Lisbon (Robin Tunney) and Patrick (Simon Baker) are called to a CS by Reede Smith (Drew Powell) and find the DB is Benjamin Marks and Patrick remarks on how Lisbon gets nervous whenever she's around a Red John suspect. Patrick tortured Marks in 4.23 Red Rover, Red Rover and Smith suspects Patrick of finishing the job after all he did torture him to make him confess. He asks Patrick what he can tell from the DB who has had his face burnt and has been tortured. Patrick notices the sticky substance on his leg which is sap and a pine needle in his shoe, so it's from a pine tree. He also tells Smith that he didn't kill him cos he would have done it the first time round. Besides Patrick isn't a killer as he later tells Kirkland (Kevin Corrigan).
Patrick goes back to his attic with Lisbon in tow and tells her he didn't kill him but he's partly responsible for getting him killed since he was on his list of fake RJ suspects. Lisbon wants the other names so they can offer them police protection. Which Patrick reluctantly gives her since they're not exactly innocent Vics. He also tells her that he's being watched by the FBI for a while and he's suspected it. She calls Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) to come into work and then hands them out the names of the suspects. She takes Richard Haibach (William Mapother) who is a paedophile and hides his secret in his basement. He rejects the police protection. Haibach was in the episode Blinking Red Light with Panzer, whom Van Pelt mentions.
Meanwhile Van Pelt tells Patrick that Madeleine Hightower's (Aunjanue Ellis) aunt told her about how she and the children were killed whilst on vacation. They drowned. Patrick pays his respect to her and takes flowers, but it's apparent that Madeleine is not dead. He leaves a message for her on the condolences website which he gets Aunt Ruby (Sloan Robinson) to type and obviously it's a message for her to meet him. SO when did they put this secret message together.
Whilst looking out for another fake suspect Rigsby tells Cho (Tim Kang) that they haven't "done it yet" and he's surprised. Apparently they were both tired and had to much to drink and passed out in the hotel, also they had work the next day. Cho tells him he saw on the Internet that women lose interest after getting married. Cue another chase with Cho and Rigsby tackles the suspect into the pool.
Smith calls Robert Kirkland and tells him he has been ordered his superior to fill him in on the case and they meet. Always had my suspicions of Smith though I didn't place him high up on my list, I will now, especially since they're showing him a lot now and he's particularly creepy. Kirkland was never my on my list of suspects. True he had a different agenda which included getting his hands on RJ too, but he was never going to be Red John. They meet and Kirkland has brought three different types of coffee cos he likes to be prepared. Though I have to say at this point in time he wasn't really prepared and was rather careless. He tells Smith about how the police, and other agencies are involved in dirty crimes, covering for each other and uses "Tyger, Tyger" on him and he claims he doesn't know what that is. Kirkland wants lower level agents to come into the investigation as the higher ups are dirty. Smith passes the test when he says that, but Smith didn't sound or look convincing to him. He was putting on an act, that much was obvious.
What Kirkland doesn't know was that Smith was at that meeting with Bertram and McAllister and he has a pretty fair idea of what Patrick must be up to especially when he told Bertram about his news, with Smith questioning what Patrick meant and it was Bertram's responsibility to find out what Patty knows. SO he already knows about the dirty business and presumably they must have been talking about that. Also it struck me as odd that he would call Lisbon and Patrick down in the investigation. Someone breaks into Haibach's house and kidnaps him, from the shoes it had to be Kirkland and Patrick isn't the least bit upset at this piece of news. He calls Lisbon to give her the news about Madeleine but doesn't tell her where he's going. Madeleine shows up and knows she's in danger and Patrick tells her he will get Red John and she can come out of hiding. He asks her about being under investigation from the FBI and how Minnelli struck an agreement with Alexa Schultz to have Patrick watched. That was nine years ago, which appears to be pretty much when Patrick become part of the team after his family was murdered. She adds he was suspected of being Red John. Also he didn't hear this from her. So Patrick was suspected of being RJ wonder if this is why Minelli wanted him to consult for them and why he agreed to let Schultz in on it too.
