The Mentalist (TV Series)

Pilot (2008)

Robin Tunney: Teresa Lisbon

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Quotes 

• Patrick Jane : You know what your problem is, my friend? You enjoy your work a little too much. You're a ghoul. If you don't get horny reading Fangoria, I'm Britney Spears.

  Brett Partridge : I - I resent that!

  Teresa Lisbon : This is you trying to redeem yourself, is it?

  Patrick Jane : I'm sorry. He irks me. He's irksome.

• Patrick Jane : Be reasonable. This is my case.

  Teresa Lisbon : *Your* case?

  Patrick Jane : Red John's mine.

  Teresa Lisbon : Red John doesn't belong to anyone.

  Patrick Jane : He belongs to me!

• Teresa Lisbon : [to Van Pelt]  You checked luggage? What are you, on vacation?

• Patrick Jane : Red John thinks of himself as a showman, an artist. He has a strong sense of theater. In all the previous killings, he made sure that the first thing that anyone sees is the face on the wall. You see the face first and you know. You know what's happened and you feel dread. Then, and only then, do you see the body of the victim; always in that order. Here, it's the opposite. The first thing you see is the body. Then you have to look around to see the face on the wall. Doesn't play nearly as well, does it?

  Teresa Lisbon : Depends on your taste, I suppose.

  Patrick Jane : No, come on. The killer could have painted on the correct wall, here. But he didn't because he didn't know better because he isn't Red John.

• Kimball Cho : I like the husband for it. He hired some hooker he knows to create an alibi, flies home, fillets the spouse, flies back again. It's a classic, elaborate, clever, but ultimately stupid plan.

  Patrick Jane : Have you looked at his PGA tournament record?

  Kimball Cho : It's not bad. Six mil career earnings.

  Patrick Jane : Hmm. For coming in second and third. You put him on the eighteenth tee with a big one on the line, like night follows day, he'll shank it. He's a choker. He doesn't have the nerve to kill his wife. Didn't do it.

  Kimball Cho : Hmm.

  Teresa Lisbon : Are you suggesting we drop a prime suspect because he's never won a major?

  Patrick Jane : Oh, no, no, no. I'm just making idle conversation.

• [deleted scene] 

  Patrick Jane : Would you drop me at the airport, please?

  Teresa Lisbon : You're leaving?

  Patrick Jane : Well, I have to get my shoes x-rayed anyway, so I figured I'd get on a plane.

  Teresa Lisbon : And off you go on your merry way. These lives lost here mean nothing to you.

  Patrick Jane : Not nothing.

  [seeing her expression] 

  Patrick Jane : I'm confused. You don't want me here and it's not Red John, so I'm going. What's your problem?

  Teresa Lisbon : We don't know that it's not Red John, and what I want is not the point.

  [realization dawns on her] 

  Teresa Lisbon : Oh. Wait a minute. I get it. You're just trying to get me to ask you to stay.

  Patrick Jane : Why would you think that?

  [to Cho] 

  Patrick Jane : Why would she think that?

  Teresa Lisbon : Because A, you've got nowhere to go, and B, you're an egomaniac. You think it's impossible that I really and truly do not want to work with you. You think that deep down inside, I've got a grudging respect for your genius. The truth is, deep down, I'm scared of you. You've got no boundaries, you got no common sense. You're filled with all this... this stuff that you refuse to acknowledge. One day, you're gonna create one mother of a tragedy for yourself and everybody around you. I don't want to be there when it happens, so we'll drive you to the airport. It's fine.

  [to Rigsby] 

  Teresa Lisbon : Take a left on Bob Hope.

• Patrick Jane : [arriving at a crime scene]  Morning, everybody! How was your flight?

  Teresa Lisbon : Go away. You're on suspension.

  Patrick Jane : [paying his cabbie]  Thank you.

  [catching up with the team] 

  Patrick Jane : Mandated leave. Ends next week.

  Teresa Lisbon : So come back next week.

  Patrick Jane : Whew. Hot enough for you?

  Teresa Lisbon : Which one of you jackasses told him? It was you, wasn't it, Cho?

  Kimball Cho : Yes, it was.

  Patrick Jane : Of course he called me. It's Red John. You can't keep me out of this. Why would you want to?

  Teresa Lisbon : You got a man killed. There's consequences.

• Teresa Lisbon : [on the phone with Jane]  Hey. So, you might be right about this case. Might be. Thanks for the insight. No. Did I say that? I'm acknowledging the fact that you might be right. That's all. I mean, if you wanted to come back, I couldn't stop you. Yeah, fine. I'm asking you to come back. Because. Because you're useful to the team. No. No, I won't say please. Go screw yourself.

  [hanging up and setting her phone onto the table in anger] 

  Teresa Lisbon : Jackass.

• [Lisbon ignores Jane as he enters the CBI office] 

  Patrick Jane : Good morning.

  Grace Van Pelt : Can I help you?

  Patrick Jane : You must be Van Pelt. Pleasure. Patrick Jane.

  Grace Van Pelt : Oh, hi. Good to meet you. Agent Cho said you left town.

  Patrick Jane : No. Nowhere to go.

  Grace Van Pelt : Okay. Um... do you want that desk over there or this one? I mean, that one gets more light.

  Patrick Jane : That one. More light, by all means.

  [Van Pelt leaves] 

  Patrick Jane : Very pleasant addition to the Serious Crimes family.

  Teresa Lisbon : Oh. Hi. When did you get here?

• Teresa Lisbon : Don't even start. I'm still angry.

  Patrick Jane : I'm sorry.

  Teresa Lisbon : No, you're not.

  [he sets an origami animal on her desk] 

  Teresa Lisbon : [sarcastic]  A frog? Well, this makes everything better, doesn't it?

  [as Jane leaves, she gasps and smiles to herself as the frog "hops" once across the desk]