Erica quotes from The Mentalist

What do you want from your life?

Jane

I want my life to be free.

Erica

Free how? To love? To be loved?

Jane

Free from my past.

Jane

I'm looking for someone who, uh -- someone I can trust. Someone strong. Someone at peace with themselves. Someone better than me. Someone who knows the worst side of me and still loves me.

Erica

Sounds like an amazing woman.

Jane

She was.

Patrick

[On the phone] Okay. Thank you. Bye. [Hangs up] Richard Aldridge will be speaking with one of my colleagues first thing tomorrow morning.

Erica

We make a good team, don’t we?

Patrick

You said you had a question.

Erica

Oh yes, that. Would you hate me if I told you I was lying? It’s just these days I don’t get to spend much time alone with charming men.

Patrick

Well, the reason for that - so you don’t kill them.

Erica

We all have our baggage. I’ve been thinking about you a lot over the past few months. I often wonder how things would be had we met under different circumstances.

Patrick

Thinking about what might have been will drive you crazy.

Erica

Much better to think about what will happen in the future.

Patrick

Erica...

Erica

I like you, Patrick. I hope my directness doesn’t make you uncomfortable.

Patrick

I know what you’re doing.

Erica

What am I doing?

Patrick

Seducing me to conceal your true purpose. Which is to escape.

Erica

Am I? Seducing you?

Patrick

No.

Erica

I’m not trying to escape, Patrick. In fact, you don’t actually believe I am.

Patrick

No?

Erica

No. Those agents outside the door aren’t to keep me from escaping. They’re to keep you and I apart. I know you have feelings for me. This whole escape nonsense is just your way of avoiding those feelings.

Patrick

No, actually I'm fairly concerned you might try to escape.

Erica

Then ask yourself this. If those agents weren’t outside the door right now, what would you do? What will you do?