This is a positive enough review, it’s a good crime show, in the usual style of crime shows but with the new addition that is so much the fashion these days (well, years). I like that this Patrick Jane has no powers and doesn’t pretend to be (not anymore), he is just someone who has been raised since he was born to notice little things, trained to read people, and that is now his specialty. It may seem too much to someone, but considering it’s his specialty talent, his maybe only talent, concentration and memory, it is acceptable.
I also like that not being a cop or any agents, he only does the mental work but then steps aside and lets the cops arrest the bad guys.
His character is also moving and tragic; he acts every day like it’s all a big joke, like he’s having fun, all to mask the deep pain inside for having lost his family, the great sense of guilt because it was a little bit his fault… because of this, there really is no love story for him and there won’t be for a good while, until he will sort his past. I haven’t seen that happening yet, I have yet to finish all the seasons but have no doubt whatsoever that he will end up with Lisbon, that is the norm in every show where a man and a woman work together, apparently the world doesn’t believe in friendship, respect and stuff like that without sex or marriage becoming part of it.
Since they couldn’t write love banters between the two main leads, they wrote a love story between two of the other cops. There has to be one, apparently it doesn’t matter that it’s a crime show, there has to be a love story/sex story somewhere, it must be one of the rules on how they write screenplays.
Only thing that I didn’t much like: despite having Patrick Jane totally on the rational side, there is one character, Kristina, that is treated like a real psychic… we’ll see in future series if she’ll keep true or turn out to be another con artist… I also don’t believe in how easily they hypnotize people in this show, both Jane and other experts… I know many people believe in hypnosis but I don’t and will never believe that a person can be hypnotized without even knowing it and made to do stuff, I will never believe that anyone could do that to me and it annoys me to see how easily it is used in films and shows because it’s such an easy way-out in a way, and it’s absurd.
Mentalist: someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion. A master manipulator of thoughts and behaviour.
So, here I write about all the episodes, what is enough for me about them.
1-
A missing girl is found dead. Patrick tells the mother that he once earned money pretending to be a psychic but he’s just someone who pays attention. Jane knows she suspects her husband, so he asks him directly and when he denies it the woman can see he’s lying and shoots him dead. Jane got suspended for that. Next case: it’s Red John, Lisbon didn’t want him on the case for how he acted, but he asks her boss. A married woman and a gay man are murdered and there’s a red smiley on the wall as Red John’s signature… but Jane knows this time it’s a copycat. Van Pelt believes in psychics: Jane says there are no real psychics but she believes her cousin to be one. He doesn’t believe in anything after death.
He’s been after Red John for years. He was already helping the police, when he pretended to be a real psychic they asked his help with Red John, and so Red John killed his family.
The cops question the husband and his brother and their close relationship is broken when it comes out the dead woman was having an affair with her brother-in-law. Jane knows it was their doctor who killed them to cover up his theft, so he tricks him into revealing himself with a fake diary. The cops are not happy with him. Jane still sleeps in hte room where his wife and daughter were killed, there’s still the red face on the wall, but there’s only a mattress on the floor.
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A girl is murdered. Jane sort of hypnotizes her friend/coworker so she tells him the girl was in love with her drug-dealing cousin. Lisbon wants to arrest him but Jane suspects the chef where the girl worked, but even he’s surprised when they find he did it with the help of his wife.
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A child finds a 15-y-o girl dead on a beach, so CBI California Bureau of Investigation is called. They start investigating while Jane makes a big sandcastle on the beach, and still they find him already there when they check their first suspect. In the end it was her four friends together, because she didn’t want to cover up the fact they accidentally killed a guard. One of the boys’ father is also arrested because he had sex with the 15-y-o girl. Lisbon is touched by the girl’s family because they lost the wife/mother just like she did, though hers died in a car crash.
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A man is thought missing but Jane guesses the safe door’s combination and he’s there, dead. He had lost a lot of money, he was also laundering money for some people, and he had planned to escape with his lover and daughter. The wife did it to get the diamonds that was all he had left.
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A girl is found dead, under her car in the woods, and soon her friend is found covered in blood and in a state of shock. She remembers nothing and the sheriff thinks she did it. Jane wants to solve the case, but he also does not want her to live not knowing if she killed her friend, so he takes her out of the hospital and helps her remember the man who killed her friend Kara and tried to assault her but she ran away. Kara had confessed to her she had slept with her fiancée to prove to her that he was not worth her time, and then she tried to help her when the murderer showed up, but he killed her.
