Sigmagirl

Re "rising sophomore" — I live in northeast Ohio, pretty close to Shaker Heights, and I first heard that expression about three years ago. I was startled when I heard it on the show. It is definitely not a regional thing. They got it wrong.

Well, the part about Goren coming back, it made no sense in the first place for them to have coerced Eames to fire him just because he had "become a liability." Cops have unions and representatives. The only concrete thing they had on him was the shove he gave somebody in the hall, and he was provoked. They don’t fire a decorated detective for that, without hearings, even if the brass hate him. Suspended maybe. It would have been plausible for them to have explained that the union filed a grievance and he got reinstated with the provision of the psych evals.

I thought David was going to ask Alexis to be best woman.

I just saw that promo again just this second. I think it’s pretty recent. Have you seen the promos for L&O and Criminal Minds where they dub goofball lines over scenes from the shows? Usually the characters are trash-talking each other about whose seasons and episodes are the best and who has more lines. I’d love for them to do that with CI and Goren and Logan.

HA! Watching "Suite Sorrow," in which rich hotelier Nan Turner is murdered in her bath by a surfeit of Botox, and on comes a commercial for . . . Botox Cosmetic™, to get rid of those pesky wrinkles and laugh lines. Forever, as it happens.

I like to think Goren kept in touch with him, as he did with Wally in "Probability."

My schedule says it doesn’t start till October 14. It must be earlier in your area.

Eames: You’re under arrest for murder. Bishop: You’re under arrest. * * * * * For murder.

In "Semi-Professional" Ron Carver joins Goren in tricking Judge Sabatelli into admitting that he was behind the murder of rival Judge Blakemore’s clerk/girlfriend (although Sabatelli paid Arnie only to retrieve her laptop; he killed her as a value-added bonus). Carver sets up Sabatelli by telling him he’s thinking of having a member of the judicial review committee observe the interrogation, knowing that Sabatelli will be, in Bobby’s words, pissing himself at the prospect of seeing Blakemore’s downfall. Then Goren and Carver lay the trap and Sabatelli jumps right in and incriminates himself. But in "Best Defense," they figure out that Peter Bonham is framing his wife and trap hm with the phone calls his wife did or did not receive on a Sunday drive in Connecticut, but they keep the ploy from Carver because Bonham "might find out." They don’t trust him to help this time, and Carver gets all honked off again even though Eames is the senior partner and Deakins agreed to the idea. Why do I spend my time thinking about this stuff?

I had noticed it. I thought it was something that had drifted over from one of the other L&Os. I like it; I’ll take all the Rodgers I can get. I would have liked her to have stepped right in to take Carver’s time.

At the end of “Shandeh,” Ursula Sussman is being dragged away screaming at Danny to "do something" as he stands there motionless. Is he (a) continuing his pattern of passivity, letting things happen to him and waiting for others to take charge, or (b) letting her twist in the wind, resolving to man up and do right by his father’s legacy?

I was thinking the exact same things! When they were out in the grocery parking lot talking to the murdered brother’s ex-wife and she described the mother as "you know, a schizo," you could see the pain pass over his face.

Also, that Nicole was supposed to be a library science student, and later she alludes to Bobby’s mother having been a librarian and therefore he should trust her because of all people, him not trusting a librarian. She was as much a librarian as she was an English literature professor.

I loved the purse thing too. I would have liked to have seen it go on to see Goren getting schooled. 1, no woman would put her expensive purse on a bathroom floor if she could hang it on a hook, and 2, just because Goren could reach over the top of the door and take it off the hook doesn’t mean anybody else could, especially almost any woman. Sometimes he’s just obtuse, which is when he’s funniest.

Wheeler was the worst. Bishop was a spitfire next to Wheeler. After Eames, my list goes: Barek Falacci Stevens Bishop Wheeler The Wikipedia entry on Bishop says she spent six years in Cold Case, but there is no attribution. At the end of “Stray, when the detectives are in uniform to go to the funeral, she seems to have a fair number of decorations. Who knows what the explanation could have been for her to be paired with Goren.

I really liked her on Cybill, which is probably why I liked her as Falacci. Plus she was a total wiseass. Bishop was dull and random. I know Goren resented her because she wasn’t Eames, but she brought little to the table anyway.

I don’t agree. If you’re having a conversation in public, loud enough for people to hear you, you have to be prepared for them to listen. Speaking a foreign language is no guarantee that others won’t understand it. It may be rude for others to eavesdrop in public , but it isn’t illegal or unethical. When they were in the interrogation room with the lawyer, there Peter was absolutely right.

Well, he was needed for legal reasons in the interrogation. If it came to trial and the defense attorney said “And the detective questioning my client, is he certified in ASL? Was an ASL interpreter provided for my client?” The case would have gone to hell. Not that CI was that devoted to realism, but that would have been too ridiculous.

“Silencer.” Goren is trying to persuade Lyons to translate a conversation between two deaf suspects/witnesses at the ice rink. He is hesitant because it’s a private conversation and Goren reasons that in a public place they have “no reasonable expectation of privacy.” Goren appeals to Eames for help and she says “Don’t put me in the middle.” That’s her JOB. She is Goren’s senior partner. She needs to make a call here; instead, she acts as if it’s a personal spat about who’s going to sit in the front seat on the way home.

Goren often called Carver “Counselor.” I think when Eames called Goren “Bobby” it was when he was stressed out and she was trying to calm him down.

In “Silver,” Wesley (and others) make a big deal out of Sheila smoking when she’s pregnant, but he seems perfectly happy with getting room service to send a bottle of Champagne up for them on their wedding night. Was he going to drink it all himself?

Goren really was coming close to being held in contempt of court. I suppose they’d prearranged what would have happened, like in My Cousin Vinny? 😆 Does the police union provide lawyers to help with bail? Would Eames bail him out? Would Carver help?

Re “The Good Doctor”: They make a big deal out of Kelmer’s “Friends and family” list being in alphabetical order, and they use that to show what a control freak he was. At the time, if I had needed to provide such a list, I would simply have handed over my Christmas card list, and it would have been in alphabetical order. Big deal.

And in the meantime, it’s been months since they’ve played episodes like Chinoiserie, Best Defense, See Me, and Probability.

Yeah, that was funny. The Swan Club. Annual fee of $200,000 and a half a million dollars if a client marries “one of my girls,” and she’d be happy to add Bobby for free to her database? Because all those Park Avenue babes and runway models are dying to date a New York City cop with an anger management problem and no money whose father was a serial killer. I mean, *I* would, ‘cause it’s Bobby, but . . .