- Patrick Jane: [sighs] Lao-tzu said that if you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
- Patrick Jane: Morning, Chief.
- [Taking note that the chief is giving a parked car a ticket]
- Patrick Jane: Trapping those tourists early?
- Chief Burt Anson: Permit-only spot, clearly posted. They can get it out of impound if they have Two Hundred dollars. That's the law.
- Patrick Jane: There's no tyranny like petty tyranny.
- [walking past]
- Chief Burt Anson: Excuse me?
- [the chief looks up at him]
- Patrick Jane: You heard me.
- Chief Burt Anson: Where you going?
- Patrick Jane: Research library.
- [Pointing at a building]
- Chief Burt Anson: That's the bar.
- Teresa Lisbon: Why?
- [Confused]
- Patrick Jane: Lao-tzu.
- Teresa Lisbon: Lao-tzu?
- [even more confused]
- Patrick Jane: Famous Chinese philosopher.
- Teresa Lisbon: What has he got to do with anything?
- Patrick Jane: Ah, your unconscious sexual bias at work there, Lisbon. You assumed he was a he.
- Teresa Lisbon: Well, was he?
- Patrick Jane: He was. Not the point.