How Patrick Jane Catches Liars? — Transcript

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1. 0:00Ever wish you had Patrick Jane's
2. 0:02superhuman lie detecting [music] skills.
3. 0:03In The Mentalist, Jane can tell who's
4. 0:05lying in seconds using keen observation
5. 0:07and mind games. So, today I'll reveal
6. 0:09how he does it and how you can spot lies
7. 0:12in everyday life.
8. 0:15Patrick Jane's first rule of lie
9. 0:17detection is simple. Know what normal
10. 0:19looks like. Before accusing anyone, he
11. 0:21observes how they act when they're
12. 0:22relaxed and truthful, which is their
13. 0:24baseline behavior. In psychology,
14. 0:26establishing a baseline means watching
15. 0:28someone's typical body language, tone,
16. 0:31and habits under nonstress conditions.
17. 0:34Any big change from that baseline under
18. 0:36tough questions can signal deception.
19. 0:38Jane often starts with casual chitchat,
20. 0:40offers a disarming smile, or even a cup
21. 0:42of tea, all to see the person's natural
22. 0:44demeanor. Once he has a read on their
23. 0:46normal speech and gestures, he can spot
24. 0:48the moment things change. Maybe their
25. 0:49blink rate suddenly spikes or their
26. 0:51voice pitch shifts when a sensitive
27. 0:53topic comes up. Seasoned interrogators
28. 0:55do the same. They ask harmless questions
29. 0:57first, then watch for deviations when
30. 0:59the real questions hit. Patrick Jane is
31. 1:01a master of this. In every episode,
32. 1:03you'll notice him lounging around,
33. 1:04making small talk, and seemingly not
34. 1:06paying attention, but he's actually
35. 1:08gathering baseline data. So, what's the
36. 1:10lesson? Start by observing the norm.
37. 1:12Whether it's a friend, co-orker, or
38. 1:14suspect, get a feel for their usual
39. 1:16behavior. Jane knows that without a
40. 1:17baseline, a single nervous laugh or
41. 1:20fidget means [music] nothing. But
42. 1:21against a baseline, a sudden change is a
43. 1:23giant red flag.
44. 1:27Words can deceive, but the body often
45. 1:29betrays a liar, especially when multiple
46. 1:31signals happen together. Patrick Jane
47. 1:33looks for clusters of body language cues
48. 1:35rather than any one tell. In real life,
49. 1:37no single gesture proves someone is
50. 1:38lying, but a bunch of signs at once can
51. 1:41be very telling. For example, a person
52. 1:43might answer a question while fidgeting
53. 1:44with their hands or shifting in their
54. 1:46seat and clearing their throat all at
55. 1:48the same time. So that bundle of stress
56. 1:50signals screams discomfort. Jane picks
57. 1:52up on these clusters instinctively. In
58. 1:54one case, he literally took a suspect's
59. 1:56pulse to confirm what her shaky voice
60. 1:58and stiff posture [music] already hinted
61. 2:00that she was hiding something. The key
62. 2:02is consistency among cues. Research
63. 2:05backs this up as well. Liecing pros
64. 2:07advise looking for three to four
65. 2:09concurrent cues rather than a single no
66. 2:11scratch. And don't be fooled by myths
67. 2:13like liars don't always avoid eye
68. 2:15contact. In fact, some overcompensate
69. 2:17with too much unblinking eye [music]
70. 2:19contact to seem credible. Jane knows to
71. 2:20watch for overall tension, like a tight
72. 2:22smile, hunched shoulders, a leg bouncing
73. 2:25nervously together can indicate deceit.
74. 2:27So, channel your inner mentalist and
75. 2:29observe the body as a whole. One shrug
76. 2:30might mean nothing, but a cluster of
77. 2:32uneasy moves is where you catch them.
78. 2:34[music]
79. 2:36They say the eyes are the window to the
80. 2:37soul, but for Patrick Jane, the whole
81. 2:40face is a giveaway. Even the best liars
82. 2:42can't fully control their facial
83. 2:43expressions. A micro expression can leak
84. 2:45true [music] feelings in spite of the
85. 2:47lie. Jane's sharp eyes catch those
86. 2:49split-second giveaways. Imagine a
87. 2:51suspect calmly saying, "I didn't do it."
88. 2:53But for a split second, their face shows
89. 2:54a flash of fear or a smirk of relief.
