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Chat about His Red Right Hand
Dec 4 2011, 8:13 PM EST | Post edited: Dec 4 2011, 8:13 PM EST
Wow, this was such a crazy episode..
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Ytene
1. RE: Chat about His Red Right Hand
Dec 12 2011, 12:05 AM EST | Post edited: Dec 12 2011, 12:05 AM EST
The red right hand is an idea that would be worth pursuing in Season 4. By the end of Season 3, PJ has been tracking Red John through his organisation - his inside man/men in the CBI.

The Red Queen (3.16) episode follows on from the murder of Todd (one of RJ's men). The RJ insiders burn one of RJ's tygers in CBI interrogation. This was an inside job, so they have to frame someone. PJ anticipates that it will be Hightower whose innocence he comes to believe.

If this were a game of chess (which it is basically), PJ 's strategy is to stage Hightower's escape in a way that will appear to confirm RJ's CBI insiders in their sucess. Using Hightower as a Red Queen, he will get RJ to sacrifice his bishop/s in order to save her as the framee. Their oblique moves within the CBI have long obstructed justice in the Red John case.

So this was a Knight's move on a bishop.

And the plan works. Bertram,confident that Hightower will be good for Todd's murder, kicks back with LaRouche (who should be suspected as an RJ insider). He obviously regards Lisbon as an innocent. The innocent in William Blake's Cradle Song.

Bertram: "There are worse things that could happen. We have an open an shut case. It's a blemish to be sure, but at least we can clase the book on this ugly chapter in the CBI. "When thy little heart doth wake. Then the dreadful night shall break."

LaRouche identifies these lines from William Blake - whose poetry RJ and his insiders use as code.

The Mentalist is an Illuminist story. The awakening of Illuminism is about how the world really works, about how covert power operates in, around and through all institutions. The story of The Mentalist takes us into that terra inconita. To what end? We'll see if the writers have the guts to go there. At this point - maybe yes. Maybe no.



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