The Mentalist 4X2: Little Red Book
Added 2025-10-03 18:00:08 +0000 UTCBertram rehires Jane due to his high closure rate, but Lisbon stays suspended and the others are reassigned. Bertram assigns Jane to Ray Haffner's (Reed Diamond) team. Jane meets new colleagues Tork, Masterton, and Niskin over the body of murder victim Markus Kuzmenko, a gym instructor who was hit with a heavy object.
Haffner recruits Cho to spy on Jane. Jane uses this to mess with Haffner's team and gets them replaced by Van Pelt and Rigsby. They decide to solve the case before Haffner to get Lisbon her job back.
Kuzmenko's colleague, Milinuevo, says Kuzmenko had come into money.
Jane plants a notebook for Haffner to find containing a rated list of Kuzmenko's sexual conquests including some high-profile lovers. That book causes the politically sensitive Bertram to warn the high-profilers of imminent scandal and he is embarrassed when the book is revealed as fake. Bertram reassigns Haffner and gives in to Jane's demand for Lisbon's reinstatement.
To solve the case, Jane calls the suspect to warn her the CBI team is on its way to the gym and as planned the killer - the gym's owner - panics and moves the murder weapon to her car. She had feared that the new gym Kuzmenko was planning to open would put her failing gym out of business.
Regarding the Red John case (though officially closed), Lisbon arranges with LaRoche, who is leaving Major Crimes, to interview Sally Carter, but finds she has committed suicide and left a note praising her dead god, Red John.
Jane brings in Rosalind Harker (Alicia Witt), the blind woman who lived with Red John for a while, to identify Carter’s body. She feels his face and says she has never met the man before.
Comments
Jane did think Timothy Carter was Red John when he killed him. It wasn't until Carter's gun and phone went missing, after the fact, did he suspect he wasn't. (Jane figured it out in prison.) Red John gives the orders, so who gave the order to get the gun and phone. Lisbon did have a point that it could have been a plan in motion, which is why Jane needed confirmation from Rosalind.
Heather
2025-10-03 20:13:54 +0000 UTC
