Patrick (Simon Baker) and Fischer (Emily Swallow) have a long drawn out conversation about his couch, no, sofa, no couch and why he doesn't have one since psychiatrists have them cos it's easier to analyze when the brain's more relaxed or something. He reads her again and asks why she hasn't been to a psychiatrist and whatever she's hiding she doesn't have to feel guilty about it. She tells him she was undercover and she went a little overboard when she met him. He wants a couch. Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) comes in to tell them they're heading to Corpus Christi to investigate the deaths of five DEA agents who were shot. At the CS they find the cameras were shot at and they were hidden so they knew where they were hidden. Though Patty cunningly figures out that the mirror is higher on the wall for a reason, behind which Cho (Tim Kang) finds another hidden camera. That'll pose a question as to why it was there and who put it there. Okay that's two questions, ha.
Playing the surveillance feed back, they find the masked gunmen removed their masks and were easily identified as belonging to a drugs cartel. The FBI agent Higgins (Sterling K Brown) [he was DEA but he was wearing an FBI badge] who had his team shot tells them who were involved. One of them has a girlfriend Crystal (Brianna Brown). Lisbon (Robin Tunney) and Cho head to Corpus Christi again and Cho starts the engine, then turns it off, remembering that he heard the engine on the tape. So he has Wylie (Joe Adler) check the recording for the engine sounds and it'll match the gunman's car. He IDs a Chevy Impala (hey Dean's (Jensen Ackles) car from Supernatural, though it was the wrong colour and not to mention Higgins/Sterling was also in the show, aka Gordon the vampire hunter cum vampire!) He thinks the unknown gunman is disciplined but Patty in his infinite wisdom disagrees, cos if he was disciplined he wouldn't have shot them the way he did, it was erratic behaviour to say the least. He also tells them about Paco (Mark Adair-Rios) who has ties to the cartel. Patty's more interested in the blonde.
Patrick accompanies Fischer to interview Crystal who doesn't know anything other than Ritchie being a good man and she wasn't aware he was into illegal activities. Well Patty has her number, well not yet but it's the expression that he knows she's lying and uses this to his advantage and he feigns interest in her and asks her out on a date. She's flattered and putting on a dumb blonde act, Fischer comes back to tell him that they identified the car model and three possible locations. She mentions them all there which was a bit stupid to do so in front of a potential suspect, but it worked to Patrick's advantage as he figures out it's at the central business district in a warehouse. Crystal gave it away.
Fischer then has a conversation with Patrick about why he asked her out and that she's not his type, how would she know his type? He tells her she is, well maybe, ha. But he deserves some fun doesn't he and I don't mean Dean's version of fun either! Ha. At the warehouse they find three DBs of the gunmen and Lisbon and Fischer ponder who could have done it, Patrick is eager to get out of there cos he has a date. Yeah and he wore the same shirt. Cho wonders about Ritchie cos he was Crystal's boyfriend. Cho also finds a phone but it's disconnected. SO what do you think of Patty's shirt, he's still wearing it and didn't change for his date. Also he's wearing Lisbon's socks now well, not her socks, but the ones she gave him last ep.
He tells Crystal he won't reveal what he really does but she wants to know the story behind his wedding ring, which is long. SO presuming he tells her all about Red John here cos Crystal is kind of surprised that he killed him. It was all to reel her in and she fell for it, hook, line and sinker! She asks him how important the investigation is to him and he replies very, so she wants to help. Yes ingratiate yourself into the case just to find out what they really know and throw around red herrings. Ooh I used a red colour reference, now that we're no longer using that specific colour in the titles! Ha. Fischer and Lisbon chase up a lead on the gunmen but come up with nothing and Fischer asks about Patrick and his date. Lisbon tells her she's not his type but she doesn't know what his type is, well could be Lisbon! Lisbon and Fischer meet up in a bar and are brought drinks from men who leave when they tell them they're FBI agents. Also Lisbon gets her FBI ID which she's pretty excited over.
