The Mentalist: Season 5

The CBI team is called to investigate a double homicide but are interrupted by FBI Agents Reede Smith (Drew Powell) and Gabe Mancini (Ivan Sergei). The CBI Sacramento Field Division Office with the CHP Central's Division and the FBI Austin Texas Field Division Office blame each other for botching the Red John case and get into a fight. Director Gale Bertram (Michael Gaston) instructs Jane and Lisbon to mend ways with the FBI. Jane is desperate to keep Lorelei in CBI custody given Red John's admi

A diamond cutter, Victor, is murdered in his own home and a large blue diamond he was carrying is missing. While at the crime scene, Jane makes a cup of tea with a used teabag that happens to contain belladonna, which causes him to have hallucinations. While under its effects he has conversations with a teenage version of his murdered daughter Charlotte (Dove Cameron) where she repeatedly tells him to stop his obsession with Red John and to work towards having a life. By retracing everything he

A bank is robbed, but in the process, one of the bank employees, Ernie, is shot and killed. The team assumes the robbers killed him, but Jane finds the fact that the door to the security deposit room was opened after the robbery, very suspicious. The CBI are able to link John Hutten to two other robberies and realise that he is the only common member in each robbery crew. Jane senses that Hutten had an inside man on this particular job and finds Ernie was the inside man. His fiance and coworker,

Rigsby is forced to report to LaRoche (Pruitt Taylor Vince) from the Professional Services Unit when he uses lethal force in a case. He recounts the case - the murder of Andy Huff who has no record. The team realise another person was at the crime scene and left wounded. They find him in a nearby shed and it turns out to be Steve Rigsby (William Forsythe), Rigsby's father, who is seriously wounded. Steve refuses to talk and Lisbon tells Rigsby he can't work the case. Huff's business partner Sama

The episode starts several years ago with Patrick Jane walking into CBI, inquiring about the Red John investigation. He speaks with agent Teresa Lisbon briefly, who rebuffs him, and asks him to schedule a formal meeting. He uses his powers of manipulation to force one of her subordinates, an older agent, to punch him in the nose. For fear of a lawsuit, this prompts agent Minelli to allow Jane access to all of the Red John files. Throughout the episode, Patrick Jane rides along with agent Lisbon

The CBI, while on the murder scene of a community security guard, happen to unearth a kidnapping. Investigating, the team learns that it could have been a case of mistaken identity (where a wrong couple is kidnapped). Jane plans and executes an elaborate scheme to catch the suspect, with positive results. Meanwhile, Jane furthers his investigation into the disappearance of Lorelei Martins (the last known confederate of Red John) from the Sacramento County Jail, by interviewing the prisoner trans

The team investigates the murder of a TV journalist who specialized in "human interest stories". The investigation leads them to a powerful business tycoon she wanted to expose for the genocide of an Amazonian village for financial gain. But the real culprit turns out to be an older TV colleague, whom Jane exposes on air. The tycoon's assistant is killed because she wanted to testify against him, but they can't touch him. Lisbon swears she'll get him someday. Meanwhile, Jane's research on Lorele

With the help of Bret Stiles, Jane puts a plan into action to get Lorelei Martins out of prison, with the hope that she will lead him directly to Red John. After the successful prison break, the CBI is assisted by Agent Bob Kirkland from Homeland Security and they believe Lorelei has abducted Jane to take him to Red John. On the run, Lorelei and Jane argue and she blurts out that she is surprised Jane and Red John didn't become friends the moment they shook hands. The CBI find Lorelei's estrange

Jane looks into new connections to Red John while the CBI team investigates the murder of a real estate agent, Lem, who was a gang member till 2 years ago. Digging into his gang background, Cho meets Agent Tamsin Wade (Monique Gabriela Curnen) of the Rapid Action Task Force who invites him to join the force and Cho agrees. Jane obsessively creates a list of all the people he has met and shaken hands with and who could be Red John.

The death of a young botanist, Jeremy Reese, leads the team into the lucrative world of medical marijuana. Jeremy was working with a secret lab researching marijuana cultivation. He removed some seeds from their facility since that was his work. Jane determines Jeremy was murdered for the seeds and devises a plan by planting the information about a fake marijuana dealer named Olivier Ganz who Jeremy was going to sell his seeds to. Rigsby poses as Ganz to see who will approach Ganz to try and sel

The CBI team visits a high-end California rehab center in order to investigate the death of a young model who was a patient there, while Lisbon ramps up her investigation into Tommy Volker.

