They finally realized they should do it and they did it! Finally we saw a multi-episode side story other than RJ that was much more catchy than the single episode dull stories...very nice episode overall! it established great communications between characters and developed an open story about Brenda which can be used later on the show. The part with Lisbon and Brenda and Ardiles reminds me of a much softer version of the relationships in "the Wire". And we actually watched good solid police procedural work by the team; not like somewhat longsome interrogations in the guess-who-done-it episodes. But the more we get close to the end of the episode the more hasty and careless the interactions became. The naive simplifications or to better put it, avoiding complications in the last 10 minutes was a sign an imminent bad finish. What harm would it do if the episode could run for 10 minutes extra or even were extended to another episode? the last 10 minutes was like snapshots of incidents. I hated to see that a very good episode went to waste with hasty and weak conclusion.
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The Remote Control Car
claudio_carvalho20 January 2022
A boy is playing with his remote control red Corvette in an empty warehouse when he overhears voices. He hides himself and witnesses two men killing another man and throwing his body in an industrial oven. However the murderers find the boy and he disappears. Two months later, the remains are found and the CBI agents investigate the warehouse and Patrick Jane finds the little red Corvette hidden in a corner and believes a boys has witnessed the murder. They identify the victim as the geologist Horatio Jones, who had worked in the Amazonas forest and would testify against Tommy Volker two months ago and went missing. The DNA evidence shows that the killers were Charles Milk, who was recently murdered, and Don Clyde. Meanwhile the CBI team follows other clues to catch Volker but Lisbon and her team do not know that there is a breach in CBI security and the PR Brenda Shettrick is leaking information to Volker.
"Little Red Corvette" is a great episode of "The Mentalist", with Lisbon obsessed to catch the omnipresent Tommy Volker. This episode also discloses the identity of the CBI employee responsible for the leak of information. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Little Red Corvette"
"Little Red Corvette" is a great episode of "The Mentalist", with Lisbon obsessed to catch the omnipresent Tommy Volker. This episode also discloses the identity of the CBI employee responsible for the leak of information. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Little Red Corvette"
Great build up to an unsatisfying ending with no resolve
thetrukryptonian26 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The build up with Lisbon and Volker comes to a pretty exciting episode where we find how connected Volker is. We also get to see Jane at his most intimidating best thus far!
Lisbon has run out of ideas and has to turn to Jane for help in bringing down Volker. Jane turns up the heat and is flawless at intimidating Volker. For this reason this episode gets a higher rating that it deserves overall.
This episode had all the makings of a great cliffhanger given how connected Volker. But it quickly turns. Volker becomes uncharacteristically careless and makes way too many mistake culminating in the lack luster finale.
After turning his gun on Lisbon she is forced to shoot but not fatally. As she cuffs him she throws a punch for good measure stating, "Relax Volker, it's over." And that's it?!? No more mention of this guy? Does he get what's coming to him? Does he go down for all the murders we know of and some we don't? Do his deep connections pull him out of the fire? WHO KNOWS!!! We don't! There's no resolve! So frustrating that we aren't told what goes on. Maybe there will be a mention in the next episode, if we are lucky.
Oh well, still a great show overall.
Lisbon has run out of ideas and has to turn to Jane for help in bringing down Volker. Jane turns up the heat and is flawless at intimidating Volker. For this reason this episode gets a higher rating that it deserves overall.
This episode had all the makings of a great cliffhanger given how connected Volker. But it quickly turns. Volker becomes uncharacteristically careless and makes way too many mistake culminating in the lack luster finale.
After turning his gun on Lisbon she is forced to shoot but not fatally. As she cuffs him she throws a punch for good measure stating, "Relax Volker, it's over." And that's it?!? No more mention of this guy? Does he get what's coming to him? Does he go down for all the murders we know of and some we don't? Do his deep connections pull him out of the fire? WHO KNOWS!!! We don't! There's no resolve! So frustrating that we aren't told what goes on. Maybe there will be a mention in the next episode, if we are lucky.
Oh well, still a great show overall.
Written by and for children (or, alternatively, morons); I couldn't bear to watch it
yavermbizi20 January 2022
My overall rating of "The mentalist"'s Season 5: 4/10.
As much as it pains me as I compare the show with the version of it in my memory, "The mentalist" is very susceptible to a contrivance here, an overexplanation there, nonsensical plot resolutions everywhere, and subtlety is a relatively rare visitor. But this episode takes it above and beyond. It's the sort of thing that either gets through the brain-fog of an Alzheimer's patient with how simplistic and generic it is, or alternately gives you Alzheimer's. I've dropped out quarter-ways in, so hopefully I've not gotten any amyloid plaques out of it. And I've had to drop an episode of "The mentalist" here and there, but this episode grabs the record for the quickest "Please, just make it stop!" from me.
As much as it pains me as I compare the show with the version of it in my memory, "The mentalist" is very susceptible to a contrivance here, an overexplanation there, nonsensical plot resolutions everywhere, and subtlety is a relatively rare visitor. But this episode takes it above and beyond. It's the sort of thing that either gets through the brain-fog of an Alzheimer's patient with how simplistic and generic it is, or alternately gives you Alzheimer's. I've dropped out quarter-ways in, so hopefully I've not gotten any amyloid plaques out of it. And I've had to drop an episode of "The mentalist" here and there, but this episode grabs the record for the quickest "Please, just make it stop!" from me.
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