Patrick hears the gunshot and watches from the shop, as we know, he's not one throw himself into danger or the line of fire. Poor Patty he won't be getting his shoes back in a hurry as the cobbler is in shock and collapses. The shoe story being only ancillary to the main plot, giving Patrick the chance to sport some white shoes, with his grey suit, yeah we know the writer was having a laugh here. When was the last time we saw Patty without his trademark brown shoes, just the one time they were dumped in the alley. Oh and there was the time there was that blooper in season 1's Flame Red when his shoes changed from brown to black in the same scene when he drove that tractor. But hey off topic here with Patty's shoes, he'll do that to you.
The ring leader gives the other robbers their share and wants them to leave town, so we get to see their faces so early on in the show. That's cos as said, none of them fired the fatal shot. Lisbon (Robin Tunney) arrives and Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) fills her in, pointing out Ernie's fiance Nancy (Katie Walder). Cho (Tim Kang) has been taking statements and Patrick asks him if the vault door was open or closed. It was open, when it shouldn't have been. Clue for later.
The employees are interviewed and they're all a mismatched bunch but none of them look the type to be killers or bank robbers. Thus the robbers enlisted an inside an, that much was obvious and even I said that ages ago. Not to mention getting my suspect very early on. As soon as the manager, Armin Gagnon (Don Stark) and then Nancy said they were both in the loo, away from the sight of the others, there could only have have been two suspects. Nancy was overdoing the waterworks.
FBI Agent Mancini (Ivan Sergei) argues over who should be in charge of the investigation and Lisbon says they have the homicide which supersedes the robbery. Bertram (Michael Gaston) compromises with Mancini having access to the files. Mancini asks why Lisbon doesn't like him and she asks if they're in school, admitting she doesn't like him. He invites her to a law enforcement poker game which she may attend. So Lisbon tells Mancini outright she doesn't like him and especially since he lost Lorelei.
The robbery wasn't the first and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) finds that no one was killed in any of the other ones. He's taken surveillance camera footage and found one of the men is the same height and is always at the scene. The other accomplices are always different. Van Pelt thinks if they can ID the man without his balaclava on camera since he probably cases the banks beforehand, then they can find the others. Patrick up to his usual antics bets Van Pelt lunch for a week whoever finds the suspect first. Van Pelt agrees to this even though Rigsby says he's not going for it. He tells her he found the man two hours ago and asks Van Pelt to write his name down, using the old 'watching what she's writing' ploy, he deduces that she wrote John Hutten.
Hutten (Paul Schulze) is arrested but is giving nothing away. Whilst waiting for that pesky lift, Patrick asks Hutten about the inside man. Attending Ernie's wake Patrick questions each of the employees and deduces none of them are the killers. Lisbon has to contend with Ernie's grandmother. Patrick sneaking to Ernie's room finds an air ticket to Brazil wedged under his drawer. At one point he even sees if his shoe size matches Ernie's shoes, well he would, they were brown after all.
Patrick then questions the manager, Nancy and Casey (Joanna Canton) and asks them where they're from. Another clue when Nancy says she was from Upstate New York. He notices Ernie was different in his photos and she tells them how she helped him change. He lost weight and she got him this house. Also Patrick lets slip, on purpose, that Ernie was the inside man. Again that was obvious the way he volunteered to open the safe for them.
Patrick gets a list of the people holding safe deposit boxes at the bank, after he talks the manager into recalling that when he came from the loo, the vault door was open. He thinks someone put something in the box rather than take something out. He and Lisbon confront the employees in the vault and Lisbon offers them a deal for 10, 15, 20 years, if the killer comes forward and opens the box. Like a gameshow! Ha. Patrick narrows down the names to three people, one of them being Hudson, re New York and Nancy being from there, which again was easy to figure out. Said that when she mentioned where she was from. Ahh, couldn't we get some difficult clues?
Nancy admits it was her and gives them the key and the gun is found inside. Ah stupid woman, what was wrong with dumping it in the toilet flush or somewhere else! She recalled she forget to shut the door but couldn't go back as the manager was already there. She tells Van Pelt she helped him change but he was leaving her. He flirted with Casey and she followed him to an Internet place. She even hacked into his secret e-mails where she found out what he was planning. She knew where everyone would be and took a potty break at that time. Lisbon gets her man too as the e-mails provide evidence as to Hutten's planning and involvement in the robbery.
As in last episode Nancy doesn't show any remorse over the killing, he deserved it. These women killers are getting ruthless in this show and it's always Van Pelt who has to deal with them. Van Pelt asks Patrick how he figured out Hutten's name. He tells her he saw her writing it and asks her to write something else, this time it's Rigsby. Wonder why she wrote his name, got that too, especially since the last letter she wrote was a 'y'. She writes something else and he figures out what the last word was but not the first. He looks at the pad, "that wasn't very nice."
Lisbon arrives at the poker game and finds Betram also there. SO there's something that will definitely go down there. Also in Red Handed Lisbon never mentioned she plays poker or may even be good at it as she tells Bertram here that "it's not gambling if you win" suggesting that she is good.
Patrick: "I love it when you get all authoritarian on me." Well he's never said anything like that before, so again let's hope this doesn't signal any romantic notions between the two, cos I for one don't want them going down that route. No seriously that happens in practically every other show and we've had that 'romantic interlude' with Rigsby and Van Pelt and though Patrick is only a consultant, they do work together. Patrick telling Lisbon of Nancy being a powerful one in the relationship, "they date down so they have all the power in the relationship." Lisbon's not like that and besides don't think Patrick would be the type to be subordinate in any relationship. I mean what does that say about his one night stand with Lorelei and his attraction to Erica in Every Rose Has Its Thorn. They come across as being tough women.
Lisbon as a power dater was kind of funny cos really the only man she's been with is Walter Mashburn and well, she did seem to the the powerful one in the relationship, what relationship, oh you know, their one night thing and she was kind of coaxed into it. Also it took her a while to actually give in to him.
Patrick threatening to keep those white things he's wearing, "these shoes are actually quite comfortable!" SO not much happened in this episode, kind of a filler after the fast paced two opening episodes of the season. Loved the scenes with Van Pelt and Patrick as he tried to be really friendly with her and she went along with it. Even telling her he'd like Chinese, then Italian and then Indian for lunch. She didn't seem to mind his attention either. Suppose Patrick needed someone to occupy his time seeing as Lisbon was otherwise detained. Also I have to say Patrick and Van Pelt do make a sweet couple!
Don't forget the scene with Patrick and the foot powder, on his socks, oh Patrick has too much time on his hands! ha.
Oh and fun watching Amanda being told to hide behind furniture and other obstacles to disguise her real-life pregnancy. Don't think season 5 would mark the end of The Mentalist if only we'd get more satisfying Red John episodes and more characterization of the main cast, cos I think this is one of the best cast ensembles around at the moment! No one annoys me in this show at all.
Bank robbery also done in Fugue in Red.
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