A week after the killing of Tommy Volker's associate, Charles Milk, the team find the remains of Horatio Jones, a geologist who had been working for one of Volker's firms and was due to testify against Volker two months ago when he went missing. Jane finds a remote-controlled toy car at the crime scene and determines that it is likely a young boy witnessed the murder. DNA evidence shows there was a second killer other than Milk. Jane finally meets Volker and riles him to identify Don Clyde (Stev

Red John and the Visualize cult seem to be connected to a 25-year-old triple homicide at a barn on Elliston Farm. Lisbon's ten-year anniversary with the CBI is celebrated and she is offered a job outside of CBI by Ray Haffner (Reed Diamond) who is starting his own security firm. She declines and chooses to stay, moreover, after learning that Haffner is a member of Visualize, and possibly worked at Elliston Farm where Red John painted his first smiley face. The team talk to Jason Cooper from Visu

Jane and the CBI team delves into the cutthroat world of academics in a case involving the death of a college graduate student, Linda, at a natural history museum. Through the use of a ruse on how to develop a photographic memory like Jane has, It is revealed she was killed by another student to prevent her from reporting that he took credit for a new breed of moth she discovered.

The CBI investigates the murder of an elderly heiress whose remains are found in her dark and spooky mansion. Jane notices some missing knickknacks and, after investigating a vet's disappearance from an assisted living facility for Veterans, the CBI discover the remains were of the missing vet, not the heiress, with the intention for the heiress to fake her death and escape prosecution for embezzling from the Veterans' Home.

In her attempt to find Red John's role in her sister Miranda's death, Lorelei Martins goes rogue and tries to hunt Red John herself. She shoots and kills the manager of a battered-women's shelter for information on her sister's death. Agent Bob Kirkland (Kevin Corrigan) from Homeland Security contacts Lisbon to join forces in their hunt for Lorelei. Regretting Lorelei's violent spree, Jane is forced to re-evaluate his part in her escape with Lisbon. The team investigate Miranda's death leading t

A medic, Lucy, from an Army post is found dead with her throat slit and the only witness to the crime is a PTSD patient, Pete (Jesse Luken), who suffers from short-term memory impairment and is unable to testify. The CBI find that Lucy was a stickler for procedure and rules and had been covering for a younger soldier, Rose, who had filed a sexual harassment complaint against Lieutenant Lewis but he has an alibi. The team find a soldier, Martines, who was seeing Lucy as part of his recovery progr

The team investigates the murder of an actress, Sharon, working on a musical who was killed the night before the opening of the show and thrown off a balcony. Suspects include the director, producer, and cast members including those who wanted Sharon's job. Her boyfriend tells the team that Sharon had been scared after she was mugged a few days ago and had suspected that someone from the musical was involved. Jane identifies Miranda, in line to replace Sharon, as a cutthroat competitive person a

The team investigate the death of Hollis Percy who owned the whole town of Percy. Lisbon meets Kirkland for coffee and Jane and Lisbon find his questions about leads on the Red John case odd. Jane and Lisbon meet Hollis' family - widow Joanna and son Ian and are told that the sale of the town had led to tension between Hollis and Francisco Navarro (Harry Groener). Navarro had disagreed with Hollis about selling off property in the town which would have led to the cancellation of his cowboy show.

After a woman is killed, the CBI discovers her marriage was having problems and that the husband is having an affair with a dominatrix. They went to a radio show to fix their marriage, and then to private sessions with the show's host/counselor. Van Pelt and Rigsby go undercover as a couple with relationship problems on the radio show. During the show, their true feelings for each other start to come out. After the killer is apprehended, Van Pelt goes to Rigsby's house and they kiss.

Agent LaRoche personally requests Jane's help when armed robbers break in to his home and steal his prized tupperware box from his safe. LaRoche tells Jane that he has been investigating a securities leak in the CBI and a note was left threatening him to drop the investigation by the end of the day. Thinking that Jane is the only one who knows what's in the box, LaRoche asks him to find it. Jane and Lisbon look into the robbery and track the wife of the locksmith who was shot dead on the scene a

Red John reappears and kills a young woman named Eileen Turner at a motel. He leaves a phone number on the wall which leads Jane and Lisbon to her social worker, Miriam (Laura San Giacomo). She tells them to find her husband, Roddy Turner as the team also try to determine where Eileen's child, Caitlyn may be. Jane immediately recognises his address as the same as where he lived with his carni folk in Carson Springs. He meets his old friends, Pete (M. C. Gainey) and Samantha, and Roddy is Pete's