The Mentalist 1X19: A Dozen Red Roses

Okay, so, yes; I know this is late. I may have accidentally found a new Red White and Royal Blue fic that I haven't read and have been in a rabbit hole. Which is awful because a) I have so much to do and b) I just got the third book in the 'They Both Die at the End' trilogy, and if I'm reading anything right now; it should be that. 😳

So, we're back to the 'red' titles. Huzzah. However, I didn't love this episode. Maybe it's because Jane was so involved in the last episode, but it felt like he was lacking here. Sure he found the valet ticket and some other things, but it felt a bit more police procedural, than Jane centric.

We've got a dead guy in the middle of LA. But seeing as he's a politician and married to a former celebrity, CBI is on the case. They find a bunch of drugs in his car, but his political platform is very anti drug so they are confused (um, aren't all homophobes the people who are caught in airplane bathrooms with people of their same gender).

Anyway, they find out that he's recently funded a Hollywood movie starting his widow that he, apparently, wanted to back out of. They accuse the director, but he blatantly tells them that the guy's death was a blessing for him, but he didn't kill him.

After we meet with the widow and the daughter, we find out that the daughter had a boyfriend that no one really approved of. Well, out loud. Mom had a thing for him. And convinced him that her husband was abusing her and she needed him to kill him. Fun.

Later, she lures him back to the house with the intention of killing him. And she shoots him, but Cho and Rigsby are staking out the house, so they get there in time to save him. However, the wife has a decent enough excuse. (And to be fair, he was sneaking through the house with a gun in his hand). She shot him on accident when she saw him carrying a gun. Why the hell did she have a gun in her hand ready to shoot?

Long story short, the drugs in the car belonged to the daughter. Dad was trying to get her off them but she was hanging out with a drug dealer. But her boyfriend ended up being seduced by her mom (the guy who actually killed her dad) and conned into it by her. But, to his credit, he really thought she was being abused by him.

Jane figures this out and gets mom and daughter back to work (oh yeah, they are working on the movie together- even though daughter doesn't really seem like she at all interested in this) and sets up a scenario where mom ends up confessing on camera; because, of course he does.