The murderer is now one of the guys pretending to help the police in the research, and also alone with Lisbon when Jane finds out and tells her on the phone, but she and Rigsby arrest him.
I like that the two girls were really friends, that Kara really cared about her in her own way, and her death proves it, and how Jane cared about them as well.
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A meter away from the Nevada border, on the road, a severed hand is found. It belonged to Jim who managed a casino, so they go there. Jane borrows 100$ from Lisbon and wins a lot, like 250.000, and he bought two really beautiful parures, green for Lisbon and red for Van Pelt, and two not so beautiful but very expensive watches for Rigsby and Cho. He also tries to explain to them how his “memory palace” works. The girls wear it for one night then give it back, the men don’t.
Jim’s wife had an affair with Matt, head of the hotel’s security, and the body is found in Matt’s garage. Jim also saw a video of his daughter Jessica entering the rom of a “whale”, one of those who play big money, often playing in private rooms. Her husband had lost all his money so he “put up his wife against 50 grand”, then he lost again so he sent her to his room so the guy could have sex with her as payment. Now Jane is playing with them in a room; the guy loses and leaves, then he plays with Jessica’s husband who uses Jim’s 100.000 fiches because he was sure he’d win. He still loses of course, but that marks his end and he confesses the murder: Jessica’s father had seen how he was using her and confronted him, and got killed. All the money Jane won at that game, he gave it to the woman with a sick mother in a hospital. She worked at the casino and cheated to pay for her mom’s medical care, so now she can do it :-)
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The next case is of a widow, Rosemary, killed with a car. In her will she named Jeremy, a photographer who has already gotten money from other widows before, and also Kristina who also has gotten lots of moeny from widows by pretending to be in touch with the dead. Van Pelt is very eager to believe psychics esixt, while Jane is a bit upset because he does not believe in it at all and he’s sure Kristina is conning these people - like he did before. He even suggested more than once that Kristina had something to do with the murder, but no, the daughter did it. At the end, Kristina comes to talk to Jane in private; she says she got a message from his dead wife on a question he’s always asked himself, and tells him that his daughter never woke up ,she was never scared because she never knew what was happening, she was not awake and terrified while a man murdered her and her mom. Kristina then goes away, he says thanks and starts crying, so Van Pelt closes the room’s door to give him privacy.
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A witness and a girl are murdered. The local cops think he was the target, but no, it was the girl. A young cop killed them, thining she was having an affair with his father, the righteous cop, but he wasn’t, she was his daughter not his mistress, so Jane gives the old couple their ‘granddaughter’, the baby girl who is now without parents.
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Rich is killed in a fire on purpose. Another man met the same end three years prior. When the chief almost dies too, Rigsby ges him out. These men weredrugged before someone set the fire. He dies, but the third man caught in a fire will live, because he was locked in with Jane and so somehow they got out - no idea how. The two dead men and thislast one had killed Dave three years ago for money, and now his friend Tommy took revenge. Tommy was never a suspect because everyone thought he was retarded, but it was just a play, he’s done it for years. When Jane talks to him he drops the façade. Since the episode is about revenge, Jane comes clear with Lisbon and tells her that when they catch Red John he will kill him. She says they’ll arrest him, and she’ll try to stop Jane if he tries somehting, or arrest him if he does it.
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When a man, who was about to speak at a university campus, dies, dr Sophie Miller calls Jane. It was her ex-husband, and Jane believes her when she says she didn’t do it. She was his “psychiatrist”, right after the tragedy he spent some time in a hospital for a breakdown and she helped him. A group against experiments on animals is also suspected, because these people are neuroscientists and of course they experiment on animals. This group is just a crazy guy who loves cats. The real murderer was the university chancellor, to ‘protect’ his school and its stellar scientist, because the experiment he was doing with Sophie does not work and for a year they’ve “been falsifying data” to cover that up and the man who died knew it. Jane is glad Sophie didnt’ do it and his ‘debt’ is now paid in full: she saved him and now he saved her. He kisses her on the cheek and says his goodbye. Nice episode, showing Jane’s vulnerability.
