Lisbon (Robin Tunney) comes to see Patrick (Simon Baker) once again in his attic. Here she finds Patrick outside burning the Red John evidence he's collected cos he's narrowed down his list of suspects and doesn't need it anymore. She's curious to know what that is. Patrick is exhausted and needs his sleep since he hasn't slept for a week. She wakes him up and tells him they've got a case which may involve Red John. At the motelroom Brett Partridge (Jack Plotncik) is already there and thinks this may not be a Red John killing. Funny he should show up now seeing as he's also mentioned as one of the seven. Patrick feels the Vic looks familiar and notices a number written on the wall which he dials. He also knows it's RJ cos he can feel it's him. It belongs to Child Protective Services at Carson Springs. He's familiar with the area since he was there when younger.
Lisbon doesn't think it's a coincidence that as soon as he gets close to finding RJ he starts to kill again. But he won't tell her who the seven are since she'll start to act strangely around them. Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) and Cho (Tim Kang) talk to the motel manager (Homie Dooridian) who tells them about a big man who came there the night before. Also that the maid, Sandra Guzman (Marisa Guterman) who found the DB has gone home as she was covered in blood. Lisbon and Patrick are told by the woman at Protective Services, Miriam Gottlieb (Laura San Giacomo) that the woman is Eileen. They are looking for Roddy Turner (Scott Anthony Leet) her husband. Patrick doesn't need the address cos he knows where Stony Ridge is. They used to stay here when the Carnie was in town. Stony Ridge "is practically my hometown."
Pete (MC Gainey) and Samantha Turner (Tangie Ambrose) know Patrick but don't think Roddy would have killed Eileen and taken the baby. Roddy is Pete's nephew. Patrick knows they're hiding something from him and have someone else in mind for the killing. Lisbon finds Eileen is Suzan and Kevin Barlow's daughter. Patrick knew them. He tells Lisbon about having a happy childhood memory related to a song or smell and Lisbon recalls the cake in the rain song reminds her of her mother feeding pigeons. Cho and Rigsby wait for Roddy to return to the motel since Pete will call him and whilst they wait for him, Rigsby mentions Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti). Cho knows they're having sex again but Rigsby doesn't like the use of this word, they're in love. Roddy is arrested.
He tells Van Pelt he doesn't know anything and wants to find his baby. Patrick doesn't think Roddy killed Eileen, who was raised by her uncle Shawn (Michael Hogan). He knew Patrick's father and they had a falling out over a business deal. Lisbon and Patrick go to Venice Beach, Ca, to talk with him and Lisbon insists on going in with Patrick. Patrick is concerned that Red John has reached into his head and taken away his "happy memory" from his childhood. Especially since Pete told him earlier that Shawn could be RJ, which is highly unlikely.
They get into a discussion about morals and how the Jane's would pretend to be psychic and con money from people. Patrick telling him he doesn't do that anymore. Also adding the Barlow's claim to have "real psychic powers." But Shawn wants the baby. He also asks Lisbon about her faith and believing in life after death. That he can read her too, she was lying awake in bed and thinking of Patrick cos "she's a little in love with him." To which there's no reaction from Patrick and Lisbon just makes one of her usual faces! Coupled with the fact he then adds Patrick is "so secretive and controlling." Which Patrick later admits he is, not the love bit though! Anyway no further mention is made of this so probably it was just put there to get fans shipping some more and to carry on with next season at some point.
Shawn asks him why he's never thought of why RJ is always one step ahead of him. Probably cos he's psychic and even better at it than Patrick. Who has a plan and he goes to Miriam asking if she'll go along with the plan to out the killer by telling he suspects they've found Caitlin. Then whoever is innocent will turn up for the baby. She goes along with it. A little strange that Patrick should do this cos he doesn't usually reveal any of his plans except to the CBI team. SO that was also a bit of a giveaway if you didn't realize she was involved already.
Roddy arrives and then so does Shawn. Van Pelt then calls Patrick as he wanted and plays along. Patrick has a trick up his sleeve as usual as he borrows Miriam's phone to call Van Pelt back to ask for the hospital name as there are there. Obviously she was my suspect straightaway, who else would know all about Eileen and where she'd be. Also Patrick saying Red John needs to offer people something in return. She'd want a baby. Patrick admits to Roddy and Shawn that he lied again about finding Caitlin but they will find her soon and will be in touch. They drive to the address Van Pelt located from the phone and Patrick tells Lisbon about suspect names. One of them being Bertram. Now Lisbon won't know how to react in front of him, which is why Patty didn't tell her any of the names. But that's all about to change.
Lisbon thinks she may call on the landline but people store numbers on their mobiles. Funny she wouldn't have the number memorized considering she left the baby there. It took them a while to drive there, but she got there quickly. Patty hiding well away from where the action could take place, you know, gunfire, just incase. Miriam has a message from Red John for Patrick if it came to this. Nappies and milk were removed from the motelroom so it would be a woman, naturally. RJ was a good friend to her but doesn't know why he killed Eileen. It was important it should be her.
Once again they omit the fact every one of RJ's cohorts, acolytes etc always kill themselves or are killed, so why leave her in a policecar with her hands in front of her. Also why wasn't she searched, come on your're not amateurs. So we get a song now too in the ep, which we don't usually. Seems it was appropriate though.
It was funny Lisbon mentioning LaRoche as a suspect when he wasn't even on his list but the first one she thought of. Maybe she still has that Tupperware box on her mind from last ep. Patrick: "no offence but you have no dishonesty in you."
Patrick once again looks through his window and lets Lisbon watch the CD, made by Lorelei (Emmanuelle Chiriqui) before Red John mercilessly ensured she didn't die a painful death, but she would die and why did she deem it necessary to tell RJ about the handshake, I mean it's not as if she was going to be spared. Couldn't she take one secret to the grave with her. RJ knew Patrick would narrow down the names to seven people. Lorelei told him about shaking people's hands, as said. he used his memory and research but he's not clever. Clever is RJ killing "a happy memory he never told anyone and lead you right to this video." He should look at his suspects names: Brett Stiles, Gale Bertram, Raymond Haffner, Reed Smith, Bob Kirkland, Sheriff Thomas McAllister, Brett partridge. red John now has new rules to the game, first Eileen and now he'll stat killing again "until you catch me or I catch you." Patrick breaks the CD to pieces.
At the end of the day we didn't get anymore answers and many will feel cheated at this since the final scene opens up a whole other set of possibilities not as to the suspects, most of them were already on our list, but as to how Red John manages to stay one step ahead of him. The fact he's also able to get inside Patty's head when no one else is able to is chilling. How well does he really know Patrick and being a part of the CBI too. It's too much to think about. So all of this work Patrick did, all the research amounts to nothing when it boils down to RJ being ahead of him even in his list of suspects.
Also in a way it kind of narrows down suspects, firstly Kirkland was the only one who was shown stealing the evidence from Patrick's attic, thus he either was a red herring to completely throw us off the tracks. Since if he already knew the suspects and what info Patty had, he wouldn't need to steal it. Then Brett Partridge conveniently being at the CS again after appearing in the Red Lacquer Nail Polish episode earlier on. He does seem shifty enough, has the voice to be RJ but is he really clever enough to be one step ahead of Patrick. Sticking my neck out, I'd eliminate him too. He seems a little too young. We haven't seen Sheriff McAllister since the second episode of season 1 Red Hair and Silver Tape.
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