F.P.S.

Infobox Television episode
Title=F.P.S.
Series=
Season=3
Episode=10 (#55 overall)
Airdate=January 4, 2004
Production=E4507
Writer=Dick Wolf (creator)
René Balcer (developer and story)
Gerry Conway (story and teleplay)
Stephanie Sengupta (story editor)
Director=Darnell Martin
Guests=T.R. Knight
Jordan Bridges
Kevin Geer
Annette Arnold
A.D. Miles
Prev=
Next=Mad Hops

"F.P.S" is a episode of the television series "."

Plot summary

In this episode, Goren and his temporary partner Bishop are assigned to investigate the death of a young woman found strangled and thrown from her balcony. At first, Goren and Bishop learn that the victim was a computer game company employee. The detectives are initially distracted by a related hacker, until they discover the victim's addiction for gaming which led them to her former employers, two talented creators who are under pressure to deliver the next version of a famed video game. But further evidence leads them to realise that behind the murder could be a sophisticated group of hi-tech thieves who are using spyware to commit fraud. Finally, Goren is forced to dig deep into his own past to find responses.

Cast

Quotes

" [At crime scene] "
Goren: Her laptop is missing. Is it in there?
" [Going through drawers in the victim's bedroom] "
Bishop: Only two things in here with batteries. None of them's a computer.

" [Looking around a suspect's computer collection] "
Goren: What're you running here, Raymond? A group home for computers?

Bishop: A computer geek who can clone himself. Scary thought.

Deakins: When we catch this guy, he's going to owe me a bottle of aspirin.

MCS Computer Tech: "Gotcha", monkey brain.

" [Goren, to Bishop, after he has lashed out a suspect who he thought was behind on his child support payments and is proved wrong] "
Goren: Croydon [1] ... McVee is another Croydon...
Bishop: Who's, Who's Croydon?
Goren: He ran out on his wife. She used him to get at me... And the pattern, one, one, two: It's Wally Stevens [2] .
Bishop: I don't know what you're talking about.
Goren: He was an actuary. He had a pattern of five. Five, five notes. Five... pins... Eames would have known.
(See also [1] "A Person of Interest" and [2] "")

" [To Bishop] "
Goren: It's about yearning. He misses his partner.

Carver: He killed her to drive his partner back into his arms? That's almost juvenile.
Goren: It's primitive. Panic is a primitive emotion. That's how he felt without his partner.

" [To a partner] "
Suspect: I told you, I didn't even know her name. She was just a gamer.
" [To suspect's partner] "
Goren: "Just" a gamer? Your partner let a gamer get between you two. If my partner was putting me through that – abandoning me, leaving me vulnerable, impotent, for a nobody – That's unforgivable.

" [Goren's cell phone rings. He opens it, looks at the message, and he looks relieved] "
Goren: Seven pounds, eight ounces.
Carver: Excellent.
Bishop: It's great. You, You should call her. I'll handle the booking.
" [After Eames gave birth to a baby boy] "

Fact

*the title of this episode, "F.P.S.", is a reference to an abbreviation for First-person shooter, a type of video game distinguished by a first person perspective, that renders the game world from the visual perspective of the fictional character.

External links

* [http://former.imdb.com/title/tt0275140/episodes#season-3 IMDb entry]
* [http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Criminal_Intent/episode_guide/index.html Official Website] ----