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The Mentalist Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2010 - 2011
Episode 1
Red Sky at Night
Thu, Sep 23, 201042 mins
In Sacramento, state legislature lobbyist and lawyer Harvey Dublin goes missing from his limousine and his driver, Peter Russo, is found next to it shot in the head. New CBI director Gale Bertram, involved in a financial scandal Dublin's office handled, gives the case absolute priority, but Patrick refuses to work on it after being saved by Red John. Lisbon tricks him by confronting him with the mourning Russo family, so he vows revenge, saying she won't see coming, while predicting the kidnapping is fake.
Episode 2
Cackle-Bladder Blood
Thu, Sep 30, 201042 mins
Wealthy San Francisco investment broker Landon Wale (45) was shot in the Sacremento company K-Ram's HQ. Patrick is criticizing the questioning technique of the detective Reece, who arrested him, holding the smoking murder weapon, having responded to a call for help from his own, dodgy brother in law Danny Ruskin. The SPD was responding to an anonymous call. Widow Concetta Wale realizes a solid golden Aphrodite statue is missing from their home safe. K-ram was a fake company, part of one of Danny's financial scams. Patrick is released in Lisbon's custody but dumps her to find and protect Danny first while the team tracks down the financial scams.
Episode 3
The Blood on His Hands
Thu, Oct 7, 201041 mins
When a young woman is found strangled in the Sacramento River, Patrick Jane finds that she was drug addicted since her feet have marks of needle, and the tattoo of the Visualize on her shoulder. Soon the CBI identify the victim as Celia Jovanovich, who lived at the Visualize facility, and had rehabilitated. Lisbon. Patrick and the agents head to the cult and the lawyer Julius Coles participates of the interviews with the security team, trying to isolate the leader Bret Stiles. Soon they learn that the FBI has an undercover agent working at the Visualize trying to catch Bret Stiles. While investigating the case, Stiles heads to Jacarta to escape from the agents but meets Patrick and gives a hint of where Kristina Frye might be.
Episode 4
Red Carpet Treatment
Thu, Oct 14, 201042 mins
Convicted sociopath Henry Dahl is shot ten times trough the head in his San Francisco motel room shortly after his release on account of faulty DNA evidence. Patrick is openly uninterested, while the attorney general's office is in PR panic. TV host Karen Cross, once the top prosecutor whose high-profile convictions included Henry, films Jane sleeping, but her company paid Dahl's motel as scheduled guest, now replaced by his victim Jenny's widower Max Winter, who claims to have reached reconciliation years ago, to devote himself to fine son Jackson. Wayne must watch Grace date dashing FBI agent Craig O'Laughlin, which makes him cockily competitive. Henry's art study and cocaine dealing mate Arty Mock is found hiding in his halfway-house. Henry had an admirer, Sean Meyers's wife Betsy. Patrick accepts Cross's live TV dare, but has to revise his conclusion.
Episode 5
The Red Ponies
Thu, Oct 21, 201060 mins
Californian former horse race jockey Bill Sutton is found beaten to death on the tracks. Patrick and the CBI team investigate possible motives from ruthless colleague - and stable competition, gambling, personal debts, an alleged accident and possible cheating. Patrick devises a complicated sting to trick the killer.
Episode 6
Pink Chanel Suit
Thu, Oct 28, 201041 mins
Gentle children's books illustrator Austin Marr (23) is stabbed to death in strict federal judge Pauline Fitwilliam's guest house. Austin was the lover of her contrary youngest daughter, Abigail 'Abby', who is missing and was recently released from drug rehabilitation. Pauline points to the White Supremacist gang of Raymond Tubbs, whom she put in jail and threatened her and her family, to which end he may use coke dealer Howard 'Howie' Dressler. Patrick mistrusts the estate security and makes Abby's sister Sophie confess a secret: the lovers just had their first row, and indeed her fingerprints are on the knife. Patrick deducts mundane 'best friend' Danielle stole Abby's credit card. Pauline's ma Ethel Sebring is being buried after a lingering disease, treated by Dr. Saban. Patrick ties everything together and sets an unsavory trap.
Episode 7
Red Hot
Thu, Nov 4, 201060 mins
Former Soviet officer Yuri Bajoran is blown to smithereens by a bomb in his office while the CBI interrupted his take over talks with even richer tycoon Walter Mashburn to examine the death treats against Bajoran. Patrick, wounded as lightly as Walter, sensed the soon disclosing web of hatred between both men, who once rivaled for Yuri's widow, and various other businessmen, as well as disloyal staff.
Episode 8
Ball of Fire
Thu, Nov 11, 201060 mins
While in a farmers market shopping for fruit, Patrick Jane is kidnapped by a man that puts him in the trunk of his car and kills the stands owner and is wounded. Patrick is handcuffed to a pipe in the basement of a house. Meanwhile a female witness provides the car model, color and the direction the kidnapper has taken on the road. Patrick offers to help the kidnapper relieve his pain, but out of the blue his accomplice arrives and shoots him twice in his back. Soon Patrick Jane learns that she is Rachel, the daughter of a man that died in jail, and she says that he will die a painful death to avenge her father. Meanwhile, the CBI investigates the list of people who have a grudge against Patrick while Lisbon is attracted to a trap.
