Lots of Patrick's (Simon Baker) antics this week which quite frankly is what keeps the entire series going, as well as Lisbon (Robin Tunney) and Cho (Tim Kang) and I have to add this ep we finally got to see Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) and Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti). More rigmarole over Patty again as this time it's insisted by Agent Daniels (pat Skipper) he doesn't have clearance to sit in on a conference for the current Whittaker (Wayne Bastrup) case since it's classified. Fischer (Emily Swallow) tells him she's applied for clearance for him, but Lisbon does of course have clearance since she's an agent. Patrick tries to read Fscher and Daniels's lips but Lisbon keeps interrupting him so he misses what was said. She likens the glass room to an aquarium. Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) says he's spoken with the Deputy Director and he's been approved for the conference. Whittaker was a cartographer for Cartesian and he was killed, apparently his heart gave way, which didn't really explain why he was running half naked to his office.
They look at the security footage to find he collapsed in the office. Lisbon, Patrick and Fischer go to the company and talk with Whittaker's brother, Curtis (Travis Schuldt). Patrick seems impressed with his bespoke suit and it's from London. Curtis doesn't know anything about his brother and is very aloof and Patrick picks up The Financial Record newspaper which particularly interests him. Yeah out of everything in the office this was the one thing that caught his eye! He takes the paper and goes somewhere to flesh it out, to a cafe that is. Oh this time we're in Houston, don't recall Houston looking like that when I was there, ha. Oh and note how a few more eps of the show are set in parks. SO was the Red John episode when Patrick was in the park feeding the pigeons. Anyway jumped ahead, never mind.
Patty finds letters circled in pen on different pages of the paper and puts them together. He figures out that it's some sort of a spy drop and calls Cho in to investigate. They get Wylie (Joe Adler) to check the cameras outside the office and follow Whittaker's trail back to when he got the paper. He came from the south, which leads to the park. Also Patrick find traces of fig and bird poop on the paper. Which he sniffs and offers Cho the same, which he refuses. Then calls out the fig tree in Latin and Cho asks him if he knows the Latin for bench. He thinks the person will come pick up the paper but since it's past lunchtime now, they'll have to come back tomorrow. Cho goes off to the gym.
Lisbon and Fischer wait to talk with the rest of the staff at the company and Lisbon is called by Ardiles (David Norona). Who was just brought back as nothing more than fodder to be killed. He asks her to meet him for dinner as he's flying in from Chicago on his jet and calls it a date. But it's purely professional. Patrick calls Lisbon and scares her and Fischer when they get into the SUV by already being inside. He tells them the case will be solved by tomorrow cos of his lead and Lisbon says she has a date. Patrick is a little perturbed, more than intrigued, especially since Lisbon changes the subject of 'date.' Though she's adamant it's not a date. Aww poor Patty, he does seem concerned but he doesn't show it. At least we couldn't read him. Hey I didn't 'ship' these two but now it comes down to it I think they do make a great couple. Maybe it took me Fischer to get into the picture before I changed my mind! Ha. Also he comments on Ardiles's shoes with tassells!
Ardiles tells Lisbon his "phone is hot" which Lisbon thinks amusing especially since he flew all this way to tell her that. But he thinks someone hacked into it and is listening in. He sounds paranoid but she's the only detective he trusts and she should be flattered at that. She recommends Rigsby and Van Pelt who run digital security and can check this out for him, they're in San Francisco. Since they work from home, it was dangerous to have him meet them there, instead of a public place, even though whoever is after him will be able to find out where they live anyway, just thought it was a little silly on their part. They tell him they'll check it out and Ardiles got a burner phone from some junky that he's using now. When he leaves it's obvious he's being watched and for a moment there, thought his car was going to explode.
Cute moments with Van Pelt and Rigsby and the baby too. As well us showing us a glimpse of married life for them. Rigsby calls and Van Pelt checks out the signal from Ardiles's phone since he appears to be missing. She asks if he's eating tacos from that dirty truck again and he can't lie to her, but he'll have salad at home. He enters the place where the signal is coming from and finds Ardiles dead, being tortured beforehand. He reaches for his gun but of course he doesn't wear one anymore. Van Pelt tries to call him as faces and names of CBI agents badges flash onto the computer screen and stops on all the old teams IDs. Van Pelt realizes someone's after them. So I'm guessing it's a remnant of Red John's story, someone close to him who is probably killing off the CBI members, especially since the entire CBI investigated his murders, but specifically Lisbon's agents. There's no other logical explanation for the killing and also it means it leaves us with the mystery of which of them will be next. Particularly as this looks like being the last season. Though we already know that Amanda and Owain were leaving the show anyway.
Getting back to Houston, Patrick and Lisbon sit on the bench waiting for the contact to show and they talk about her date. She goes for coffee and the paper is picked up. Patrick asks him the time feigning he didn't wind his watch and then accuses him of sealing his phone, since he plants it in his pocket. Then calls a policeman who does find the phone in his pocket after he rings it. Lisbon, too busy getting coffee all this time or even hear what was happening. Even after Patrick shouted for a policeman, she still didn't hear him. Hassan Zarif (Navid Negahban) is arrested and cooperates with the FBI saying he won't give up his buyer's name even if tortured. He doesn't know who the seller is but they've been doing this for a year and it's very lucrative, so he wouldn't kill him and neither would his buyers. Patrick comes up with a plan to catch the spy.
He waits outside for Curtis and whispers something in his ear which makes him punch Patrick on his arm. Cho arrests him for battery and Fischer tells him it was the only way to draw out the real spy, since they had to make someone else come under their radar publicly. So they wait for the spy to show up and Lisbon sits in the park wearing hat and shades, which Patrick says suits her, well the hat. Thought she looked a little like Audrey Hepburn, well she did! Who shows up wasn't a surprise, it's Avery (Erin Way) since she gave herself away at the beginning when she told Lisbon and Fischer she saw Whittaker on Sunday. SO effectively she was possibly the last one to see him alive. She did it cos of the money for her mother's medical bills and she's an addict herself. We get a flashback to how she saw him at his home, tasered him and drugged him, explaining his frantic state. Also cos he found out she was a traitor really and she just tried to convince him it was just a game, a scavenger hunt.
Yes it was Avery Schultz, with the funny name! To which Patrick responds "Gesundheit" when Lisbon mentions it. Ha. Also Patrick's comments on how Lisbon should have figured out who it was since she's a people reader and she has great people instincts, but she doesn't have great people skills, adding he's kidding. Like I said, she was obvious, the intrigue lay more in the agents being killed off, as we get a new arc to maintain our interest cos the FBI lot certainly aren't. Funny scene where Lisbon tells him he's not her boss, he always acted like the boss and he tells her he's not, they're equal partners. That's why he likes to keep Lisbon in the dark a lot, ha. Also Patty reversing her aquarium comment and saying she could feel like she's watching them instead.
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