| "F.P.S." | |||
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| Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode | |||
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 10 (#55 overall) |
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| Directed by | Darnell Martin | ||
| Written by | Dick Wolf (creator) René Balcer (developer and story) Gerry Conway (story and teleplay) Stephanie Sengupta (story editor) |
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| Production code | E4507 | ||
| Original air date | January 4, 2004 | ||
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T.R. Knight |
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"F.P.S." is a third season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
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In this episode, Goren and his temporary partner Bishop are assigned to investigate the death of a young woman found strangled and thrown from her balcony. At first, Goren and Bishop learn that the victim was a computer game company employee. The detectives are initially distracted by a related hacker, until they discover the victim's addiction for gaming which led them to her former employers, two talented creators who are under pressure to deliver the next version of a famed video game. But further evidence leads them to realise that behind the murder could be a sophisticated group of hi-tech thieves who are using spyware to commit fraud. Finally, Goren is forced to dig deep into his own past to find responses.
| Vincent D'Onofrio | Det. Robert Goren | |
| Kathryn Erbe | Det. Alexandra Eames | (credit only) |
| Jamey Sheridan | Capt. James Deakins | |
| Courtney B. Vance | A.D.A. Ron Carver | |
| Samantha Buck | Det. G. Lynn Bishop |
[At crime scene]
Goren: Her laptop is missing. Is it in there?
[Going through drawers in the victim's bedroom]
Bishop: Only two things in here with batteries. None of them's a computer.
[Looking around a suspect's computer collection]
Goren: What're you running here, Raymond? A group home for computers?
Bishop: A computer geek who can clone himself. Scary thought.
Deakins: When we catch this guy, he's going to owe me a bottle of aspirin.
MCS Computer Tech: Gotcha, monkey brain.
[Goren, to Bishop, after he has lashed out a suspect who he thought was behind on his child support payments and is proved wrong]
Goren: Croydon [1]... McVee is another Croydon...
Bishop: Who's, Who's Croydon?
Goren: He ran out on his wife. She used him to get at me... And the pattern, one, one, two: It's Wally Stevens [2].
Bishop: I don't know what you're talking about.
Goren: He was an actuary. He had a pattern of five. Five, five notes. Five... pins... Eames would have known.
(See also [1] "A Person of Interest" and [2] "Probability." "She" is Nicole Wallace, Goren's long-time adversary.)
[To Bishop]
Goren: It's about yearning. He misses his partner.
Carver: He killed her to drive his partner back into his arms? That's almost juvenile.
Goren: It's primitive. Panic is a primitive emotion. That's how he felt without his partner.
[To a partner]
Suspect: I told you, I didn't even know her name. She was just a gamer.
[To suspect's partner]
Goren: Just a gamer? Your partner let a gamer get between you two. If my partner was putting me through that – abandoning me, leaving me vulnerable, impotent, for a nobody – That's unforgivable.
[Goren's cell phone rings. He opens it, looks at the message, and he looks relieved]
Goren: Seven pounds, eight ounces.
Carver: Excellent.
Bishop: It's great. You, You should call her. I'll handle the booking.
[After Eames gave birth to a baby boy]
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