Let's do this right. Go in too quickly, someone will get hurt.
This is real police work, sonny, people get hurt. Go push some paper.
S1 E8The Thin Red Line
Nice to be nice. But if you wanna get ahead in life, sometimes you have to be a bitch. I know you know how.
Gee, thanks.
[Dale Blakely punches Jane in the face]
You okay?
Assault, assault!
I would rethink this new technique of yours.
[Holding his nose] Yeah. Yeah, I can't disagree.
It's funny what bad liars cops are. I guess they're not used to concealing themselves under questioning.
I'm a cop and I lie to you all the time, you never catch it.
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've fooled me just so you don't feel bad.
Name one time.
Last thanksgiving you said you were going back East to your brother's house, but I knew you actually planned to have three days at home alone to watch old movies and eat ice cream.
Okay, so that's one time.
[Talking about Dale Blakely]
He's not gonna talk. Poor soul.
He made his bed. He can lie in it.
You know, I never understood that one. Just because someone makes their bed, why do they have to lie in it? What's to stop them from lying in another bed? Or on the floor for that matter.
When are you gonna learn to cool it without being told?
Oh, come on. They pissed you off, too, the sexist pigs.
They were.
I just said they were.
You were saying it ironically.
[to Rigsby] Are you guys gonna help or are you gonna stand there and pick your nose?
Is this the only .38 in your possession?
[Jane grabs Presiado's wrist]
Yes it is. [To Jane] And if you try to hold my hand again I'm gonna tear your arm off and beat you unconscious with it. Get me?
Got you.
It's all about the balance, Grace. Yin - Yang, nice - bitch. A little bit of bitch inside the nice, a little bit of nice inside the bitch.
She's confident about the time frame because they were having sex with the TV on. And it was the Scottish guy talking to that actress who married the country singer.
S1 E9Flame Red
We've never discussed this because I thought it went without saying, but when I catch Red John, I'm gonna cut him open and watch him die slowly like he did with my wife and child. [Lisbon just stares at him quietly] If you have a problem with that, we should talk.
Then let's talk. Because when we catch Red John, we are gonna take him into custody and he's gonna be tried in a court of law.
Not if I'm still breathing.
If you try and do violence to him, I will try and stop you. If you succeed in doing violence to him, I will arrest you.
I understand.
I hope so.
Well, I'm glad we talked. I had no idea you were so bourgeois and conventional on the issue.
[Talking about releasing Ben Machado from custody]
If he's here, how is the killer gonna get to him?
He could be the killer. Even if he's not, we don't want the killer to get him.
Yes, we do. Machado is our bait. He's our tethered goat.
And too bad if the bait gets killed?
Well, yes. That's why you use goats and not babies or virgins for that matter.
Machado's not a goat.
You're right, he's not actually a goat. He's goatish. He deserves to suffer.
Nobody deserves murder.
Machado helped burn Dave Martin alive out of greed.
Jane, we're officers of the law.
You are. I don't care about the law. I care about justice, and justice says Machado deserves to suffer.
That's not justice, it's vengeance.
What's the difference?
[Jane barely gets out of a burning barn]
That was close. Where were you guys?
We called in to check out a lead.
Yeah, Lisbon didn't know you were about to pull an idiotic stunt, sorry.
No hard feelings.
Seems like this whole thing has changed your mind about vengeance.
Has it?
"Revenge is for fools and madmen"?
Yeah, that was rather good, I thought. Total nonsense, but quite good nonetheless.
Where do you get off giving orders in the first place? I say who goes and who stays, not you.
Well, that's, uh, fiery but calm. Very good. Why don't you try it with a more forceful hand gesture, like... [he demonstrates...] I say who goes and who stays, not you.
I'm serious.
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