Note: This contains a significant spoiler for 4.11 Always Bet on Red (the hidden text between the square brackets in the 2nd paragraph below - click & drag to read)

 

 

The Feb. 16 episode of The Mentalist will find Patrick Jane once again coming face to face with matchmaker (and troublemaker) Morena Baccarin, who co-stars on Showtime’s Homeland. And when he does, Simon Baker tells me that we’ll get a chance to see an interesting, rarely-seen side of Jane. "I really like the human side of [Patrick Jane] and the human trauma and drama of it all,” he says. "We often get very frivolous and use the cheap gag/crime of the week stuff. But there’s an element to this character that’s very human. He’s also a very lonely character. We don’t really explore that very often, but it underpins him. It was interesting to bring her back because in the episode we did, there was a chemistry between the two characters. They were both deceptive characters and they enjoyed that in each other. And so to bring her back, there’s a bit more friction between the two of them that could potentially open things up for the Jane cha ... Read more »

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While a jury deliberates the guilt or innocence of a defendant on trial for murder, Jane and Lisbon try to prove she has been wrongfully accused before time runs out, on THE MENTALIST, Thursday, February 9th (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)

 

 

Short article & video interview about Simon's dog Happy (1:34)