Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)

Loyalty: Part 2 (2010)

Vincent D'Onofrio: Detective Robert 'Bobby' Goren

Quotes 

• Detective Alexandra Eames : You think he's the money trail?

  Detective Robert Goren : I am going to try and find out.

  Detective Alexandra Eames : I really feel I should try to talk you out of this.

  Detective Robert Goren : But that's always been a wasted effort.

  Detective Alexandra Eames : Yeah,

  [pause] 

  Detective Alexandra Eames : right.

• Agent Stahl : My God, you're clever. But inconvenient, Goren.

  Detective Robert Goren : Well, you know, multiple murders. And one of them being my captain, inspired me.

  Agent Stahl : It's worth enough to hold you in federal detention.

  Detective Robert Goren : Well, if you can figure out what to charge me with, go ahead.

  Agent Stahl : You were once committed to an insane asylum.

  Detective Robert Goren : Yeah. This insane thing. It follows me around, you know?

  Agent Stahl : You came in at gunpoint with a hood over your head. You have any idea it was us?

  Detective Robert Goren : No, not really.

  Agent Stahl : That alone qualifies you for certification

  Detective Robert Goren : There's no way that you can imagine me being useful to you?

  Agent Stahl : That would be asking for a very high margin of trust.

  Detective Robert Goren : Not if what you're doing is for the greater good.

  Ron Hegel : Like you'd know what that is.

  Detective Robert Goren : Don't question my patriotism, OKI? I resent that. I mean, drug me, lock me up, do whatever you want to do. But, uh, don't tell me how I feel about my country.

  Agent Stahl : Whatever happens, you're gonna have problems from your own kind. And even if you help us, when those eggs hit the police fan, there's nothing we can do for you.

  Detective Robert Goren : Well, Ross believed in what you were doing, and I have a lot of respect for that man, so...

• Zack Nichols : Hassan kills Danny Ross, goes free, and is set up as a despot. And that validates the death of our friend? I don't accept that.

  Detective Robert Goren : Yeah, I-I think because he was our friend, it's why we need to do it.

  Zack Nichols : Releasing a multiple murderer is not justice. Hassan might find the GPS devices and disarm then.

  Detective Robert Goren : Hassan hired a technical expert to sweep and find them. But the expert was an FBI undercover. This is what needs to happen. Hassan needs to smuggle that shipment of weapons into Putland, right? He needs to barter for power to warlords, to terrorists.

  Detective Alexandra Eames : They can be located and wiped out. Zack, making deals that are painful, doing things we hate, sometimes it's part of our job.

  Detective Robert Goren : It's what our captain believed in. I don't think we should undercut that.

  Zack Nichols : [to Eames]  And you're buying this?

  Detective Alexandra Eames : I'm listening.