Mentalist who is panzer

The show has taken taken an interesting turn. It is very watchable TV. Simon Baker plays it well and some pretty good directing too. Jane clearky stated to Lisbon that even though her hands were tied he could still do something about the SJK killer, and its my oppinion that he went onto Karens show with the intention of getting Panzer to mouth of at Red John.

When doing all this analysis, you must keep one thing in mind: this show, as with all other shows on network TV, has one goal in mind and that is to make money.

They make money by increasing viewership for the network which in turn increases advertising dollars for the network which in turn allows the producers to charge the network more for their show. Getting us viewers talking about who might be Red John and could it really be Patrick Jane leads to higher viewership and plays right into their hands. This makes for a great theater and keeps us interested in the show. He is a fine actor and I am betting they would like to move him right into a new series they would hope to be a hit.

CBS certainly has the goal of maximizing profit. WBTV is eventually going to want to be able to sell the syndication rights, and make their money.

Jane is clearly NOT the killer. Why waste time running down this bizarre side path? Ha ha ha. Jane is not Red John. Jane knew Red John would take vengeance. Serial killer killing serial killer Say that 10 times fast. Hmmm… not a fan of this theory. Jane just cannot have killed Jared Renfrew. Further, Jane has spoken to at least five persons who claim to know RJ. Would they all just play along with Patrick being unconscious of being RJ?

And why? As said, not convinced…. For me, one of the most upsetting things about Bradley Whitford as RJ was that it felt like being introduced to someone you had been dying to meet and then only getting to talk to them for 20 seconds. As much of this story as has been driven by or centered around RJ, I want to know so much more about his backstory and personality than has been revealed about any of the abandoned potential suspects.

Coming to think about it, I start to understand this episode less and less. First, Jane goes through a big deal of hastle to setup Hightower as a bait in such a way that RJ doesnt see the trap. Now, he gets the bait for free and just lets RJ kill the dude! Thing is that maybe RJ waited for a certain moment to return.

Did anyone else notice that Jane never drinks tea in this episode? Only water.. His obsession with tea has always been intriguing to me. Perhaps its the way he remains Jane and not rj. Being attached to every rj case, ex carny , the fact that he catches every killer on the show.. I mean the fact that he can catch clues that are otherwise unseen, would suggest that he, alone would be the only one able to murder all of these people and manipulate all of the evidence thus evading the law.

Smiley face does indeed look just like Jane. How do we know he spoke with Red John? It could all be in his head, like papa Harry is to Dexter. At the very least RJ is someone extremely close to Jane, maybe his father or an evil twin brother, etc. The name Jane is opposite to the name John, i.

Jane Doe vs. John Doe. Color blind people cannot distinguish between green and red, they both appear to be the same color. Just like William Blake has a poem about Lambs the flip side of Tiger. One is evil, one is good. Which also means that Red John can get others to imitate him. So even Jane as an alter ego could have programmed the man Jane killed. If it somehow turns out not to be Jane, it will at least have to be someone with similar mentalist abilities, not just some run of the mill serial killer.

Might be a clue there. Well still a little on the wall about all of this. It was pretty obvious, yes he was smart and yes he knew the Patrick Jane was on to him, but he was to conceded and it was his down fall. Lisbon- everyone wants to automatically discard her. But lets look at the facts. In the end of last season, when the FBI Agent walked back to the police car at the gate and killed the two policemen.

He did it very quickly and shot them both right in the forehead killing them instantly. Lisbon has access to all high security and law enforcement information. She is also usually never around when RJ commits a murder. She lives alone and no one actually suspects her in Law Enforcement because she is heading the investigation. Lisbon is a top choice for me.

Jane- Yes he would be the obvious person and as in the past with other shows its split personality issues.. But I believe this has been over done and it would just make the show in the end something to not remember. It would be just another I should have known. If Jane is the killer then there would have been no reason to kill his own family.

The police were not on to him as being a potential killer. So why try to throw them off. So if you really think about it Red John always seems to be one step ahead of Jane. And the only reason is because he is always talking to Lisbon and telling her his plans when they start to pan out.

Lisbon knows Jane will kill Red John and if he finds out who it is. Hence why Red John is using so many helpers and why Lisbon was shot just to throw off Jane. Remember the Pshychologist that killed his partner. In that show Jane specifically stated that when Red John killed someone he would put the smiley face in such as a place so that it made the ultimate impact and created terror.

It would be the first thing that someone would see and then they would see the body. But in the SJK killing you saw the body and then had to look to the right to see the smiley face… This would give Jane the ability to not be held accountable for killing an innocent man as mistaken for Red John because this killing he will say is not Red John.

All teenage girls, all bound, all with their throats slit and all dumped in random locations with objects on their eyes.

Jane tells Lisbon that rather than doing the same thing Fresno did over again, she should trust her intuition and pick the suspect she likes most and start there. After deliberating, she decides on Richard Haibach, a man suspected of at least ogling teenage girls, and sets out with Van Pelt to question him.

This sets us up for how the rest of the show plays out, with Lisbon and Jane each following their own favorite suspect rather than working together.

Panzer is suspiciously avid in his interest in the case, claiming it started because the first victim, Molly Mayer, lived in his neighborhood. Both are very viable suspects. Lisbon starts with hers by sending Cho out to canvas the area around the most recent murder. Cho finds someone who saw Haibach at a nearby bodega an hour before the murder. As Panzer talks to Jane on the phone, a stone wall with a dark smudge can be seen behind him. After he hangs up, it can be seen that the smudge is actually a painting of some owls on the wall.

Jane leaves her father to his memories and asks Panzer to show him his files. It turns out Panzer has an entire room full of files on the case. Panzer looks shaken to find it playing when he comes back into the room. Because there are no eyes. He pledges to catch him by the morning, before the FBI steps in. The plan is to take away what he craves most, the admiration of the media.

They need to arrest someone he would find pathetic and unworthy to force a reaction. Patrick Jane : You really have no idea what you're saying. James Panzer : Red John is dead! And the fact that he allowed himself to be caught and killed by you proves my point. An amaeture already forgotten.

James Panzer : Oh uh, congratulations by the way. Patrick Jane : Thank you. For what? James Panzer : You killed Red John. Patrick Jane : Oh right. James Panzer : What was it like? Patrick Jane : Yeah. Patrick Jane : So James, what's your deal?

You've devoted your life to the capture of a serial killer. That's either very saintly or very weird. James Panzer : That's a very odd notion coming from you.