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Teresa Lisbon

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Robin TunneyRobin Tunney
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Teresa Lisbon Quotes

04x12 - My Bloody Valentine Season 4 / Episode 12: - My Bloody Valentine

Gabriel Porchetto: You want me to do your job... fine... it was the Mexicans.
Teresa Lisbon: What Mexicans?
Gabriel Porchetto: 'Julio Iglesias'! Who do you think? The Zetas... the Zetas.
Teresa Lisbon: The Mexican drug cartel?
Gabriel Porchetto: Yeah.
Teresa Lisbon: Why would they want to kill your son?
Gabriel Porchetto: I'm not saying any more. About that sleeping trick?
04x07 - Blinking Red Light Season 4 / Episode 7: - Blinking Red Light

Patrick Jane: Someone took their time... Yeah, you're right.
Teresa Lisbon: I didn't say anything.
Patrick Jane: No, but you were thinking something. You were thinking whoever did this has killed before - many times.
Teresa Lisbon: Yes, but I can't assume that.
Patrick Jane: Trust your instincts, Lisbon.
04x07 - Blinking Red Light Season 4 / Episode 7: - Blinking Red Light

Teresa Lisbon: Panzer knows everything about this case. We've got no forensic evidence and no eyewitnesses. How do you propose we catch him?
Patrick Jane: We take away what he wants most.
04x07 - Blinking Red Light Season 4 / Episode 7: - Blinking Red Light

FBI Agent Susan Darcy: What sort of evidence do you have on Panzer?
Teresa Lisbon: Well, nothing.
Patrick Jane: Well nothing concrete. Not your kind of evidence.
FBI Agent Susan Darcy: How about your kind of evidence?
Patrick Jane: His medicine cabinet is too neat.
04x07 - Blinking Red Light Season 4 / Episode 7: - Blinking Red Light

Teresa Lisbon: You heard Wainright. Our hands our tied.
Patrick Jane: Yeah... Maybe *yours* are.
04x04 - Ring Around the Rosie Season 4 / Episode 4: - Ring Around the Rosie

Patrick Jane: Jane.
Teresa Lisbon: You're going to have to speak up. It's a little loud here.
Patrick Jane: Are you close to us?
Teresa Lisbon: Well that depends, are you still on crowd control?
Patrick Jane: No, we have a homocide now.
Teresa Lisbon: Then I'm close.
04x04 - Ring Around the Rosie Season 4 / Episode 4: - Ring Around the Rosie

Patrick Jane: Strange time for a murder, isn't it? Middle of a protest march.
Teresa Lisbon: Leave it to a killer to do something crazy.
Patrick Jane: Or calculated, you notice how this alleyway's starting to look like a Policeman's ball. If I wanted to use a bullet to express my displeasure at the mayor's politics: first thing I'd do is clear out the heat.
04x04 - Ring Around the Rosie Season 4 / Episode 4: - Ring Around the Rosie

Teresa Lisbon: Listen up here, Willie. Some of the stuff you're carrying you came off a dead man.
Willie Shubert: That's not good.
Grace Van Pelt: Neither is the dried blood on your shirt. How'd that get there?
Willie Shubert: Let's see uh... I got the blood on me when I was stabbing that fella in the alley.
04x04 - Ring Around the Rosie Season 4 / Episode 4: - Ring Around the Rosie

Teresa Lisbon: You need to understand the reality of what's going on, Willie. The DA will put you in prison.
Willie Shubert: I'm old - tired of sleeping in alleys. I ain't go no place to go. Prison's some place.
Teresa Lisbon: Lethal injection's part of the vacation package. You'll get 3 hots and a cot just for stealing off a dead body. What do you say we come clean on this? Keep you alive.
04x04 - Ring Around the Rosie Season 4 / Episode 4: - Ring Around the Rosie

Patrick Jane: You think, I'm an anti-social personality?
Teresa Lisbon: Yeah. Sure. Who isn't?
04x03 - Pretty Red Balloon Season 4 / Episode 3: - Pretty Red Balloon

Patrick Jane: Lisbon, I understand your precarious emotional state. Given you've just gotten your job back, and your sensitivity to the bureaucrats that are watching your every move.
Teresa Lisbon: They are.
Patrick Jane: Yes, but that's your thing. I gotta be me. I can't change who I am.
Teresa Lisbon: No, but you can change where you are tomorrow at 12.
04x03 - Pretty Red Balloon Season 4 / Episode 3: - Pretty Red Balloon

Teresa Lisbon: She's an old client?
Patrick Jane: Uh, yeah.
Teresa Lisbon: This is a mess. We don't have time for this. That boy is out there somewhere and this psychic stuff is a distraction. I think you better leave.
Patrick Jane: Can't say I disagree.
04x03 - Pretty Red Balloon Season 4 / Episode 3: - Pretty Red Balloon

Teresa Lisbon: Jane, we don't have time for you to have a feud with this guy. It's - it's like your conscience is battling your old self. There's no upside.
Patrick Jane: You think that's why I'm here? Intriguing.
04x03 - Pretty Red Balloon Season 4 / Episode 3: - Pretty Red Balloon

Teresa Lisbon: [Calling Jane on her cell phone] Hey Jane. We got Walton. The kid's nowhere to be seen.
Patrick Jane: Tell Rigsby to look in his left front pocket. There should be a note.
Teresa Lisbon: Rigs, is there a note in your left front pocket?
Wayne Rigsby: [Rigsby pulls out a note from his left front pocket] "The balloon man didn't take Connor."... Okay, so how did he do that?
04x03 - Pretty Red Balloon Season 4 / Episode 3: - Pretty Red Balloon

