The Mentalist (TV Series)

The Redshirt (2011)

Simon Baker: Patrick Jane

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• Patrick Jane : 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.

  Doc Dugan : What does that have to do with anything?

  Patrick Jane : 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.

  Doc Dugan : So?

  Patrick Jane : 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.

• Teresa Lisbon : Would you want that - to hear what people say about you when you're dead?

  Patrick Jane : When I'm dead, they can burn me in effigy or build a statue or forget about me completely. I couldn't care less.

  Teresa Lisbon : You don't mean that. Everybody wants to be remembered.

  Patrick Jane : Childish vanity.

  Teresa Lisbon : I want to be remembered.

  Patrick Jane : And you shall be - fondly, because you won't care about it because when you're dead you're dead. And until then -

  [waitress brings an ice cream sundae and two spoons to their table] 

  Patrick Jane : There's ice cream.

• Teresa Lisbon : [Patrick Jane has just hung up after telling a reporter that Doc Dugan is dead]  What was that?

  Doc Dugan : I'm not dead

  Patrick Jane : [to Doc]  Yes you are.

  [to the 4 in the room] 

  Patrick Jane : Think about it: the people in this room are the only ones who know that Doc Dugan is Not dead. We've never had a live murder victim before