Pet Detectives

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Pet Detectives
Here are our favorite TV crime fighters: the best team leader, top hottie, biggest oddball, and more. Read our choices, then vote for your own in our poll by Michael Slezak.

Best Team Leader - Gil Grissom, CSI
ACTOR William Petersen
KNOWN FOR... A special fondness for insects.
BELOVED BECAUSE... Of all the sleuths on network TV, there's none better at staying focused on his job — and keeping a kind, fatherly eye on his employees.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Law & Order's Lt. Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson).

Best Tough Cookie - Det. Olivia Benson, Law & Order: SVU
ACTOR Mariska Hargitay
KNOWN FOR... A special empathy with victims of sexual assault — Benson herself was conceived when her mother was attacked by a serial rapist.
BELOVED BECAUSE... Although she's more flawed and emotional than most small-screen gumshoes, she's also that much more real.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Cold Case's Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris).

Best Interrogator - Det. Robert Goren, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
ACTOR Vincent D'Onofrio
KNOWN FOR... Invading perps' personal space.
BELOVED BECAUSE... His peculiar, adaptable style of questioning allows him to exploit weaknesses in a wide variety of criminals.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Reunion's Det. Kenneth Marjorino (Mathew St. Patrick).

Best Tech Geek - Abby Sciuto, NCIS
ACTOR Pauley Perrette
KNOWN FOR... Consuming copious amounts of soda.
BELOVED BECAUSE... Despite her Goth-girl appearance, Abby brings a bright, sunny outlook to a pretty heavy day job and engages in amusing repartee with boss man Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon).
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Bones' Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin).

Best Hunk - Warrick Brown, CSI
ACTOR Gary Dourdan
KNOWN FOR... Overcoming his gambling addiction — no small feat considering the guy lives in Vegas.
BELOVED BECAUSE... Evidence, shmevidence — this guy's got the dreamiest eyes on the small screen.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Law & Order: SVU's Det. Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni).

Best Babe - Samantha Spade, Without a Trace
ACTOR Poppy Montgomery
KNOWN FOR... Office romances: She's had affairs with both her boss (Anthony LaPaglia) and a colleague (Eric Close).
BELOVED BECAUSE... Despite her dodgy office politics, this blond bombshell knows how to get the job done.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Numb3rs' Megan Reeves (Diane Farr).

Best Oddball - Horatio Caine, CSI: Miami
ACTOR David Caruso
KNOWN FOR... Bonding with adorable moppet witnesses.
BELOVED BECAUSE... Dis-trac-ting — As. His. Oddball. Speaking. Cadence. Can beeeeee. It's hard...to...turn away...from the screeeen.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Veronica Mars' Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni).

Best Coroner - Elizabeth Rodgers, Law & Order
ACTOR Leslie Hendrix
KNOWN FOR... A sly, slighty hard-boiled sense of humor.
BELOVED BECAUSE... Though she doesn't appear on every episode, Rodgers' no-nonsense approach to delivering time and cause of death makes her one of the small-screen's best unsung supporting players.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... CSI: NY's Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper).[/b]

Best Unusually Gifted Prodigy - Allison DuBois, Medium
ACTOR Patricia Arquette
KNOWN FOR... Helping to solve crimes with her psychic abilities.
BELOVED BECAUSE... As a harried mom in everyday clothes, she looks and acts like a real civil servant.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... Numb3rs' Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz).

Best Comic Relief - Garcia, Criminal Minds
ACTOR Kirsten Vangsness
KNOWN FOR... Shameless phone flirtation with handsome field agents.
BELOVED BECAUSE... In her limited screen time, this siren with a headset scores genuine belly laughs with her cheeky come-ons — and impresses us with her rapid research skills.
WOULD WORK WELL WITH... CSI: Miami's Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez).

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EW Poll Top Crime Fighters

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I know these things are a load of old balls but I thought we could have a bit of Friday fun, so I actually took a few minutes to vote, and these are the readers choice so far.

3. Pick the best interrogator:
50% Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), Law & Order: Criminal Intent
18% Mike Logan (Chris Noth), Law & Order: Criminal Intent
14% Horatio Caine (David Caruso), CSI: Miami
13% Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin), Law & Order
4% Kenneth Marjorino (Mathew St. Patrick), Reunion
Total votes: 1,445

7. Pick the best oddball:
32% Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), Law & Order: Criminal Intent
30% John Munch (Richard Belzer), Law & Order: SVU
17% Horatio Caine (David Caruso), CSI: Miami
11% Temperance ''Bones'' Brennan (Emily Deschanel), Bones
10% Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni), Veronica Mars
Total votes: 637

11. Pick the best all-around crime fighter:
32% Gil Grissom (William Petersen), CSI
24% Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Law & Order: SVU
13% Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), Law & Order: SVU
12% Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), Law & Order: Criminal Intent
8% Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), CSI
5% Horatio Caine (David Caruso), CSI: Miami
3% Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette), Medium
1% Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), Without a Trace
1% Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan), CSI
Total votes: 642

Come on people get voting, Goren's home and dry for the best interrogator title and still in with a fighting chance for best all round crime fighter, but more important than any of the other's ANY title with the words oddball/eccentric/quirky.... belong to nobody else.