- While investigating the death of a mayor's media liaison, Patrick is kidnapped by an eco-terrorist who is a suspect in the case. Meanwhile, the team reluctantly agrees to be filmed for a documentary.
- While Central Valley town Salter's mayor Melba Walker Shannon dug at Heaton Krupp's Granton development project's first spade, she unearthed her media liaison Martha St.Clair, stabbed to death at home. The CBI team reluctantly obliges the D.A.'s orders to cooperate with Mike Brewster's TV documentary on their work. Granton was opposed by tree huggers and Jasper's masked eco-terrorist. Yet Jasper kidnaps Jane to insists he has nothing to do with the murder, nor with a later fire bomb.—KGF Vissers
- Patrick Jane and the CBI agents are forced to be interviewed by the TV reporter Mike Brewster that will make a documentary promoting the agency. Meanwhile, the Mayor Melba Walker Shannon digs the corpse of her RP Martha St.Clair in the inauguration ceremony of a polemic project promoted by the constructor Heaton Krupp. The prime suspect becomes the Eco-terrorist Jasper, but the agents investigate all the connection of St. Clair.Who might be the killer?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "The Mentalist" - "Bleeding Heart" - Jan. 21, 2010
A TV investigative reporter Mike Brewster (Roark Critchlow) is chronicling the exploits of CBI. He asks Jane (Simon Baker) and Lisbon (Robin Tunney) to sit for an interview about how he came to work as a consultant. Once the cameras start rolling Jane decides he isn't down and takes off.
Brewster asks Lisbon how a case starts, she explains a phone call comes in from the AG's office and they step in, but never, of course, stepping on the toes of local law enforcement because everybody gets along great. She says in the St. Claire homicide the AG wanted them in because there were political issues.
Cut to them getting barked at by local cops at the scene, calling them spotlight hogs. The corpse in the ground - Martha St. Claire- is the PR flack for the town mayor, she was buried on the site of a controversial new development having its ceremonial groundbreaking that day.
Cho (Tim Kang) says she was stabbed twice in the chest but there's no blood, which means, just like on CSI, the crime scene was elsewhere. Jane figures the killer wanted the body discovered here and Lisbon thinks it was to be able to enjoy watching the fun. They think TV cameras covering the ground breaking might have caught something. Jane sniffs the body, noting a nicotine patch that denotes she was trying to quit smoking but hadn't been successful, likely due to stress. Lisbon notices something was snatched from her neck. Jane accurately surmises what's up with the angry cop- affair, angry wife, motel living- which the angry cop doesn't care for.
Back at the office the shoot continues and Lisbon is crowing about how many cases they've closed. The Brewster points out they're also leading in lawsuits filed. Lisbon stalks off saying to the CBI PR flack Jane is right that this is a bad idea and she thought this was supposed to be positive coverage. Brenda says it will be and that the guy is legit and the CBI needs it. Lisbon says to keep him confined to the office, no shooting out in the field.
Brewster thanks her and he says it's a two way street and offers his help. He offers his video footage of the groundbreaking, ID-ing people in the shot and tree-hugging protestors in the background. He got the shot of the body being discovered.
Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) gives Lisbon stuff from St. Claire's house. Lisbon asks her to look for a necklace likely snatched from St. Claire. Jane thinks the killer probably kept it as a souvenir.
Back on camera Lisbon talks about how she has no problems being in charge. She's reluctant to talk about what she does on the weekends. She gets caught up on why he wants to know and claims she isn't a workaholic no matter what anyone says.
She and Jane head off to the mayor's office to talk to his assistant Wilson Fountenot (Sean Maher delicious- of "Firefly" fame. So glad to see him back.) He worked closely with St. Claire. Lisbon asks after the necklace. Fountenot says it was a Christmas gift last year she never took off. Jane asks after her busy schedule. (A city council meeting). And if she dated. Fountenot says she had no social life.
Lisbon and Jane interview mayor Melba (Sharon Lawrence)). She says the project was office, retail, and housing built with green technology. Martha was not involved in policy issues, she was just her PR gal. They ask then about tomorrow's city council meeting: a press junket, river rafting. Lisbon asks about threats for environmental activists. Melba calls them terrorists led by a mad man named Jasper. Fountenot comes in with a note she says can wait. She shows the video threats from the environmentalists: a masked, sunglassed man saying he will stop the project. Jane calls it silly. Melba says he murdered Martha. Jane isn't so sure, why wouldn't Jasper kill her, Melba? Melba is confused. Jane asks why she didn't like Martha -apparently her tight jaw and cobra eyes when talking about her gave her away. Melba kicks them out/they leave. Lisbon thinks he needs medication and may have ADD. Jane says ADD may not be real and he stole the note. It was a call from the developer of the project.
Back at the station Brewster is asking Jane, lying on a couch, if he enjoys police work. He says sometimes. They ask why he dislikes being filmed. He says they're stealing his soul.
Cho and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) go to the contractor to ask about the call. He says he calls all the time and wants to know when the project will start again. He's sorry about Martha but time is money. Turns out the contractor called Martha ten times. He says they were talking about public funds to be released for the project. He heard rumors she was going to tell the city council to hold the funds back. But she was killed first. The contractor gets mad they are trying to pin her murder on him. Just then someone throws a Molotov cocktail in the window of the trailer, injuring the contractor as Cho tries to get them out. The door is blocked but they bust it open and stumble out, choking on smoke.
As they look over the charred remains, the contractor says Jasper did it and the chief of police isn't doing anything. The chief, the angry cop from before, says Jasper's never launched an attack in his jurisdiction before. They find a barrel of flammable material with Jasper's "J" tag on it.