Crystal tells Cho about Paco's condo on the beach worrying about her own safety. Patrick drives her home in his snazzy new car, oh I miss the Citroen! It was so Patty. She won't let him walk her to the front door but he says he wants to see her again and will call her. Paco is inside and wants to know why she led the FBI his way but she once again feigns being ignorant. She then slaps him and tells him he can't mess with her and if he realizes who he's talking to. She's set him up to take the fall and kidnaps him so she can pin the killings on him and get away with being the head honcho of the cartel.
Patrick gets his couch and is as pleased as punch, lying down, he calls Crystal who he arranged to meet tomorrow night. She meanwhile bundles off Paco into the boot of the car and has her bodyguard take him to a deserted house where she shoots him in the head. She leaves and he sets Paco up with a gun and changes it along with other bullets. After the police arrive, he shoots through a back window and they shoot back, believing they shot Paco! Cho notices the bullet mark in the back window as if someone shot from there and made it look like the police shot him. Yeah so much for forensics figuring that out, ha. He tells Fischer and they don't seem to be doing much with it. Especially not Fischer who just excels in standing around giving orders and watching Lisbon work! Wylie analyzes the surveillance footage from the third camera which Higgins has given them and knows his team wouldn't tell anyone about the cameras.
On the footage they see Crystal putting on lipstick in the mirror and then looks straight into the camera, obviously it was her handiwork so the others would be identified. Patrick asks which shirt he should wear and he goes for the one Fischer selects. Yes those shirts Patty! He had those made on his island and they're mostly alike so he's taken to wearing those now. Knew there was something missing, his waistcoats which I loved!! Get them back and his dark suit!! Don't like his shirts much and he really needs to shave too. Ha. Anyway digression, even if it is important! He arrives at Crystal's house and she gets some wine bottles and a gun, deciding they should drink on the boat which her friend lets her borrow. He also brings her flowers.
Patrick talks about the case and how Paco is dead. She knows he'll be heading back but wishes the case wasn't over as she wants to see him again. She doesn't like the wine and goes for the other bottle and the gun. Patrick is called again by Lisbon and pretends to hang up, of course he was either recording what she said which wouldn't be much help for him or has the others on the line which is more likely. As we know it's always about not putting himself in unnecessary danger! The mystery man he thinks is someone who can get all attention removed from him and is actually a woman. He knows it's her. There were no mistakes made. Crystal admits she didn't have Paco shot but shot him herself. Thus pulling the gun on Patrick. He posits the FBI were listening in and should be here now, which he has to say three times before the helicopter arrives. By which time Patrick has already jumped in.
They tell him if he'd let them in on his plan they'd have been here sooner and poor Patty shivering, says Cho's on his side but he's not. He sides with the FBI and Lisbon adds she's been trying to get him to reveal his plans beforehand for years. They walk off. He wasn't even thanked for solving the case.
This was a more enjoyable ep if only for Patrick venturing out on a date to catch a killer, he really needed to get into the swing of things again. Now that he has his couch back, but not so much analysis on the couch. Patty and his sales pitch line about not telling Crystal who he is, in answer to her question of what, it's who, not what. She doesn't think he's out of practice, oh he is but he can improvise, but that won't stop him catching a killer! He didn't let this one slip away like Erica. Crystal gave herself away, there was that scene with Paco when she puts lipstick on before she shoots his bodyguard and then she puts lipstick on again when she looked into the hidden camera, must be one of her tells. Also her use of the phones, there was one without a number Cho found and then she used the one to call for the police after she shot Paco. Hey they would've recognized her voice on the recording anyway. That was a mistake she made, so much for Patrick saying she didn't make any.
Seems like Lisbon and Fischer won't have any rivalries going here, not even for Patty's affections, ha, so appears they may become friends too. Though they could have found another name for Kim Fischer, you know Kimball Cho, Kim again. Though I still don't like her. Maybe she should have had ties to RJ too! That'd liven things up though probably that ship has sailed, no pun, re the boat Patty was on. I also don't like how Lisbon is no longer able to investigate on her own, you know it's like she's been demoted and she doesn't have any intelligence, which is far from the case. Also she's now an equal with Cho, whereas she was his boss! Not that I don't like Cho, he really fits in wherever he is but I loved that dynamic with Lisbon being in charge, not Agent Fischer 'do nothing but stand around'!
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