The Mentalist 5X19: Red Letter Day
Added 2026-01-21 22:00:08 +0000 UTCThe team investigate the death of Hollis Percy who owned the whole town of Percy.
Lisbon meets Kirkland for coffee and Jane and Lisbon find his questions about leads on the Red John case odd.
Jane and Lisbon meet Hollis' family - widow Joanna and son Ian and are told that the sale of the town had led to tension between Hollis and Francisco Navarro (Harry Groener). Navarro had disagreed with Hollis about selling off property in the town which would have led to the cancellation of his cowboy show.
Rigsby checks out a purported meth lab in the woods that had caught fire the same day as Percy was killed. Rigsby realises that it was arson and that the lab was most likely phony.
Chief of Police Cook confesses to his involvement but tells them he was only trying to make the place less attractive to mall owners. He tells them that Hollis and Joanna had been arguing. Hollis had been sober for 20 years but had started drinking a month ago. This leads Jane to the fact that something had changed in Hollis' life.
The CBI find out that Hollis had an illegitimate daughter that he hadn't known about till later.
Jane stages an elaborate play revealing the killer to be Ian Percy (Eyal Podell). Ian had been dating Lily, the bartender at the local pub, something Jane had noticed earlier on.
In a drunken state Hollis told Ian that Lily was, in fact, his half sister and proceeded to ridicule his son. An angry Ian then killed his father.
Kirkland gets two men to go through Jane's office and his Red John files to find where his investigation has gotten to and tells his agents to not put it on file and that he'll take over from there.
Jane realises his office has been broken into when a broken toothpick he had stuck through the door is lying on the ground.