Episode 9
Red Moon
Thu, Nov 18, 201060 mins
Patrick Jane accepts the help of a local astrologer, Ellis Mars, to solve the puzzling case of a triple homicide that involves two policemen and the fiancé of an EMT worker.
Episode 10
Jolly Red Elf
Thu, Dec 9, 201060 mins
At Christmas time in Sacramento, mail order Christmas gifts entrepreneur Bernard Ripple falls to his death in his fancy Santa suit, drunk and carrying a suicide note on a Christmas card, an out of character fake. Patrick discovers why he was drunk after 10 years in AA. Meanwhile the team like other CBI staff are suspects of the burning to death of sixfold cop killer EMT Todd Johnson. That's investigated by J.J. LaRoche, who focuses on Patrick, who in turn believed killer and victim were controlled by Red John. .
Episode 11
Bloodsport
Thu, Jan 6, 201143 mins
Author Charlotte Mitchell is found in a locker, shot dead during a freestyle fight between promoter-manager Leonard 'Len' Artash's KO-victorious boy Manny Flaco and hot-tempered Rowdy Merriman. The bullet came from recently released murderer Joe Reyes's gun. Each fighter had a grudge against her and secrets she might uncover, which also may give significant others motives. J.J. LaRoche grills Rigsby as CBI arson suspect, on account of his pyrotechnic skills and paroled motor gang dad Stephen.
Episode 12
Bloodhounds
Thu, Jan 20, 201145 mins
Hernando family lemony factory worker Fernanda Talan's week-old corpse, skull violently smashed twice, is found on a cars graveyard. Patrick smells a rat and uses the guard dog to find a nearby second corpse, Valerie Brestin, similarly clobbered, financial director at Donald Beechum's firm Agile Turtle and volunteer at Donovan Treadlow's homeless shelter out of guilt after fatally hitting a vagrant by car. Patrick doubts profiler Montague's theory that this MO points to the ten years inactive serial killer Caveman, which a macabre package makes likely again, but Patrick proves the victims have a link, a bus line where they could be picked, with a criminal driver.
Episode 13
Red Alert
Thu, Feb 3, 201143 mins
Angelino documentary maker Amber Sutherland is shot at home while turning a movie to promote Crane Creek mayor Kenyon Bagshaw's national political ambition. The local police suspects Ron Crosswhite, whom she interviewed the previous evening and probably got away with shooting his wife, city clerk Ginger (31), because officer Tom Rowley clumsily ruined the crucial video recording. While grudgingly reporting to pay a traffic fine, Jane is taken hostage by Crosswhite with other people in city hall to demand immunity and his wife's real killer being found. After the CBI director, politically influenced by Bagshaw, first gives the case to police chief Arnold Nail and then returns it go Lisbon, Rowley tries to shoot Crosswhite but only wounds another hostage. Jane gets Crosswhite to see sense and sets a trap for the double murderer.
Episode 14
Blood for Blood
Thu, Feb 10, 201143 mins
While Van Pelt relieves US Marshal Gorman protecting Justin DeGeorge, the key witness against drug baron Adrian Essex, she's knocked out and the witness murdered. His daughter Trina probably has crucial memories, but aunt Jody, a retired army nurse, shields her most hostile against Patrick. He helps the team overcome that and Essex's accomplice Eugene Boden's alibi. LaRoche was planning to grill Van Pelt in the arson investigation anyway. FBI agent Craig supports her and successfully proposes.
Episode 15
Red Gold
Thu, Feb 17, 201143 mins
Gold mining town Hadley's sheriff Trey Hughes calls the CBI after fellow prospector Melinda Drew found and former software developer Rick Loomis, divorced and recently moved in with his son adolescent son Jeff and new girl Cheryl Meade, who sneakily prepared to leave the naive adventurer. Patrick discovers that local claims seller Wes Attwood cheated, but he's found murdered in the trailer of local thief Scott Monroe, who didn't actually rob Rick. Patrick sets a gold trap.
Episode 16
Red Queen
Thu, Feb 24, 201143 mins
Rich Precolumbian archaeology professor Manuel Montero, also a well-reputed traded in antiquities, is murdered in the Nothern Calirfornia Museum of Anthropology. He was meeting a buyer for a Mayan golden pendant, the only item stolen there. His transport crew is caught, also dealing in illegal arms, but Patrick believes the motive personal. Laroche's IA investigation reduced serial cop-killer Todd Johnson's torch-murder suspects to five CBI members with opportunity, including only one with a motive: agent Madeleine Hightower was the former lover of murdered CHip Jim Rance. Links between both cases are found. Patrick however sees it all as part of Red John's master plan.
