THE CBI TEAM INVESTIGATES THE MURDER OF A HIGH-END DIVORCE ATTORNEY, ON "THE MENTALIST," THURSDAY, JAN. 12 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)

 

Catherine Dent ("The Shield”) Returns as FBI Agent Susan Darcy Who Questions Jane about Panzer’s Death. Samaire Armstrong ("Dirty Sexy Money”) Returns as Summer, Cho’s Informant.

 

Jane and the CBI must narrow down the long list of suspects after a high-end divorce attorney with many enemies is killed on his speed boat. Meanwhile, Jane is questioned about whether Red John was responsible for Panzer’s murder.

SERIES REGULARS:
Simon Baker (Patrick Jane)
Robin Tunney (Teresa Lisbon)
Tim Kang (Kimball Cho)
Owain Yeoman (Wayne Rigsby)
Amanda Righetti (Grace Van Pelt

GUEST CAST:
Catherine Dent (FBI Agent Susan Darcy)
Samaire Armstrong (Summer)
Don Franklin (Larry Dersh)
Heather Mazur (Colette Santori
Rudolph Martin (Brock Marx)
Ely Pouget (Teri Maier)
David Carey Foster (Tom Maier)
Andrew Borba (Inspector Bobby Wilson)
Geoffrey Wade (Minister)
Jeff L. Williams (Alton Creek)
Bubba Ganter (Bouncer #2)

WRITTEN BY: Ashley Gable
DIRECTED BY: John Showalter

 

 

The Patrick Jane that was thought to be gone forever is making a comeback tonight. For The Mentalist‘s midseason finale, executive producer and writer Daniel Cerone says they wanted to give fans a chance to see the Patrick Jane of the past — with a twist. "We always thought it’d be fun to see the old Patrick Jane. You know, the psychic hookster in a shiny suit, but the only real way to do that would be a flashback episode, and those types of episodes generally turn out to be disappointing.” Instead, he says, they opted to bring the old Jane into the present, and give the characters a chance to "experience first-hand who Jane really was before his wife and daughter were murdered.”

 

In the episode, Jane finds himself afflicted with dissociative fugue, a form of amnesia. "Fugues are usually precipitated by a stressful event. So in that way, we brought Jane out of the past,” Cerone says. "So what we’ll witness is who Jane was before the death of his family. He was a wilder, more untamed character, you know who ... Read more »

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