Detective Robert Goren - Rewind and Rethink

This series is a form of creative writing known as fan fiction. Detective Robert Goren is a regular character on the Dick Wolf television show, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. What follows is one longtime viewer's breath of life into an already popular character.

I stayed late last night. I went into an empty office and reviewed some of Nicole's interrogation footage. I've watched it all more times than you can imagine, memorizing every gesture, every intonation in her voice trying to get a grasp on her weak spots.
Not the likely ones but the real ones that only show when you take the time to review a tape. The things that a single eye blink can cause you to miss when sitting face to face. So last night I really had an overpowering need to watch her again when confronted about her daughter. She didn't play the part of grieving mother, looking for sympathy. She didn't work to cover her ass very hard and she was not thinking on her feet, not for Nicole anyway. I mean somewhere in the back of her head she had to have prepared for what she would say should this ever hit the light of day.

That's what killers do, they concoct stories. That's what she does. But this, it was different. The pure rage in her eyes when I accused her of killing her daughter, the way she shrieked at me like an animal. That wasn't guilt talking, not murderous guilt anyway. She was appalled and outraged to be accused of such a thing and while watching her, none of her usual telltale ticks were there. She didn't kill her child. She knows who did and likely couldn't stop them. I think that guilt crushes her. Just the way she told me to stop talking about her, the way she insisted on it- I was touching something sacred to her, something far too painful for her to handle if her attorney hadn't walked in.

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Trinket has worked as a journalist for the last 15 years covering sports, entertainment while dabbling in satire. She has taken multitasking to a crazed level juggling work, 3 little diva's and putting the finishing touches on an upcoming book.

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