Episode 17
Bloodstream
Thu, Mar 10, 201143 mins
When Dr. Micah Newton is found murdered in a golf club with one hit on the head by a club, Lisbon and Patrick investigate the crime scene. Lisbon is interrupted by LaRoche and she makes a comment to him before learning that he is replacing Hightower. He immediately replaces Lisbon with Cho who reluctantly accepts the new position. Meanwhile, Lisbon and Patrick interview Newton's assistant Francine Trent and learn that he was in charge of a transplant program. His position was immediately filled by Dr. Evan Quick, who changes the policies in the hospital aiming for higher profit. Among the patients, there is the Russian mobster "Siberia" who was fast tracked while others stay on the transplant list. Patrick stays with the nurses and observes the treatment of the patients to find the killer.
Episode 18
The Red Mile
Thu, Mar 31, 201143 mins
Hedge fund Wilder broker Timothy Hartley, Nathan Vella's partner, is shot and has his throat slit in a field 100 miles from his even richer wife Peregrine née Cook's Hillsborough mansion. The corps is stolen by two armed men during transport in coroner Steiner's van. Given two earlier victim thefts inter-state, the FBI suspects organ tissue trade and sends special agent Craig O'Laughlin. Tim also was treated for an alien abduction delusion in that distant field. The coroner is allowed to collaborate clumsily for a morbid reason, which Jane helps carry to the bitter end.
Episode 19
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Thu, Apr 7, 201160 mins
San Francisco dating agency Symphony's CEO John Flynn (48) was twice shot in the chest fatally and dumped in a marina. Patrick immediately suspects slick, young widow Erica Flynn. He first tests her getting recruited as client but finds her alibi hard to crack, so he goes for an accomplice, with an apparent tragic consequence. However the team also investigates his ex, blackmailed client Henry Cliff and dubious staff. Wayne's an undercover job gets a romantic follow-up.
Episode 20
Redacted
Thu, Apr 28, 201160 mins
The CBI agents investigate the murder of Ted Fisher, who had his repair shop invaded and vandalized. Meanwhile, the thief Donny Culpepper is arrested after opening the safe of J.J. LaRoche hired by Patrick Jane. He loses concentration in Ted Fisher's case trying to find a means to withdraw Culpepper from the jail. Meanwhile, the agents arrest Cole Ruger and Vivian Griswold, who claims that were trying to help and investigate respectively Ted Fisher that was in Iraq. Meanwhile, Fisher's girlfriend, the hippie Heather Blue, learns the true past of Fisher. When the young Iraqi Omar Hassan is arrested by the CBI agents, Patrick asks to join the suspects and Heather in the repair shop to find the killer.
Episode 21
Like a Redheaded Stepchild
Thu, May 5, 201160 mins
In Hangtree, Carson, jailer Walter Parsell, who aspires a detective career and studies criminology, is found on the street outside a robbed jeweler, fatally stabbed as with a prison shunt. Suspect ex-cons include the jail's top-dog, lifer Marcus Lansdale, whom Parsell singled out for transfer to a maximum security prison, as Wayne's no-good father, smuggler Steve Rigsby. Marcus's girlfriend's brother also has a record. Rigbsby calls pa's bluff he can find the killer in no time, which leads to Butch Carwin's drug ring. Patrick meanwhile searches in jail, concentrating on trustees.
Episode 22
Rhapsody in Red
Thu, May 12, 201160 mins
Concert violinist Eleanor Artega is shot dead outside her mother Isabella's NE Sacremento shop. Ex Orlando Yglesias, a Lincoln Avenue Hermanos petty gang member, fled from the spectators at the scene. Patrick, an amateur cellist, studies orchestra director Vincent Manheiser and his players.
Episode 23
Strawberries and Cream: Part 1
Thu, May 19, 201160 mins
Alan Dinkler (27, no record) robs Drake Vermilion's Sacramento cash office he works for $50,000 from the much richer vault, so Patrick assumes the real target were the customer names he also had. He is killed at a gas station by the remote control bomb on his chest while pleading with two uniformed cops to go away. Dinkler's roommate is not at home, probably an accidental witness. A vague message in the restroom leads to a trap location where Lisbon is fitted with a similar bomb vest. Jane finds her and makes her obey instructions, only to turn the tables on the culprit he already guessed but who is killed by LaRoche in a fishy escape attempt. The only interesting customer name links to the Hightower case and thus to Red John.
Episode 24
Strawberries and Cream: Part 2
Thu, May 19, 201160 mins
Now Hightower is found by the team but unwilling to hide out more than 48 hours longer with her kids, Patrick believes to be at an advantage as Red John ignores how close he is. After bluff-pressing LaRoche to give him the CSI mole suspects shortlist of four, to which the fat-man must be added, Patrick sets a cake-layered trap for CSI director Bertram, DA Ardiles, FBI agent Craig O'Laughlin and LaRoche. Each is 'given' given the same address, but at different floors, for Hightower's fake hideout, so where will betray who sent the hired killer, who however jumps to her death. Patrick now arranges a meeting with his top-suspect, during which he realizes he must be one floor wrong and hastily adapts. The team handles his alternative, correct suspect, while he finds himself and faces a Red John suspect, who admits to that during a lethal confrontation.