Say what you want about any other show and the plot run, but Season 6 of Law and Order: Criminal Intent went so hard on Goren and Eames. We have:
Goren’s mentor, Declan Gage, returns because he thinks his white whale serial killer has started killing again. Eames get kidnapped by the serial killer, which makes Bobby freak the fuck out. His mentor is framed with Eames cell phone on him and Bobby is ready to fight him trying to find out where Eames is. Meantime, Eames works her ass off the free herself and gets rescued. Bobby visits her in the hospital and looks like his heart was ripped out of his chest seeing her injured and scared. He manages to get Declan’s daughter, Jo, to admit she was the one killing the girls as a way to get her father’s attention. Fade out on Bobby sitting beside Eames’ bed at the hospital.
Bobby admits his mother has cancer to a suspect and Eames asks “that was true about your mom wasn’t it?” Peak comes when the suspect, a police officer, holds a gun on Eames and Goren in his office and Bobby is visibly freaking out negotiating for him to get the gun off Eames. “You have to take your gun off my partner and put it on me.” The suspect is arrested only for him to commit suicide in front of Bobby, Alex and his wife and daughter. Eames asks him if he’s okay and he looks at her like he’s broken.
Bobby and Alex are brought into work on Thanksgiving when the Police Commissioner’s daughter goes missing. He struggles with being away from his sick mother when she needs him and keeps calling him. The whole episode is him falling apart while trying to still do his job because “he’s the best they have” while Eames worries about him and tries to be there for him while he’s just brushing her off and having some tantrums. “I’m leaving. If you wanna fire me, fire me.”
Bobby runs in to his long-lost brother who has addiction issues while his mother gets sicker and his entire life continues to implode.
Bobby finds out the his mother may have had a relationship with a serial killer and who could be his father.
Obviously I’m summarizing the big episodes and parts but all of that makes me feel like body slammed in the heart.
