A man leaves a restaurant and hurries to his car and is stopped for speeding. He tells the officer (Pancho Demmings) hey it's Gerald from season 1 of NCIS. He must do this and drives off as his car finally explodes. The police are at Lisbon's (Robin Tunney) scene and Bertram (Michael Gaston) arrives to be told about Partridge being killed. Patrick (Simon Baker) is already there and asks if anyone has water, surprised the paramedics don't carry water with them as a officer throws him a bottle. He wipes Lisbon's face clean of Partridge's blood. SO he's really dead then. Keep us guessing as to whether he was one of Red John's acolytes or just another Vic. Oh dear, Patrick hasn't been drinking his tea lately.
We're shown Lisbon return to work and she sees Bertram drawing a smiley face on the board, and Cho (Tim Kang) Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) all dead on the floor as is Patrick with smiley faces around them. Luckily it's just a nightmare. The other suspects are there all covered in the blood of their Vics. This was one reason why she asked Van Pelt to remove the surveillance, as she feared for her colleagues and friends. What was significant about her dream is that she only suspects, these three, maybe cos she's had more dealings with them, but she hasn't worked with Reede (Drew Powell) that much. Haffner (Reed Diamond) is also interested to know how close they're getting to Red John, again it can't really be for his Visualize clients, that would suggests RJ is connected to them, which he may be, but is a part of the cult. Leading to Bret Stiles again.
Also when Lisbon asks what happened to her cos she doesn't recall she questions why RJ would kill Partridge and leave her unharmed. As a doctor walks in asking if she's Carmen Lee, any significance? Maybe Patrick wasn't being entirely truthful with her as to what happened to her but he does say that RJ may have run out of time, or was just playing with them. Though she does call herself a fish, by saying, "at least he threw you back." Another possible reference to Moby Dick as we appear to be getting plenty of those now. She doesn't keep anything from him though and admits to Partridge mentioning, "tyger, tyger." Again the mystery deepens as to why since Patrick doesn't know why either. Lisbon brings up the possibilities of Red John being psychic as he knew about Eileen Turner and erased his happy memory. But that psychic ability is laid to rest when Patty discovers how he really knew of Eileen.
Problem with that was, or as I saw it, why would Sophie talk about Patrick and Eileen and if she didn't keep any physical files. Not detailed ones at least, or probably she kept them after they were transcribed. Sophie Miller was his psychiatrist after his family was killed and appeared in Red Brick and Ivy. Bertram asks Patrick what she was doing there with Partridge, why not ask Lisbon, see he probably he didn't go see her in hospital, She had visitors as shown by the flowers in the room. Patrick says he doesn't know but Bertram again stresses he has to be there when Red John is arrested/found/caught. Again why. Did it have something to do with the meeting he had with McAllister (Xander Berkeley) and Reede and Reede stressing Bertram has to find out everything Patrick knows. Clearly they're up to something which may or may not involve drugs or RJ.
Titus, the Vic (David H Lawrence XVII) was hiring pros and they can look through his computer. As Cho tells Lisbon who is visited by Haffner. She gets nervous around him and tells him Red John didn't lay a hand on her, he senses she's nervous cos of him. Asking about RJ since he has Visualize clients who care, he's got a new suit and his job is treating him well. Haffner whistles when he leaves her saying, "one of these days we'll have our time together." SO what was that meant to mean? Especially as we know he has a thing for her, but also he might just have had 'his time' with her. He whistled The Muffin Man didn't he, sounded like it. Rigsby questions Carol Matthews (Jessica Blank) the hooker as Patrick called her. She knew him four months and he would role play as a Samurai.
Lisbon checks out and Van Pelt tells her there's no files on Titus's harddrive, it's been wiped. Lisbon wants the surveillance on the RJ suspects to be removed. Patrick pays a visit to Sophie's house and finds a note on the door, "dinner's in the oven" with a smiley. He finds her head in the oven and is genuinely shocked to see her like that. Why did Patty ask Lisbon who Sophie Miller is since she's met her already? He also found her recorder in her drawer. Patrick tells Lisbon about Sophie and she tells Van Pelt. The suspects, three of them are right here in the building and Lisbon calls Patrick. Last time he saw Sophie was five years ago.