90. 2:57That's gold to a mentalist. One big
91. 2:59thing Jane watches for is the fake
92. 3:00smile. A genuine smile crinkles the
93. 3:02corners of the eyes and lights up the
94. 3:04whole face while a phony smile stops at
95. 3:06the mouth. Ever notice Jane offering a
96. 3:08joke or observation [music] just to see
97. 3:09how someone reacts? He's testing their
98. 3:11authentic expression. If their smile
99. 3:12looks pasted on or their upper face
100. 3:14doesn't move, he knows something's off.
101. 3:16Similarly, when someone pretends [music]
102. 3:18to be sad or shocked, their timing and
103. 3:20muscles might be wrong. Maybe they say,
104. 3:22"Oh no, a beat late." Or, "They're
105. 3:24crying without any real tears." Jane
106. 3:26calls out these timing mismatches. In
107. 3:28short, [music] pay attention to those
108. 3:29subtle facial clues. Jane doesn't have
109. 3:31superpowers. He tells us that himself,
110. 3:32but he just sees what's in front of us.
111. 3:34Train yourself to catch those micro
112. 3:36expressions, and you'll start spotting
113. 3:37the emotions people try to hide.
114. 3:41This one is quite important because
115. 3:43words matter, but not just what people
116. 3:45say, but how they say it. Patrick Jane
117. 3:46pays close attention to a liar's speech
118. 3:48patterns and wording. Certain verbal
119. 3:50cues often tip him off before the
120. 3:52person's story even ends. One big clue
121. 3:54is a rise in vocal pitch since many
122. 3:56people's voices get slightly higher when
123. 3:58they're lying, thanks to stress. Another
124. 3:59clue can be rambling or giving way more
125. 4:01detail than necessary. Truth tellers
126. 4:03tend to answer exactly what was asked,
127. 4:04while liars sometimes talk in circles to
128. 4:06sound convincing. He also notices
129. 4:08qualifiers and evasive phrases. If you
130. 4:10hear things like, "Honestly, I swear."
131. 4:12Or, "To the best of my knowledge, it
132. 4:13might be a lie." Also, liars often avoid
133. 4:15contractions in an attempt to sound
134. 4:17resolute. In everyday chats, try to
135. 4:19catch if someone says, "I did not," in a
136. 4:20robotic tone, or repeats the question
137. 4:22[music] like, "Did I take the money?"
138. 4:24No, I did not take the money. These
139. 4:26verbal red flags, especially in
140. 4:27clusters, should put you on alert.
141. 4:30[music]
142. 4:31One of Patrick Jane's signature moves is
143. 4:32to catch a liar with their own
144. 4:34knowledge. Often, people pretending to
145. 4:35be innocent claim ignorance about
146. 4:37something until [music] they slip up.
147. 4:38Jane loves setting little traps to
148. 4:40expose those slips. A classic example is
149. 4:43this one right here.
150. 4:44>> It's like when Captain Ahab was chasing
151. 4:46Moby Dick. The whale died all right, but
152. 4:49the peepod went down, too.
153. 4:51>> Pequad. Ahab ship is the Peekquad.
154. 4:53>> Exactly.
155. 4:55The Peekquad.
156. 4:58Silly of me.
157. 4:59>> In this episode, a man named Tommy
158. 5:00pretends to be mentally challenged to
159. 5:02avoid suspicion. Jane notices Tommy owns
160. 5:04an advanced book called Moby Dick, which
161. 5:06seems far beyond his supposed reading
162. 5:08level. So, Jane springs a trap. What he
163. 5:10does is he intentionally misnames
164. 5:12Captain Ahab's ship as the peep pod
165. 5:14instead of the Pequad. Instinctively,
166. 5:16Tommy corrects him. In that moment,
167. 5:18Tommy revealed a knowledge he shouldn't
168. 5:19have if he were truly impaired. Jane
169. 5:21then calmly points out that Tommy's been
170. 5:23faking his disability all along, and
171. 5:25indeed, Tommy drops the [music] act and
172. 5:26confesses to multiple murders.
173. 5:28>> What you want to know?
174. 5:29>> This technique is brilliant because it
175. 5:30forces a liar to choose. Either they
176. 5:32stay silent and let a false statement go
177. 5:34or correct it and expose themselves. You
178. 5:36can use this trick in everyday
179. 5:37scenarios. If you suspect someone's
180. 5:39lying about their experience or
181. 5:40expertise, [music] deliberately say
182. 5:42something a bit wrong. Their correction
183. 5:43will betray them. [music]
184. 5:46Lies and ego often go hand in hand.
