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Thursday 12 February 2015

The Mentalist 7.1 "Nothing But Blue Skies" Review

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A bikey is shot as he approaches a man and tells him that he knows him, before being finished off for good.  Patrick (Simon Baker) brings Lisbon (Robin Tunney) coffee and she's been on leave. Spending time together the lovebirds, no doubt! She's been clearing stuff from her house and Patrick says he'll store it for her in the garage.  She thinks she'll have to get him a key to her place.  He notices a vintage toy car in one of the boxes, which her grandfather gave her for graduation.  She doesn't want anyone to know they're together at least for a while and she's called by Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) to investigate that case.  She doesn't know where Patrick is she tells him.  He then calls Patrick. An agent Ken Spackman (Tim Griffin) from the FBI also is at the office as he's investigating the murder of Geist who was an undercover FBI agent working to find out the whereabouts of some stolen guns. They're going to have to work with  ATF too.  Patrick makes a r mark about Spackman being the killer even, cos he looks the type which doesn't go down too well.

Abbot also tells them of a new trainee agent from Quantico Michelle Vega (Josie Loren) and she's going to be Fisher's replacement, who transferred to Seattle cos her mother's unwell.  Wylie (Jason Adler) gives Lisbon a card that Fisher left for her which wishes her luck and thanks for helping her out.  As they investigate where Geist was undercover at the bowling alley, Patrick is irritated by Spackman and the security guard tells Cho (Tim Kang) he doesn't recognize his authority as a Federal agent as the Federal government is illegal.  Cho tells him he knows.  He saw Geist leave and that was all.  The boot cleaner is nervous as Spackman questions him and Tish (Karina Logue) the bartender tells them she didn't see Geist after he left.  Patrick interrupts Spackman and tells him that the man's nervous cos he's hiding prescription drugs.  Then says there's an easy way of finding out if they knew Geist was with the FBI.  But not before he has another spat with Lisbon over how they were meant to be top a team getting results, Patrick saying there was no need to talk to her like that, several times over.  He then makes faces mimicking Spackman.

Patrick then mentions microexpressions, we all know what those are from Lie To Me and tells them they'll react differently when they find out he was FBI, only Tish reacts to this and runs away.  They give chase and lose her.  Back at the office Spackman has words with Abbot about how they handled the case and about Patrick when Vega walks in.  Patrick calls her as being in the military but she denies it, he wants to know why she's lying to him already.  Patrick checks out Geist's apartment and Abbot tells him Pike (Pedro Pascal) is in the building, so if they are an 'item' which Abbot knows they are, he just wanted to warn him.

At Geist's apartment Patrick notices he sleeps on a mattress on the floor and has a night light.  He calls Vega and finds out she was at West Point but left cos her father was ill and died.  She didn't want to return to that.  He asks her for Geist's Psych Eval from Quantico.   Tish has been spotted and Vega wants to go with Cho to observe.  They confront Tish but she does a runner again and Vega stops her.  Tish and he rlaywer deny she knows naythign baout guns or Grists's killing.  Patrick comes up with a plan and they take Tish back to the bowling alley, after he's read Geist's file, which shows he was witness to a kidnapping when he was younger, a boy named Jason Kellogg was kidnapped when he was staying at his house.  He heard the kidnapper say something to one of the kidnappers but he couldn't do anything to help.  The ransom was paid but he was killed.

With the help of Patty's hammer which he says will come in handy as they will nail two cases, excusing the pun.  At the bowling alley he uses Tish's hands to guide him to where the guns are located and he finds them under the seat.  Cho takes her out and Patrick mentions the other killing, that of Geist.  One of them killed him cos he was the kidnapper from that case.  Cho fires shots as if Tish did it and they all need to hide in back.  The owner, Mason (Bryan Rassmussen) goes for the gun from the trophy case, the gun that he killed Geist with and was the original gun from the kidnapping, so why was he keeping it then.  He killed the other kidnapper so he could keep the money but he doesn't admit to doing that.

They still need to find the guns, since they only planted them at the bowling alley and Patrick tells Tish she'll help him do that when he uses the map and his hands over it, when he gets to a part of the map where the guns could be, she looks down at the map.  She agrees to a deal and gives up the names and locations of those involved.  Patrick talks with Pike as he's leaving a note for Lisbon and asks him if he's got any future plans for her.  He hasn't thought that far ahead cos Pike was going to offer her a home, family if she wanted it.  Lisbon turns up and they talk about how she's doing. Lisbon asks Patrick what he said to him and he tells her, also saying he thinks they're both happy with here they are for now.  He's got her a surprise, he's hired  a bigger version of the vintage car and they go for a drive.

I have to say this was off to a slow start with the final season and this ep wasn't as good as the ones before.  So don't let the title fool you, especially since Lisbon turns up at the CS and is greeted by Cho who asks her if she's going to Washington and getting married and she says she's not.  Then Patrick turns up and who was he trying to fool, cos Abbot didn't fall for them not being together, but don't see why Cho missed it or did he.   Patrick also leaves Lisbon an Origami crane in her pocket, or was it a swan? Ha. There's something about Simon's hair which doesn't suit him when it's short.  Will it grow back in time for the season finale?  ha.  Don't get me wrong, it's more short, back and sides don't look good on him. Also since it was the last season, he could've at least gone back to his old clothes, I mean that shirt and those socks, Lisbon's declared her feelings for him, he doesn't need them anymore!

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