Okay, is it just me or is The Mentalist getting just a little bit predictable? Not that I mind exactly. It’s still a great show, and the fact that nine times out of ten you can guess the killer/perpetrator of crime from the offset doesn’t really detract from that. In any case, The Mentalist has never really been about the crime in the broader sense. It’s about the team. It’s about Jane and Red John. The murders and kidnappings and frauds are almost incidental to the plot. But that doesn’t mean that the writers shouldn’t put a little more effort into the murders themselves. There’s no reason that they shouldn’t have a few more twists and turns – picture something a little more Hercule Poirot and a little less Jacques Clouseau.
This episode had two main plot strands: the aforementioned predictable crime (kidnapping, spoiler! the kidnapped lady did it, and the reasoning behind how Jane figured that out is flimsy at best), and Jane’s investigation of the guards at the prison from which Lorelei Martins escaped. This investigation bears fruit in the form of a guard who had raped an inmate and who the FBI had blackmailed into moving Lorelei. He tells Jane where he brought her, but we’re not privy to that information yet. Hopefully that will crop up in the next episode (as well as a better thought-out murder, with any luck). — K
Quoteworthy: “Will you please eat that like a human being, not a sea lion?” – Cho, to Rigsby
Pond Hopping Girls 