Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)

To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap (2011)

Vincent D'Onofrio: Detective Robert 'Bobby' Goren

Quotes 

• Danielle Magee : You called it fluff. You don't believe love is possible? True love?

  Robert Goren : I want to believe. Make me believe.

• Robert Goren : You lied to me last week. I mean, it's okay. Everybody does.

  Paula Gyson : When did I do it?

  Robert Goren : Well, you said that these sessions are so that I can get to know about my own mind, but that's not what this is really about.

  Paula Gyson : Because NYPD sent you here?

  Robert Goren : No, because NYPD is paying you to assess my stability, my temperament, right?

  Paula Gyson : So what you're saying is that I can't really be helping you and evaluating you for that? When you malfunction, I'm trying to find out what happens and when. Yes, I'm evaluating you, but I'm also trying to help you. Right now, I think the job is vital to you. The job gives you structure, sense of purpose. But you're convinced that it's the only thing that defines you. You think, without the puzzle, you don't matter. It's a lie, but it's the only one you've chosen to believe. Consider this. If everyone lies, by definition, that has to include you. And if that's true, there's no way you can trust your own judgment. Not when you put the job before the man. There's so much more to you than that.

  Robert Goren : Are you gonna take my job away?

  Paula Gyson : I'm gonna tell them that you are more than capable of holding down your job and... that you have anger and trust issues that would benefit from further treatment.

  Robert Goren : Yeah, well, I've been to anger management. It only managed to make me angrier.

  Paula Gyson : But you need to learn how to curb your anger to keep your job. And it's gonna be hard, but you're smart. Smart enough to learn how to game yourself. And... I could recommend a couple of therapists.

  Robert Goren : What? Recommend? What, you're passing the buck?

  Paula Gyson : No, I didn't mean it like that.

  Robert Goren : No, no, no, no. Look. I'm not starting with somebody new. No. No. You've gotten to know me. You know what you're getting into.

  Paula Gyson : [giving him a business card]  You'll be fine. You're gonna be fine.

  [leading Goren to the door] 

  Paula Gyson : Oh, I'd thought about the riddle, the doors, the guards.

  Robert Goren : One guards heaven, the other, hell. You have one question to ask. What will it be?

  Paula Gyson : What will the other guard say if you ask him if his is the door to heaven?

  Robert Goren : Very good.

  [returning the card she gave him] 

  Robert Goren : Same time next week?

  Paula Gyson : Okay.

• Samir Doss : In business, sometimes you win by surrendering.

  Robert Goren : Or lying.