This ep of the show was a little different in that this time round Patrick (Simon Baker) stumbles across a crime, literally, whilst out for tacos, he bumps into a man and knocks over his shopping. He sees duct tape and other things and reckons that a girl' been abducted. Following him back to his place, he calls Lisbon (Robin Tunney) on her date after she's been watching East of Eden with Pike (Pedro Pascal) and she doesn't answer his call the first time. It was fate Lisbon, you shoulda picked up the first time! She then picks up the second time and he says a crime's being committed and a girl is in there. Patrick tells her he could have handled him herself but wanted her here. Yeah Right Patty since when do you subdue suspects, ha. He usually antagonizes them and takes a back seat. Which reminds me he hasn't been attacked by a suspect in a while! Oh and Lisbon tells Pike she's thinking about the move to DC but she's always been independent and so hasn't decided yet!
After the girl dies and Lisbon has to tell Patrick to let it go cos she's gone. He knows but it's hard for him. This ep here didn't have the music in the opening credits. Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) interviews the suspect, Thaddeus (Nick Van Esmarch) who says he didn't kill her but found her thrown out like garbage. That's what he does, he finds things and picks them up. He can't recall where he found her dumped somewhere cos he was drunk but he was helping her and they stopped him that's why she died. Patrick believes him and helps him to recall everything. First by removing his handcuffs and then by giving him some beer. He recalls everything and leads them to the location with Wylie (Joe Adler) tracking what he says.
Pike brings Lisbon Thai from her fave place but she can't have any cos Patrick interrupts them and tells her they found the location. Also asking if that's from her fave Thai place, see he knows her so well!! He's driving. Abbott tells her the office scuttlebutt is she's leaving for DC as Pike's been offered a job there. She's thinking about it but he tells her to tell Patrick cos he doesn't know. She claims he's a psychic so he knows but Abbot adds he's a "fake psychic." Lisbon looked worried when she entered the lift. But Lisbon's known Patty for years what makes her think he would know what she's thinking and about this move. Though gotta say, Patrick is a little sly, can't tell what he's thinking most of the time, so maybe he does know and is waiting for her to bring it up instead of him. Surprised Cho (Tim Kang) didn't know either if it's office gossip.
In the RV she doesn't say anything an neither does he, whilst Cho relaxes reading. At the scene they determine she would have had to have walked to the bar since she had dirty shoes and mud. Walking back they come to a house and find beds inside. Patrick leaves them to it and hears a noise coming from the ground outside. They move the truck and reveal another girl. At the hospital Daniela (Zuleyka Silver) tells them like the first Vic, she was lured under the pretext of getting a modelling job overseas by someone named Jesse and she didn't hear the phrase "bow and arrow" like the first Vic. Her sister is also missing and they find they've stumbled onto a smuggling ring.
The girls were transported in a truck, at least twenty of them cos that's how much different DNA was found on the water bottles and most likely they are heading to Mexico. Abbott says by the time they get warrants they could be long gone. Patrick thinks otherwise and thinks they headed north first to pick up more girls and them headed to Laredo and then Mexico. He puts out a call on the CB to warn people of roadblocks set by the police and that way they make the smugglers believe there really is a roadblock. Patrick, Lisbon put out a call over the radio but Cho seems to be more effective and really into his CB radio calls since he gets a response.
Arriving at a truck stop, Lisbon wonders if all the people there are avoiding the police. He says only the ones who have something to hide. Patrick notices a woman next to a man and accidentally bumps her when he picks up a packet. He says they're together but not really friendly in that he didn't say anything when he bumped her. They leave and Lisbon shoots the man. The woman is arrested and was told to help them out cos she also needed the money. Not realizing what they were doing they threatened to tell the police if she talked. She drove them into Mexico with a hula girl model on the dashboard, which alerted the policeman at the border to let her through. She also says Ramon (Joey Gaytan) was scared but not of the police, but whoever he was working for. There was another truck so most likely Daniela's sister was in that one.
Patrick comes up with a plan to catch the men, the Qasimi brothers, Ray (Yan Feldman) and Ari (Hari Dhillon) who smuggle girls into the Middle East and sell them off as they have connections there. Patrick and Abbott drive into Mexico and offer them a deal. Abbott isn't happy with it but Patrick won't swap his Stetson hat with him. Patrick even talking the local lingo, ha. Okay he had a Texan accent. He's a businessman and he makes a deal with them for the cargo, i.e the girls and they have to pick them up. Once they arrive at the truck's location, they're arrested. But they refuse to speak since they'll be dead men now.
A call comes in fro the San Diego police stating that Jesse has been found dead but they don't know who killed him. Cho is despondent cos it means that they haven't found her sister and probably won't. A man calls another, the ring leader, Ridley (Titus Welliver) telling him Jesse has been taken care of, which means this story will be continued at some point. Meaning surely Lisbon can't leave now.
Lisbon promises to find Daniela's sister and Patrick says now that she's promised she'll have to find her. Patrick sees Pike waiting for Lisbon when he asks if she wants a ride. She tells him about DC and it looked like Patrick already knew for a second, but the agony in Lisbon's face was like she wanted him to tell her not to go. It was that apparent. Oh Patty what are you waiting for. More like, writers what are you waiting for, let him tell her!!
That hospital set looked suspiciously like the one that always feature, funny since they're meant to be in Texas now!
Oh man, so much heartbreak and in this ep. Not so much as in the storyline which was sad but also in terms of Patrick and watching another woman die right before his eyes. He's been through that so many times now, what with finding his own family murdered, then there was Lorelei, as well as Kira in The Red Tattoo, who gave him the clue about Red John and his tattoo. This one was just as emotional for him as he didn't want to let her go and Lisbon was right there with him, all the way. I think that when Lisbon told him about Pike wanting her to go to DC with him and Patrick asking if this was the real thing for her, well not in so many words, was torture for him. He wanted her here to begin with and now he finds that she might be leaving him, was too much to take in. Also feel Lisbon felt the same way and was really aware how she must be hurting him. Especially when Patrick told her 'congratulations' and she replied that's all he can say. Hey they're not engaged yet and she's not moving yet, so I ask the same, that's all they had Patty say!!
Pike is a bit of a loose end in terms of just being there every now and then to provide that romantic interest for Lisbon and maybe make Patrick jealous. Perhaps he should turn out to be a bad guy but that'd be too easy. Can the great Patrick ever get jealous and fight for the woman he so obviously has feelings for? I mean Patty is still wearing the socks Lisbon gave him!
Oh woe is me! The agony for us fans too, not only in terms of wanting to know what happens between Patty and Lisbon, but also cos CBS still haven't renewed the show yet at time of writing. Come on, we need another season!! Tie up all lose ends and prepare us fans for the end!! Otherwise there's nos justice or fairness for us fans who have stuck with the show for so long and how much these characters have come to mean to us! Really enjoying the run of eps where Lisbon, Patrick and Cho get to work together and Patrick also seems to work well with Abbott too.
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