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Krimpet12
1/12/2012 episode
Jan 12 2012, 11:46 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 12 2012, 11:46 PM EST
At the end while getting in car at the cemetery, did anyone notice how Jane was looking across the a field. The camera panned away to where he was looking and a late 60's early 70"s white four door vehicle passes by, looks to be a Dodge. Anyway as the vehicle passes you see the driver look Janes way. You can actually see his face but it's distorted by the windshield. He looks to be bald. Remember this vehicles description, it had the old low beam, high beam headlamps separated and it was surrounded with well kept chrome. Has anyone seen this vehicle in a prior episode? Do you find this valuable?    
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RedRigsby
RedRigsby
1. RE: 1/12/2012 episode
Jan 15 2012, 11:30 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 15 2012, 11:30 AM EST
"At the end while getting in car at the cemetery, did anyone notice how Jane was looking across the a field. The camera panned away to where he was looking and a late 60's early 70"s white four door vehicle passes by, looks to be a Dodge. Anyway as the vehicle passes you see the driver look Janes way. You can actually see his face but it's distorted by the windshield. He looks to be bald. Remember this vehicles description, it had the old low beam, high beam headlamps separated and it was surrounded with well kept chrome. Has anyone seen this vehicle in a prior episode?"
2 things to note about this...

1. Jane was NOT looking the way that the far away shot with the car was from. Look at it again.

2. You are right though. This shot WAS supposed to suggest Red John was present, be it in that car or somewhere nearby (this could be a POV shot?). I know this because I asked the writers on their official twitter account (@mentalistwriter) and they said I had a 'Good outlook' ;)
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Krimpet12
2. RE: 1/12/2012 episode
Jan 15 2012, 9:06 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 15 2012, 9:06 PM EST
I don't agree with your comment on the vehicle being far away. It was so close to the camera shot that it didn't fit in the shot. The vehicles across the cemetery field were far away. I know what the writers want you to believe, whether Red John was present. Why pan away to a vehicle driving so close to a camera for no reason. I guarantee 80% ofvthe people that watched the show never saw the white vehicle. Only time will tell.

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RedRigsby
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3. RE: 1/12/2012 episode
Jan 16 2012, 1:13 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 16 2012, 1:13 PM EST
"I don't agree with your comment on the vehicle being far away. It was so close to the camera shot that it didn't fit in the shot. The vehicles across the cemetery field were far away. I know what the writers want you to believe, whether Red John was present. Why pan away to a vehicle driving so close to a camera for no reason. I guarantee 80% ofvthe people that watched the show never saw the white vehicle. Only time will tell.

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You've misread what I was saying. I didn't say the vehicle was far away, I was simply referring to that shot as 'the far away shot' in which the car passes the screen. You are right, the car passes very close to the screen and fills it. What I was saying is that Jane was NOT looking in that direction.
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