The Mentalist: Season 4

Patrick Jane is detained for killing Timothy Carter (Bradley Whitford) at Pinewood Shopping Mall (recap season 3 finale). Jane cannot prove Carter told him he was Red John, but believes Red John's gun, along with the record of a cell phone call from FBI Agent O'Laughlin, would prove otherwise, but Carter's phone shows no calls from O'Laughlin and no gun is found. D.A. Ardiles obeys CBI Director Bertram's instructions to keep Jane in prison, away from the media, getting bail set at $1 million. Be

Bertram rehires Jane due to his high closure rate, but Lisbon stays suspended and the others are reassigned. Bertram assigns Jane to Ray Haffner's (Reed Diamond) team. Jane meets new colleagues Tork, Masterton, and Niskin over the body of murder victim Markus Kuzmenko, a gym instructor who was hit with a heavy object. Haffner recruits Cho to spy on Jane. Jane uses this to mess with Haffner's team and gets them replaced by Van Pelt and Rigsby. They decide to solve the case before Haffner to get L

Jane and the CBI team are assigned the kidnapping case of 9-year old Conner Flint. He is the son of a former client of Jane's, Elisabeth Flint (Kelli Williams), who believes Jane and her son share a psychic connection, since Jane "predicted" his birth several years ago. Jane butts heads with Elisabeth's new "spiritual advisor", Nathan Glass, who has been leeching money from her. Elisabeth is emotionally and financially vulnerable and lives off of her grown stepson's fortune with her son, Conner,

The team has a new boss, Luther Wainwright (Michael Rady), who is taking over, and the team is helping security at the mayor's rally. The team finds a dead body in an alley. On his way to the murder scene, Jane observes a man in an overcoat with a killer's eyes and alerts the team. Apprehending the man, Henry Tibbs, the team finds him with a fully loaded semiautomatic weapon and take him into custody. Jane is convinced that Tibbs is a threat, but the team has to let him go. The dead man is a pho

The CBI is called to San Felix Island off the California coast, where the body of 19-year old Talia Suarez has been found on a beach. A foster kid after her father's murder, Talia was sexually assaulted, then killed. Jane and Lisbon find all the islanders at a town meeting, where Jane explains that the direction of the sea currents shows the body did not wash ashore from the mainland - Talia was killed on the island. Talia's notebook mentions San's Fish Co. As Lisbon interviews the company owner

Police Chief Marnie Green is found shot dead in the woods with her car. Jane deduces that she was shot and brought to the location in the trunk of her own car. Discovering she was still alive, the killer shot her again and crashed the car. At Green's residence, Rigsby and Lisbon are held at gunpoint by Annie (Madison McLaughlin), Lisbon's teenaged niece who is there with her father, Tommy (Henry Thomas), Lisbon's younger brother, who is now a bail enforcement agent. He is looking for a skip, Car

The team finds the body of 19-year old Michelle Carp in a park with her throat slit neatly, hands and feet carefully tied by wire, and pebbles from the crime scene on her eyes. The method fits four other murders with all victims being teenaged girls dumped in random locations. Jane urges Lisbon to use her instincts, and she chooses to focus on suspect Richard Haibach, a photographer reported for loitering outside high schools. Dubbed as the San Joaquin Killer (SJK), Jane watches Karen Cross (Mis

Undercover cop Yolanda Herrera is found dead with two shots to the back of her head. She was investigating drug dealer Omar Vega (Kamar de los Reyes) and was looking for his current base of operation. Cho picks up smart-mouthed Summer (Samaire Armstrong), who is caught using Yolanda's credit card at a hotel and who was also the person who anonymously called in the shooting. Looking for a deal, Summer tells the team that Vega was looking for more product (cocaine) and revenge after his base was b

NFL quarterback Doc Dugan (Craig Bierko) is getting into his car when his car blows up, but the victim turns out to be his assistant, Jake, who was wearing Doc's jacket so Doc could dodge a subpoena. Jane decides that Doc should play dead to help catch the killer, so only Lisbon, Jane, Doc's agent Alex, and his manager Steve know the truth. Lisbon takes Jake's mother, Valerie, into confidence; she gives the CBI two days to conclude the investigation. Doc's manager and agent both believe his girl

During the search for a firefighter's killer, Jane is attacked and nearly drowned, resulting in a temporary loss of his memory and a return to his pre-CBI con man persona.

Cho's new confidential informant, Summer (Samaire Armstrong), has well-connected lawyer friend Alton Creek contact the CBI after he gets death threats, but he is blown up on his boat just as the team is walking down the pier. Larry Dersh (Don Franklin), Creek's partner, is represented by co-worker Colette (Heather Mazur); both are less than forthcoming with information, but Dersh confirms that Creek and he argued over money. He points the blame at Summer, instead. Agent Susan Darcy (Catherine De

Lisbon returns Van Pelt's necklace that fiance Craig O'Laughlin gave her, now that the investigation into the incident is over. Cho, Jane, and Van Pelt are called to the home of Gabriel Porchetto (Joaquim de Almeida), a leading mobster dying from kidney cancer. His eldest son Gabriel Jr. was the victim of a professional hit, shot dead in the hot tub at a house party. Curtis Nett (Matt Battaglia), Porchetto's enforcer, exchanged fire with the hitman, who escaped over the boundary fence. Jane noti

Wyck Theissens (Andrew Pifko) is found stabbed to death in his rented loft, with a gold-painted feather in his mouth. Jane finds the hidden door into Theissens' true workplace - a tailor shop full of high-end couture dresses, including one with gold-painted feathers. They find the murder weapon - a pair of bloodied tailor's scissors. Theissens’ three young assistants have solid alibis. They were working with Theissens on his comeback - a new line for his former employer Guy Duval (Cosimo Fusco).

