The Mentalist (TV Series)

Pilot (2008)

Tim Kang: Kimball Cho

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• Kimball Cho : Mr. Randolph, rest assured there is no intent to persecute you. We scumbags are holding your brother because we have evidence linking him to the crime, and potential motive in that he states that whenever you weren't around, he was banging your wife like a big bass drum.

• Kimball Cho : I like the husband for it. He hired some hooker he knows to create an alibi, flies home, fillets the spouse, flies back again. It's a classic, elaborate, clever, but ultimately stupid plan.

  Patrick Jane : Have you looked at his PGA tournament record?

  Kimball Cho : It's not bad. Six mil career earnings.

  Patrick Jane : Hmm. For coming in second and third. You put him on the eighteenth tee with a big one on the line, like night follows day, he'll shank it. He's a choker. He doesn't have the nerve to kill his wife. Didn't do it.

  Kimball Cho : Hmm.

  Teresa Lisbon : Are you suggesting we drop a prime suspect because he's never won a major?

  Patrick Jane : Oh, no, no, no. I'm just making idle conversation.

• Grace Van Pelt : [watching Jane perform a magic trick with his straw]  How'd you do that?

  Patrick Jane : Telekinesis.

  Kimball Cho : He blew on it.

  Patrick Jane : That is another way to do it.

• Tag Randolph : This is insane. I didn't... I didn't kill Alison.

  Kimball Cho : How do you explain your hair in the envelope?

  Tag Randolph : Either it's a mistake or I'm being framed.

  Kimball Cho : Who would want to frame you? We don't want to, if that's what you're thinking.

  Patrick Jane : [watching, whispering to Van Pelt]  He and Alison were lovers.

  Kimball Cho : Who would want to frame you, Tag?

  Tag Randolph : My brother.

  Kimball Cho : Why would he want to do that?

  Tag Randolph : Alison and I were lovers.

  Grace Van Pelt : [turning to Jane]  I think you are psychic. You're just afraid to admit it.

• Patrick Jane : [arriving at a crime scene]  Morning, everybody! How was your flight?

  Teresa Lisbon : Go away. You're on suspension.

  Patrick Jane : [paying his cabbie]  Thank you.

  [catching up with the team] 

  Patrick Jane : Mandated leave. Ends next week.

  Teresa Lisbon : So come back next week.

  Patrick Jane : Whew. Hot enough for you?

  Teresa Lisbon : Which one of you jackasses told him? It was you, wasn't it, Cho?

  Kimball Cho : Yes, it was.

  Patrick Jane : Of course he called me. It's Red John. You can't keep me out of this. Why would you want to?

  Teresa Lisbon : You got a man killed. There's consequences.

• Grace Van Pelt : [reading a note delivered to Jane's hotel room]  "Greetings, old friend. It's been a while. I hope you are keeping well. I am thriving and happy. I have twelve wives now and will soon begin courting number thirteen. Why can't you catch me? You must feel so powerless and stupid and sad. Oh, well. All the best. Red John."

  Kimball Cho : That sounds like the real deal to me.

  Patrick Jane : Sounds like Red John. It's not. Red John wouldn't risk capture just to taunt me.

• Patrick Jane : Closed case donuts are here.

  [the team ignores him] 

  Patrick Jane : I just went to get sleeping pills, I swear to god. I... I didn't even want to go. You know I didn't want to go.

  Grace Van Pelt : [skeptical]  Right.

  Wayne Rigsby : Yeah, you didn't set Wagner up. Didn't figure it was him days ago.

  Kimball Cho : You didn't let us tear apart the victim's family simply to satisfy your childish need for drama.

  Patrick Jane : Yeah, that family was screwed up anyway. Don't blame yourselves, guys.