It's a gut punch everytime I see this episode and Charlotte delivers this line. I remember watching it for the first time when it aired, and by then we're all really invested in Jane's pursuit of Red John. Every week cheering him on so he can catch the guy who killed his family. Then his "daughter" shows up with the brutal truth:

"Hate to be the one to break this to you, dad, but there's nothing that you can do for us. We don't give a damn what happens to Red John. I mean, we're dead. Gone."

The look on Jane's face is just heartbreaking

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I'm concerned about something, a family member asked me about the mentalist and I highly praised it so they decided to watch it. What I didn't expect is how invested they seem to be in trying to figure out who red john is and keep sending me their theories and pictures of characters, and I can't help but feel like they'll be very disappointed.. I love this show but that reveal did come out of nowhere tbh, so how could I console them when the time comes? Or defend my recommendation :')

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and the love they put into that little gesture. Sometimes the smallest gift from the right person can mean more than the most expensive thing in the world. Because in the end, we don’t remember the price, we remember how loved we felt.

I know a lot of appreciation goes in for Simon Baker and Robin Tunney but I felt Tim Kang who played Kimball Cho totally raised the bar. He was amazing in CBI but was even better in FBI. The fact that they didn't show too much of his personal life kept some sort of mystery about him - which Tim exploited to the max in his portrayal of Cho.

I wish I were even 1% as cool as Cho.

Essendo che la serie è molto datata, non ho trovato nulla online a livello di gadget, quindi avendo una stampante 3d mi sono messo alla ricerca di un file e ho trovato questo simpatico portachiavi. Dipinto a mano con base nera. Vi piace?

So uh wow the “psychic” girl was a complete ass in this episode and I’m REALLY hoping red John just killed her and she isn’t working with him like the secretary was, the fact that red John’s first on screen appearance was saving Jane was very shocking I love the design of the disguise I think I liked season one’s ending a bit more though, do to how much closer to catching red John it felt and having Jane be the one to kill his best lead of catching him but yeah this episode was great.

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It's like Jane is a more docile and less of a jerk compared to House but still there's SO many similarities between them 😭😭 I wish there was a crossover episode between the two shows at some point. It would've been EPIC lmao.

Jane could have filtered his list more by including the description of Red John from Rosalind Harker. She said he was:

• under six feet tall
• not muscular but not soft
• short straight hair
• gentle voice
• rough strong hands
• smelled of pine and nails and earth

Certainly Reede Smith could have been excluded. His body is a bit soft.

I doubt Brett Partridge had rough strong hands.

I doubt Bertram or Stiles smelled like pine or earth.

Jane should have used this and reduced the list to: McAllister, Haffner, or Kirkland.

Update -

Soft straight hair should have excluded Bertram.

That left McAllister and Kirkland. Both did smell like pine and earth. McAllister spent his days in the Napa woods. Kirkland had that house in the woods as well.

Hey. So I just finished final episode of mentalist. If I am speaking from heart, show has some flaws. From S1-S6 show is kinda repetitive especially in CBI with murder cases and some would say red Jhon reveal wasn't the greatest. BUT, the final episode just touches your heart. Patrick and Lisbon finally getting married is maybe the best things I ever saw. The final scene is so touchy. Van pelt, Rigsby, FBI unit it's so emotional.(HM to JJ Laroche wished he was there). And finding out Lisbon is pregnant and seeing happiness in Jane's eyes knowing he will be dad again is just amazing. I feel so fucking proud and happy for them. Although everything is fiction and not real, writers really did an amazing job connecting characters with an audience. Overall it's an amazing show with perfect ending and I am really glad that I watched it. This is my opinion would like to hear yours in comments.

Hey everyone,

October is starting in about a month, so: Would anyone here be interested in a daily Inktober challenge based on the group's theme? And would anyone like to help me run it?

I or others who want to help would suggest a daily task or theme for which you can create something. That means you could draw, write, compose music, sew, knit, take photos, craft, build things, or do whatever else comes to mind.

