Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)

Icarus (2011)

Vincent D'Onofrio: Detective Robert 'Bobby' Goren

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• Paula Gyson : Actually, I was struck by the fact that this dream is what you wanted to discuss today. You want me to know that my opinion matters, but now who's asking questions that he knows the answers to?... Instead of discussing what happened at the end of last session? A week ago, you were furious. You walked out. And today, I'm... I'm not sure what's on your mind or... or even why you came back.

  Robert Goren : It's on my mind. No matter... what was going on from your side, you know. I'm sorry for losing my temper. I wanted to apologize for that.

  Paula Gyson : Thank you. It's fine to apologize, but I think we should talk about, try to reconstruct what happened between us.

  Robert Goren : I told you, I think I overreacted.

  Paula Gyson : Yes, and I am suggesting because something powerful came up, something important. Why do you think you turned so quickly?

  Robert Goren : Yeah, we got our wires crossed.

  Paula Gyson : Has that happened to you before?

  Robert Goren : What? Come on. You're telling me that that's never happened to you?

  Paula Gyson : You became enraged because you thought I suggested you might be hitting on me.

  Robert Goren : [impatient]  Look, I don't know what your angle is with me. I don't know if you're trying to get me to fail... To fall for you. I don't know if you're trying to get me to... behave crazy, so you can call the N.Y.P.D...

  Paula Gyson : So you don't know what the rules of engagement are here. So let's talk about that...

  Robert Goren : [angry]  You want to know what I feel? I feel anger.

  Paula Gyson : And last week, you were flooded with it. Fight or flight. What's underneath the anger?

  Robert Goren : More anger.

  Paula Gyson : And underneath that, fear... fear that I'm gonna betray you, fear that I'm gonna humiliate you, that I must be up to something more than to get you to know your own mind. And that's why you run. Deep down, if we do this work, you're justifiably terrified of what we might discover.

• Prof. Cleo Alexander : [looking into a book]  Icarus! My favorite metaphor for failed ambition. Hubris. Here it is... The clew: c-l-e-w. A ball of thread or yarn.

  Robert Goren : Right, a ball of yarn that Daedalus gave to Theseus to help him escape from the labyrinth, which angered King Minos, who then imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus in the same labyrinth?

  Prof. Cleo Alexander : [smiling]  Are you sure you need my help?

  Robert Goren : I do need your help. Tell me more about the, uh, labyrinth.

  Prof. Cleo Alexander : Well, the word is pre-Greek in origin... Minoan.

  Robert Goren : [looking to a picture in the book]  I saw this in her office. The classical labyrinth... circular in pattern, unicursal.

  Prof. Cleo Alexander : Single path.

  Robert Goren : Going in circles, but one path, not difficult to navigate.

  Prof. Cleo Alexander : You know, in some versions of the myth, it's more of a maze... multicursal, like a puzzle with choices of direction.

  Robert Goren : But the killer... thought that they had no choice.

  Prof. Cleo Alexander : Well, whoever it is, Bobby, one thing I do know. I know you. You'll find 'em.

• Robert Goren : Did he ever ask you to sabotage Marc's rig?

  Donald Cogan : No. But when Marc fell... I knew Evan was gonna cash in.

  Alexandra Eames : [being ironic]  And they say there's no creativity in the theater these days.

• Brice Calder : You're asking if I had anything to do with him getting killed?

  Robert Goren : Did you? You know, Marc out of the way, you put on the wings, and you're Icarus.

  Brice Calder : That's a little All about Eve-ish. Don't you think?

  Robert Goren : You're telling me that you didn't resent him at all? A tv actor with no theater chops gets the role over you. I mean, you were nominated for an Obie.

  Brice Calder : You googled me. I'm flattered.

  Alexandra Eames : Had to sting... night after night, seeing a sitcom star mangle the part.

  Brice Calder : That's how the business works. They want a name. Yeah, well, I have a name. It's Brice Calder.

  Robert Goren : [as they were shaking hands]  Detective Goren.

• Robert Goren : Look, every other actor on Icarus is a respected pro, right? Marc Landry was a... he was a sitcom actor. You're not giving anything away.

  Michael DeWitt : Okay. Off the record? Marc Landry was dreadful, atrocious. Getting killed was the best thing that ever happened to his Broadway career.

• Robert Goren : You didn't want DeWitt reviewing Marc that night, so you cut the rig, staged an accident.

  Amanda Rollins : No, I didn't.

  Robert Goren : You've been under a lot of pressure. A year of living and breathing Icarus, pouring your heart and soul into the production. Maybe you didn't want to turn out to be another Julie Taymor... get fired for artistic differences.

