The Mentalist (TV Series)

Red Hair and Silver Tape (2008)

Robin Tunney: Teresa Lisbon

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Quotes 

• Patrick Jane : I made a booking for two for this afternoon. Could you put us on the terrace? It's more romantic. Thanks... Yeah, Patrick... Lovely. See you then. Don't fret, I wouldn't seduce you over a meal. That'd be very sophomoric.

  Teresa Lisbon : I didn't think you were trying to seduce me.

  Patrick Jane : Come on, how could that thought not have entered your head?

  [Lisbon stares speechlessly at Patrick] 

  Patrick Jane : Your denial that it did intrigues me.

  Teresa Lisbon : Bite me.

• Patrick Jane : Yes, I did hypnotize her but...

  Teresa Lisbon : But nothing! It's unprofessional and it's illegal!

  Kimball Cho : That's what I told him.

  Patrick Jane : I was going to say you had nothing to do with it. But hey -

  [Jane leaves. Cho starts to walk, Lisbon stops Cho] 

  Teresa Lisbon : You allow him to pull that stuff again, and you'll be showing visitors around the Statehouse in a stupid hat.

  Kimball Cho : Yes, ma'am. Understood.

• Teresa Lisbon : If it wasn't him, then who was it? And if you say a man who likes red hair and silver duct tape, I'll scream.

  Patrick Jane : I don't want you to scream.

• Teresa Lisbon : Not every murder is a secret, inside of a secret, inside of a secret. There's not always a hidden pattern.

  Patrick Jane : Not always, but sometimes there is.

  Teresa Lisbon : Sometimes the obvious guy did it. Most of the time the obvious guy did it.

• Patrick Jane : Hey.

  Patrick Jane : Listen. I don't want to make you mad, but I've found something really interesting I want you to take a look at.

  Teresa Lisbon : You can't make me mad. Go ahead. What'd you find?

  Patrick Jane : You first. What made you so happy?

  Teresa Lisbon : Forensics. There are substantial traces of Melanie's blood on the seat of Hector's truck.

  Patrick Jane : Oh. So, happy day.

• Sheriff McAllister : [about Jane]  Who is this guy?

  Teresa Lisbon : He's a consultant. You want CBI's assistance, he comes as part of the package.

• Grace Van Pelt : I did the database search. I'm e-mailing the results.

  Teresa Lisbon : I'm gonna put you on speaker.

  [she does so] 

  Grace Van Pelt : It's not much. One pop for the brand of silver tape used two months ago in Fairfield. An abduction case.

  Patrick Jane : What happened?

  Grace Van Pelt : Dolores Sanchez, a female, 22. Migrant farm laborer. Abducted at a bus stop; she doesn't know how. She wakes up on a bed in a motel room all tied up in duct tape, unharmed. The cleaners found her. Never saw her abductors, no suspects. Fairfield PD concluded it was a drunken prank. The complainant, Sanchez, left town, so the case kind of drifted away.

  Patrick Jane : This is very interesting.

  Teresa Lisbon : Let's not go off on tangents already.

  Patrick Jane : Any other correlations?

  Grace Van Pelt : Uh... yes, actually. Sanchez is a redhead like O'Keefe.

  Patrick Jane : Ah ha.

  Teresa Lisbon : Cool down. It's a common brand of tape and there's a quarter million redheaded women in California.

  Patrick Jane : Yeah. Yeah.

  Teresa Lisbon : Yeah.

  Patrick Jane : You're right. Just supposing - for fun - that it was the same guy did both crimes. He kidnaps a redheaded girl, ties her up, takes her a motel room, has her at his mercy but does nothing. Months later, kidnaps another redheaded girl, but his planning is not good enough and he kills her in a panic to keep her quiet. What does that say?

  Teresa Lisbon : He's an idiot?

  Patrick Jane : He's new to this and he's conflicted. He's hungry to do terrible things, but his conscience and his fear tell him not to. So he's not yet going into this with with the proper focus and planning. And stuff goes wrong.

  Teresa Lisbon : Or you're making that up and Melanie was murdered by her secret lover we can be fairly certain she was meeting at the exact time of her abduction.

• Teresa Lisbon : Rigsby, I got a hot warrant in Vacaville. You can get there in an hour, can't you?

  Wayne Rigsby : Yes, boss. I'll get rolling.

  Teresa Lisbon : Bring Van Pelt.

  Wayne Rigsby : Yes, bo... for a hot warrant?

  Teresa Lisbon : Why are you still on the line?

• Patrick Jane : The killer plans to bring his victim back to this room. And when he does, we're gonna be here to greet him. How sweet is that?

  Teresa Lisbon : This is all a big, elaborate joke you're gonna apologize for now, yes?

  Patrick Jane : Whoever killed Melanie had to be there that night at Shand Creek. Your timeline proves it. There's no way anyone else could have done it. One of the twenty people there that night killed Melanie. All twenty of those people are there now, today. Including the killer.

  Teresa Lisbon : [skeptical]  And he's gonna try it again today. Come on.

  Patrick Jane : No, no. Yes, yes, that's just the point. Yes, he is gonna try again.

  [showing her the bleach, plastic tarp, and gloves under the sink] 

  Patrick Jane : He's planning on it. And he's gonna try again today because we're gonna make him try again, because he's not in control of his desires. He's been thinking of nothing else but this perverse craving of his. He's gotten so close, he's desperate to go all the way. All we need to do is present him with something he can't resist. Something that he will jump at and damn the consequences. Give it a try. If I'm wrong, there's no harm done.

• Patrick Jane : [after a trap to catch the killer fails]  I was sure the chef would bite. I mean, there's still a chance he could show up.

  Teresa Lisbon : The chef? Malcolm. Why do you think it's him?

  Patrick Jane : He uses way too much butter.

  Teresa Lisbon : Say...

  Patrick Jane : He's a gluttonous baby. He's self-indulgent. He wants what he wants and he takes it.

  Teresa Lisbon : [skeptical]  Too much butter.

  Patrick Jane : Yeah.

  Teresa Lisbon : It's fascinating the way your mind works. One thing, though. Malcolm was in the kitchen with twenty people when Melanie was taken. He couldn't have done it.

  Patrick Jane : Hang on. There... there... there is a way he could.

  Teresa Lisbon : Forgive me if I can't stay for more of your theorizing, but I've got to go and see if I can save your colleagues from getting formal complaints in their files.