185. 5:49Patrick Jane understands that an
186. 5:50arrogant liar's pride is their Achilles
187. 5:52heel. If someone thinks they're the
188. 5:54smartest person in the room, you should
189. 5:56use that against them. Liars who are
190. 5:57arrogant or think they're intellectually
191. 5:59superior hate letting a mistake slide.
192. 6:02Jane often peppers conversations [music]
193. 6:03with slight inaccuracies or challenges
194. 6:05to a liar's vanity and then waits. The
195. 6:07guilty person's need to be right or
196. 6:09appear knowledgeable kicks in and they
197. 6:11basically out themselves. It's a
198. 6:13beautiful psychological judo move where
199. 6:14you use the liar's own ego to trip them
200. 6:16up. In real life, if you encounter
201. 6:18someone who's deceitful and egotistical,
202. 6:19try flattering their intelligence, then
203. 6:21make a minor error. Many can't help but
204. 6:23correct you revealing truths they meant
205. 6:25to hide.
206. 6:27>> [music]
207. 6:27>> Have you ever noticed someone say
208. 6:29something that they couldn't or
209. 6:30shouldn't know? Catching that slip is a
210. 6:32classic detective tactic, and Patrick
211. 6:34Jane uses it to devastating effect. One
212. 6:36memorable moment is this one right here.
213. 6:38>> Everybody loved her, and
214. 6:41for her to die in the gutter like that,
215. 6:43it's
216. 6:45like garbage. It's It's horrible.
217. 6:47>> The team is investigating a hit-and-run
218. 6:49death of a woman. Jane grows suspicious
219. 6:51of the victim's daughter, Clara. So,
220. 6:52during an interview, she mentions how
221. 6:54her mother died in a gutter. That detail
222. 6:56had it been public knowledge and only
223. 6:57the killer would know the exact gruesome
224. 6:59scene [music] of the crime.
225. 7:01>> How did you know that it was me?
226. 7:02>> When you first came in here, you
227. 7:04expressed great horror that your mother
228. 7:05had died in the gutter. Not in the road,
229. 7:07[music] not on the sidewalk, but the
230. 7:09gutter. And how could you have known
231. 7:10that she died in the gutter unless
232. 7:13you'd been there?
233. 7:14>> Clara essentially said something she
234. 7:15shouldn't know, revealing the the truth.
235. 7:17This is the telltale detail strategy
236. 7:19where you listen for specifics in
237. 7:21someone's story that they haven't been
238. 7:22told. Maybe a colleague guesses an exact
239. 7:24outcome that only the person who messed
240. 7:26up would know, or a suspect volunteers
241. 7:28info that wasn't in the police report.
242. 7:30You should often feed back vague
243. 7:31statements to people and encourage them
244. 7:32to talk cuz liars often overshare and in
245. 7:35doing so reveal knowledge they shouldn't
246. 7:36have.
247. 7:38And the obvious one are contradictions.
248. 7:40A good lie needs a consistent story and
249. 7:42many liars slip by contradicting
250. 7:44themselves or clashing with known facts.
251. 7:46Jane has an almost photographic memory
252. 7:48for what someone says versus what the
253. 7:50evidence shows. If a suspect says, "I
254. 7:52was home alone all night," but later
255. 7:53mentions a detail that implies they went
256. 7:55out, Jane will catch it. He might
257. 7:56casually ask the same question twice
258. 7:58hours apart to see if the story changes.
259. 8:00The key technique here is to cross-check
260. 8:02details. Jane often collaborates with
261. 8:04Lisbon and the team to verify timelines,
262. 8:06or he secretly tests a suspect's
263. 8:08knowledge of an event. Any slip in
264. 8:10continuity, and he's on it. You can
265. 8:12emulate this by paying attention to the
266. 8:13details in a person's story and asking
267. 8:15casual follow-ups later. Liars often
268. 8:18can't keep track of all their lies. It's
269. 8:20quite hard to remember everything.
270. 8:22Patrick Jane exploits that mercilessly
271. 8:24and [music] you can too. If you enjoyed
272. 8:26learning how to catch lies like Patrick
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