Inktober is an annual challenge launched in 2009 by American artist Jake Parker. The idea behind it is to create an ink drawing every day throughout October. There is an official list of 31 prompts—one for each day of the month to guide participants. The goal of Inktober is to improve drawing skills and develop a regular drawing routine.

Although the focus was originally on ink drawings, many artists today use various materials and digital media to take part in the challenge. The hashtag #Inktober is used on social media to share artwork and connect the community. Inktober has since become a global phenomenon, inspiring countless artists worldwide to take on the challenge.

Hi people

I'm currently on s3e22 and one thing is taunting me a lot, how do people remember episodes and characters across the series like sometimes when a character from previous episodes comes in another episode i genuinely get confused like donny culpepper, when I saw him in the episode where jane makes a deal with him for stealing laroche list of his investigation and I genuinely forgot who was he and searched and he was guy from the s2 where jewel theft happens,but instantly remembered mashburn in the fake blast episode in s3.

How people remember lots and lots of episodes and their characters,synopsis and how jane cracks it , like even on watching some episodes synopsis on mentalist wiki or abstract compilation from chatgpt sometimes it's really tough to remember unlike some episodes like crimson casanova, like it was a good episode and was easily rememberable but many episodes just gets lost from my mind and for some when I read synopsis I get remembered and killer motive but some i can't , how to track the episodes for info like who was victim,killer, relation between them, motive and main characters of that episode, sometimes I just feel irritated for not remembering. I started the series month ago and ik I'm slower than many in this sub but im a slow watcher.

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after the first season, does the character development happen and do we find out more about the characters and their lives or is it just solving crime season to season? idk if i should continue it, in the first season and half of the 2nd season nothing rlly happens with characters and their relationships...
i really like the actors and their personalities they have potential

So became obsessed with Simon Baker after mentalist and watched Scarpetta . I know this is the mentalist group and I absolutely loved hin in it but …scarpetta ? Omg was it even the same person ?

I'm doing my first rewatch of the series and got to the point when Bob Kirkland kills Jason Lennon in S5E18 Behind the Red Curtain. All of his behaviour until the point has been consistent with him hunting Red John to avenge the murder of his twin brother. But I don't understand why he would kill Jason Lennon. 

My understanding of him asking "do you recognise me" is he's actually asking if the person knew his twin brother and might have been involved in his death. But regardless of whether Lennon was involved in killing Kirkland's twin, he's still a valuable witness. Lennon could reveal who Red John is, surely Kirkland would want to interrogate him properly and get that information?

Is this murder ever explained? I've watched the whole series before, but can't remember anything that makes sense, nor can I find anything on the wiki.

P.S. hopefully the title satisfies the no spoiler rule. I was originally going to title it "Why did Robert Kirkland kill Jason Lennon?" But figured anything to do with Bob Kirkland counts as a major spoiler.

I have completed watching season 4 and absolutely love this series.

One type of plot I like a lot is when past cases or backstories of characters come to haunt the agents in a current case.

Cho: his affiliations to Avon park boys

Rigsby: his criminal dad

Lisbon: The one where she gets accused of murder and her brother getting involved in a case

Jane: Red john obviously

I can't help but feel like Van Pelt is done dirty (up until this point of the series) because we haven't had an entire episode about her past or just one where she's central to a crime that was committed. The only thing she has been centred towards was shooting her fiance

Is there a Van Pelt backstory or a deep dive in her past coming up? Or will she remain a bit part main character compared to the others?

I love how, hard-ass Cho, started showing cracks with his interrogation of Summer!

As a young inspiring scholar I’ve been thinking how neat I would be to have the skills of Jane. The way he can read social queues and tell who people really are. do any of you fine people know ways to build that skill?

The mentalist is my go to re-run, mainly because I like a who dunnit. Does anyone find that season 7 mainly shows who did it before Jane finds out in the end? The only reason I watch s7 is for Jane and Lisbon’s relationship but even that was dull. But the WHO DUNNIT was definitely lacking.

Anyone else? X