Oh, I may not have a fancy degree from TV & Intellectualocity University...

...but I have 10+ years in Soap Opera Studies, and while some may claim that isn't applicable to all televisual studies, here's what it has taught me: if a guy's answer to the direct question "Do you love her?" is "[stammer] [deny] [blah words] [more stammering] [conspicuous silence]," then he is in love with her. 

So, other folks recap-blogging LOCI who presented this in a straightforward "Goren says Eames is like a sister, and that is clearly true, because why would anyone on a procedural show have actual hu-man emotions for another character as a result of years of established history, rather than conveniently created sexual tension readily dusted off and used as a ploy" way, I ask you: why wouldn't he admit, easily and comfortably, "Yes, I love her...like a sister?" Hmm? HMM?

You'd think some people hadn't watched scads of soaps and WB "dramas" in their youth. Honestly.

Are we to the point where we can all agree they are secretly married?

If one of the topics in his department-mandated therapy sessions isn't his Feeeeeeelings about Eames, I'll eat a hat.*

My favorite bit was the arm along the back of Eames's chair. I know you're in the kitchen, Goren, but that doesn't mean you're at home with your wife-partner.

*Like a little one, like the Monopoly piece. Not one of those Kentucky Derby, Lucy-Coe-married-Alan-Quartermaine numbers.