Jonathan Flint: I was going to bring him *back*!
Kimball Cho: So what was the knife for?
Jonathan Flint: I... I didn't...
Teresa Lisbon: Planning is easy. Reality is a bit harder.
04x03 - Pretty Red Balloon Season 4 / Episode 3: - Pretty Red Balloon

Patrick Jane: I didn't give her hope. I stole her hope.
Teresa Lisbon: I think hope is worth it at any price.
Patrick Jane: What? Are you running for office now?
Teresa Lisbon: Okay, you know what? You're a wicked charlatan. You're going to Hell then.
Patrick Jane: That's more like it. Save you a seat by the fire.
Teresa Lisbon: Oh, I'm not going to hell.
Patrick Jane: Oh, you're not, huh?
Teresa Lisbon: No.
04x02 - Little Red Book Season 4 / Episode 2: - Little Red Book

Teresa Lisbon: Just so you know, Jane. I'm okay.
Patrick Jane: About?
Teresa Lisbon: Losing my job. I'm not going to say that I like it. But we got Red John. It was worth it.
Patrick Jane: Don't be silly. "A" you haven't lost you're job.
Teresa Lisbon: The hearing's a formality.
Patrick Jane: And "B" we didn't get Red John.
04x02 - Little Red Book Season 4 / Episode 2: - Little Red Book

J.J. LaRoche: It was... interesting - working with you and Jane.
Teresa Lisbon: I think that's the polite word for what it was. Thanks.
04x02 - Little Red Book Season 4 / Episode 2: - Little Red Book

Teresa Lisbon: Oh God! Why are you doing this? You were okay. All you had to do was keep your heads down.
Grace Van Pelt: We wanna work for you.
Teresa Lisbon: ...Let me talk to Jane alone.
04x02 - Little Red Book Season 4 / Episode 2: - Little Red Book

Teresa Lisbon: I could kill you with my bare hands!
Patrick Jane: Well, it's not the first time. Come on. You don't have a choice. You do nothing, they get fired. You work with me, they keep their jobs and you might even get yours back.
Teresa Lisbon: All right. But it's just you and me. They don't do anything.
04x02 - Little Red Book Season 4 / Episode 2: - Little Red Book

Teresa Lisbon: The thing is - not dealing with you everyday has been very restful for me. My back pain's gone. I sleep really well. So I'm not actually so sure I'm grateful to be back.
Patrick Jane: You're a terrible liar. No offense. Good honest people always bad liars.
Teresa Lisbon: Which makes you what?
04x01 - Scarlet Ribbons Season 4 / Episode 1: - Scarlet Ribbons

Patrick Jane: I didn't go nuts.
Teresa Lisbon: I believe you. I'm not sure a jury will.
Patrick Jane: Yeah, well that is a problem. I did what I had to do, and I will live with the consequences.
04x01 - Scarlet Ribbons Season 4 / Episode 1: - Scarlet Ribbons

Teresa Lisbon: Somehow I don't think she's not gonna wanna talk with you.
Patrick Jane: Really?
Teresa Lisbon: You killed her husband.
Patrick Jane: Well, there you go. The ice is broken. We have something to talk about.
04x01 - Scarlet Ribbons Season 4 / Episode 1: - Scarlet Ribbons

Patrick Jane: Question: do you trust me?
Teresa Lisbon: No 100%. No.
Patrick Jane: Different question, then: could you stop right here?
04x01 - Scarlet Ribbons Season 4 / Episode 1: - Scarlet Ribbons

Teresa Lisbon: Maybe if we're lucky, he'll get second degree murder. Jane will be out of prison in 3 or 4 years.
Bailiff: Court is back in session.
Teresa Lisbon: The jury's back already? That can't be good.
04x01 - Scarlet Ribbons Season 4 / Episode 1: - Scarlet Ribbons

Teresa Lisbon: You got your vengeance. You feel different? You feel better?
Patrick Jane: No. I feel guilty.
Teresa Lisbon: Guilty? Why?
Patrick Jane: For deceiving the jury. I mean I had no choice going to jail would've been a victory for Red John.
Teresa Lisbon: What do you mean? Red John's dead.
Patrick Jane: Timothy Carter is dead. He was an evil man. But he was not Red John. Red John... is still alive.


Patrick Jane: Watch the road.
03x24 - Strawberries and Cream (2) Season 3 / Episode 24: - Strawberries and Cream (2)

Patrick Jane: Hightower wants to surrender. She wants to uh prove her innocence in court. She wants her kids to be safe. I asked her to give us 48 hours before she turns herself into the authorities. And you guys will protect her in the meantime.
Teresa Lisbon: We are the authorities.
Patrick Jane: Yeah, well, you know, I mean you're not the *man*.
Teresa Lisbon: Yeah, we are. We can't look after her. If we see Hightower, we're supposed to arrest her.
Patrick Jane: So arrest her - just don't tell anybody.
03x24 - Strawberries and Cream (2) Season 3 / Episode 24: - Strawberries and Cream (2)

Patrick Jane: [about LaRoche] I threatened to reveal his dark secret.
Teresa Lisbon: Which is what?
Patrick Jane: I have no idea. I was bluffing. It must be something horrible.
03x24 - Strawberries and Cream (2) Season 3 / Episode 24: - Strawberries and Cream (2)

Gale Bertram: Hell! Just want we need. That damn situation in the news.
Teresa Lisbon: She still insists that she's innocent that she was framed.
Gale Bertram: Well, if that's true, it's even worse.
03x24 - Strawberries and Cream (2) Season 3 / Episode 24: - Strawberries and Cream (2)

Patrick Jane: There. Simple. Elegant. Foolproof.
Teresa Lisbon: Please, don't say that. *Nothing* is foolproof.

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