#loci s02e14

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Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability Eames: Nothing’s jumping out. Deakins: The deaths were already factored into the CompStat mortality report. If there was a pattern, the computer would've picked it up. Goren: Well, maybe not. These deaths are scattered across precincts. Sometimes two weeks apart, sometimes two months. Different times, different days of the week. Deakins: I don't see a motive here. If it's random, maybe it's because it is random. Goren: If - if these were random, the law of averages says there'd be coincidences.. with the times or the locations. The fact there are no coincidences means somebody's working very hard at not setting off alarm bells.

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ten caps per episode - Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability

Eames: Someone’s killing the great bums of New York.

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Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability goren cracks the pattern

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Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability Goren: Have you ever heard of the Compagnie Fiduciaire Elysee?  Suspect: No, must be your pronunciation. Goren: Yeah, it must be, because the Interpol found your fingerprints on incorporation papers from that company. Eames: Your client and Mr. Barnard took their initial scam and kicked it up a couple notches. They insured homeless people as key executives of bogus French companies, and then they killed them for the insurance money. The suspect and her lawyer whisper together. Goren looks at Eames with a smirk, knowing that they got her.

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Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability Goren: Thank you, Mr. Stevens. Wally looks around awkwardly, then leaves. Eames: I didn't know you had an older, geekier brother. Goren smiles.

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Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability Wally: The man you're looking for got his training at Hartford State.  Eames: You figured that out just by glancing at this material?  Goren: So he learned something at Hartford State that he used to commit the crimes. Maybe he took classes in statistics. Wally: Colonial New England sponsors a course in actuarial studies at Hartford State. The instructor uses an idiosyncratic approach to probability analysis. Your man used that approach to manipulate the variables of each crime to avoid detection. These four, what's the common thread? Eames looks on, amused.

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Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability Detective: Next time, call first. I'm supposed to be on my lunch break. Eames: You get a lunch break?

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Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability Goren: ‘Symptoms include the need to create and duplicate patterns. Impairment of nonverbal behavior, such as eye-to-eye gaze. Inflexible adherence to routines, often coupled with high intelligence and a tendency to become preoccupied with a particular subject.’ Carver: What are you describing?  Goren: Asperger's syndrome. It's a high functioning form of autism. It's why Wally Stevens can't empathize. It's why he can't connect. It's why this pattern is in there. Time and space.

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also please observe alex in the background!! for reference, off screen is a guy who brought alex and bobby to this other guy's office, and he's standing there awkwardly, watching, while bobby does his thing and walks around staring at things silently for a solid 90 seconds as his brains Makes Connections. and then there's alex in the background giving the guy a little "haha sorry about my strange partner please hold it'll just be another moment" smile. ;_; i'm dead

Law and Order Criminal Intent - s02e14 - Probability goren cracks the pattern