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The Mentalist Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2011 - 2012
Episode 1
Scarlet Ribbons
Thu, Sep 22, 201143 mins
After shooting Tim Carter, who admitted being Red John, Patrick waits to be arrested. The whole team is suspended, but decides to go all the way for him, even resorting to unorthodox methods. Jane defends himself in court, accepting a $1,000,000 bail he can't afford, but wins it at poker against a crime lord inmate. With some assistance from recovering Lisbon, he closes in on Tim's widow Sally and the missing girl she brought up. It pays off, but his faith rests with the jury, while the CSI director is more eager than ADA Ardiles to 'avoid favoritism'.
Episode 2
Little Red Book
Thu, Sep 29, 201143 mins
Popular society gym coach Markus Kuzmenko, a former swimmer and serial womanizer, is found at home, skull crushed with a gym weight. Adulterorus clients probably feared exposure of affairs with him, colleague Mike Vilanueva lost clients to Markus and he recently repaid a loan-shark. Patrick, found not guilty in court, is reinstated as CBI consultant and assigned to the team of senior agent Ray Haffner, who handles the case and recruits Cho to read Jane. Lisbon remains suspended pending a full investigation, but the old team conspires under Patrick to solve the Kuzmenko case on their own. Jane stirs trouble among Ray's own team and sets traps for him and the murderer. Tim's widow commits suicide, leaving a note she couldn't live without her Red John, but the real one's lover doesn't recognize his corpse.
Episode 3
Pretty Red Balloon
Thu, Oct 6, 201142 mins
Conner Flint (9), only son of widow Elisabeth 'Beth' Flint, one of Patrick's former psychic scam victims, has been kidnapped from his school bus stop. Beth refuses to believe Jane that paranormal gifts are fake, so she pushes him to collaborate with her present 'spiritual adviser', Nate Glass. Apart from Nathan, the team looks for suspects in the family, including Beth's present partner Deke Hutton and Conner's step-brother Jonathan Flint. Prime suspect on account of the MO is yet unidentified serial killer 'Balloon Man', so called after his lure, but he strangulates within 12 hours.
Episode 4
Ring Around the Rosie
Thu, Oct 13, 201143 mins
Patrick and the new team's boss, psychology-majored Special Agent Luther Wainwright, immediately like and respect each-other in a provocative way, locking horns from the first case. A local photographer is found fatally short during the mayor's political rally. Jane however largely leaves that case to Lisbon, focusing on a bystander he singes out on sight as potential murderer. It's unemployed gun-obsessed Texan insurance investigator Henry Tibbs, who fits the psychopath profile, but hasn't committed any actual crimes. Patrick 'uses' Cho and Rigsby to set a trap, even manipulates Wainwright, who wants to arrest him for gun possession and see him in forced therapy.
Episode 5
Blood and Sand
Thu, Oct 20, 201141 mins
Patrick soon realizes that the fatally stabbed corpse of outsider Sanchez only seems washed up on the coast of San Felix island, being on the wrong side to come from the mainland and given the tide. So he scrutinizes the closed society islanders, such as fishery entrepreneur Jack LaFleur, butterfly reserve manager William Gardner and Jed Stack's ranch, focusing on mainland connections. Meanwhile the team starts from the victim's past as a wayward foster-kid who wanted to revenge her father, whose murderer may have an islander alias. And Rigsby faces his date in her capacity as rather hostile public defender.
Episode 6
Where in the World Is Carmine O'Brien?
Thu, Oct 27, 201142 mins
Resort town Fairmont's police chief Marnie Green was shot fatally in head and chest off duty, transported in her police car and dumped. She uncharacteristically arrested on false pretense Russian drug mob suspect Dimitri Zubov, while a petty cocaine customer was murdered the same time. She probably also knew the whereabouts of elusive St. Louis accountant Carmine O'Brien, an embezzler, whom Lisbon's kid brother, now a novice bail enforcement agency's bounty hunter, is after, which would be a public danger even without dragging along his teenage brat daughter, whom Jane teaches pickpocket techniques.
Episode 7
Blinking Red Light
Thu, Nov 3, 201143 mins
Michelle Carter (19) was abducted, throat slit and dumped in a San Joaquin park, the MO used 4 times before in Fresno. Patrick encourages Lisbon to pick one from the police suspects shortlist of 8, photographer Richard Haibach. Meanwhile he concentrates on the press, especially self-declared expert James Panzer, who runs a specialized website since the first victim was killed in his neighborhood. Jane sets a trap, with surprising bait and outcome.