At the office Rigsby is interviewed by Brewster. He talks about how the job, especially being in a fire, can make you think. He is reflective and talks about being grateful for life.
The gang works out some of the issues out loud. They decide to go talk to the mayor again while Van Pelt looks into Jasper - which Jane thinks is a red herring- and Cho goes after more footage.
Cho is interviewed by Brewster and turns the tables asking why he's making this documentary, what's in it for him. He admits to being ambitious and Cho notes he hasn't gotten very far. Cho is comically uncommunicative. Brenda asks him to cooperate.
Back at mayor Melba's office Jane asks if she got a bribe from the contractor - he theorizes she sold her approval of the project, Martha found out and was going to expose her to city council. Melba says if they pursue this harassment she will sue them. Jane asks if Fountenot was in on it too. He says they have no proof of any bribe. Melba asks if they checked into her lover as a suspect. Lisbon says Fountenot says she had no love life. He didn't know. She tells them they are incompetent.
Van Pelt is interviewed and talks about being the rookie and working hard and how it's been her dream. The most surprising thing she's learned about the job is what she's learned about herself and other people, stuff she wishes she didn't know about why people do bad things, usually because of secrets.
The gang watches all of the footage of the groundbreaking. They point out one guy with a Jasper "J" tag on his shirt. Jane sees something else that piques his interest but he doesn't share.
Rigsby, back from St. Claire's apartment, turns up evidence of a lover, whom Jane figured all along and theorizes she may have even had two lovers and perhaps one gave her the topaz necklace. He yells at the cameraman to turn off the camera or he'll shove it down his throat.
Lisbon pulls him aside and asks him what's up, she figured he'd be comfortable with cameras. He points out last summer, things didn't go so well when cameras were around. She realizes and apologizes. He says there's no need and there's no reason not to be civil.
He goes back and apologizes to Brewster and his camera guy, Steve saying he knows they're just doing their jobs, he just doesn't like feeling spied on. He offers to take them out for a taco. While at the stand "Jasper" and his masked goons arrive and hustle Jane into a van. Steve, alas, did not get footage of this since he was holding his taco.
Jane is led through the woods with a blindfold.
The gang frantically works on finding Jane and the "J" guy from the scene.
Jane is led into an old cabin in the woods and handcuffed to a chair. They take off his blindfold and point a gun at him. Jane says there's no reason for firearms. "Jasper" is clearly Fountenot, who proclaims his innocence. He has respect for all living things. Jane says then he shouldn't do things requiring wearing a mask, especially since he's so handsome. Fountenot asks how he knows who he is. Jane backpedals and says he doesn't. Fountenot takes off his mask and asks again how he knows. Jane says his height, body language, syntax- he said "in actuality." Jasper calls him clever and pulls the gun again saying they have a prolem.
Cho brings in the guy from the groundbreaking and the cameras capture it. They shoot Cho's interrogation through the video. He asks where Jane is being kept. The guy says he won't betray Jasper. Rigsby asks what Jane would want them to do. They turn off the lights and close the shutters and uncuff him, threatening to break his arm and saying they'll say he fell. They corner him and he gives up Jasper's locale.
Jasper/Fountenot is freaking out at the cabin, he doesn't want to go to prison, he needs to finish his work. He says he worked with the mayor to study the enemy. He turned Martha on to the bribes. Jane offers to help, he says he won't play him, he respects his intelligence. He asks Jasper/Fountenot to sit. The terrified man does. Jane tells him to look at him and trust him and he also wants peace and harmony. He hypnotizes him basically, puts him to sleep. The police show up at that moment saying he's surrounded.
They bust in and Jane is lying on his back on the floor with no sign of Japer. Lisbon jokes about waiting for the bomb squad and then uncuffs him.
Back at the station on camera Jane talks about how Jasper/Fountenot was spouting nonsense and he was St. Claire's boyfriend and when she found out about Jasper he killed her. He tells them to look for the necklace, a gift from Fountenot, they need it. Lisbon makes calls. Then she asks the guys to stop filming. Brewster says catching the bad guy would be a great ending. She says they can film the bust but they have to do exactly what she says and to meet them at Fountenot's.
The CBIs and the cops approach the house as the crew films. As Brewster asks him questions about how he came to work with CBI - and Jane talks about his wife and child's murder and the importance of love - Jane turns the tables on Brewster big time and how hard losing love is.
He says he knows right now Brewster has a topaz necklace in his pocket, one he plans to plant in Fountenot's house to make him look like the killer when it was actually Brewster who killed her. He was the other boyfriend, he gave her the necklance, and after St. Claire dumped him- screwing up his career since she was a news source for him- he killed her and took it back. Jane pulls out the necklace and Cho arrests him. Jane takes the video from the camera.
Jane and Lisbon take him back to the office and try and get him to confess. He says there's no legal proof. They point out the traces of St. Claire's blood in the trunk of his car. He confesses. She wouldn't give him any info on the mayor even though he heard she was dirty. He was using her computer one night and found info on the mayor and he was mad she kept it from him when it could've made his career. He couldn't believe she was mad he was on her computer. They fought, she taunted him about being a loser, and he killed her. (We see all this play out as he says it). Lisbon says they'll take that as a confession.
The gang watches mayor Melba get arrested. Fountenot will get leniency for his Jasper activities for testifiying against her.
In light of Van Pelt's feelings about secrecy, Rigsby and Van Pelt come in and admit they are "lovers." Everyone tells them they already knew except Lisbon, who is now mad since she has to take action since agents aren't supposed to have sexual relationships.
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