  Amanda Rollins : I would never hurt an actor... Never. They're like my children.

  Robert Goren : Your naughty children, who don't listen, who don't take direction, who think they know better than you.

  Amanda Rollins : [angry]  That's true. Marc never listened. He didn't trust me. For a production like this to work, there must be absolute trust!

• Alexandra Eames : So maybe now's the time to tell you we have security footage of you in the Premier Club elevator kissing Marc Landry.

  Robert Goren : [being ironic]  You know, he really could have been just giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

  Attorney Pamela Albert : Are they making this up, Adam?

  Adam Winter : Okay... There was a couple of times he invited me up to his apartment... Work on his performance.

  Robert Goren : Right, but isn't that the director's job?

  Adam Winter : He hated Amanda, and she hated him.

  Alexandra Eames : So you were the peacemaker.

  Adam Winter : Yes. Marc was just trying to get me on his side. I mean, you got to love actors. I mean, they're people pleasers.

  Robert Goren : [being ironic]  I know. I know.

• Joseph Hannah : The producer wanted his own star killed.

  Robert Goren : It was the only way to stop the bleeding, and he had someone on the inside to do the job.

  Joseph Hannah : How do you prove it?

  Alexandra Eames : With the help of some egomaniacs with inferiority complexes.

• Robert Goren : You're lying. But that's what producers do, isn't it? You lie for a living.

  Evan Korman : Yeah, well, so are the police!

• Robert Goren : [to Roger Porter and Evan Korman]  What made the two of you think that you could get away with murder?

  Amanda Rollins : Hubris.

  Robert Goren : [handcuffing Evan Korman]  Show's over.

• Amanda Rollins : I've always thrown myself into my work to the exclusion of all else. It felt safe there... the one place I wouldn't have to think about the things I was running from.

  Robert Goren : [empathic]  I understand.

• Adam Winter : Amanda blamed everyone and everything, okay? She even had a problem with the songs.

  Robert Goren : You disagreed?

  Adam Winter : Well, being as I wrote them, yeah. You familiar with my work, detective?

  Robert Goren : [hesitating]  Oh, uh...

  Alexandra Eames : [interrupting Goren]  He's more of a jazz guy.

• Robert Goren : Greek mythology seems to be a reoccurring theme in your work. Your three movies, your last musical, Pandora.

  Adam Winter : Yes, I'm drawn to the classic stories... how human nature endures.

  Robert Goren : Right. And the labyrinth... Well, it's part of the Icarus story. Daedalus... he builds the labyrinth to imprison...

  Adam Winter : The minotaur.

  Robert Goren : [looking at a picture of a circular labyrinth on the wall]  Minotaur. Right. I like the way you... Well, your representation of it onstage.

  Adam Winter : Thank you. Yes, the... the labyrinth represents a journey of discovery, a pilgrimage to the truth.

  Alexandra Eames : Our job in a nutshell.

• Robert Goren : [coming close]  Come on, Evan. It was a barn burner of a disaster, right? A catastrophe, a money-sucking catastrophe. I think... A career-ender.

  Evan Korman : How dare you?

  Robert Goren : [ponting to a portrait on the wall]  You know, it must have been tough, your father looking over your shoulders every day. And now he's looking down on you from the great white way in the sky, and he's thinking, "I fathered... an entitled embarrassment."

  Evan Korman : All productions have problems.

  Alexandra Eames : [sarcastic]  Not front-page headlines in the Daily News every day. You're the laughingstock of Broadway.

• Robert Goren : [sarcastically to Roger Porter]  You see, we googled you... six credits on shows that Evan produced since you... you graduated... Yale drama. You're a Yale man! A dramaturge!

  Roger Porter : Stop it!

  Robert Goren : [being ironic]  You know, it must be hard for artists these days, you now, the crass comercial considerations and never-ending pursuit of... Profit. You know, profit. Yeah, I guess that's why they call it show bussiness. But in the end, you are an artist, right? You create illusions, you know. You live in a world of make-believe. But this... This is real. Somebody's dead. There's a body at the morgue. And what got him there? Your fear of failure.

  Evan Korman : Bravo. I'm gonna have to cast you in my new production with that performance.

  Robert Goren : [indignant to Evan Korman]  You killed a man to save your reputation.

  [to Roger Porter] 

  Robert Goren : And you killed a man because you wanted to be a producer? Really? To share a marquee with Evan Korman... Son of the late, great, legendary Irwin Korman?