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A man in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit, tells Jane he can give him important info on Red John, and he knows a detail nobody else knows, that Red John printed his wife’s nails, so Jane investigates his case because the deal is: prove his innocence to know what he knows. The chief won’t allow it, so Jane quits but the team wants to help anyway so the chief goes away for a week. The guy’s mother did it, because the girl Jared loved was actually his sister, the secret daughter of his father. So Jared is let out of prison, and runs away immediately, deciding that it’s too dangerous to betray Red John. They find him but Red John has already found him and killed him, and then he calls Jane’s phone to laugh in his face.
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A missing 16-y-o was missing but Jane finds his body under the flying crows. There was stuff around to throw suspicion over the town’s witch - who does a spell on Cho because Jane gave her his full name, Kimball Cho. To be nice, Jane gives him some ashes in a glass jar saying it was from Tamzin, so he’d feel more at ease, because he was actually worried about her spell.
The kid was killed by his violent, abusive father.
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A guy is murdered and a famous painting stolen. An artist makes copies, adding something so it can’t be passed as the original. A suspect is another man who tried to buy the painting but he has diplomatic immunity or something, so Jane, Rigsby and Cho go talk to him without Lisbon’s permission. How easily Lisbon dismantles their lies :lol: “Rigsby’s not on a date because he’s in love with you” she tells Van Pelt :lol: Both rich men had copies, the real painting was taken by the woman who sold it at the auction, or however she procured the art for them, and the dead guy had confronted her. Jane scolded the rich man for caring more about the painting than his daughter’s pain for having lost her husband.
The artist is dubbed by Roberto Pedicini :-) *love*
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A rich woman is killed while she was with her lover, a guy who defines himself as “a pick-up artist, a woman whisperer”. A waitress is still in love with him, they were together once.
Jane takes Cho shopping so he looks even more handsome, like in a k-drama, so he can pick up waitress Katie and see what happens, and it was Katie’s boss in love with her. Jane called the ‘artist’ stupid because he has a good girl there who still loves him, so he goes to talk to her. Cho spent some time listening to her after she burst into tears and he felt bad for her. At the end, two women ask Jane to join them at their table, and he refuses saying he’s married, he still wears the ring.
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A rich woman dies of poisoning, so they investigate her country club. She used to sell drugs, and that’s why she was killed. Another woman dies too because she wanted to pick up the business. They died because a girl had taken those pills and they killed her, and her mom never recovered. After she confesses, Jane asks her if she feels better now, but “it doesn’t change a thing”. At the end, Rigsby goes out to dinner with one of the club’s women.
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Someone puts a bomb in a van near Cbi Hq, and sends a message to Jane’s phone. He finds it but there’s no time, the bomb goes off killing the man tied up inside the van. Jane is hurt by the explosion, the concussion makes him lose his eyesight. Van Pelt is all smiles because she sort of have a boyfriend, but of course it’s him, who thinks the victim and Jane are responsible for ruining his life, when Jane told his mom about his dad cheating on her and stuff like that, and towards the end he came to the office to see her. Rigsby tries making a ‘you treat her well’ speech and then gets beaten up so it’s just Van Pelt and Jane. Well, Jane of course understands it on his own, while Van Pelt gets a call from Lisbon with the guy’s name. They manage to escape when a guard sees them - and we’re not told how the poor man is doing, but I think he only got injured. Since Van Pelt has her hands handcuffed behind her back, she can’t drive, but Jane’s blind, so it’s a desperate escape indeed, and they crash into all the cars parked around there, and do not succeed in reaching a road or whatever, but Lisbon gets there in time to shoot the bad guy. Of course at the end Jane can see again.
Now you tell me, in such conditions, a blind man and a girl with both hands behind her back, wouldn’t it be smarter to keep running instead of trying to used a parked car?
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A rich guy wants to kill a woman who wants to leave his company and go to the competition, so he plays the crazy-bomber card: he sends the police messages and he kills a random member of his group by sabotaging a parachute, then he puts a bomb under his bed but the bomb does not go off for what is believed to be a silly mistake in making it. Third, he shoots the woman. Pretending to suspect another man, Jane puts him in front of a bomb that he ‘clumsily’ activates, then Jane ‘tries to defuse’ it, as part of his plan, but the guy jumps in in a fright with the right way to do it. They arrest him. Throughout the episode the police suspected a poor man who had good reason to hate that company, since they did not give him the money he had been promised and even fired him, so the money he makes now only covers mantaining his family of three kids, but it’s not enough to pay the medical care for his wife who has cancer. At the end, Jane makes a deal: the first murder, down to manslaughter 1, no mention of the bomb whatsoever and of course no death penalty on the table, in exchange for a 500.000 $ cheque for the poor family.
