In Red Sky at Night, Lisbon seriously crosses Jane / RJ's line. They have talked about "the ultimate sin" before in Red Brick and Ivy. In this episode, Jane told Lisbon that he trusts his former psychiatrist Sophie because she wouldn't lie to him.

Lisbon doesn't get it. Jane lies all the time - to everyone, so what's the big deal? If Sophie were lying to Jane, she teases him - that would be "the ultimate sin". Lisbon is being ironic. But Jane is serious - "yes it is" he tells her.

So in Red Sky in the Morning - Jane is going to be off the case that Bertram wants him on. Is he pre-occupied with Kristina's abduction by RJ or is he occupied with matters relating to that abduction? Difficult to say as Jane comes and goes at the CBI. And like Clark Kent at the Daily Planet the team is often left to wonder where he is or comments that he is late or not with them. So he has another life.

At any rate, Lisbon lies to Jane to get him on the case. And predictably, Jane tells her he will exact his revenge. That doesn't happen in Season 3.

We learn some fascinating things about Jane / RJ in this episode - no fact once committed ever escapes his memory. But there are a lot of facts he doesn't commit, like the fact that Bertram has taken the top job in the Division. He set that one free he tells Lisbon.

But the fact that she lied to him (the ultimate sin) and tricked him into taking the case has been committed. Therefore, he will exact revenge.

Again we see Jane casting his invisible net for the murderer with his "stupidass diamond story." Again we see Jane's compulsion to poke the bigwig. Lisbon understands he's not fully in control of this. But Jane sees Bertram and he gets his immediate urge to wind him up. Bertram amuses him and Jane sets him up to broadcast the "stupidass diamond story" to tvland.

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"Cho is too hot to handle,baby!! I would just love to see him in an episode where he is hitting on some high society dame , and succeeds at it!"

I like Cho too - I think he is the HOTTIE!!!!!!!

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One of the best clues to the RJ identity is Lisbon's "Sometimes the obvious guy did it. Usually the obvious guy did it."

They all know that RJ does not make mistakes, does not leave a trail, that he stages his murders as theatre, that strategically he is always ahead of them and he has sprung every trap they have set. They know that he is supremely logical and that all systems are permeable to his games. They know that the people who know RJ behave as if in trance. So would they recognize the Master of the Game even if he were to appear as an actor in whatever play he is running?

The CBI has enough evidence to put this together. Why not look at the CBI in terms of its Red John play value and entertain the idea that since RJ has agents involved with the RJ investigation - why wouldn't he be leading it himself?

Perhaps along these lines, Wainwright decides to observe his agents (Jane among them) and see what he can see. He matches observed behavioural traits against a psychopathy test. At best a poor tool. But the qualities of a psychopathic person are known.

The problem is that Wainwright is an academic. He relates to abstractions. He can be looking straight at someone who gets 100% on his test and still not join the dots, even when he confronts Jane with his score.

"Wow" says Jane very upbeat. "Well that certainly explains a lot." Not to Wainwright, however.
"Now I know what I'm dealing with. I'll adjust my behaviour accordingly."
"So you should."

To Wainwright it's ok that he has a psychopath leading the RJ investigation. So, of course, Jane will be able to work with the new boss.

Psychopathy is a huge limitation, even if you are the smartest person in the room. Lisbon could put this together. She is an investigator. Let her investigate.

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Kristina is one of the really interesting characters in The Mentalist. Her character brings a much needed feminine expression to the modern wasteland that is tv generally - she doesn't carry a gun, she isn't trying to outdo the guys, she doesn't swear, she wears a dress and does her hair, her humour has a soft edge, she laughs and flirts. If she did nothing else - that would make her worth watching.

Objectively and morally, channelling souls who now are dead to our world so they can finish the business of their life story is not good idea. Death is, by definition, the finish of their lifestory here. But this is an Illuminist drama and you can't have everything. Kristina does not get the two coins for the fisherman and in that she has a modern take on the life of the soul.

