Linda's colleagues are questioned about her and Megan (Samantha Quan) says how she had won a scholarship whilst the rest of them will be paying off their student loans from their social security cheques. Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) finds a substance in Linda's desk which turns out to be sugar and Megan says she had a boyfriend but doesn't now who it it was. Obviously she was lying. Department head Dr Sonia Kidd (Zuleikha Harrison) tells Patrick how they are a family.
Patrick replies, "people murder family members everyday, it's natural"
Sonia "Murder is natural but abnormal." Can't help but wonder if Patrick's line here is loaded, especially since his family was murdered by RJ but with the theories flying around as to who this is, even that it's actually Patrick himself, it kind of reinforces this here. Yet he didn't say this with any kind of regret, it was made to sound like an ordinary comment.
Again with the next part of their conversation when he asks what animal Linda studied. It matters cos "nobody picks what they dedicate their life to by accident. It says something."
Sonia: "I study primate brains. What does that say about me?"
Patrick: "You have dark thoughts inside your head that you want to believe are normal and natural. (Laughs) Which they are of course." Agian with this reply. Firstly the part about nobody picking what they dedicate their lives to by accident. Patrick was a dedicated conman made to follow this route by his father. Then he's dedicated his life to finding Red John and killing him for revenge. This says something about him and his character too. Can't help but think this comment was about him. Remember the CBI team are a family too!
The dark thoughts aspect is also intriguing and well a bit dark in themselves. He has dark thoughts all the time particularly in earlier seasons as to what he'll do to RJ when he finds him as he's told Lisbon on several occasions. As well as going through pretty much a dark patch in his life not so long ago. Leaving CBI, meeting Lorelei and not telling Lisbon about his plans at the end of season 4. I thought the dark aspect was interesting since this season of the show is meant to be dark, but not all the episodes are like that.
Patrick (Simon Baker) returns from the museum bearing gifts: a butterfly impression for Van Pelt, Triceratops for Cho (Tim Kang) and T-Rex for Rigsby. Clearly as far as dinosaurs go these two seem to be having a juvenile rivalry going. But it's fun to watch. Rigsby clearly believes his dinosaur is superior and Cho believes it's his, calling the T-Rex a chicken with small feet. Whereas Triceratops was just a veggie eater. For himself he brings back jelly dinosaurs which come in handy at the end. What did Lisbon get? They question Jeanette (Rosalie Ward) who tells Lisbon that Linda was dating a cop and Gregory (Casey Graf) introduces them to adjunct professor Paul Friedman (Rob Benedict) yep he was my suspect straightaway! Not cos he was prophet Chuck in Supernatural, ha, Chuckie you should have known better, he just looked suspicious.
Cho and Patrick question Officer Ray Moran (Drew Rausch) but turn up when he's investigating a theft, where money was stolen by the thief reaching in under the window and taking it. Obviously Patty has time to solve this cos the answer's staring everyone in the face as was the thief. He tells the assistant, Shainu Bala) to put his hand under the gap in the window and then take it out. Of course he wouldn't be able to, duh, didn't think of that before. Officer Ray tells Cho about how Linda was perfect and made him change too but then he dumped her after someone had emailed him the link to her dating profile. She'd joined a dating site so he doesn't know if she was seeing other men or not. Van Pelt finds someone had set up the fake account and she was able to get into it using a common password; "QWERTY". Oh how can they have Lisbon asking what that is! Lisbon is impressed but Van Pelt is unhappy at missing out on the course.
Patrick reads over the profile and picks out key words which will help them play bingo and pick out who actually set it up. Giving Rigsby and Cho bits of paper with the key words on it. "Hot guy, bad ass," they should question her colleagues and see who speaks like that. He himself talks to Sonia and Paul who is baiting moths using his own recipe of beer and brown bananas. It would be Patrick who finds out who wrote the profile since Megan uses the same words in her conversation. She tells Cho Linda had all the luck and the man, why shouldn't she be happy too.
Patrick offers to give Sonia and her students a memory seminar since she's so impressed with his memory skills. It's easy to remember if you don't forget. He wants tables set up and props from Linda's office, just animals. Whilst he later goes on a museum heist with Cho and Rigsby. Who wonders why he wants those things, Cho adds he gave up asking years ago. Yeah go with the flow man. Rigsby distracts prof Papadakis (Dakin Matthews) and visiting children there by holding a tarantula in his hand, whilst Patty breaks into the display case and steals the moth in the petri dish.
He's arranged the animals on the table and will recite the order they appear in from memory after he briefly looks at them. Jeanette thinks he set them up so he gets Paul to change their order. Of course Patrick comes to the moth which isn't there. Talk about giving yourself away! Patrick had also given a note to Jeanette compensating for future eventualities and she reads it now, "the moth is in the prof's pocket." Linda discovered the moth but he wanted it for his failing career so he killed her.
In between all this Patrick has the opportunity to help out Van Pelt by revealing Betram's tells when he plays poker and this way he'll win Manchester, which is exactly what happens. He tells Lisbon her plan of getting Patrick to coach him worked and offers Van Pelt the stipend after all. Rigsby spouts facts about dinosaurs and Cho tells him he read those off Google, which he did. Cho wins since Rigsby's a coward cos he's in love with Van Pelt but won't admit it. Well we knew that too.
Hey Patty uses his wedding ring to fend off females, on the prowl, ha. I was going to say he puts it to good use. Yes he's more enamoured/lustful of Lorelei but he's clearly flattered when Sonia comes to thank him for solving the case and says it's a question of natural selection: all the good ones are taken. He tells her to re-name the moth and she'll name it after Linda. Ahh Patty you heartbreaker!!
Patrick and Lisbon play poker using his jelly dinosaurs as and he wins her. She thinks it was a nice thing eh did for Van Pelt. So no red John this ep as we take yet another break from the mystery to get a routine murder investigation, which I thought wasn't very good, nothing exciting happened, aside from Cho and Rigsby's scenes. Rigsby: "You date pregnant hookers and your dinosaur eats grass!
Why are professors at museums so cliched in having to be Greek! This ep focused more on some characterization of the team than placing more emphasis on the case which was good cos it distracted us from the ordinary case, ha!
Patrick hasn't come bearing gifts since season 1.6 Red Handed has he,when he bought those expensive watches and necklaces, so he went out of his way again and yet no one even thanked him. Patty hasn't been so generous and selfless in a long time and how he came through for Van Pelt was great to see. They have more of a close relationship than the others on the team, aside from Lisbon, as we've seen in many episodes, how she always calls him out on his 'tricks' and challenges him to rove his comments and thoughts on cases and just in general. Like when he got her to write "Rigsby" on the paper in a mentalist game and he read it whilst she was writing, showing she still has feelings for him and here Cho brings up the same thing. Haven't mentioned that in a long while.
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Well, i find this almost 6 years too late. Good blog by the way.
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