1:15 - "Semi-Professional" 2002-03-10

[eames47]

I just finished watching this and I was surprised to not see a discussion for this one yet! ( I warn you now, this could get lengthy. I loved it THAT MUCH!)

It has alot of qualities that makes this show so great to me! Since it is first season, there are alot of instances where you see that the characters are still learning a bit about each other.

At the crime scene in the beginning in Blakemore's house, Carver asks Eames, "Is his investigative style always so sociable?", when Goren in sniffing the trash can. And I love her reply: "Yeah, sure." LOL

I love Eames' comments in this ep too! When they are at 1PP, and Goren is reading Emily Trudeau's work and Eames asks him what he is reading. He tells her and she says, "Stop it, you're making me hot." Or later when he's reading Sabatelli's books and she asks him if he's underlining the dirty parts. LOL

I love the exchange in Judge Blakemore's office:

Goren: You went to Yale?
Blakemore: Yale and Columbia, I graduated from both.
Goren: You were law review?
Blakemore: No.
Eames: Or that other award that they give to the top 10 percent of the class - Order of the Coif?
Blakemore: No.
Eames: That's because you had a 2.0 average. What do they call that?
Goren: Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Gentleman's C's. Isn't that it?

This shows just how well Goren and Eames can work together. How they "read" each other. I love it!

The whole scene in Gordon's Steakhouse is probably one of my favorite scenes in the whole series. I don't know, I just really like it. Maybe its the fact that we see them outside of work.

When they are talking about Arnie:

Goren: Fired from his last two jobs for violent outbursts.
Eames: History of violence? Sounds like a distinguishing feature of the semi-professional hitman. I only look like I'm not paying attention to you.

Later, after they question Arnie, they start believing that Sabatelli may be responsible. Deakins doesn't want to go there yet, so he says to get a search warrant for Arnie's place to look for the computer. And Goren replies, "You care who we ask?" Cracked me up!

But the reason I really like this episode is this:

When Carver and Goren are in a heated discussion about Sabatelli, it's Eames who has the brilliant idea to charge Arnie with violating his probation. Knowing that it will end up in Sabatelli's courtroom. Eames! She's very strong in this episode. I also like her jab to Sabatelli, "Isn't that why they call it PROBABLE cause your honor?" You go!

When I just went back to see who wrote this awesome episode, it didn't surprise me. Stephanie SenGupta.

Eames47

[caseyswife]

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Amen, eames!! I also loved it when Arnie was in the interrogation room (This is paraphrased, the exact words, I can not recall right now) :
Goren:"So, what would you say if I told you we found DNA in vomit at the crime scene?"
Arnie: "That's a good one, Bobby. If that were true, I'd be somewhere with a needle in my arm"
Goren: "O.K, Arnie.

This was a great ep from start to finish.

caseyswife

[kawaiidragonfoe821]

I know, it was almost reminent of season 2, Judge Sabotelli (sp???) was a perfect villain & Blakemore was the perfect example of a blundering womanizing scapegoat.

[maherjunkie]

I loved the way Bobby got upset at the judge for not walking the woman to her car!

[LOCIfan]

You inspired me to watch this one again from my season 1 DVD set, eames47!

This is a gem of an episode. It's from later in the first season, and in lots of ways is a perfect episode of CI. It's got great interaction between Goren & Eames, it has diverse and interesting characters in Sabotelli, Blakemore and Arnie (has there ever been such a pathetic, approval-seeking, trigger guy?). Plus, we get honest, believable conflict between Goren and Carver. It's based on Goren's suspicion of Sabotelli, versus Carver's desire to hang onto his belief in Sabotelli's integrity. And I love that Sabotelli plays the "race card" with Carver.

And Eames is waaaaaay more than a side-kick in this one. She's an equal partner.

I love it when Arnie tells Goren he learned how to play Chinese chess in prison, and then, when he asks Goren where he learned, Goren just says "China." Vintage Goren!

[kawaiidragonfoe821]

Yeah, seeing Eames' character develop from the humble beginnings that is 'One' was exciting to see & fun to experience all over again upon the purchase of my season 1 boxed set.

[darmok]

I think Eames was very strong in several season 1 episodes. Another one that comes to mind is Yesterday. She pinpoints the year by the corpse's dress. And she's strong throughout. Another one in which she stands out is The Third Horseman. She also works well with Goren in Badge where she has to act like she;s upset with him.

I loved season 2, but I think that's the season where Eames was just along for the ride. In season 3, the writers worked to make her an equal again.

[kawaiidragonfoe821]

Yeah in Badge, she played her part of the upset superior so well them I bought it the first time around! It wasn't until the second or third time I watched badge that I realized she was putting on.

[nwchimom]

Re-watched the HLTS episode Subway recently (D'Onofrio as John Lange)....

Bruce MacVittie, who played Larry Biedron in that ep, also played Arnie Cox in Semi-Professional. And I found him just as creepy in both!

[MissEllie]

I loved this episode! I saw it again and think the part of Arnie was perfectly cast.

I also loved the scene when Goren asked the Judge why he didn't walk Emily out of the townhouse.