Detective Alexandra Eames

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Detective Alexandra Eames Quotes

	Season 8 / Episode 16: - Revolution Detective Alexandra Eames: [to Detective Nichols] You're starting to remind me of someone.
	Season 8 / Episode 16: - Revolution Detective Alexandra Eames: [about a book Kaspers bought for a child] "The Wretched of the Earth." Was the bookstore all out of "Charlotte's Web"? Axel Kaspers: [earnestly] Do you know the book? Can anyone know that book without being moved to pity - to take action? Detective Alexandra Eames: Yeah, I never step on spiders any more.
	Season 8 / Episode 16: - Revolution Detective Zach Nichols: "Pig's system is death. Murder must answer murder. We have started the revolution last night." It's not very good English. Agent Carmen Martino: It's not supposed to be an SAT exam. Detective Zach Nichols: It could be a native Spanish speaker or a German. Some language where the present perfect is the same as the simple past. Detective Alexandra Eames: You're starting to remind me of someone. Captain Danny Ross: This one's taller.
	Season 8 / Episode 15: - Alpha Dog Detective Robert Goren: [referring to the murder victim] He embraced good causes. Detective Alexandra Eames: He also embraced any woman who got close enough for a smell test.
	Season 8 / Episode 15: - Alpha Dog Duke Degarel: [introducing the police to his wife] And these are Detectives Goblin and, um... Detective Alexandra Eames: Goren and Eames.
	Season 8 / Episode 14: - Major Case Detective Zach Nichols: [looking at victim's keepsake photo, then sighing] Grace kept this on her pillow, like it was a dream - some place to get away from all this. Detective Alexandra Eames: I heard you got away for a few years. You feeling some kind of kindred spirit? Detective Zach Nichols: Nah, I try to avoid transferrential relationships with dead people - it's always so one-sided.
	Season 8 / Episode 11: - Lady's Man Detective Alexandra Eames: [looks under sheet, at murder victim's groin] So where is his - ? Detective Robert Goren: Killer might've taken it. Fetish. Detective Robert Goren: [looks out at beach, sea, and sky] Seagulls are always hungry.
	Season 8 / Episode 11: - Lady's Man Detective Alexandra Eames: It won't be pleasant for me. Detective Robert Goren: Mm-mmm. Detective Alexandra Eames: It's about getting him, right? Detective Robert Goren: Mm-hmm. Detective Alexandra Eames: So what's the problem.
	Season 7 / Episode 17: - Vanishing Act Detective Alexandra Eames: How'd you find her, craigslist? Carmine: Who's Craig?
	Season 7 / Episode 11: - Purgatory Detective Alexandra Eames: I remember you... You used to be Lois Cabrera. Officer Lois Melago: I shoulda stayed that way.
	Season 7 / Episode 11: - Purgatory Detective Alexandra Eames: Get your feet off my partner's desk.
	Season 7 / Episode 11: - Purgatory Detective Alexandra Eames: [to Robert Goren] You're undercover, you don't tell me? Captain Danny Ross: Those were my orders - direct from the top...
	Season 7 / Episode 11: - Purgatory Detective Alexandra Eames: [bitterly, to the newly reinstated Detective Goren] I get it. You're the genius; I just carry your water. Right?
	Season 7 / Episode 7: - Self-made Captain Danny Ross: He still drive a Jag? Detective Alexandra Eames: A new one every three years. Just like his harassment lawsuits.
	Season 6 / Episode 15: - Brother's Keeper Detective Alexandra Eames: [finding gay porn in the reverend's desk drawer] One of these things is not like the others.
	Season 5 / Episode 21: - On Fire Charlie Taylor: [sees a race car wreck on TV; squeals] Woo-hoo! Look at that! Detective Robert Goren: You like car races? Charlie Taylor: Oh yeah! I got a need for speed! I'm, not that I break the law any more officer. I got plenty enough tickets to last me a life-time, but no DUI's. I don't drink. I got an allergy. Detective Robert Goren: Your job. Your always climbing around in those vents, that's dangerous, huh? Charlie Taylor: It's fun! Detective Robert Goren: [to Eames] Dangerous and fun. Detective Alexandra Eames: [deadpan] Woo-hoo.
	Season 5 / Episode 13: - Proud Flesh Detective Alexandra Eames: [referring to a dead body in latex] He died with his freak on.
	Season 5 / Episode 13: - Proud Flesh Professor Larry Lewis: This story of yours is - it's Kafkaesque. Detective Alexandra Eames: That would make you the bug, Larry. You know what I like to do to bugs? I like to watch my partner squash them.
	Season 5 / Episode 13: - Proud Flesh Detective Robert Goren: [Goren asks Chinese shop owner a question in Chinese] Shop owner: [in Chinese] You speak Chinese like my little dog! Translator: She said... Detective Robert Goren: [embarrassed] I know, I got it. Detective Alexandra Eames: [amused] So did I.
	Season 5 / Episode 11: - Slither Detective Alexandra Eames: [seeing that Goren has covered two boards with random letters] I totally forgot I need an eye exam.
	Season 5 / Episode 11: - Slither Captain James Deakins: What are we talking about, some kind of Manson family? Detective Alexandra Eames: If the Manson family shopped on Madison Avenue.
	Season 5 / Episode 11: - Slither Detective Alexandra Eames: Old jealousies never die.
	Season 5 / Episode 11: - Slither Detective Alexandra Eames: [referring to Bernard Fremont] What is it that women see in him? Detective Robert Goren: The door to another world.
	Season 5 / Episode 7: - In the Wee Small Hours (2) Detective Robert Goren: [checking suspicious ink spills on a suspect's desk] I'm checking to see which ones are fresh. Detective Alexandra Eames: They must love you in the produce section.
	Season 5 / Episode 6: - In the Wee Small Hours (1) Detective Alexandra Eames: There they go. Ocean's Two.
	Season 5 / Episode 5: - Acts of Contrition Detective Alexandra Eames: [to Detective Goren] You're the lapsed altar boy.
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Unblinking Eye Detective Robert Goren: [while observing a suspect in the interrogation room] She rages on, inspite of all the evidence against her. Detective Alexandra Eames: She could confess, but where's the fun in that?
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Unblinking Eye Detective Robert Goren: When was the last time you went on a treasure hunt? Detective Alexandra Eames: How 'bout never.
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Unblinking Eye Detective Alexandra Eames: Most guys freak out if their exes send them even a Christmas card.
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Unblinking Eye District Attorney Ron Carver: If only he had gone blank on that street corner. Detective Alexandra Eames: [scratches head] Oh, but then they wouldn't get to be celebrity perps.

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