The Mentalist 4X5: Blood and Sand
Added 2025-10-10 18:00:09 +0000 UTCThe CBI is called to San Felix Island off the California coast, where the body of 19-year old Talia Suarez has been found on a beach. A foster kid after her father's murder, Talia was sexually assaulted, then killed.
Jane and Lisbon find all the islanders at a town meeting, where Jane explains that the direction of the sea currents shows the body did not wash ashore from the mainland - Talia was killed on the island.
Talia's notebook mentions San's Fish Co. As Lisbon interviews the company owner, Jack LaFleur, Jane notices his blueprints for a pier for tourist ships.
Lisbon and Jane visit Jed Stack's ranch, as the body must have been carried across his land. Jane obtains information about Stack from ranchhand Whit Naylor, who was injured by a horse and has an arm in a sling.
Talia's boyfriend is picked up by Rigsby and Van Pelt, who loses her temper. His public defense lawyer, Sarah Harrigan (Jillian Bach), is dating Rigsby. The boyfriend says Talia was hunting her father's killer, Eddie Fish. Talia's father was stabbed 18 times by drug addict Eddie Fish, who escaped with a fortune and changed his appearance.
At an emergency town meeting, Jane has them put all their used coffee mugs on a table, announcing that forensics is checking them for DNA to identify the murderer. Jane's ploy forces Eddie Fish to reveal himself. Gardner is arrested as he tries to flee the island.
Jane mentions to Stack and his staff that Eddie Fish stabbed Talia's father 14 times. Naylor corrects him - that he had been stabbed 18 times, accidentally revealing himself as Talia's murderer.
A sexual predator, Naylor had been living in isolation, but met Talia on the ferry back from getting his shoulder treated. Talia approached him for help and he raped and killed her.
Lisbon confronts Van Pelt about getting complaints of excessive force and asks her if she is okay.