Patrick gatecrashes their meeting, Bertram, Reede Smith and Sheriff Tom McAllister eager to tell Bertram on a new Red John development. Bertram tells him it's a private meeting, Patrick: "how was I to know, the door was closed." He tells everyone about RJ anyway they're all law enforcement. He just killed his doctor and Bertram wants to talk alone. He chopped her head off, Sheriff didn't sound or look too convinced with his "Dear God." RJ's getting desperate and crazy and doesn't realize he made a mistake. He'd say but he feels this room is bugged! Reede asks what mistake and then how much Patrick knows. It's Bertram's job to find out how much he really knows. What's it to them?
Patrick deduces Red John killed Sophie cos she could ID him so he needed to meet her and talk to her. Being curious about someone close to him and was planning this for a while. He needed to see her in person, had to use subterfuge to see her. She'd have a file on him. He probably couldn't hide everything from her. Lisbon sends Rigsby to find the file, keep it quiet. Turn off his phone and GPS cos anyone could be watching. SO how come Lisbon's office is safe, it could also be bugged. Also noticed how Lisbon didn't leave the office when she returned to work and stayed firmly inside. Maybe she's a little weary of going out there, but did manage to have a conversation with Patrick in the park outside. She wan't giving any of her fear away if she has any.
Cho sees Aaron Kalinoski (James Urbaniak) who had a lawsuit against Titus. He worked on the drone programme but Titus told him about a fault. He wasn't a suspect but his partners were. Only Aaron kind of gives away what happened when he remarks if a Samurai killed him? You know honourable death and all that. Redbird had a fault and killed some civillians in Afghanistan. They covered it up, Kris (Paula Marshall) and Elliott (Ivan Brogger). Modern Aerodynamics were cleared as Cho's former buddy in the Pentagon tells him now. Each of the employees had an alibi that night. Titus went to eat and it lasted for three hours. Van Pelt just found some numbers on the computer. Patrick asks what he ate for dinner, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, burgers, Macaroni cheese, apple pie and ice cream. Patrick knows who did it, it's right on the board. He wants to wrap this up and move "onto other matters." Wink, wink, ha.
Patrick tells them neither one killed Titus since he killed himself as he committed sabuko as he was a Samurai. He dishonoured himself when they lied about the drone going wrong. His evidence being his dinner, it was all comfort food. Lisbon tells Kris he confessed to her cos he was in love with her, which is what I said. He left a suicide note and she wiped his computer clean. She says he would ruin her and she didn't talk him out of it, telling him he "should do whatever brings you peace." They can't prove anything about the suicide but can about the cover-up. Kalinoski can prove their were flaws in the design. Kris admits to wiping the disc clean. Elliott is getting a deal.
Rigsby found a list with names of new clients, Ernest Mathewson, Mitchell Washburn, J Roth meaning rote, as that's red from German. She saw him five and a half months ago. There's no file. Patrick has one up on Red John cos she used to dictate her notes and have them transcribed by a service. She couldn't type and didn't learn. They listen to her notes: Severe acrophobia, middle aged in good health, no living family, relies on friends for emotional support, excellent whistler, damaged and narcissistic personalty, not deals easily with conflict and adversity, what he said didn't match, deceptive and dark in his emotional make-up, his phobia issues are real." She looked forward to more sessions. As this plays we get to see the suspects again. The remaining 6.
Four suspects were shown this ep and Bertram features prominently especially as they also seems to be Cho and Rigsby's suspect, well Rigsby's first and Cho agrees with him which kind of surprises Rigsby. Lisbon gave herself away by acting that way with Haffner so obviously he suspected something was up or already knew. He does have the hots for her, ha. But that was a tender moment between Patty and Lisbon in the hospital for shippers. Okay I'm not one of them. So focusing on the matter in hand, it's clear those three know something that Patrick doesn't, having their little cosy meeting. Maybe Patrick should bug his office, or was that a subtle hint that perhaps he has done exactly this as past experience shows.
We're also given another tie line here with Patrick telling the three in Bertram's office that Red John has killed his second Vic within two days so he's covering his tracks, knows the net is closing in on him. So I used a fishing reference too, Ha. Lisbon didn't tell him about her dream.
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