Lorelei (Emmanuelle Chriqui) breaks into Julia's (Elise Robertson) house and tortures her before killing her. She needs info about her sister Miranda. Lisbon (Robin Tunney) and Patrick (Simon Baker) are shown the footage on the nanny cam installed in the house. That expression on Patrick's face when he sees Lorelei shoot Julia so cold bloodily was priceless. He seemed to be a little shocked but did he really think anyone who got caught up with Red John would be so innocent. Lisbon is called to Bertam's (Michael Gaston) office and is told Kirkland (Kevin Corrigan) will be investigating the case as well so she must share all results with him. She asks why Homeland Security is interested and is told they investigate many cases.
Lisbon lays down the law to Patrick by telling him she knows he kidnapped Lorelei in Red Sails In the Sunset and she knows he knows. Patrick trying to be funny there says " you know I know you know." She wants him to be honest with her and tell her when Lorelei makes contact. Lisbon is his partner, not Lorelei. Well depends in what context that's used. Lisbon has gone from calling him a consultant to associate and now partner. Since they will now investigate her escape and if they find out he was involved he'll be charged as an accomplice to murder and so will she.
Patrick thinks Lorelei has her reasons for killing Julia, that she was probably behind her sister Miranda's murder, but that still doesn't justify her actions. Considering she also didn't know about her sister's death and RJ being behind it until Patrick showed her the CS photo. SO she could have gone on colluding as his mistress or whatever it is she does with Red John without even knowing this. Seems Patrick wants to let her go so she will tell him who Red John is. Forgetting to never trust a player, or play one, or is it don't con a conman.
They follow a lead to where Julia used to work at the woman's Shelter and Patrick goes walkabout whilst Lisbon talks with three of the trustees, Kevin Rome (Tom Wright) Melissa Enfield (Emmanuelle Vaugier) and Jason Lenin (Christopher Cousins). Patrick finds a letter addressed to Julia with an address in Davis. He asks the trustees a question, if Julia has always lived in Sacramento with Lisbon telling him she's talking here. He then disappears to follow this lead without telling Lisbon. So much for being honest, keeping quiet is not the same thing.
Not another reference to orchid as in The Devil's Cherry episode where The Blue Orchid was named for a diamond and that whole hallucination Patrick had involved a butterfly on an orchid. The butterfly being seen as a symbol of hope. Notice the woman's shelter was in Hope or called Hope. Here Patrick finds a piece of fish wire and Lorelei sitting on the chair, just waiting for him to arrive dressed in a crisp white shirt, as if she's that pure and innocent, usually it's something Lisbon wears. She wore a white T-shirt today. She tells him Julia deserved to die and she tortured and killed her sister but she didn't know anything about Red John. Rigsby's (Owain Yeoman) check leads them to the other address and Lisbon follows up on it finding Patrick there, but not Lorelei, she's gone. Of course Patrick wouldn't stop her, he's still hoping she'll lead him to RJ, they have a promise.
Patrick tells her he doesn't have any feelings for Lorelei after telling Lisbon he didn't lie to her, she's adamant he didn't tell her where he was going. Then he relents and tells her that he does have feelings for her, thus she knows they were intimate together and feels a bit cut up about it to the point of jealousy. This scene was misleading in showing us that Lisbon does have feelings for Patrick, real feelings but either she won't admit to them for various reasons, or the writers won't, which may turn out to be a good thing. It can't do for Lisbon to get involved emotionally in that way. Shippers may want a relationship between the two, I'm not one of them. Not only will it alter the dynamic of the characters and the show's main premise but really work is all they have. Patrick is unpredictable and she can't afford to take a risk like that on him. Also shown by her being in tears almost; a first for Lisbon too as she's never been that emotional and when she tells him his emotions for Lorelei are "clouding his judgement," she could almost be referring to herself and her own feelings for him.
If Patrick wants to be a part of the team then neither one of them will be a part of this anymore. That's her ultimatum to him, which is made easy by episode's end. Saved by the bell as Bertram calls asking her to see him tomorrow. Patrick asks if she's going to tell him but she doesn't know. At that meeting she covers for him saying Patrick's come up with some theories but they're not good otherwise she'd share them with him. Patrick was out of character here, firstly when they go to the shelter, Lisbon asks him his thoughts and he replies he has none. Now Lisbon is using that same line of his to cover for him, but Bertram sees through her, it's that poker playing and even Patty makes a comment about it later. Kirkland who is hiding in the next room also knows she's keeping something back. Bertram knows she's hiding something but a good detective always does that. Besides he adds who can you trust? Loaded comment since each one is suspected of being in league with RJ.
