The Mentalist

Jason Wylie:
This is all the physical evidence from the Elijah Macy murder scene. I sorted it by order of relevance with this end of the table being most relevant.

Patrick Jane:
What do you consider relevant?

Jason Wylie:
Any object that can yield trace evidence of the shooter. If we I. D. the triggerman, we can cut a deal with him to finger Acardo.

Patrick Jane:
Yeah, uh, trace evidence, that's the fibers and the hairs and the gooey stuff, yeah?

Jason Wylie:
That's an oversimplification, but, yes. In the last year alone, there are 17 new methods for extracting DNA evidence from...

Patrick Jane:
Yeah, we know that there's a lot of ways to find out what we need, right, Wylie? Hmm?

Jason Wylie:
Yeah.

Patrick Jane:
So, uh, there's the federal way, with the trace evidence, and then there's a more interesting way. Let's go with the more interesting way.