Patrick Jane watches as Eve Mulberry (Bonnie Somerville), owner of Luna Valley Vineyards, faces journalists before attending the closing arguments in her trial for the murder of Carlos Ruiz. Jane is convinced she is innocent, but the DA refuses to heed Jane leading Lisbon's team to start an investigation despite damning evidence against Eve. Moreover, Eve admits she lied about her affair with Ruiz earlier. Her husband Peter is devastated, though he had suspected the affair making him a suspect.

The team discovers the body of Natalie Gibecki, a youth counselor, who is suspected to have been on her way to meet a secret lover. Jane receives a call from Erica Flynn (Morena Baccarin), whom Patrick helped put in prison. She offers to help with Natalie's case as she was a client at Erica's matchmaking company. Wainwright agrees and she is furloughed to help with the investigation. Erica mentions that Natalie started dating a married man when she was working with a nonprofit building homes in

An anticult activist, Gabriel Meadows, is found dead. At the crime scene, Jane spots Officer Downs as a member of "Visualize" and identifies him as the person who cleaned up evidence from the scene after a sloppy murder. Founder of "Visualize" Bret Stiles (Malcolm McDowell) personally visits CBI to have the officer admit to evidence tampering. The team find Stiles has no alibi for the time of the murder and they discover his suit covered in blood from a dumpster. Meadows had been investigating a

The CBI investigates the murder of a woman named Matilda Cruz, whose killer is suspected to be someone she met in an online chatroom for Shakespeare lovers. Her boss, Gary Philo (Craig Sheffer), announces a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of her killer. Jane announces Philo is the killer and gets punched in the face. FBI Agent Susan Darcy requests Jane to join her on a case. Lisbon and Jane suspect Darcy is hiding something and Lisbon urges Jane to tell her the truth abo

The CBI investigates the murder of cancer patient Archer Braddock, whose buried body was uncovered by escaped tigers. He is survived by his live-in adult daughter Liesl, and estranged adult son Aden (August Emerson). Archer, a recovering alcoholic, had kicked Aden out a year ago over drug addiction. He had recently married Helen (Rebecca McFarland), a fellow cancer patient he met at a support group. Jane unmasks Helen, who had faked cancer to marry and inherit from a dying wealthy man, and she i

Casino employee Ryan De Stefano is found shot dead near his car on Highway 49. At the Golden Fox Casino, manager Dante Holmes says he fired Stefano as a security guard after learning of his criminal past. Jane runs into his old magician friend, Jack Hellion (Andrew Rothenberg), at the casino. The CBI discovers that De Stefano got into a fight with Holmes over his firing, but Jane suspects the casino is connected with the mafia. The team discovers that the passenger in De Stefano's car was Holly

On his school's baseball field, English teacher Jack McTierney is found with his skull bashed in. On his body are Ecstasy pills and a letter. The letter leads to Lindy Hayes, who had left school 2 years ago. McTierney was urging her to leave prostitution and return to school. Hayes says he had "projects" trying to help people. Jane gets involved with the school's production of the play Hamlet, impressing theater teacher Ms. Austin (Emily Bergl). Jane learns that the school's career counselor, Mr

The CBI team investigates the murder of Archie Bloom, aged 19, found handcuffed to the steering wheel of his car, which had been doused in gasoline and set alight. A woman's shoe heel at the scene leads the team to the stage door of a drag queen cabaret troupe. The lead act, Glenda Snow (Carlton Wilborn), says he lost the heel before the fire occurred. Van Pelt discovers Bloom's secret film footage showing his father, Archie Senior (William R. Moses), abusing him and handcuffing him to his desk

While investigating the murder of a surfer, Lisbon reconnects with her former fiancé, Kenny Johnson, who she hasn't seen in over a decade. Also, Cho questions his decision to be in a relationship with Summer.

Exactly nine years after the day his wife and daughter were murdered by Red John, Jane finds a note on his windshield saying 'Happy Anniversary.' At the cemetery, a young girl brings Jane a message from Red John asking him if he has given up yet. Jane takes the day off and after drinking heavily, burns his Red John files. The next morning, he tells Lisbon and Wainwright he is giving up on Red John because nothing has changed. The team investigates the death of Antonio Castro, whose decomposed bo

Six months after he was fired from the CBI, Jane hits Vegas and meets Lorelei Martins (Emmanuelle Chriqui) just before he is attacked by a heavyweight for a fake psychic reading. He is beaten up by the guy and is finally tased and arrested. Lorelei posts his bail and pays him a visit, and the two sleep together till she tells him the next morning that she does what Red John tells her to do and that Patrick's freedom and their night together was a gift from Red John, who has come to see Jane as a