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I did not like this episode, it was all about everybody getting hypnotized. It starts with a man carrying a dead girl in, thinkingit was a sack of potatoes, and it ends with Rigsby hitting a suspect and then almost killing Jane. The story was that a girl was in love with her boss and also very jealous of her sister who was always the one people liked, so she killed her sister thinking the man would love her once her sister was no more, and when he didn’t she wanted to kill him too. It was all stupid.
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Felix is killed: he did campaigns against drugs, was married to an actress and was producing her new film. The actress used her stepdaughter’s boyfriend to kill him and then she almost killed the boy. It was a very boring episode, pretty obvious the whole time, and not very well done.
20-
Lisbon’s birthday. Jane guesses each one of their gifts, but his own is late to arrive. Lisbon is a bit upset thinking he forgot to get her one. The very last scene will be of the pony he got her, the pony she always wanted as a child I think.
The case: a witness is found shot dead. He was an ex mafioso and now he sold weed to kids and had a romantic relationship with the female U.s. Marshal. His wife found out and killed him; Jane met the mafia boss and got his number (!) so at the end he scares her saying he’d give her name to the vengeaful boss, so she confessed and got arrested.
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Rigsby is very sick, but he’s got to stay at work anyway. A rich man’s body is found, hanging on his yacht’s anchor, and they find out that he hid a lot of money, 10 millions I think, so he wouldn’t have to share it with his ex-wife. He kept the key on a chain around his neck and a guy killed him for it. There is a woman who pretended to be a psychiatrist for months, but is actually a con-woman. She was actually in love with the guy, so he gave her the key, but she didn’t know the hidden place.
At the end she goes with Jim’s financial advisor or whatever, because he knew the place but did not have the key? I guess so, because he killed Jim for it, but he only got a fake key, she got the real one.
When you eventually see them both enter the train station it all becomes clear, but it was late enough for me to still be a nice twist, because he was in a wheelchair, but once she gets the money he stands up and takes it from her… but of course the team was watching and they were both arrested. It was nice when Jane explained how he knew because he’s had the habit of checking the shoes of people in wheelchair, and for the first time it actually turned out to be useful, and he called it “very gratifying”.
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I didn’t like this story because there was a scumbag ‘doing it’ with an underage girl under his responsibility, and there were kids afraid of a ‘legend’ called Zacharias which is pretty much like being terrified of Freddie Kruger in real life.
A boy, Justin I think, is found dead in the woods with “an electronic monitoring device on him” because he was attending “a wilderness program for troubled youth” called Bright Arch, a usually one-year high school but it can be longer. Justin had found out that a boy, using the fear of Zacharias, was manipulating a girl into accepting the abuse, and since he was not afraid of Zacharias he wanted to do something and confronted the evil kid, and got killed. Both evil kid and adult will be arrested, of course.
News on our team: Cho says “a little deprivation and discipline is good for the soul” and that “this is like spring break compared to juvie”, which means that he was once in a juvenile Hall, juvie prison, and he thought Rigsby knew by reading his file, but Rigsby hasn’t read anyone’s file. Cho has.
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A girl found dead per Red John’s method, and then a plane draws the smile in the sky. The girl’s twin is missing. Jane finds a woman who might know Red John but she’s blind. Jane fights again with Lisbon because he doesn’t care about procedures here because he has no intention of arresting Red John, he wants to kill him and of course she can’t let him.
When she goes to get a warrant, he won’t wait and goes ahead with the sheriff, who turns out to be the son of Red John’s accomplice who died in prison. Sheriff Hardy wanted one of the twins, so he left the other twin to Red John. When Lisbon rushes in to stop Hardy and arrest him, Jane is not happy, he wanted her to wait for Red John to arrive, even if he died in the process, but when they’re outside and Hardy shoots a cop (I think… how is he?) Jane shoots him with a rifle before he can shoot Lisbon. And then he lets the weapon go as if it burned him. They take the surviving girl home to her parents and brother.
End of season.
A Korean woman in a shop asks Cho if he’s married, and then tells him about her niece :lol: and next time they see each other she has a picture to show him :lol:
Tim Kang is Kimball Cho
Simon Baker is Patrick Jane
Robin Tunney is Teresa Lisbon
Amanda Righetti is Grace Van Pelt
Owain Yeoman is Wayne Rigsby
Leslie Hope as Kristina
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