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Jane: "I care! I care about Claire Walcott! She was a living person! You took her life."

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Jane: "I care! I care about Claire Walcott! She was a living person! You took her life.""
* Those members of the audience who ''don't'' like the way Jane constantly tramples over people's civil rights with his consultant status might like the way that Wainwright gets up in Jane's face and fires him after he buries a suspect alive to get a confession (although it's undermined by how Jane planned this to manipulate his enemies into approaching him after his firing).
* Judge Manchester's speech chewing out the [=FBI=] and [=CBI=] for how their JurisdictionFriction got an agent killed and they are covering it up, after which he says that he'll rule in favor of whichever side annoys him least during the hearing.
* [=LaRoche=] tends to get one per episode when he shows up. Highlights include an AwesomeByAnalysis discussion of Jane's BatmanGambit to ensure the death of a suspect who killed a team member's loved one and how both times someone tries to rob the safe in [=LaRoche=]'s house leads to at least one dead or captured intruder.
* Max Winter's BestServedCold gambit in "Red Carpet Treatment." He pretends that he has forgiven the imprisoned rapist and murderer of his wife and believes the man is innocent while buying the warehouse where evidence against the killer is stored to tamper with it and get him released so Winter (who has spent years practicing his marksmanship) can kill him. And since LotsaPeopleTryToDunIt, it's impossible to tell if Winter actually killed the victim, and he gets off scot-free, after which he gives Jane a fancy gun for his own quest for revenge.
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* All of Red John, he might have been a serial killer but you got to give the guy his props. He manages to kill without ever being caught, organizes a group of people in various organizations to ensure he's never caught. The fact is Jane would never found out it was him if he hadn't shown himself to him and admitted to it. Let's not forget the other "psychic" whom he managed to convince was dead.

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* All of Red John, he might have been a serial killer but you got to give the guy his props. He manages to kill without ever being caught, organizes a group of people in various organizations to ensure he's never caught. The fact is Jane would never found out it was him if he hadn't shown himself to him and admitted to it. Let's not forget the other "psychic" whom he managed to convince was dead.dead.
* In Crimson Cassanova: Jane has an amazing ShutUpHannibal moment with the killer after he shows no remorse for killing an innocent woman when he was trying to kill the man she was having an affaire with.
Killer: "I never wanted to do that. I wanted to kill Fricke, not Claire. But she shouldn't have been doing what she was doing, should she? I mean it's not like anybody cares. Her husband was going to-"
Jane: "I care! I care about Claire Walcott! She was a living person! You took her life."
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** And this is a [=CMoA=] for Rigsby who [[spoiler: get shot point blank with a buckshot and then a 9 mil and still manage to survive and save the day]].
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* Everything he does in "Black Gold and Red Blood"... most of it from ''prison''. [[spoiler: He provokes a suspect, ''over the phone'', into getting himself arrested so Jane can talk to him in person. He escapes from jail using a mouse he caught with nothing but a Bible and a cranberry muffin. He pushes the killer into confessing when she hears the police arriving... only to calmly admit that the police are actually there to arrest him for the aforementioned jailbreak.]]
* And there is Jane [[spoiler: finally killing [[ArchEnemy Red John]] for good]] in Season 6.
** This cannot be overstated. More to the point, Jane [[spoiler:actually outsmarted him, having planned this the moment Red John planted the bomb in his house. After waking up, he realized that Red John had faked his death, culminating in planning a meeting where Patrick planted a concealed gun in the church, and brought along a bird to distract Red John after realizing that he was afraid of birds.]]

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* Everything he does in "Black Gold and Red Blood"... most of it from ''prison''. [[spoiler: He provokes a suspect, ''over the phone'', into getting himself arrested so Jane can talk to him in person. He escapes from jail using a mouse he caught with nothing but a Bible and a cranberry muffin. He pushes the killer into confessing when she hears the police arriving... only to calmly admit that the police are actually there to arrest him for the aforementioned jailbreak.]]
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* And there is Jane [[spoiler: finally killing [[ArchEnemy Red John]] for good]] good in Season 6.
** This cannot be overstated. More to the point, Jane [[spoiler:actually actually outsmarted him, having planned this the moment Red John planted the bomb in his house. After waking up, he realized that Red John had faked his death, culminating in planning a meeting where Patrick planted a concealed gun in the church, and brought along a bird to distract Red John after realizing that he was afraid of birds.]]



* How Jane prevails over the serial killer in "Blinking Red Light". [[spoiler: He basically tricks the killer into badmouthing Red John on TV, causing the offended Red John to kill that killer.]] It's the darkest, coldest, and most brilliant BatmanGambit by Jane so far. And as if it's not enough, it also pays tribute on the past sin of Jane and reopens the MythArc.

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* How Jane prevails over the serial killer in "Blinking Red Light". [[spoiler: He basically tricks the killer into badmouthing Red John on TV, causing the offended Red John to kill that killer.]] killer. It's the darkest, coldest, and most brilliant BatmanGambit by Jane so far. And as if it's not enough, it also pays tribute on the past sin of Jane and reopens the MythArc.



* Virgil Minelli's epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps1giBPGZZU to the reporters]] after one stupidly asks how he feels after [[spoiler:losing Bosco and his team]].

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* Virgil Minelli's epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps1giBPGZZU to the reporters]] after one stupidly asks how he feels after [[spoiler:losing losing Bosco and his team]].team.

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