Ruthless Modern
* [[Sadistic
* [[Self-
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: 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]]
* [[Spin-Off]]: From ''[[Law and
* [[Suspiciously Similar
** There was also a period when Goren got a new partner who acted ''exactly'' like Eames.
* [[Sympathetic
* [[There Are No
** 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.}}
* [[They Fight
** Somewhat justified, given that it's a cop show.
* [[They Were Holding You Back]]: 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}}.
* [[
* [[Trying Not to
* [[Turn in Your
* [[Undying
* [[The
** This might stem from {{spoiler|Bobby's true parentage. Mrs. Goren told him that "she just never knew for sure".}}
* [[Unresolved Sexual
* [[Villainous
* [[Vomiting Cop]]: 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.
* [[Waif Fu]]: Alexandra Eames is five feet and two inches of pure [[
* [[The
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: ADA Ron Carver. He left without explanation.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: 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.
* [[Where's the Fun In That?]]: In the episode "The Unblinking Eye"
{{quote|'''Detective Alexandra Eames:''' [while observing a suspect in the interrogation
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]: "30"
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: 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 [[No Romantic
** Of course, then [[The Bus Came Back]] 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.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Law and
* [[Yoko Oh
* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be
** Also worth mentioning that they call each other "Detective" when they're REALLY miffed.
* [[You Got
* [[You Look
** 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.
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