I'm really looking forward to this episode because Christopher Lloyd is guest starring. He can do no wrong.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Vanishing Act" - Goren/Eames
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I'm really looking forward to this episode because Christopher Lloyd is guest starring. He can do no wrong.
THAT was the Goren we know and love! I give it an Excellent just for that, and the interaction between Goren and Eames ("when my partner gets done playing with that...")
So? He was the perfect red herring. Just as Christopher and others have noted recently, the guest star is "always" the perpetrator. But not this time! And what perfect time to do it, but in an episode about magic tricks and slight of hand?Don't hold your breath. His character was basically a red herring. He was onscreen for, what, ten minutes?I'm really looking forward to this episode because Christopher Lloyd is guest starring. He can do no wrong.
Excellent episode, by the way, Lloyd was wonderful as ever, and Goren was on fire tonight, both intellectually and as the kid in a candy shop, except with magic trick gadgets.
Oh, and I love the twist on the typical "perpetrator spills his guts in the end" moment by Goren and Eames forcing the magician to eat his ego.
Excellent all around! Loved it. Gosh, I've missed the lighthearted Goren and Eames. I mean, this episode had more smiles from the two of them since the beginning of last season! 
Totally agree, Goren was on fire tonight.
I was glued to my seat when Dean Holiday (I think that was his name) started to mind read Eames! The betrayal stuff, her anger, and Bobby just sitting there...that was darn good TV. Keep them coming USA Network!
Totally agree, Goren was on fire tonight.I was glued to my seat when Dean Holiday (I think that was his name) started to mind read Eames! The betrayal stuff, her anger, and Bobby just sitting there...that was darn good TV. Keep them coming USA Network!
Also, are we seeing the Goren/Eames eps in the same order they were filmed? Goren's beard is rather telling in that regard.
Yeah, I noticed the beard discontinuity. Oh, well. 
So? He was the perfect red herring. Just as Christopher and others have noted recently, the guest star is "always" the perpetrator. But not this time! And what perfect time to do it, but in an episode about magic tricks and slight of hand?Don't hold your breath. His character was basically a red herring. He was onscreen for, what, ten minutes?I'm really looking forward to this episode because Christopher Lloyd is guest starring. He can do no wrong.
Excellent episode, by the way, Lloyd was wonderful as ever, and Goren was on fire tonight, both intellectually and as the kid in a candy shop, except with magic trick gadgets.
Oh, and I love the twist on the typical "perpetrator spills his guts in the end" moment by Goren and Eames forcing the magician to eat his ego.
I just finished a 20 slide power point presentation, so all I can say is...Word. I've missed the lighter Goren and Eames.
Good, not great. Pretty cool trick with the tunnel, though!
The setup was very unusual for the L&O franchise -- it seemed more like something you'd get in a more conventional mystery show, maybe Monk. (I would've said Columbo except that gives the killer away at the start.)
I didn't buy the way the guy's "reading" was presented. It takes more preparation than that -- a series of leading questions, evoking the unwitting participation of a willing and gullible subject, getting them to tell you things without realizing they have. Or else doing research beforehand, say, having an assistant interview potential subjects just before the show. It's true that a keen observer can read body language and word choice and discern a lot about a person, but that's the same thing Goren does. Goren can't just look at a person and discern "You've suffered a recent betrayal," not without getting them to talk about subjects that could reveal that.
I didn't buy the way the guy's "reading" was presented. It takes more preparation than that -- a series of leading questions, evoking the unwitting participation of a willing and gullible subject, getting them to tell you things without realizing they have. Or else doing research beforehand, say, having an assistant interview potential subjects just before the show. It's true that a keen observer can read body language and word choice and discern a lot about a person, but that's the same thing Goren does. Goren can't just look at a person and discern "You've suffered a recent betrayal," not without getting them to talk about subjects that could reveal that.
