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The Mentalist Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Redemption
Thu, Sep 24, 200943 mins
In minutes on site in Sacramento, Jane solves the mall murder on John Rasmussen. Virgil Minelli transfers the Red John investigation from Lisbon's to Sam Bosco's team. Yet Patrick promises to help solve 'one more' ordinary case, a ransacked motel-room Jane Doe. From a group photograph he cleverly identifies Jaffe publishing secretary Monica Dunninger, who went missing with $1,000,000, abandoning husband Hollis, daughter Kessie and even son Ansel with then presumably terminal cancer. Jane sets a fictitious bait-trap.
Episode 2
The Scarlet Letter
Thu, Oct 1, 200943 mins
Californian state senator Melinda Batson's recently graduated aid Kristen Marley was pushed from a Sacramento bridge, staged as a suicide. The rumor of an affair with Melinda's husband and chief of staff Elliot is denied and he has an alibi, but Jane taxes their marriage loveless. CSI concentrates on Kristen's dubious stepbrother Harlan McAdoo, who expected a false alibi from her in another crime. Patrick turns a false trail into a crucial clue. And handles Bosco's obstruction in his Red John interest.
Episode 3
Red Badge
Thu, Oct 8, 200943 mins
Lisbon eagerly leaves Dr. Roy Carmen's therapy to answer an anonymous call leading to the corps of recently released William 'Bill' McTeer. Catching him for seven child molestation made Lisbon's reputation, then as SFPD inspector, then under Bosco. The last victim's pa Dreyer Whelan swore to kill Bill. Jane and the team find several logical suspects, but Lisbon's print in on the murder gun, so Minelli transfers the case- to Bosco.
Episode 4
Red Menace
Thu, Oct 15, 200942 mins
Well-groomed Gordon Hodge is found by joggers, robbed and killed in the Deerfield woods. He was the Sinner Saints motorcycle gang's full-time lawyer, who consistently prevented their numerous arrests leading to convictions. The team finds he was having an affair with Diamond, gang leader Von McBride's girlfriend. Another suspect is found, Felicia Gutherie, whose brother was killed by the one of the gang members, wanted revenge.
Episode 5
Red Scare
Thu, Oct 29, 200943 mins
Smalltown Deputy Nick Fisher asks CBI to investigate how Alan Foster (43) was killed despite the advanced alarm in the mansion he renovated on site while his wife Lillian remained in their San Francisco home. His hand clasps a B-button, referring to Walter Beckworth, the house's builder 80 years ago, said to haunt it since he was pushed to his death from the very same window. His granddaughter Victoria Abner sold it to Foster, unable to pay her taxes, but calls him a thief. Construction site thief Jeb Haas says he saw Lillian on the murder night. Jane finds the ghost tricks. Rumor has it the house contains a treasure.
Episode 6
Black Gold and Red Blood
Thu, Nov 5, 200943 mins
Countryside welder Kirby Hines (29) has been killed and dragged onto land, the disputed oil rights on which are worth millions. His widow Donna and family hide secrets. Patrick can only advise from a distance, being jailed on a charge of abusing CBI information in his search for Red John. While the team tries to get Sam Bosco to rescind the charge, Jane expertly manipulates his jail mates, and even arranges to get a suspect in the Hines case to get arrested and jailed.
Episode 7
Red Bulls
Thu, Nov 12, 200943 mins
When Bosco's and Lisbon's teams stumble in the same location, with Lisbon investigating a dead body and Bosco investigating an abducted teenager called Mia Westlake, Minelli orders that both teams should work together in the kidnapping. Soon Patrick Jane reads the coroner's report and learns that the corpse is from another teenager kidnapped three years ago. Therefore, they believe the same gang is responsible for Mia's abduction. They head to the mansion where the Westlake family lives and interview her sister Verona and her husband Duncan. Patrick plays with a baby and the nanny escorts the baby to her room. Both reams engage in the investigation and Patrick plots a plan to catch the abductor, against Bosco's will.
Episode 8
His Red Right Hand
Thu, Nov 19, 200942 mins
Lisbon summons her team to investigate a crime scene in a cemetery, where the body of a naked man was found decorated with yellow roses on his genitals. When they return to the CBI headquarters, they learn that Bosco and his agents have been shot and only Bosco has survived, but is in critical condition. Hicks is missing and becomes a suspect. They interview Bosco's team secretary Rebecca, who had brought coffee for the team; they check the security videos and find that 30 minutes are missing, indicating an inside job. Meanwhile, Jane is looking for the forensics identification of the victim in the cemetery. When the victim is identified, they find Hicks in his office with Red John's mark on the wall. When they head to Clovervill to bring the corpse and the evidence the coroner has gotten, they find that all material is gone and soon they identify the killer's identity. Who might be the murderer of the CBI agents?
