The Mentalist · Season 4
See you in the morning.
Uh, no. Actually, put a fork in it. I'm done. No more police work.
I understand. You can stay in the hospital until you get your memory back.
What if I don't get it back? I talked to my paramedic friends. They told me that all I need to be released from this hospital is the signature from a responsible adult, and [pulls several phone numbers out of his pockets] I got some pretty tasty offers tonight! [chuckling] I'm telling you, this wedding ring—!
My parting gift I will give to you tomorrow morning. Good night.
[Lisbon sits down in Jane's hospital room chair]
[from bed] There's room up here.
Don't you think it's time to tell the truth about Red John?
Well the truth is, I killed Red John. You can ask anyone. It was on the news, Lisbon.
But you think he's alive.
I told you that. You, Lisbon. Nobody else. It's better that way.
Then why make him reemerge? You manipulated Panzer into insulting Red John so Red John would kill him.
I didn't know how else to stop Panzer. He would have just kept on killing.
I've got a lot to do, so have a nice day.
Jane?
Yes?
Is there something you want to tell me?
Deniability, Lisbon. Deniability: your best friend.
Did it change you, Patrick? Hunting a monster?
Of course. Be well, Susan.
It has changed you, you know.
Darcy's off the case, Lisbon. She's safe.
And what about you? How's Red John going to feel when he finds out you spoiled his fun with Agent Darcy?
[having sustained a head wound, is talking to a figment of her imagination] Did you love me?
Of course I loved you.
Then why did you try to kill me?
I had to make a choice between you and Red John. We all have to make hard choices, Grace, but that doesn't make me evil.
[scoffs] It kind of does.
Grace.
I was just too stupid to see it.
Oh, no. You saw it.
No, I didn't.
Not all of it, but you knew there was something. Something a little dangerous under the nice-guy stuff. You kind of liked it. You can't open your eyes a little bit, Grace. You've got to open them all the way to see the truth of things.
What are you talking about? Why are you doing this to me?
How should I know? I'm just a figment of your imagination.
Jane, I'm sorry to ask this, but do you ever talk to your wife?
Yes, sometimes.
Do you ever see her?
No. Never.
If you did see her, would you think you were crazy?
Craig came to see you, didn't he?
Yes.
What did he want?
I don't know. This will sound really weird, but he kind of saved my life.
Figuratively speaking, I hope.
Yes. I mean, he wasn't really there, but --
Now you can't decide what to do with the necklace he gave you because it reminds you of the past. Maybe try to forget it or you could learn to live with it.
I have to be back here right after lunch.
Oh?
Management meeting.
Wainwright. He has too much time on his hands. [dials a number on his phone] Agent Wainwright. Patrick Jane. Hi, I just wanted to let you know that Agent Lisbon is needed urgently in the field, and as important as your seminar is, she's not going to be able to attend. Okay. Thank you. Bye bye. He said he's fine. See? Simple as that.
Thanks. Did it ever occur to you that I might actually want to go to the meeting.
No, it didn't. Do you?
No, but it's the principle.
Wayne, you're reading a baby book.
[closes the book] Yeah, I am.
Why?
I -- yes. I'm pregnant. Sarah's pregnant. I'm having a baby.
Oh my God. Yikes. I mean, sorry. It surprised me. [smiles] Congratulations.
No, it surprised me too. Still is, actually. Hard for me to believe sometimes.
Are you okay?
Yeah. Babies are good, right? Always wanted to have kids, it's just a little earlier than I expected.
So are you and Sarah getting married?
Oh, no. Nothing like that. Wouldn't want to rush into anything, right? We haven't even been dating that long.
If you need anything you can ask. You know that, right?
Yeah. You should get going, though.
Yeah. [moves to walk away, but stops and turns] Wayne? The kid is lucky. You're going to make a great dad.
Yeah? You think?
[smiles] I know it.
You're losing your touch. You didn't know it was her.
Don't be ridiculous. The trick worked exactly as I intended. It didn't matter which one I thought it was. That's how a good trick works.
[smiles] You would say that, wouldn't you?
Okay, we keep working.
We should talk to Eve again.
Maybe she knows what was going on with Murphy.
Maybe.
Fine. You're the boss on this one.
Okay, don't be like that.
Like what? It's what you want!
What I want is a little smile.
Well you can't have everything.
That is the third time this year you've been reprimanded in court.
I bent a spoon with my mind. What's the big deal?
You were testifying in a criminal case. You can't be playing tricks!
It's all theater, isn't it? Bread and circuses?
[a mob of reporters run toward the courthouse steps behind them]
See?
[On the phone] Okay. Thank you. Bye. [Hangs up] Richard Aldridge will be speaking with one of my colleagues first thing tomorrow morning.
We make a good team, don’t we?
You said you had a question.
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.
Well, the reason for that - so you don’t kill them.
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.
Thinking about what might have been will drive you crazy.
Much better to think about what will happen in the future.
Erica...
I like you, Patrick. I hope my directness doesn’t make you uncomfortable.
I know what you’re doing.
What am I doing?
Seducing me to conceal your true purpose. Which is to escape.
Am I? Seducing you?
No.
I’m not trying to escape, Patrick. In fact, you don’t actually believe I am.
No?
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.
No, actually I'm fairly concerned you might try to escape.
Then ask yourself this. If those agents weren’t outside the door right now, what would you do? What will you do?
[She moves in, and slowly they kiss]
Farragut was a dreamer. Dreamers are useful in their way, but we don't live in dreams, do we? We live in the here and the now.
Did you kill him?
You've killed, haven't you; someone who mattered to you, who hurt you. Did you enjoy it?
No.
Really? I'm told it gives the feeling of great perspective, like waking from a dream.
It changes you.
Did you friends notice?
A little, but I think it freaks them out.
Of course. They don't have the imagination or the vocabulary to converse with you about it. You know, you're like a little bird that fell out of the nest, but you don't need the nest. You need to fly, and that I can teach you.
[after having watched the confession of a murderer] Thank you for letting me watch this.
No problem. Visualizing my anger works really well. I'm just returning the favor.
There's so much more that I could teach you.
Really?
To be free of doubt, anger, fear. Let me show you the world as you've never seen it. Let me show you you as you've never seen yourself.
Great sales pitch, but I'm sort of over bad boys these days. [kisses his cheek] Thanks anyway. [walks away]
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