The Mentalist (TV Series)

The Thin Red Line (2008)

Simon Baker: Patrick Jane

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Quotes 

• Patrick Jane : It's nice to be nice. But if you want to get ahead in life, sometimes you have to be a bitch. I know you know how.

  Grace Van Pelt : Gee, thanks.

  Patrick Jane : It's all about the balance, Grace. Yin, Yang. Nice, bitch. Little bit of bitch inside the nice, a little bit of nice inside the bitch.

  Grace Van Pelt : Yeah, I'll work on that.

  Patrick Jane : Keep 'em guessin'.

• Teresa Lisbon : [after Jane gets hit]  Are you okay?

  Patrick Jane : Assault. Assault.

  Teresa Lisbon : I would rethink this new technique of yours.

  Patrick Jane : I can't disagree.

• Teresa Lisbon : When are you going to learn to cool it without being told?

  Patrick Jane : Oh come on. They pissed you off too. The sexist pigs.

  Teresa Lisbon : They were.

  Patrick Jane : I just said that.

  Teresa Lisbon : You were saying it ironically.

• Teresa Lisbon : Look I don't want to make this official, talk to a judge or anything. Once we do that, the cat's out of the bag for good. If you're clean on this, here's the way to prove it.

  [Prciado hands his weapon to Lisbon. Jane grabs Preciado's wrist] 

  Teresa Lisbon : Is this the only .38 in your possession.

  Steve Preciado : Yes it is.

  [Angrily to Jane] 

  Steve Preciado : And if you try to hold my hand again, I'm going to tear your arm off and beat you unconscious with it! Get me?

  Patrick Jane : Gotcha.

• Patrick Jane : It's funny what bad liars cops are. They're not used to concealing themselves under questioning.

  Teresa Lisbon : I'm a cop. I lie to you all the time. You never catch it.

  Patrick Jane : I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but you're translucent, my dear. I always know when you're lying. Sometimes I let you think you fool me just so you don't feel bad.

• Patrick Jane : I always know when you're lying. Sometimes I let you think you've fooled me just so you don't feel bad.

  Teresa Lisbon : Name one time.

  Patrick Jane : Ahem, last Thanksgiving, you said you were going back East to your brother's house. But I knew you were actually planning to have three days at home alone to watch old movies and eat ice cream.

  Teresa Lisbon : ...Okay, so that's one time.