Episode 9
A Price Above Rubies
Thu, Dec 10, 200941 mins
During a CBI benefit sponsored by the Doverton jewelry firm where Jane performs successfully, Carl Ward, husband of owner Esther, interrupts a robbery but is shot and sent into the hospital by a diamond robber. Jane suspects an inside job. Ex-con Doyle Murphy is found shot in his apartment, last visited by ex-brother-in-law Donny Culpepper, to whom he owed money. The team also finds links with Ester's nephews Tom and George Doverton. Jane sets the trap.
Episode 10
Throwing Fire
Thu, Dec 17, 200943 mins
At Barney Sloop's prestigious baseball academy in Amtzenville, the owner is found beaten to death, with his skull crushed in. His business partner Freddy Fitch inherits the academy. Barney's wife Leslie, whom he had left a year ago after their 3 year-old son Michael's death, cashes in a $20,000,000 life insurance policy. His paternalistic coaching, domineering fathers, and a foul ball on the head make Jane remember his apprenticeship as his dad's 'clairvoyant' carnival boy-wonder. He stills finds and proves the surprising key secret to the killer's identity.
Episode 11
Rose-Colored Glasses
Thu, Jan 14, 201043 mins
In small town Rancho Rosa, local spouses Selby and Jana Vickers are found stabbed in their car. It's their 1995 high school class' reunion, which they never attended. Selby was a social leper since he had confessed to a cruel prank at Derek Logan's expense 15 years ago and was also involved in blackmail. Patrick works out the past and abuses Rigsby's own secret to force him to help set a trap.
Episode 12
Bleeding Heart
Thu, Jan 21, 201042 mins
While Central Valley town Salter's mayor Melba Walker Shannon dug at Heaton Krupp's Granton development project's first spade, she unearthed her media liaison Martha St.Clair, stabbed to death at home. The CBI team reluctantly obliges the D.A.'s orders to cooperate with Mike Brewster's TV documentary on their work. Granton was opposed by tree huggers and Jasper's masked eco-terrorist. Yet Jasper kidnaps Jane to insists he has nothing to do with the murder, nor with a later fire bomb.
Episode 13
Redline
Thu, Feb 4, 201042 mins
In Marin County's Zenith car dealership, saleswoman Liselle Douglas (28) is found in a showroom car trunk. Jane soon understands the salesmen rivalry. And the lengths they went to for clients, and some of those for rare cars, while there are also some. Jane even bets with an arrogant moneybags.
Episode 14
Blood in, Blood Out
Thu, Feb 11, 201043 mins
Cho is summoned by a police detective to identify a gang member from his former gang Avon Park Playboys. Patrick Jane goes with Cho, who identify the man as David Seung that was his friend in the past. The grandmother of the victim, Suanne Seung, goes to CBI and asks Cho to investigate the murder case since her grandson was regenerated and was working after serving sentence in the prison, but Cho refuses. Out of the blue, Cho and his girlfriend Elise Chaye are assaulted at her home by two men wearing hood and Cho decides to find the responsible forgetting that he is an agent of the law, with the support of Patrick Jane, and finds that his friend had changed indeed.
Episode 15
Red Herring
Thu, Mar 4, 201042 mins
During a competition among chefs, chef Jeffrey Barge dies, and the CBI assume the investigation. In principle, they suspect of the competitors, since the award is one hundred thousand dollars; his estranged wife Abigail Barge joins the list; and also, the promoter Bertram Duesterberg, since Jeffrey was poisoned. But when chef Julia St. Germain also dies poisoned, Patrick Jane plots a trap to catch the killer in a lunch party.
Episode 16
Code Red
Thu, Mar 11, 201043 mins
Dr. Alicia Seberg calls Jane from the Zitek Biosystems lab at Los Corrados to report she's (being) murdered: someone opened a flask of airborne Cryptohansa-B, one of the biological warfare germs Zitek develops antidotes against. Alas this one needs to be taken in advance. Her husband Dr. Cliff Edmunds and further colleagues Griffin Welks, Dr. Florian Tripp and Lilith Nash also had access to it. Alicia had an affair but Cliff knew and both accepted an 'open marriage'. Jane discovers the biometric access equipment was disabled for two months and manager Price knew. Janes takes offense at CDC inspector Dean Harken's arrogant rank pulling and sets an apocalyptic trap.
