Category "the-mentalist"

Who was Kristina Frye and what happened to her?

I'm quite disappointed with the Red John episode of The Mentalist, since there were many questions left unanswered. For example, How was Red John able to manipu

Why do the main characters call each other by their last name only?

Watching the German version of The Mentalist on Netflix I discovered something that seems strange to me: Whenever someone of the core CBI team member talks to

In The Mentalist, video evidence from the killer is unusable due to the "fruit of the poisonous tree" law. Could one of the exceptions have applied?

In season 2 episode 19, Carl Sylvan is a hitman hired to kill a DA named Kelly Flower. Patrick Jane, a consultant for the CBI (California Bureau of Investigatio

Why was the show The Mentalist moved from Sacramento to Austin?

Most of the show The Mentalist happens in California (in particular Sacramento). In Season 6, the characters move from CBI to FBI, moving from Sacramento to Aus

Why does Red John never attack Jane directly like his other victims?

I have just finished watching S03E03 of The Mentalist, where Red John leaves Kristina Frye in a hypnotised(?) state. According to Jane, Kristina was targeted be

Why did Jane not use his gun to kill Red John?

In S03E23-24 of The Mentalist, Patrick Jane killed a man named Timothy Carter, thinking he was the real Red john, in a shopping mall with a gun hidden in his po

Why do the agents knock on the doors?

While watching The Mentalist I observed that whenever the agents went to the families for interrogation, they always knocked on the door of the house to declare