

She worked in the NYPD's Vice Division for four years before transferring to Major Case. He is then fired by Eames, who had recently been offered a promotion to captain of the Major Case Squad she subsequently quits instead.Īlexandra Eames is the quiet, practical partner who generally seems to mesh well with Goren despite the noticeable personality differences between the two. He continues to investigate on his own and eventually learns of a plan by the FBI to allow GPS-tagged weapons to be distributed to terrorist camps in Somalia, so that the camps could be easily targeted and wiped out.

Ross is later murdered as well, their prime suspect is taken into custody by the FBI, provoking Goren into a physical altercation that leads to his suspension. In "Loyalty", Goren and Eames are pulled off a pair of homicides by Ross, who informs them that the FBI has taken an interest in the case. During season eight, he begins to recover after the events of season 7. Declan Gage, had orchestrated the deaths of his brother and Wallace. In the course of the investigation, he realized that his mentor, Dr. In the season 7 finale, he lost his brother Frank ( Tony Goldwyn) to his archnemesis Nicole Wallace. In particular, this view was held by the Chief of Detectives, who suspended him for six months without pay after he embarked on an unauthorized undercover infiltration of a prison's mental ward. During the series, Goren's history, coupled with his unorthodox style, became a source of trouble within the NYPD, spawning rumors and accusations that he was mentally unstable.
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Mental illness seems to run in Goren's family: his mother suffered from schizophrenia and his biological father was a serial killer. Frequently, Goren obtains crucial information and confessions by psychologically manipulating and provoking suspects and their associates. The Robert Goren character is very reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes he notices tiny-yet-important details ignored by others, and possesses broad, almost encyclopedic knowledge. Goren once served in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, stationed in Germany and South Korea, and worked in the NYPD's Narcotics Division before transferring to Major Case (in the first-season episode " The Insider", it is revealed that he worked on three undercover operations resulting in 27 arrests and convictions). Each episode, Goren typically employs his knowledge of an unusually wide range of topics, from theoretical physics, chemistry, and literature to history, psychology, and multiple foreign languages. Often, Goren's intuition, rather than solid evidence, turns out to be the case-breaker. Robert Goren is a quirky, extraordinarily intelligent investigator and criminal profiler, known for his instinct and insight.
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The ninth and tenth seasons of the series showed two major detectives working the unit in all episodes under the leadership of Captain Zoe Callas and later Joseph Hannah. The unit also previously had a prosecutor assigned from the DA's office, that frequently interacted with the squad. From its fifth season until the beginning of the ninth season, which aired in September 2005 until April 2010, the series had generally shown four major detectives working the unit, in alternating episodes under the leadership of both Captain James Deakins and Captain Danny Ross. Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order, follows the detectives who work in the "Major Case Squad" of the New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on high-profile cases (in most cases murder, just like the regular Law & Order in this sense), such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the financial industry, and the art world though sometimes the cases are similar to the cases from the original Law & Order show as well.
