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August 21, 2006 9:31 AM   Subscribe

Is detective Robert Goren ever wrong?
posted by sohcahtoa to Media & Arts (12 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: you really could have fleshed this out some more

 
I DO love Vincent D' Onofrio but I have a feeling that this question will get zapped. May the force be with you!
posted by bim at 9:35 AM on August 21, 2006


I have no fucking clue what this question is about.
posted by jdroth at 9:44 AM on August 21, 2006


Yes, he's been fooled/duped a few times, usually by his nemesis, Nicole Wallace.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:50 AM on August 21, 2006


Robert Goren on wikipedia
posted by MrMoonPie at 9:59 AM on August 21, 2006


Response by poster: I don't see what's wrong with the question. A good answer would be a cite of an episode where his profiling or guessing was way off.
posted by sohcahtoa at 10:02 AM on August 21, 2006


Having worked briefly at CI, I have heard that V.D. doesn't like it when his character gets duped. He is, supposedly, a bit of a primadonna.
posted by np312 at 10:05 AM on August 21, 2006


Only in his dietary choices
posted by A189Nut at 10:11 AM on August 21, 2006


If he's ever wrong, I don't want to know.
posted by thanotopsis at 10:14 AM on August 21, 2006


It is SO annoying how he knows everything. Like that one episode where he just happened to know the Swahili word for midwife or something? Yeah right. Hate that guy.
posted by thirteenkiller at 10:24 AM on August 21, 2006


He's like Columbo, but, you know, less interesting.
posted by Loto at 10:25 AM on August 21, 2006


Best answer: Nicole Wallace. Goren is fooled in "A Person of Interest" and "Slither," and is defeated/thwarted in "Person.." and "Great Barrier."
posted by robocop is bleeding at 11:00 AM on August 21, 2006


There's wrong and there's Wrong. Goren and Eames have gone down dead-end paths on many episodes before redirecting their attentions, or initially pursued a suspect they believed was acting alone or was in charge when in fact there was some other mastermind.

I saw a re-run the other day, Scared Crazy. They initially pursue the theory that the dead man was targeted because of some illicit work activities, then perhaps industrial espionage. Only late into the episode does it take a turn and they discover there's a whole other mastermind guilty of entirely different criminal behavior.

So, has Goren ever been Wrong as in pursue an innocent person? Not too far, though I seem to recall and episode where they end up with someone in custody and being charged who is not the real Bad Guy, though that's a conscious decision on the part of the ADA. Do they ever go down dead-end roads or get stymied, or are they misled for some period of time? Sure.
posted by phearlez at 11:06 AM on August 21, 2006


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