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The Mentalist Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2013 - 2014
Episode 1
The Desert Rose
Sun, Sep 29, 201342 mins
Investigating the murder of sports star Cody Benbow's girlfriend, Patrick's ample preparations prove fatally flawed for an unfortunate uniformed cop. Instead of actually punishing him or at last Lisbon for utterly failing to supervise, CBI director Bertram just sends them to a faraway desert hellhole. There forensic expert Brett Partridge, like Bertram on the Red John suspects shortlist, identifies the accidentally dug-up, two year old, yet posthumously moved corpse of businessman Yardley, reported missing by his openly relieved wife Madison, whom he was divorcing, as she can now evict stepson Gavin, who has a terrible record. The victim had an appointment with a dodgy debtor. Patrick however sets up HQ at a nearby motel, taking great interest in staff and cooking. To his dismay, Lisbon fails to respect his secrecy command about the shortlist, telling Grace, who told Wayne, who tells Cho. This enables Red John to strike at the team.
Episode 2
Black-Winged Redbird
Sun, Oct 6, 201342 mins
Drone design company star engineer Titus Stone dies when his car explodes, hit by a drone his company secretly develops for the Pentagon. Patrick solves the case as surprisingly as effortlessly while the team concentrates on Red John after he murdered the forensic expert on the suspect shortlist, lured Lisbon there but let her off with his trademark red smiley in the victim's blood. CBI director Bertram and two more shortlist suspects confer while Patrick checks out of Red John 'read' Jane's mind trough his former therapist, whom he finds killed at home.
Episode 3
Wedding in Red
Sun, Oct 13, 201343 mins
In order to study Sheriff McAllister, a survivor on the Red John shortlist, Jane insists on taking a case in his jurisdiction, Napa Valley. A corpse was found in the duck pound at the Buena Vista party resort, dragged from elsewhere. The victim was an uncle of easygoing groom Roberto Salas, and the black sheep of the family. Patrick examines his family and bridezilla Stacey Bonner's, which is richer and arrogant, except her pragmatic father, a wheeler dealer who bought a precious Bible and planned to read from it. Motives may stem from rivalry, adultery and larceny. Now that CBI policy no longer opposes marriage between Wayne and Grace, they must face their true intentions.
Episode 4
Red Listed
Sun, Oct 20, 201344 mins
Patrick confides only into Lisbon that the list of suspect stolen from his flat was a deliberate fake, one of which has already been murdered, so the others deserve police protection. A second, Richard Haibach, is too bitter, having been innocently arrested by the CBI earlier, and is kidnapped and tortured by a real suspect, Homeland Security special agent Robert Kirkland, who also approaches minor CBI agent Reede Smith. Patrick sees through Hightower's staged fatal holiday accident and arranges a meeting trough an aunt-accomplice. Learning about Kirkland's high protection, Patrick walks into a trap, but help is on the way- for both parties. Meanwhile Rigsby hopes his failed wedding night wasn't the end of his sexual happiness with Grace.
Episode 5
The Red Tattoo
Sun, Oct 27, 201341 mins
Chad Parkman, star coach of a San Francisco top gym, is found fatally stabbed in his hotel room, which nobody entered or left around his time of death. Visualize gets the lieutenant governor to arrange for their lawyer Jason Cooper and former CBI agent Ray Haffner to shadow the investigation, as Chad was a recent member. Patrick focuses on hidden gym-related grudges and discovers a bug, which isn't traced to Visualize either.
Episode 6
Fire and Brimstone
Sun, Nov 10, 201344 mins
Patrick in now certain of his Red John suspects shortlist and decides to assemble them for a surprise test on a clue he got from a dying victim: the mastermind serial killer has a tattoo on his left shoulder. Gale Bertram, Reede Smith, Ray Haffner and Tom McAllister all accept. Bret Stiles claims to be preparing his ascension 'above life' and found diplomatic asylum in the Ecuadorian consulate, but Patrick gets him transported secretly, then tricks Lisbon to be literally beached. Patrick now receives his guests and keeps them at gunpoint, but is in for a surprise too.
Episode 7
The Great Red Dragon
Sun, Nov 17, 201340 mins
A bomb, smuggled by Red John into the Jane home, making fatal victims on top of Patrick needing hospital care, and the tattoo shared by only half the suspects, leave only two alive, both fled. Agent Reede Smith barely survives, thank to Rigsby's arrival, an attempt to eliminate him by two cahoots from local police and FBI, one of which is arrested. Saved again from the other by Cho while trying to surrender, Smith admits they all belong to a cleverly compartmentalized 'Blake society' with password 'Tiger, tiger'. Meanwhile Lisbon accidentally prevents CBI director Bertram to kill Jane, who ultimately had to go public as the manhunt is brilliantly sabotaged. The FBI gets a court order to shut down the CBI pending a full investigation.
