The Mentalist 4x11: Always Bet on Red

Original Air Date: 12 January 2012

Storyline: Jane and the CBI must narrow down the long list of suspects after a high-end divorce attorney with many enemies is killed on his speed boat. Meanwhile, the FBI questions Jane about Panzer's murder and Red John's involvement.Best Quote:

Jane: What does it matter who killed Panzer? It was the San Joaquin killer.
Darcy: So you said, but I studied Panzer very carefully. There's not a lot of evidence to support that.
Jane: Not your kind of evidence. He was the San Joaquin killer.
Lisbon: I agree.
Darcy: It is possible, but his murderer still has to be apprehended.
Jane: Why?
Darcy: Because killing someone without government permission is wrong?

Review: Red John is like an annoying mosquito that won't let you sleep at night; whenever you think you got rid of him and you get to rest, he comes buzzing near your ear all over again. And now, with Jane practically inviting him to kill someone, Red John will probably take a closer interest in him than before. Their relationship has always been an interestingly close one, with the serial killer playing a cat and mouse game with Patrick and sparring his life in more than one occasion, but things are going to get even more intense now. I agree with Lisbon, inciting him to kill Panzer will just take the game to the next level and Jane will have to go to great lengths to protect the people he cares about.

It was going to be only a matter of time until someone else asked Jane if he really killed Red John. I am actually surprised neither of his team mates - especially Cho - asked this so far and they just blindly believed that Timothy Carter was the most wanted serial killer out there. I am pretty sure agent Darcy will not be the last one to think that Jane might have made a mistake and then troubles will start again for the ex-psychic.
Darcy's inquiry into Panzer's death and the danger she herself got in sue to her involvement in the case made Patrick do things he'd never done before. He's always been somewhat of a cheater when it came to justice and his own moral beliefs rarely match the law system, but I don't remember ever seeing him blame innocent people of murder or planting evidence. I fear this may come against him at some point.
I wasn't equally excited about the case - the murder of a divorce attorney, except for the explosion part and his blown up leg being chewed on by a shark. I felt that was retribution for him yelling at Lisbon just seconds before for being late to their meeting. But this murder brought Summer - the hooker turned CI - back. I'm not a fan of Samaire Armstrong, but I have a crush on her character in this series, mainly because Summer knows how to make Cho blush. I love her lack of inhibitions and anyone capable of making the stern agent find himself at least slightly baffled is my hero.
Rigsby and Van Pelt stayed in the background this week, but each had their moment - Rigsby with his lawyer joke, and Grace showing that she still has issues when she told Colette Santori that "men lie... and kill."The Mentalist 4x10: Fugue in Red Back to Season 4