The Mentalist (TV Series)

Red John's Friends (2009)

Gregory Itzin: Virgil Minelli

Quotes 

• Virgil Minelli : Oh, hi. Lisbon. Still here?

  Teresa Lisbon : Uh, that was more of a rhetorical stand, we were taking back there.

  Virgil Minelli : You take it back then?

  Teresa Lisbon : Oh no, but I wanted to talk to you...

  Virgil Minelli : This! The, uhm, the suspension paperwork, right here...

  Teresa Lisbon : Look, I...

  Virgil Minelli : I have to go and visit my sister in Hawaii for a week. She's sick. Meanwhile, this paperwork is going to sit on my desk. For a week. Is that clear? One week.

  Teresa Lisbon : Yes sir! Thank you...

  Virgil Minelli : Yes... Be very grateful. Do not contact me, I do not want to know anything. And please, do not dig the hole that you are standing in any deeper than you have already dug it.

  Teresa Lisbon : No sir.

  Virgil Minelli : That hole is the grave of your very promising career.

  Teresa Lisbon : You should put a flash light underneath your chin, just to complete the effect.

  Virgil Minelli : I'm not kidding.

  Teresa Lisbon : I know.

• Virgil Minelli : Okay here it is. If you pursue this any further,I'm going to have to throw you out of the CBI. We can't take that liability. I very much do not want to have to do that!

  Patrick Jane : [Clears his throat]  I know you don't. So, uh, well, I'll spare you the trouble.

  [Puts his card on the desk] 

  Patrick Jane : I quit.

  Teresa Lisbon : Don't do that.

  Patrick Jane : [Looking at Lisbon]  No. It's okay. It's best this way. You are the Good Witch, Glinda, obviously. Thank you. I learned a lot.

• Patrick Jane : He's innocent.

  Virgil Minelli : Wake up, Dorothy. You're not in Kansas anymore. There are innocent men in jail. It happens. Is he one of them? I don't know. I doubt it. In any case, we can't reopen his case.

  Patrick Jane : If I'm Dorothy, then who are you?

• Virgil Minelli : Jared Renfrew was tried and convicted. It's a closed case. I have no authority to reopen it without cause.

  Patrick Jane : There is cause.

  Virgil Minelli : For you there's cause. Not for the State of California.