"Art"

Eames: "Popular opinion's got this pegged as a murder suicide".
Goren: "Well never trust opinion polls".

Deakins: "All my favorite theories shot to hell in 60 seconds".

Rachel Blunt: "You like art Detective?"
Goren (eagerly picking up statuette from mantel): "Oh I *like* this".
Bill Blunt (moving to bronze's rescue): "It's a Lachaise. Bronze. One of only three cast from the mold".
Goren (raising the statuette over his head): "Uh how do you know?" (Goren turns bronze upside down to look at its base) "Does it have a number on the bottom?"
Bill Blunt (hastily taking statuette from Goren): "Uh there's no number. It's, uh, just a documented fact".
Eames: "Were you aware Jackson and Ms. Ellis knew each other?"
Rachel Blunt: "Well they met because of our Monet--"
Bill Blunt (interrupting): "--But we didn't know how *well* they knew each other".
Goren (in an Innuendo-soaked voice): "*Oh*". (Goren sidles up to Mr. Blunt conspiratorially) "You think there was something going on there?"
Bill Blunt: "Well murder-suicide speaks for itself doesn't it?"
Goren: "It certainly does". (He and Eames trade looks and Eames nods knowingly).

Goren: "Right. It's a Monet, it's all in the lighting".

Rudy Langer: "Even the art world doesn't know a lot about art".

Eames (gazing with admiration at a Monet in a reverent tone): "It's beautiful".
Goren (turning his back to the painting bored): "Yeah Impressionists are too pretty".
Eames (perturbed): "Right you probably like those sweaty naked people in the next room".
Goren: "Lucien Freud. As a matter of fact I do".
Eames: (softly chiding Goren) "You can't put that stuff in your home. You can't live with it".
Goren (deliberately louder trying to provoke Eames): "Well I'm not interested in living with it. I'm interested in thinking about it".

Goren (reading report): "'Green specks of unknown origin'".
Technician: "Yeah well we're still working on that one".
Eames: "Maybe Madame Monet dropped some green beans in the paint bucket".

Rudy Langer: "Americans are so impressed with science when it's as much myth as religion".

Eames: "Americans are also impressed with other things like subpoenas. We'd be glad to show you how impressive they can be".
Rudy Langer: "There is nothing in life I enjoy quite as much as being threatened by a beautiful woman".

Rudy Langer: "Lesen sie Deutsch?"
Goren: "Ja ausreichend". (softly to Eames) "I learned in the army".
Rudy Langer (smiling): "This day is ever more delightful".

Woman at Holocaust Center: "What I don't understand is how could anyone recover these masterpieces from the bottom of the ocean?"
Goren: "By painting them yourself".

Eames: "Nobody likes to be told they're a sucker".

Rudy Langer: "Tax fraud. How mundane".
Goren: "But smart. I like smart".

Goren (point to Sylvia Moon's painting and inviting himself into her studio making a beeline for the canvas): "Hey that's, that's nice".
Eames (apologetically to Sylvia Moon): "He can't help himself".

Goren (indicating mortar & pestle): "You crush these green tablets in there, same as your paints". (Goren tosses jar of algicide into pestle).
Sylvia Moon (cautiously): "Yes. Why?"
Eames (softly): "Guess it wasn't the green beans after all".

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