Episode 8
Red John
Sun, Nov 24, 201344 mins
Gale Bertram, eludes the police with his armed companion Oscar Cordero and proposes a meeting with Patrick at his wife's cemetery. The knucklehead FBI boss, who already shut down the CBI indefinitely and treats Lisbons team as virtual criminals, has them arrested for armed opposition to his attempts to stop Patrick, in fact a ploy to follow him, in vain.
Episode 9
My Blue Heaven
Sun, Dec 1, 201343 mins
Two years after the death of Red John, Patrick Jane is living in a paradisaical island, where he knows the locals. Lisbon is working in a small town in Washington, where she is the chief of police. Patrick meets the tourist Kim Fischer and he spends the day with her, apparently having a crush on her. Meanwhile FBI Agent Dennis Abbott arrives in the island with two other agents and propose a work in the FBI as a consultant; in return, Patrick would have all his charges dropped. Patrick Jane includes his conditions and Abbots sign them. But when they arrive in the USA, Patrick learns Abbott's true intentions.
Episode 10
Green Thumb
Sun, Dec 8, 201344 mins
Locked-up in a Texan FBI facility by agent Abbott, who threatens with a murder trial, Patrick doesn't give in for months, sticking to his demands. He's finally 'given a chance at redemption' on haughty agent Kim Fischer's ad hoc team to search for missing New York software genius Abel Schneiderman, who wrote crucial financial programs, able to disturb Wall Street and the world economy. Patrick concentrates on Abel's gypsy wife Defiance Schneiderman and their Vietnamese landlord Mr. Nguyen, ignoring a ransom demand, then escapes. FBI analyst Jason Wylie joins the team by proving his whiz talent trough Choi. Patrick lets himself by caught to solve the case and his status in the FBI, even gets Lisbon to volunteer for his new team.
Episode 11
White Lines
Sun, Jan 5, 201440 mins
Patrick arrives in his new Texan FBI HQ and accepts to help investigate the murder on five DEA agents in Corpus Christi. First agent Kim Fischer, officially in charge, must accept his latest demand, a comfy couch, but bonding with Lisbon, she starts to settle into giving Jane what he wants. The DAA agent in charge presents plausible suspects from the Colombian drug cartel-related gang his team was investigating, but one by one is murdered too. Patrick takes a special, seemingly romantic interest in Krystal Markham, 'widow' of the first of those, while whiz analyst Jason Wylie elaborates an idea to trace suspects by car motor sound.
Episode 12
The Golden Hammer
Sun, Jan 12, 201442 mins
The team goes to investigate the suspicious death of a man who works for a company that occasionally works for the Pentagon. Jane thinks the man suspected that someone at the company was passing secrets. So they set a trap and find the middle man. They need to make the person they are looking for feel safe so they arrest the man's brother for his murder. Lisbon is approached by Ardiles, the prosecutor she worked with at the CBI. And he says he thinks someone is following him. Lisbon thinks he's paranoid.
Episode 13
Black Helicopters
Sun, Mar 9, 201442 mins
Patrick arrives in Mexico, driving his new mobile home HQ, before the flown-in FBI team to investigate the murder of a female Justice department lawyer whose corpse was dumped bizarrely besides the region's drug cartel's conventional 'graveyard'. He tracks the case back to Texas via human traffic tunnel to the inhospitable estate of an anti-government self-contained community, yet manages to get cordially invited to screen the members. Meanwhile Lisbon calls a marker, as advised by Jane, on LaRoche, to help Wayne and Van Pelt investigate the mysterious spying on the old CBI team.
Episode 14
Grey Water
Sun, Mar 16, 201442 mins
A previously beaten-up local environmental activist is murdered while a small oil company practices the explosively controversial drilling technique fracking in his town. The team finds possible motives in conflicts in the company and the victim's family and community. Meanwhile Wayne and Grace become intrusion victims of the mystery CSI veterans stalker and are brought in as FBI case consultants. Abbott fakes compliance with legal moves to stop the investigation against a rich ex-con suspect on the shortlist.