Patrick meets with Kirkland and tells him someone broke into his attic and stole his list of suspects, i.e. his men. Kirkland tortures Haibach but he doesn't say he's Red John. Patrick is forced to go with Kirkland and he ties him up wanting to know the names on the real list. Patrick realizes he's not Red John but Kirkland is after him too. He does have a personal agenda and threatens to torture Patrick. Lisbon can't get hold of Patrick cos Kirkland took his battery from his phone and Madeleine calls her telling her she can't get hold of Patrick and thinks she may have put him in danger. Lisbon has Van Pelt find out if she can find any property owned by Kirkland which is near to pines and she finds one cabin in the name of Michael Kirkland. Who as Kirkland tells us was his brother. Their father was a drunk and beat them all, their mother killed herself and Michael wasn't as strong as him so he couldn't leave. He got in with Red John and believes he was responsible for his brother's death as he wasn't found. Well that fits perfectly the mould of RJ as he goes after helpless Vics and their siblings. A repeat of Lorelei's story with her sister and of course that didn't end well. Thus it's apparent this will end the same way too. You know foreshadowing and all that as far as RJ killing everyone off is concerned.
Patrick gives him a name, "Don Thurmy" as in 'don't hurt me' after Kirkland cuts off Haibach's thumb. Just as Patrick is about to get his dose of torture and we know how he hates being hurt, Lisbon and Madeleine save the day with Madeleine's big gun, ha. Madeleine tells him to leave her alone now and he kisses her cheek. Smith turns up and say they'll let county take care of him first and then deal with him at Federal level but he now knows Patrick wasn't involved and shakes Patrick's hand again! Patrick talks to Kirkland but he can't tell him anything right now, he should come see him. Again it's apparent Kirkland won't be around for much longer and that's why Patrick should have had that conversation right now. I'm also sure Kirkland would have known his fate too. Patrick assures him he will pursue this and kill Red John. He deserves nothing less.
Sure enough Smith arrives when he's being transported in the van and tells him there's a safe place he can go. As well as telling him he's already known of the 'Tyger' conspiracy and is a part of it. Kirkland reluctantly gets out and tells him to do it here, but he wants him to run, shooting him seven times in the back, was there a reason for seven shots! You despicable man Smith! This is obviously meant to throw us off the RJ scent and think he killed Kirkland to save his own skin cos of the dirty police business or he really is Red John now shown taking care of loose ends. Still seems a bit doubtful though. Which leads us to Bertram and he was the first one who coined the "tyger, tyger" phrase after RJ.
Patrick mentions they have five suspects left so it's within the ballpark and manageable which means he has crossed off Kirkland and Partridge from the list but McAllister is still on his list. I have to say Smith is fast becoming my number 1 suspect, but he isn't intelligent enough to be Red John, at least it doesn't seem that way. Then appearances can be deceptive.
Van Pelt gets a room for her and Rigsby and dresses in her undies and coat at the office. However the janitor interrupts them in the lift! Oh so much awaits Patrick in the next episode and perhaps the news of Kirkland's death will hit him hard. But in true Patrick form he will get to the bottom of this and find out what else Kirkland knew. It would have been great if we could have found out too but then that'd be giving away too much too quickly.
Patty seemed pleased Lisbon didn't have a case and was packing her off for a mani/pedi and was hoping she'd go for the massage. Oh Patty so personal, ha. He was smiling an awful lot this episode even if his fake list will lead to people being killed, criminals at that, as Lisbon tells the team, they have to protect ethically and morally, it's what they do. But not what Patrick does. Oh he will get RJ, maybe even kill him but with a song in his heart. At least we got to hear that Patrick was suspected as Red John as a lot of us did so too earlier on, well yes I did!
As for Tiger or tyger, Partridge also said it to Lisbon before he died and so this must have been a clue as to his killer and now we know what that phrase entails it's meant to narrow down our suspects. Seems Madeleine doesn't know about the tyger conspiracy as I call it, but what about Luthor Wainwright, was he part of it too.
Hey just noticed after the RJ reveal in ep 8, the ep titles no longer contain red or variations of the red theme! Must be a good sign then! Hopefully we won't get spoilers cos we've still got another 4 eps to go!!
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