Episode 17
The Red Box
Thu, Apr 1, 201044 mins
In-living, non-exclusive British private tutor James Smithson, an Oxbridge Etonian, is shot brain-dead in employer celebrity photographer Hopper Banks's estate in Citrus Heights. He had affairs with mothers of pupils. Rigsby's old San Diego PD colleague Victor Bandino, Banks's security consultant, hides something. As Jane suspected, Smithson is an alias. Scotland Yard detective Francis Slocombe confirms it's Oliver Stans, who stole Cleopatra's wedding ring from the British museum and hid in California, probably planning to sell it to top fence Louis Anglet. Jane guesses Slocombe's link with Stans and sets a dangerous trap.
Episode 18
Aingavite Baa
Thu, Apr 8, 201044 mins
During Cho and Van Pelt's drug stake-out, a mildly shot-wounded girl missing a shoe and her memory stumbles onto them. Her tracks trace to a barn with the bloody corpses of hikers Michel and Janine Langham, shot up-close, presumably accidental witnesses, and tween Shoshone Leonard Railton from Storm River Reservation, an ex-con, shot from afar like Jane Doe. He was in the same marijuana-growing gang as park ranger Tisdale and his baby suffered from poisoning. Rigsby and Va Pelt are ordered to decide whether to split up or volunteer for one to be reassigned.
Episode 19
Blood Money
Thu, Apr 22, 201043 mins
Sacramento Assistant DA Kelly Flower is shot dead at home. Her recent cases include that of smuggler Hank Draber. Patrick Jane guesses at first sight contractor Cale Sylvan is a psychopathic serial killer, whose aliases and bank account suggest he got paid for each murder. He devices entrapment which yields trophy proof. But stickler judge Hildred dismisses the case when the defense proves Jane illegally searches Cale's home, rejecting all evidence as fruit from the poisoned tree. The team keeps tracking him while Lisbon is suspended. Several surprise crimes follow, including Sylvan's murder, presumably ordered by his client in the Flower case.
Episode 20
Red All Over
Thu, Apr 29, 201043 mins
Xander Harrington is fatally stabbed in the neck at the party where he was to be presented by his father, media tycoon Alexander, as the new chief of the newspaper Daily Observer. Missing from his desk is the list of accompanying planned lay-offs. Concerned journalist Heather Evans' bloody shoes betray she stole the folder, and admits Xander's headstrong brother Ed tipped her off. The paper was investigating Bret Stiles' cult Visualise. Bret's deputy Steven Wench reveals that widow Sadie, the TV branch manager, was an adulteress fearing her prenuptial. Her secretary Elizabeth Stanfeld, a Visualize member, calls a bomb threat at the Harrington home. Jane's insight saves Lisbon and Sadie's daughter Ella.
Episode 21
18-5-4
Thu, May 6, 201043 mins
Unemployed math genius and social cripple Noah Valiquette (32) is shot in a park by a clown who cuts off his right index finger. Suspects abound due to a fake circus movie audition. After his widow reports the house ransacked, it appears the finger was the key to a safe, but the robber failed to realize the treasure was a locker-room key, hidden in a cheap chess piece. It was a universal code hacker, ordered by Noah's partner, Tolman Bunting, from Noah, a Dutchman and closed psych ward patient Oliver McDaniel, who escapes once told about the key.
Episode 22
Red Letter
Thu, May 13, 201043 mins
At a San Desidera, California Human Rights conference, Sheltering Light Foundation against human trafficking leader Hector Brava has his skull smashed with a hotel fire extinguisher just before his speech. According to his researcher and PA Russell Bigelow, he was to expose that Christopher Lynch's World Anti-Traficking Coalition is a front for traffickers eliminating their competition. Patrick soon realizes Hector and his widow Ilsa Engels reproached each-others affairs, he perhaps with the mysterious Carmen whose call lured him to the murder place. Patrick is most skeptic about collaborating with 'psychoic analyst' Kristina Frye, whom sheriff Andy Burnside enlisted.
Episode 23
Red Sky in the Morning
Thu, May 20, 201044 mins
Asian student Marley Sparrow's bloody murder in theatrical Red John style is posted on the Internet before the corps is found, by water like 'medium' Kristina Frye predicted. Jane objects to her being involved and claims it's a copy-cat. Marley was going steady with a man she described to her friends, who never saw him, as cop Grady Shipp. Jane remembers that's the name of an executed cannibalistic serial killer who was in Lompoc jail with Orval Tanner, a friend of Red John. After Kristina makes a TV appeal for Red John to seek help, Jane gets CBI to protect her full-time. "Shipp's" address proves the layer of a camera-obsessed young man. Marley's professor supervising the film club also taught a class mentioning red John the previous semester. The only other student involved in both like Marley, acting talent Wesley Blankfein, went missing. At lake Tahoe, Jaqueline Sandoval, who interviewed Frye, is killed also in Red John style, this time convincing Patrick. Kristina disappears on Van Pelt's watch. Patrick works his deductive magic from a single photograph, only to land in a three way-trap.