The Mentalist 4X12: My Bloody Valentine
Added 2025-10-27 18:00:13 +0000 UTCLisbon returns Van Pelt's necklace that fiance Craig O'Laughlin gave her, now that the investigation into the incident is over.
Cho, Jane, and Van Pelt are called to the home of Gabriel Porchetto (Joaquim de Almeida), a leading mobster dying from kidney cancer.
His eldest son Gabriel Jr. was the victim of a professional hit, shot dead in the hot tub at a house party.
Curtis Nett (Matt Battaglia), Porchetto's enforcer, exchanged fire with the hitman, who escaped over the boundary fence. Jane notices that Nett disparages Porchetto's teenaged son and new heir, Sergio.
One of several hookers at the party, Janpen (Kristy Wu), was with the victim when he was shot. She reluctantly goes with Van Pelt, but they are attacked en route and the pair must walk through the woods to the nearest town.
Back at the CBI, boss Luther Wainwright tells the team to leave the search for Van Pelt to the search party.
Jane contrives a private meeting with Porchetto, who thinks the rival Zeta family killed his son, but using a mind trick, Jane gets the Zeta boss to reveal that the Zetas were not interested in killing Gabriel Jr. Rigsby realizes the search team is looking in the wrong place and heads out.
Jane privately gets Porchetto drunk. When he passes out, Jane makes it look like he may be dead and the family rushes him to hospital.
Lisbon plays along with Jane's ruse.
Nett then reveals that he has already established power bases and will be the new head of the family. Lisbon threatens to tell Porchetto, and Nett, knowing Porchetto would kill him, confesses to the murder of Gabriel Jr.
In the woods, the hitman finds and shoots at Van Pelt, but she kills him. The hallucination of O'Laughlin warns her someone is behind her. She turns and subdues the attacking Janpen, just as Rigsby arrives.
Back at the CBI, Janpen confesses she shot Gabriel Jr. and that she and the male hitman worked for Nett. She briefly went "missing" in the woods to find a phone signal to call in her accomplice.
Sarah, Rigsby's girlfriend, tells him she is pregnant.
After talking to Jane, Van Pelt decides to keep the necklace.