Episode 8
Pink Tops
Thu, Nov 17, 201143 mins
Undercover narcotics officer Yolanda Concepcion was murdered while investigating drug trade and/or money laundering in slick crime baron Omar Vega's nightclub. Bitter widower Lalo Concepcion didn't realize his in-living relative came for him rather then to mind his young kids. Patrick also investigates her undercover colleagues before setting a trap at Vega's after a rival gang is murdered.
Episode 9
The Redshirt
Thu, Dec 8, 201143 mins
The media report the murder of former star quarterback Doc Dugan by car explosion. The CBI keeps quiet that the actual victim is Doc's devoted assistant Jake Stewart, who had no enemies while haughty Doc, who is hidden, collected them, even a frustrated super-fan, and treated his staff and business partners badly. Rigsby's relationship with attorney Sarah Harrigan is tested by her ruthless way of prepping him for a court testimony.
Episode 10
Fugue in Red
Thu, Dec 15, 201143 mins
Rural fireman Paul Satterfield is murdered shortly after a heroic fire rescue and abandoned in a marsh. Patrick suffers partial amnesia after near-drowning at the hands of a hooded man who hid there. Satterfield knew about his loveless wife's adultery with a colleague and never followed the rules, which was hell on his partner. Patrick also takes an interest in a concurrent bank-robbery nearby. Having forgotten about his family, Patrick also relapses into his medium con act. Finally he sets a trap, but now not without ulterior motive.
Episode 11
Always Bet on Red
Thu, Jan 12, 201242 mins
With the help of Cho's confidential informant, Summer, the CBI team investigates the death of a divorce lawyer who had been receiving death threats. Meanwhile, FBI agent Darcy returns to delve deeper into the slaying of James Panzer. To save Darcy from Red John, Jane goes to great lengths to find a way to close the Panzer case.
Episode 12
My Bloody Valentine
Thu, Jan 19, 201243 mins
Argentinian crime baron Gabriel Porchetto's son and heir Gabriel Junior is shot expertly in the hot-tub during a party in their luxury cabin in a state forest. Gabriel senior is in the final stage of terminal cancer, so adolescent son Sergio Porchetto becomes his heir. Security chief Curtis Nett is remarkably uncooperative. Junior compromised the gang's business by challenging Luis Ozorio's Mexican drug cartel, the Zetas. Patrick tricks Senior and his boys to stage a trap. After a pendant is returned now the investigation into Grace's shooting that killed FBI agent and lover Craig O'Laughlin, his specter seems to haunt her, but when she gets lost in the forest while guarding presumed key witness Janpen, a hooker, it actually watches over her.
Episode 13
Red Is the New Black
Thu, Feb 2, 201241 mins
Brilliant fashion designer Wyck Theissens, whose career was ended by insulting Guy Duval, is found murdered while preparing a probably fabulous new collection with three novices in a secret chamber in Asian mafia-related Mr. Liu's sweetshop. Patrick notices Duval's assistant has an affair with his wife. Excessively libertine fashion photographer Tony Redgrave has ample opportunity during a photo-shoot. Meanwhile Rosalind Harker is closing up on proof that the murderer Patrick shot wasn't Red John, who may be striking again.
Episode 14
At First Blush
Thu, Feb 9, 201243 mins
D.A. Osvaldo Ardiles is not amused when Patrick, whom he failed to get convicted, concludes from hailed wine grower Peter Mulberry's wife Eve's body language that she's innocent of the murder of Carlos Ruiz. Lisbon accepts to enter this race against time, as the jury is already deliberating. Patrick digs for Mulberry family secrets and Ruiz is found a career criminal, while Cho wrestles with back-ache and his imprudent informant.
Episode 15
War of the Roses
Thu, Feb 16, 201242 mins
An officer in Greg Relin's charity, which raises money for orphanages in Mexico, is murdered. Above Lisbon's head, amused Patrick arranges to accept jailed, luxury-addicted fellow con artist Erica Flynn's terms to help find and trap the killer. Meanwhile impending parenthood proves hard to square with Rigsby's feelings for Sarah Harrigan.
Episode 16
His Thoughts Were Red Thoughts
Thu, Feb 23, 201243 mins
Gabe Meadows, a renegade from Bret Stiles' cult Visualize, is murdered. Patrick questions the all too obvious evidence stacked against Stiles, working rather on the assumption he's framed so an inner circle member can succeed, but they all seem still to support Stiles.
