Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) spend time together and she gets on well with his son, Ben. Now the department no longer has a taboo on getting friendly with fellow agents and this includes marrying them too. As this episode revolves around a murder at an intended wedding in Napa. Not only timely since Rigsby pops the question but also cos it gives Patrick (Simon Baker) a chance to dig deeper into Sheriff McAllister (Xander Berkeley) possibly being Red John. Lisbon (Robin Tunney) arrives at work to find Patrick already there and getting a case over the wire about a murder at some wedding. She doesn't think it's their case but he insists they take it.
Patrick doesn't give much feedback on the DB, he's busy feeding the ducks muffins in the pond and McAllister asks what brings them here. Patrick replies he has a feeling there's more to this case and he asks McAllister for the lowdown on the case. Patrick thinks the DB was a driver of some sort cos of the treads on his shoes and probably wanted to be a race car driver. He has the number 156. McAllister believes he's some delivery driver, possibly pizza since there's a whiff of oregano in the air. Patrick calling that a "leap."
The family and guests are at a wine tasting which Patrick and Lisbon also attend and find that the DB Larry (Gary Kraus) was the bride's uncle. No one wanted to see him hurt and he was harmless. Immediately it strikes you that although the family is dysfunctional none of them would kill Larry. So it had to be an outsider, well that's my take. Patty indulges in a little wine tasting of his own in his pursuit of RJ.
At the church a hammer is spotted on top of a ladder and Lisbon asks McAllister to get it down, but he says he's not going up there cos of his tipped boots. Thus they think he could be RJ as he's agoraphobic. That was nothing to go on though. Rigsby takes the hammer and says it's not blood. Rigsby also asking Cho (Tim Kang) about marrying Van Pelt and Cho asking if he "knocked her up too" cos he was going to marry his "baby mama." Ha, straight faced Cho coming up with that line was hilarious showing he knows Rigsby so well.
So Lisbon and Cho interrogate the wedding party, they don't like each other and have plenty they resent in each others families but they wouldn't resort to murder. Such as the groom, Roberto's (Marcus Coloma) sister, Rose (Lexi Lawson) saying Stacey (Erica Piccininni) always puts Roberto down and Stacey saying she doesn't like that she paid for her bridesmaids dress. Then Stacey's (Christine Dunford) mother kissing Roberto's father (J Rene Pena) in a drunken stupor and spending the night in the honeymoon suite, alone though, cos she paid for it. Also the Stacey's father (Casey Biggs) is just keen on making more money and has brought an expensive Bible from which he was going to do a reading. It's insured and cost him over a million. Patrick gets the notion the murder must have had something to do with the bible and so much for Stacey calling off the wedding, he calls Van Pelt and convinces her to ensure the wedding goes ahead, as she's got "life experience." Yes very subtle Patty, experience as in she was engaged to O'Laughlin. Also Charlie (Wesley A Ramsey) is the only one who actually wants the wedding to go ahead saying he's come all the way from Florida, there my suspect from that line! On cynical me! Ha.
Van Pelt tells Stacey about her own dreams and the fairtytale wedding she's always wanted, as well as keeping her dress cos if she destroyed it then she'd destroy all the hope that went along with it. Rigsby listens to this and with Van Pelt almost in tears he makes up his mind. Patrick says he'll officiate the wedding since he has a mail order registry certificate to do this but didn't think he'd use it when Lisbon asks him. He says he can marry her off in a minute if he wants to, as CBI Ron passes them both! Ha. SO some may read that as Patty saying he'd marry her himself in a minute!
Patrick and Lisbon ponder why Larry was dumped in the pond when it's not a great place and Stacey's mother mentions they heard a splash around midnight. The Bella Vista is round the back of the chapel and Patrick asks why the sheriff doesn't come closer and tell them what they're looking at. Again they think their suspicions are confirmed when he doesn't come closer cos of the steep drop, which they say would be a good place to drop the DB. McAllister once again creeps up on Patty when he calls him to say he's going to reveal the murderer at the wedding and needs his men around. McAllister was following Patty all along.
So wedding over, they need a distraction and Rigsby says he'll take care of that, this being his proposal to Van Pelt who accepts of course, did anyone think she wouldn't! Cue Charlie leaving to steal the bible and is caught by Lisbon and Patrick. He was caught by Larry doing the same after the rehearsal and he killed him. This time he takes Patrick hostage cos he doesn't get out of the way, not normal behaviour for him cos usually he wouldn't be so close to the suspect/killer. He's taken to the top of the roof and made to walk along it, until up pops McAllister on the ladder and saves Patrick. There goes his agoraphobic RJ theory out the window, or roof. He hates pigeons though.
Rigsby and Van Pelt get married at once and well that was the shortest engagement in history! Patrick watches from outside the door, but doesn't actually attend. They ride away on a horse and carriage to their hotel. Well that was part of her fairytale wedding, though she says she wanted the real thing than a fairytale!
SO does this cross McAllister off the Red John suspect list, or is there more that we don't know about him, aside from the fact why he was with Bertram and Reede Smith last ep. If he's not RJ, then that leaves five suspects on the list still. But he shows he still has a phobia none the less even if it's not heights, it's birds and pigeons at that. Recall the presence of pigeons at Brett Partridge's CS. Partridge too had the name of a bird, but that's neither here nor there; just an observation. Again McAllister suspected Patrick of having another agenda with Patrick answering he gives off mixed signals. But they did get the chance to talk about hunting and blood lust which McAllister admits you must have, as well as a strong stomach for all that skinning flesh. Have to say aside from Van Pelt and Rigsby tying the knot, I didn't find this episode too interesting, a bit routine. Aside from Patrick's reaction to the wedding was a bonus, but his own still has bittersweet memories for him, no doubt.
Cho smiled and everyone's going on about Patrick touching Lisbons' hair after he helped her put on her jacket and how that spells intimacy between them. Let's hope the happy couple, Van Pelt and Rigsby do get a happy ending and this doesn't lead to some other unforeseen trouble between them, such as RJ getting in the way to mar the happy proceedings!
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