She is frequently attired in black and white - a 'you can't have dark without light' fashion statement if ever there was one. And in the order of nature, the changes that we perceive as opposites are different phases of larger cycles.

If existence does have moral order, however, this idea of 'no dark without light' does not carry over. The most cursory of reflections will discover that a person can be happily occupied with tasks and thoughts that are socially helpful, generous, silly, fun, creative, moral etc and never choose to lie or act in any capacity against the Top 10. Left to themselves free of any social engineering that would incline or compel them otherwise, they need not so choose. So how then are good and evil equal? Unless they have been subject to tv or school or a dystopia from an early age, no 4 year old would say "When I grow up I want to be a ho".

Evil is not necessary to the good. But if we are going to watch Illuminist dramas on tv (is there any other kind?), then we will be led to believe that it is.

Kristina is a character who could go either way.

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The motel room scene with Mars, Johnson and Jane is really important. At the time, Johnson tells Jane that his murder was part of the big picture that would blow his mind. Jane didn't believe him until it was revealed at the end that Johnson knew the tyger, tyger key - to the big picture behind these murders.

By Strawberries and Cream, Jane sketches his idea of the big picture to Bertram, so he has come round to the idea that these murders make sense those terms.

The guy who drove the citrus truck was intriguing. He was hitting on Johnson's girlfriend who would have to die because she was getting too close to Johnson's serial cop killings. He was the one who described her as riding into the moon (a balloon face) - her death. Eerily reminescent of the RJ logo. Citric acid will cut iron. Perhaps a Red John appearance?

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Here's a better explanation for what Pink Tops refers to.

People who are killed in a way that exposes pink brain matter.

Taylor Van Diest in Armstrong BC Canada was killed on Halloween, reportedly by an assault that caused major head injuries.

This episode contained an actress who looked just like Taylor, and who was killed by head injury after passing by an old brick building and while texting a friend frantically, just like Taylor.

The victim in this episode is named Yolanda, nicknamed Yoli.
I write a blog on a website service called Yola.
At the end of this episode, Lisbon says that in connection with her death, Yoli saved many lives.
If I had been intimidated by Taylor's murder and stopped writing my Yola blog about crimes connected to The Mentalist, lives would have been saved? Because these idiots would have stopped killing people around where I live? Just stop it yourself!

I tried to stop the problem myself. I discredited myself publicly, and I stopped writing. Then they went out a few days later and committed a very traumatizing robbery, with the robber wearing black skeleton gloves to match the mask worn by the idiot who tried to rob a store near my house, a few hours after someone sent me an email from RED JOHN, warning I could be next.

This episode has the following names in it, Warren, Dwayne, Russell. That sounds like someone's telling me to Warn Dwayne Russell, which is my brother's name. I guess if I had followed their order, and then nothing happened to him, I'd look like a fool to my family too.

It's time for Mentalist fans to take an hour or two and looks at the evidence that this show is run by people willing to kill and terrorize to hide their stupid secret - the characters are based on the family of Julius Caesar, and they all worked as conmen in western Europe and invented Christianity.

Cho = Chi Rho = Jesus

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"I loved the epsode even though I was freaked out by the clowns! I'm terrified of clowns and I also have something else called Redjohnophobia (the fear of RJ or any horrible, terrifying serial killer!) And did anyone notice if you use the numbers as positions in the alphabet (aka a-1 b-2) the title of the episode spells out RED!!!! Oh and I loved the bit where Grace was questioning the clown and he was trying to hit on her!!!! LOL"

LOL yeah it was awesome and yeah i noticed that xD

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Kristina is not missing...

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Princess, this is my own little theory on the reason L is becoming all soft and acquiescent these days. She thinks J has killed RJ. In her mind, it's over. J can now get on with his life. She's hoping this life includes her and she's taking subtle steps to see it does. Simplistic I know...

This is not necessarily My perspective btw. I don't particularly have to see them together; and only at the end if it's going to be.
I still see J with someone far more feminine and refeened. Sorry shippers, just another opine. And I definitely see and understand your pov.

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