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The Mentalist Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2014 - 2015
Episode 1
Nothing But Blue Skies
Sun, Nov 30, 201442 mins
An undercover DEA agent has been murdered in the bowling bar where he was on the trail of an arms dealing drug fiend. Although Ken Spackman, the liaised agent in charge, forbids compromising the cover and hence possibly the while drug cartel chase, Jane quickly does so, promising to make up for it royally, and indeed even delivers an old child kidnapping and murder case. Agent Marcus Pike graciously accepts being dumped now Patrick has declared his love to elated Lisbon, yet asks his rival what he has to offer her in practical terms, while he packs and makes room for a new team member, Quantico rookie Michelle Vega.
Episode 2
The Greybar Hotel
Sun, Dec 7, 201441 mins
The CIA wants sneaky insight in presumed arms dealers contacts via a parallel smuggle, broken-up luxury cars. Master car thief Cole Foster escaped but his blindly devoted girl friend is jailed, so Lisbon becomes her cell mate. The team makes the best of clues, but Patrick decides to stage a breakout, which proves really dangerous once he must give chase outside. Meanwhile Cho breaks in newbie Vega.
Episode 3
Orange Blossom Ice Cream
Sun, Dec 14, 201442 mins
The CIA asks the FBI to accept Jane's jail-escaped 'ex' Erica Flynn"s condition to help retrieve from her Slowak lover Jan Nemic, a Russian mob-trained slick arms and other contraband dealer for terrorists, a fortune in counterfeiter-priceless passport chips, in exchange for a pardon. So Patrick accepts to meet them in Nemic's Beirut home, volunteering as stunt memory courier for an unknown crime deal. Lisbon, his backup under an alias, is jealous of Erica even before being turned in by her to win Nemic's confidence. Cho poses as Jane to entrap the US party of the deal, but that goes utterly wrong. As Patrick expected, Erica planned to cheat on everyone, even him.
Episode 4
Black Market
Sun, Dec 21, 201442 mins
The team investigates a murder linked to a counterfeit diamond operation, but an illness forces Jane to direct his colleagues from the office as he recuperates. Meanwhile, Abbott is concerned that transgressions in his past could harm is wife's chance to obtain a prestigious job in Washington D.C.
Episode 5
The Silver Briefcase
Sun, Dec 28, 201440 mins
While their FBO team beats a military one in a simulated combat, Patrick gets convinced that their cocky CO, highly-decorated colonel Aaron Raymond, has murdered his wife. Without due cause, only an informal investigation is allowed, but Jane finds the adulterer's mistress and plays them against each-other.
Episode 6
Green Light
Wed, Jan 7, 201542 mins
DEA supervisor Bill Peterson's team is under FBI investigation, as a mole is suspected to have messed up several operations against the Mexican Sousa drug cartel, recently costing one agent's life in Steven Korbell's Houston restaurant. Cornered, Peterson threatens to ruin Abbot's career and his wife's with the upcoming senatorial hearing unless his failure is represented as crucial cooperation. Patrick and Wylie work out the drug scum's communication method, Jane devises a tiered trap for the potential DEA traitors.
Episode 7
Little Yellow House
Wed, Jan 14, 201544 mins
Patrick takes charges when he and Lisbon hear her slightly troublesome kid brother Jimmy is unwilling to cooperate with FBI and US Attorney Julie Sandoval as witness in the murder of Nathan Barnes, whose mother, a judge, who tried a major case against drug baron George Holiday. After tracing him and third Lisbon brother Stan, a victim of suspiciously 'coincidental' violence, in the Chicago family home, Patrick convinces Jimmy to cooperate. The key is a poker bunch he, Holiday and the victim belong to, including court clerk Charlie McInnis, so Patrick forces an introduction as 'easy prey'.
Episode 8
The Whites of His Eyes
Wed, Jan 21, 201540 mins
A witness of the murder committed by the dangerous criminal Kelvin Bittaker is killed by a sniper while arriving to the courtroom and the FBI assume the protection of the other witness. Lily Stoppard, with the support of Agent Spackman. They also learn that his entire family consists of criminals and the hitman was hired by his mother Belinda Bittaker. Patrick organizes the procedure to transfer Lily from the hotel where they are to the courtroom, but the hitman is inside the hotel.
Episode 9
Copper Bullet
Wed, Jan 28, 201541 mins
Patrick refuses to allow corrupt senior DEA agent Bill Peterson to expose Abbott's execution of a drug baron and thus sabotage his wife's nomination as trade representative, and secure political capital with a new congressman from the opposite party faction. So Patrick mobilizes the rest of the team for an 'informal', unsanctioned sting operation. They locate Bill's illegal gains by breaking into his home and deal with the bullet Peterson presents to the eager congressman's legislative assistant Missy Brammer.
Episode 10
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Wed, Feb 4, 201542 mins
When an armored car is robbed and one security guard is murdered by three thieves, the FBI assume the investigation. Patrick suspects that the robbers were helped by one employee of the bank and he is arrested and Wiley tracks his cellphone GPS. Cho goes to investigate the locations found by Wiley and Vega goes with him. When they reach a diner, Vega identifies two suspects and they shoot at them. Meanwhile the third criminal appears and shots her and she dies at the hospital. Now the FBI agents hunt the criminals helped with homicide detective Brian Portis and they are trapped in a house with two hostages. When the SWAT and the FBI agents are ready to bust the house, Patrick takes an attitude to protect Lisbon..
Episode 11
Byzantium
Wed, Feb 11, 201541 mins
The FBI is investigating the murder of two teenagers with their fingernail missing and Abbott misses Patrick Jane, who vanished. Out of the blue, a woman and her brother Gabriel come to the FBI offering his psychic services and discloses details of the murder, becoming the person of interest. Cho and Wiley stake out Gabriel but Wiley is attacked from behind and does not see the attacker. Patrick is forced to return and helps the case, but meanwhile Gabriel and his sister are murdered.
Episode 12
Brown Shag Carpet
Wed, Feb 18, 201542 mins
The fake psychic having been fond slaughtered, the team is reinforced by former CBI colleague Rick Tork. After a new murder suggests the serial killer is getting bolder, while maintaining his freaky quirks, Patrick agrees, reluctantly and despite Lisbon, to act as bait by starring cockily in a live radio show. One caller calling himself Lazarus proves knowing unpublished details, but when he's traced and identified as Joe Keller, his phone proves a trap. The diversion allowed Lazarus to hit Jane's car and capture him, to test his 'psychic' talent for a surprisingly pious, yet morbid purpose, which Patrick finds out. Wylie brilliantly researches the MO's macabre quirks and drags Cho along to track down suspects in the know.
Episode 13
White Orchids
Wed, Feb 18, 201541 mins
Patrick successfully having proposed to Lisbon, they accept, once he realizes she agreed to a simple ceremony but wants lots of guests, an offer from Dennis Abbott, who is about to hand command to Cho, to host the wedding in his grand home estate. Having learned that serial killer Joe 'Lazarus' Keller didn't die in the cabin fire but escaped, they realize he's likely to come for revenge, but decide to double security without warning the happy couple, only to have to do so last-minute.
