Teresa Lisbon

**Teresa Lisbon Jane** is one of the main protagonists and the deuteragonist of CBS' *The Mentalist*.

## History

### Background

Teresa Lisbon was the daughter of a firefighter and a nurse. At the age of twelve, Teresa's mother tragically was killed by a drunk driver and she assumed a motherly role for her younger brothers. Mostly growing up, Teresa in high school played the clarinet, something alluded in "Rose Colored Glasses." She had went to Catholic school, revealing she never got caught once, but revealed that she actually did do bad things in her lifetime.

She often recalled her father drank too much and usually beat his sons half to death and couldn't believe it was him. Her father eventually committed suicide. At an unknown point, she was engaged to Greg Tayback, but broke up with him. She later left for college, not being in her parents' house since her father's passing.

TBA ("Red Dawn")

## Seasons

### Season 1

Four years after meeting Patrick Jane, Lisbon and her team enter a crime scene about the murder of Mercy Tolliver. Her father was the killer and was killed by Mercy's mother, Juniper Tolliver, with Lisbon going to arrest Juniper for murdering her husband. Later, Teresa hires new agent, Grace Van Pelt into their team, with her first case in Los Angeles, where they are met by Jane. However, Teresa tells him he is not allowed on this case because of his suspension after what happened with the Tollivers, but Jane somehow  managed to lift his suspension and promises to Teresa that he will redeem himself. However, the case goes wrong when Jane goes behind their backs and faces Wagner alone. Lisbon and the rest of the team are peeved at him, but causes Teresa to smile when he makes a paper frog hop for her. ("Pilot")

### Season 6

Teresa decides to leave  for D.C. with her fiancee, Marcus Pike in ten days but decided not to tell Jane about it.. To prevent Lisbon from leaving, Jane creates a note that expresses a murderer may want to try it again. She and Jane both go to Miami, talking to Wesley Baxter, biggest suspect in the FBI case. At the Blue Bird lodge, Jane reveals he wrote that letter to prevent Teresa from leaving. Infuriated, Teresa throws water in Patrick's face before leaving. She calls Pike, and accepts his proposal of marriage, but regrets the decision later. On the plane, Teresa is suddenly shocked when she sees him on the plan and angrily yells at him to leave. Jane apologizes, stating he plays games to avoid the turth about how he feels, especially letting people become close to him and confesses that he is in love with her before being dragged away. Moved by what Patrick told her and realizing that she loves him back,  Teresa joins him at the TSA holding room, and asks if he means what he said, Jane proclaims he does. Teresa realizes she feels the same way, and the two of them slowly kiss, while being reprimanded by the TSA agent to cut it. Thus, the two engage in a relationship. . ("Blue Bird")

## Personality

Teresa is strict, brave, determined, fierce, and sometimes easy to anger. She also tries to be tolerant of Patrick's behavior, often having to apologize to the people Jane insults on his behalf instead.