Patrick gets defensive in playing down his feelings since he's 'using' her to get RJ's name. Which he claims Lisbon knew from the outset. Repeated by Bertram too when he implies there's something between Patrick and Lorelei, since he admitted a sexual relationship and they were on the run together and no one knows what they got up to during that time and Lisbon hasn't asked him either. Don't blame her.
Lorelei turns up at the hotel where the trustees have gathered with the fourth one and opens fire after a woman sees her with a gun. It was apparent who she was after since he was the one who had the most reaction and ran faster than the others, i.e. Lenin. She shoots a guard, is held down by another in a shootout and is shot herself until she manages to escape. Each of the trustees are questioned but no one knows any Miranda ever staying at the shelter and none of them have heard of Lorelei.
Rigsby finds some discrepancies between the records kept at the shelter between the names of women who stayed there and finds someone has tried to cover up other women who have stayed there as if to hide them. Each of the team split up and keep tabs on the four trustees. Rigsby is assigned to Lenin, Lisbon to Melissa. She implores Patrick to stay here and not get involved, naturally his inquiring mind and Lorelei get the better of him and he looks through the four files. He finds a fishing photo in Lenin's file and puts the clues together. Calling Rigsby along the way to warn him of Lorelei's presence. Rigsby having a minute to ask Cho (Tim Kang) about Van Pelt and what she'd be doing at 5am. He should have gone to the computer training with her. Lorelei drives into the back of Rigsby's SUV knocking him out. Also Patrick calls Lisbon.
She tortures Lenin who claims he knows nothing. Patrick arrives and gets Lenin to talk. He admits he and Julia found women for Red John and that he works for him but doesn't reveal his name. Lorelei has to go after RJ and Patrick implores her to tell him Red John's name. She replies he should ask Lenin he's weaker. Patrick reminds her she promised but as said, what's a promise worth to someone like her. Yeah Patrick too busy snogging her when she takes the gun and shoots Lenin, well anyone could see that coming. Patrick desperately tires to save him and Kirkland arrives telling them he's taking over the case so Patrick is practically pulled out of the ambulance.
Two Weeks Later
Lenin is being kept in a coma but Lisbon takes him to a CS where Lorelei's naked DB has been found. She's dead and a smiley face hangs over her, sort of. That smiley face looked different to the usual one. Patrick walks away despondent and no words are said by Lisbon! There was nowhere else they could take the story with Lorelei seeing as she served her purpose and even if Patrick had a semblance of a feeling towards her, she would have been killed off eventually, as are all RJ acolytes. They couldn't very well have him pursuing her like he's pursuing RJ.
Patrick could have gone after Lorelei and would have found RJ but he chose to stay, save Lenin and wait for Lisbon. This goes a long way in showing where his loyalties lie. Also Lorelei is found with a carousel in pieces nearby, alluding to Patrick's past. Yet she wasn't able to kill Red John and he got the better of her as well as posing her DB in that way as a serious smack to Patrick: that he was the one in charge all along including when he sent Lorelei after him in the season 4 episodes. Patrick first says he's sorry and then adds "she had it coming." Just as Lorelei said the same about Julia. Not sure he really believes that but was something he probably needed to say at the time.
Patrick was too trusting of Lorelei and Lisbon was right about this, in fact he didn't even listen to her. He just charged on in the hopes that Lorelei would come through, why would she? She had gotten her revenge on the two who helped Red John kill her sister but who knows if she would even do anything about Red John or not. Seems he pipped her to the post exacting his own revenge. Even when Patrick tells her RJ would know what she's up to she still left. Lorelei was so ruthless when it came to torture and murder, think she learned from the master, RJ.
Great acting from Robin and Simon to keep the emotional turmoil boiling and how well they hide their feelings too. Patrick reinforcing he will do anything to get to Red John and was reaffirming what he's always said to Lisbon from the outset, that he will kill him when he finds him and take pleasure in it. Maybe a little more so now Lorelei's dead. Patrick was being hypocritical though when he said she deserved it. He did the same thing with Panzer in 4.7 Blinking Red Light, when he made him a target for RJ so he'd being a murderer to book and here he did the same thing. Lorelei couldn't get away with the killing of two people so he took care of her for them. Though he would have had his own reasons for taking pleasure in killing Lorelei, though she didn't betray him and reveal his name, makes me wonder why she didn't, she obviously knew she'd be going to her death, which explains her kissing Patty. Her kiss of betrayal as she shoots the one lead he has on RJ.
Enjoyed the light hearted comments from Rigsby and Cho when he thinks of Van Pelt and his own unrequited love in continuation from last episode. Also Emmanuelle Vaugier had so very little to do here, I thought she'd be involved somehow, yet I was proved wrong, well maybe it's best not to be right all the time. Also she needs to grow her eyebrows back, those pencil thin ones don't suit her.
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