The Mentalist · Season 4, Episode 9
“The Redshirt” · Season 4, Episode 9
In this episode: Patrick Jane (2), Teresa Lisbon (1), Wayne Rigsby (1), Grace van Pelt (1)
[speaking of his girlfriend] The woman worships me. Would you like to find out why?
No, thanks.
Are you sure?
Tempting, really, but I shot and killed my last boyfriend. I'm not ready for a relationship yet.
Okay. Raincheck.
Okay, who has Chinese food for breakfast?
Chinese people and me. Okay, interrogation time. Agent Rigsby, do you consider yourself an expert on motorcycle gangs?
Yes.
No, don't say yes. Say yes. You want to project confidence and the jury's going to believe you.
Yes, ma'am. [leans in and gives Sarah a kiss]
Stop trying to distract me, and does this expertise, in fact, come from years of close contact with a criminal element in your own family?
Hey.
Don't say hey, just answer the question.
No, it doesn't.
Isn't it true your father, Steven Rigsby, was a member of the Iron Gods motorcycle gang and a convicted felon?
Yes.
So wouldn't it be fair to say that everything you learned you know from your father the felon? Babe, I know it's touchy, but if you wait too long to answer --
Okay. That's enough. Thanks for your help. Gotta get to court.
Wayne.
Seriously, that was a big help. Thank you. [walks away]
Hey.
All good?
Yeah. Doc seemed like a changed man.
He's had a perspective few of us ever get. It's energizing, I'd expect.
Would you want that? To hear what people say about you when you're dead?
When I am dead they can burn me in effigy or build a statue or forget about me completely. I couldn't care less.
You don't mean that. Everybody wants to be remembered.
Childish vanity.
I want to be remembered.
And you shall be; fondly, but you won't care about it because when you're dead you're dead, and until then, [a waiter sets down a hot fudge sundae between them] there's ice cream.
So good.
The truth hurts, I know. It's biologically based actually. Our brains process sound faster than they do light, but light moves faster than sound. So the brain is constantly shifting reality so the world syncs up.
What does that have to do with anything?
This. Only when someone is standing 30 yards away do we see and hear the world exactly as it is. That's when your brain, sound and light are all in perfect harmony.
So?
The rest of the time we are living in a world of lies. Lies are what make the world make sense. Ergo, the truth hurts.
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