Episode 15
White as the Driven Snow
Sun, Mar 23, 201443 mins
While Wayne visits their former colleagues as FBI consultant, his wife Grace is kidnapped from their home. Last shortlist suspect Richard Haibach is arrested but came perfectly prepared even before his lawyer Laura Dubin arrives. The pair is abducted by Jane, who drops her on the road, and Wayne, who can't resist threatening Richard at gunpoint. When Patrick holds him back, the fiend gets hold of the gun and orders them to his late grandfather's cabin, where his sister Hazel guards Grace. However, the Haibachs are still in for a crucial surprise too.
Episode 16
Violets
Sun, Mar 30, 201441 mins
Hearing the FBI art colleague Marcus Pike's 'clean hands' team must deal with a master thief's gang, who made their first-ever kill, Patrick offers his team's help. Abbott plays along, even follows Jane's equally elaborate and mysterious instructions. Thus Patrivk and 'wife' Teresa pose as ideal marks to lure their sole mastermind suspect Edwin MacKaye trough his henchman Aaron Pulaski.
Episode 17
Silver Wings of Time
Sun, Apr 13, 201442 mins
David Ronaldo is the sole victim of a carefully directed bomb at a bus stop, from which his bag was stolen. Steered by Patrick, the team works out it was the work of dodgy private detective Peter Koch, who was killed at home hours later, and an airhead accomplice. Ronaldo's lifework was fighting the capital conviction of Luis Cruz, who is about to be executed in Texas for the murder of remarried Dr. Edward Feinberg's wife. Patrick devises a sting to lure the real killer into confession while the hunt for the never-found murder weapon rushes on.
Episode 18
Forest Green
Sun, Apr 20, 201444 mins
The younger sister of a woman whose corpse was found outside Kenyon Russell's Texan exclusive all-male club believed she put her trough college with a job as speech consultant, but is fact the victim used an alias to work in Peter Kilgallen's discrete brothel on club land. The looks into staff, including the discrete concierge, and guests, including adulterous golf pro Grant Kimura, whose cart was used, as well as FBI-investigated major investment fraud suspect Marvin Gryska, who seeks any way out, and lawyer Gregory Dyer, a rare regular guest. An elaborate trap is set up.
Episode 19
Brown Eyed Girls
Sun, Apr 27, 201443 mins
Bumping into to a man at a taco stand, Patrick deducts from his knocked-over shopping bags content that he must be holding a girl kidnapped and calls Lisbon, who is not amused to miss a date with her art crime lover. However they find in his home a dying girl. Patrick believes his protestations of innocence, and proves by hypnosis that he actually found the girl at a desolate spot, which provides clues for a series of abductions. It amount to white slavery, on a route to Mexico, which Patrick infiltrates with Abboot to lure the elusive masterminds into Texas.
Episode 20
Il Tavolo Bianco
Sun, May 4, 201441 mins
Patrick agrees to be the accused in a doctored grand jury procedure to determine if his deal not to be tried for murder in exchange for consulting with he FBI must be rescinded, to trap presumably corrupted jurors who let off a mob baron. The team is only informed after testimonies as hostile witnesses, which infuriates Lisbon, who still hasn't decided whether to follow agent Marcus Pike when he's promoted to Washington. Patrick realizes the real felon is none other then the haughty female prosecutor and provokes the mobster. Meanwhile Cho's crime scene investigation and Wylie's eye for what doesn't fit enable Jane to set a trap for the accomplices of the white slavers, who turn out to have a macabre 'medical' side business.
Episode 21
Black Hearts
Sun, May 11, 201441 mins
Cho is investigating transplant clinics that might have used the organs of the girls and Patrick notes that their blood type is indicated on their feet. Ari and Ray Qasimi are stabbed to death in the prison and Wiley finds who owns the truck that was transporting the girls. Their prime suspect is Michael Ridley, but they have difficulties to find evidence to incriminate him. Meanwhile Pike presses Lisbon to go to Washington and she gives her final answer.
Episode 22
Blue Bird
Sun, May 18, 201443 mins
After Patrick solves a fatal dorm drama without even concentrating, distracted by the prospect of Lisbon moving to DC, the team is commandeered 'no excuses' for a high-profile case. An anonymous letter, claiming to be from a cocky killer, gives a clue about the old, unsolved society murder in the Florida keys of Don De Jorio's first wife, mother of now adolescent daughter Christie. While investigating and trapping suspects, Patrick enjoys sort of courting Lisbon, which is cut short by an embarrassing truth coming to her ears. The trap works, but Jane only cares to act for once out of passionate emotion, regardless of the risks.