“Red Tide” quotes from The Mentalist

Grace

It's gotta be tough.

Lisbon

What?

Grace

I mean, a drunk driver. Isn't that what happened to your mother? [Lisbon stares at her] Sorry. It's not my business.

Lisbon

We don't discuss our personal lives in this unit. It's not useful and it's not professional.

Jane

You want symbolic? You're a hawk and Christine was a rabbit.

What does that even mean?

Jane

Bird of prey, rabbit. You tell me.

Jane

He's not gonna confess.

Lisbon

What'd you think, he'd break under the bad lighting conditions?

Lisbon

You have good kids.

Yeah, I do.

Lisbon

You're all they have.

Yeah, I know.

Lisbon

Be good to them.

I am good to them.

Lisbon

My father was a good man, just like you are. And after my mother died... he was a self-pitying drunk, just like you are. He killed himself. Damn near killed me and my brothers too. Get some help. Your kids deserve it. So do you.

I guess, uh, you must be bad cop.

Lisbon

I try.

You couldn't just give Kurtik a stern talking to instead?

Lisbon

What about Christine Tanner, sir? If Kurtik was having sex with her, that gives him motive to kill.

If! And that's a hunch. Based on rockabilly.

Lisbon

It's a Jane hunch, you keep him around for a reason.

I never touched Christine Tanner.

Jane

Liar.

Believe me, when I tell you that you just now made the worst mistake of your miserable little life.

Jane

Believe me, no matter how this turns out, I've made worse mistakes.

Jane

See, the thing is, Flip, Lisbon here is looking at you like you're a pork chop, because you fit the profile. Your life is in chaos, you're lonely, you're depressed, you're addicted to drugs and pornography and a little nuts, to be honest. You're exactly the kind of man that does terrible things to women. But I don't think you did this.