We had to wait over two months for this to return, whilst US viewers got to see the aftermath of what happened without Red John straightway. Didn't think I'd e saying this but after watching this, kind of missed Red John, at least those eps and the CBI were exciting, this seemed rather routine and all it did was serve to remind me of NCIS and Gibbs' (mark Harmon) hideaway down Mexico way! How he used to get calls at the bar, here Patrick (Simon Baker) also had the post office. When in doubt always run to a country without extradition laws which is what Patrick did, obviously, especially with so many charges laid against him. He did commit murder no matter how warranted it may have been.
So there was no mention of RJ, hey even the music in the opening credits wasn't normal Mentalist fare, let's hope we get that back soon and let's hope we get the good old Patty back too. Lisbon (Robin Tunney) is Chief Lisbon now in a sleepy town where the highlight of her day is giving a talk to a bunch of school children, which she loves doing as she later tells Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) who have now got their own digital security company, which is doing very well and their own baby.
Patrick has made friends with the locals though his Spanish sucks, as we see he's been using a dictionary to chat the lingo but as the two ladies at the post office observe he's hasn't got it down pat! No pun. He's also been writing to Lisbon as we've moved forward two years. Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) comes to see her but she doesn't know where Patty is or any of the team, aside from Rigsby and Van Pelt. Abbott notices the shell on her desk and of course it's a present from Patrick to her, which will lead Abbot straight to him. Abbot and that horrible FBI agent, Kim Fischer (Emily Swallow) who is so apparent she sticks out like a sore thumb! Surprised Patrick didn't make her, he's definitely out of practice is our Patty!
Oh no, don' fall for her, well he did, hook, line and sinker, even if he didn't out and out tell her he did some awful things like killing his nemesis, but she already knew. They must have figured he could use the company and female company at that, so bored with her already and am not looking forward to watching her every week! Nope, he was much better off with Lisbon and so glad when they finally met up again.
Abbott makes him an offer to drop the charges coming from "the powers that be" but he doesn't take the bait. Not until he has dinner with her and then gets drunk and into a fight with the local drug dealer, Danny Otero (Juan Gabriel Pareja). Just cos she said they were being followed, why fall for that again, especially since she was no hapless femme fatale, though she was hopeless! He also took off his wedding ring for her, don't do it. So dinner led to mad dance moves, involving a lot of jumping on Patrick and Fischer's part whilst Lisbon read his letters. Which Patrick had been sending to her via his carnie friends. Abbot thinks he's so smart as does she, but really why then do they need his help. SO after she makes him tea and decides to leave the next day, he decides he's got to go back. Pretty lame.
He comes up with new terms to the deal and wants them in writing, written on a napkin, top priority being getting Lisbon to work with him. Along the way he gets some drug dealers caught and Abbot to sign the napkin and five copies but when he returns to Austin, Texas this time, Abbot surprises him with his own terms. You see it was just a piece of paper he signed, not binding. If he doesn't sign he'll go to detention and get his parole revoked. Cue miss high and mighty Fischer and Patrick's shocked, well he should have been, or was he really? He wants a detention cell with a window, but he's not bothered as long as he can make tea and makes himself at home. Everything will work out for him no doubt.
He also meets Cho (Tim Kang) who has joined the FBI and was at Quantico training but he hasn't told anyone else this, oh, thought they were all so close! Cho is happy to see him but you wouldn't guess it. Another ep directed by Simon, wonder what he thought of it all. Pretty soon we're back to him being good old Patty, but he's slow off the mark, did he really think Abbot would agree to his terms so easily. Let's not get him romantically involved with Fischer cos he can do so much better and needs to meet someone outside of law enforcement, that was a life he did leave behind. She tells him that coming home doesn't necessarily mean going backwards, but moving on, not with you love!
SO wishing things move on quickly and we get back to solving cases instead of the personal lives, maybe they need the character development after 6 years but this wasn't what was expected or needed. Don't like Fischer at all, or Kim, she seems so smug at having put one over on him and that Patrick returned to the US for a woman, seemed so unlike him, unless it was for Lisbon. It was good seeing them hug and hopefully Patty will play the FBI at their own game! He's genius like that. Saving grace, seeing he got to keep his shoes and lost that sarong! Ha.
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