Episode 17
Cheap Burgundy
Thu, Mar 8, 201243 mins
Patrick seems not to mind when Wainwright accepts to lend him to the FBI to help investigate the murder of the daughter-in-law of the Bauer tycoon couple, allegedly friends of the lieutenant-governor, found by eagerly assisting ranger Sam Franklin. Patrick expected correctly special agent Susan Darcy only wants to grill him again about the false Red John. Luckily for the first suspect, a veteran, who 'confesses' probably having killed her during a blackout, Patrick looks on. Meanwhile Wayne and Lisbon can't crack arrogant businessman Gary Philo, who must have killed an employee, until Patrick coaches them.
Episode 18
Ruddy Cheeks
Fri, Mar 9, 201243 mins
An escaped tiger smells and digs up the corpse of wealthy, retired car dealer Archer Braddock. He was murdered although he had terminal cancer, and thus met his recent wife, stepmother of his in-living daughter Liesl and estranged son, petty criminal and drug addict Aden. Archer tried numerous therapies, recently in brother Josesph's 'sun cure' and Dr. Leopold Scheck's high-tech pharmacological research institute. Patrick's mortuary trap goes wrong.
Episode 19
Pink Champagne on Ice
Thu, Mar 29, 201241 mins
Patrick seems uninterested in the case of a man shot on the road. His attention goes to his former illusionist act colleague Jack Hellion, who now performs in Dante Holmes's club with assistant Trish. Patrick sensed right that Jack is being blackmailed to stage a robbery and imposes himself as accomplice, taking charge.
Episode 20
Something Rotten in Redmund
Thu, Apr 5, 201243 mins
Generally liked and respected Redmund high school English teacher McTierney's corpse is found in the surrounding woodland, skull smashed on his jogging route. Patrick uses many tricks, often interacting with the Hamlet school production, to discover social dynamics and secret among pupils and staff, including drug dealing, forbidden love and the principal's petty dictator practices.
Episode 21
Ruby Slippers
Thu, Apr 26, 201242 mins
When a body is found handcuffed to the steering wheel of a burned car in the alley behind a Drag Queen Cabaret, the CBI crew is on the scene to investigate. A clue in the alley leads Jane to dressing room of the drag queens where he meets Glennda Snow who is the "Queen Mother" of the ensemble. She admits to being in the alley shortly before the murder but the other drag queens say she was back in the dressing room before the time of the murder. Although she is cleared of involvement in the murder, Jane still suspects she knows more than she is admitting. The CBI team end up relying on Glennda as a material witness when trying to determine which of their three suspects is guilty. Just when you think the case has been successfully wrapped up, Jane reveals a surprise twist that sheds a whole new light on the events that transpired in the alley the night of the murder.
Episode 22
So Long, and Thanks for All the Red Snapper
Thu, May 3, 201243 mins
Patrick quickly finds penniless Jay Banner, reported missing by his friends, half-buried on the beach after washing up, skull smashed. Suspects include his house-mate Jeeter James, their landlord Lance Gladstone, slick city drug dealer Tookie and Lisbon's ex Greg Marshall, whose wife Greta cheats on him. A treasure from a wreck probably provided ample motive but also baits Jane's trap. Rigsby enjoys the burdens of fatherhood but Cho's affair with informer Summer gets overstretched.
Episode 23
Red Rover, Red Rover
Thu, May 10, 201243 mins
Cynical 'congratulations' on his family's bloody murder convince Jane it's time to 'turn the page', so he burns his files on Red John and keeps provoking Luthor Wainwright until he's ultimately fired from the CBI. Meanwhile he solves the murder of Antonio Castro, who suffocated naked and conscious inside a coffin buried in a ruin. He was a derivatives broker in Dennis Victor's firm, where embezzlement took place. Suspects include a colleague and their supervisor, also members of an exclusive club, which was hazing Castro. Patrick sets an abusive trap.
Episode 24
The Crimson Hat
Thu, May 17, 201243 mins
To convince Red John that he is no longer a threat, Patrick Jane kills two of his CBI mates and gives him one of their heads. But the FBI discovers Jane's newfound friendship with Red John and mounts a set-up, shooting and killing Red John as he escapes. But, when it comes to Red John, nothing is ever what it seems.