Jisbon Forever ♾️.

Their chemistry felt like a match made in heaven.

I completed my series yesterday and I'm still not over this series.

As soon as I saw that the name of the episode 7 of season 6 was "The Great Red Dragon" something clicked in my mind.

First I thought of the Thomas Harris book "Red Dragon", which I first read about a year ago, and found it funny but then I came to me.

In the book a killer is obsessed with a painting by William Blake, the same William Blake mentioned in the mentalist as a inspiration for Red John, and by this point It all became strangely funny to me...

In the book the climax and plot twist is when the killer fakes his death to then suprise attack the main character on the last chapters to try and kill him. He fakes his death by burning down his house and misleading a witness that was there in the fire with a body that is falsely identified as his.

This started to feel familiar when the explosion on Patrick's house was "confirmed" to have killed Macallister and I started theorising it since he also had the tattoo.

I then dropped the theory because it was just obvious and made more sense for it to be Bertram but who would have guessed as soon has he said he wasn't Red John I instantly thought GODDAMMIT HOW DID I GUESS IT ON A HUNCH

Safe to say I was fooled but now that it's over I feel like I am Patrick Jane catching on this detail😂

I searched around but never saw anyone pointing this out. Could this have been planned or am I just crazy?

So I just recently watched this video essay on the YouTube and out of all the recent yt videos that have been made about The Mentalist after its resurgence in 2026, this one is the best.

And i know how there are new fans here and thought they'd like to know how the perfect casting of their beloved show came to be, so sharing this here 🥰 https://youtu.be/3nzrBRzo3ms?si=a_bpmRJF826jqf0H

Especially in these scenes and many many more.

It's crazy how he can be smiling and jolly in one scene and in the next completely distraught. The best was probably in the season 3 finale where he has that look of anger and hatred then turn into sadness over what the fake red john said about his daughter (second image) and another one of my favourite scenes was what Kristina said to Jane about his daughter never waking up, you can see his face turn from curiosity to shock and then to tears. Unbelievable acting. It's a blessing that the right people were cast for this show because I can't imagine anyone else acting as Patrick jane.

It's criminal he never won an Emmy for his performance on the show but it goes to show that you never truly need an Emmy to become the greatest actor of all time.

Was watching the mentalist ep (3×23) when I spotted nyla harper from the rookie. Random don't you think ?

So I just finished binge-watching the show!! I'm a bit embarrassed to say that for a month and a half all I did was eat, sleep and watch The Mentalist.

I feel like maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't bingewatched it (mostly because at some points it gets repetitive if you're watching the whole thing all at once, and you probably get to appreciate it better if you take your time with it). Nevertheless, it's still a great show!! I simply couldn't stop watching it. Part of why I love it is the nostalgic feeling it gives me? They don't make TV shows like they used to in the early to late 2000s.

I wish we'd gotten to see more of Jisbon, their relationship and future together, but I get it—this is not a romcom. I will say though that Jane and Lisbon have become my favorite TV couple ever. Seriously. I'm gonna miss them a lot!

Anyways, I feel like I could say many other things but also everything has been said already. I guess I'll just say, I'll miss you Patrick Jane and Teresa Lisbon!!

I am rewatching the show because there isn't something else interesting to watch and currently on my way to Season 6. In Season 5, Episode 19, “Red Letter Day.”, the story is about murder of the town's owner while a Wild West show recreates life in the 19th-century American frontier. About 8 minutes in, the forensic expert lady and the crew(Jane & Cho), talked about the murder weapon being the bloody Colt laid not far from the body. Then Cho said how it's an antique one and the only way the murder could happen was if the victim was whacked to death.

I don't mind the filler episodes. Hell, I enjoy some of them, as most of the iconic moments happen in them. But, this particular episode, I didn't enjoy at all. As it ended on some "incest-related" motive. This was what made me think why couldn't they do finger print analysis and save me from all that.

So, I came to see if anyone raised related questions not to break the "dead horse" rule here. And I found only one available and it was on another episode. In that episode, the murder weapon was a fire extingusher. Comments were how since it was public area and how the weapon, the fire extingusher, can have many finger-Prints.

I went to see that episode again and it was also "incest-realted" one. It was Season 2, Episode 22, “Red Letter". So, my question is why couldn't they implement fingerprint analysis or even blood spatter analysis?

This is a reference to the show Dexter and him taping his victims.

Been watching the show with a friend, decided randomly that her and I would guess who the killer is, ended up getting 3 in a row correct.

Watched the show on my own and got the next 2 in a row correct. Does anyone else feel like the killers are predictable? It’s almost ruining the show for me because I end up knowing who the killer is a quarter into the show and I can’t stop myself from guessing lol.

I’m not sure what it is that makes me know who it is. I think it’s the way the killers are introduced in the beginning of the show when we don’t know they are the killer.

Does anyone else relate to this?

Let's play a hypothetical scenario. You're building a special task force to solve high-profile cases with Patrick Jane.

​Rules: You cannot pick Lisbon, Cho, Rigsby, or Grace. You have to fill out his team using recurring or guest characters from across all 7 seasons (local sheriffs, consultants, federal agents, suspects who helped, etc.).

​Who are your 3 picks to keep Jane in check and actually clear cases without the main squad?

I started to see his videos after TM went viral. He does all kinds of rankings and complaints about RJ a lot. He calls himself the #1 series expert and still has takes like this.

I don’t mean to offend anyone in case you like to watch his videos, just my opinion🙃 don’t take it personal

Photo from S4E10

I was just curious where this house is located in real life, everywhere else has it's shooting location listed online but there seems to be nothing about this house? From an architectural viewpoint it looks like a very cool / interesting looking design, especially the garden as seen later so was trying to find it.

Anyone know where it is? Or is it all a set?

Let me know what you think, I am still in season 6 tho..

Kinda embarrassing but last night I actually had a scary dream about red john, saw the smile and a lot of blood everywhere , scared the absolute shit out of me....

I've just finished the whole show. I was happy with the FBI reboot and some episodes. But overall some writing in the show seemed convoluted. The season 6 finale was a "let's pull out all the clichés" mess. Let's face it, Lisbon’s role was that of the 'Big Sister' watching Jane.

Anyhow, how to continue? My new show Flynn:

FLYNN

After the Mentalist

(subtitle for algorithmic reasons, can be dropped after the first season)

LOGLINE

Trapped in an unmonitored federal safehouse because an old-school mob boss will execute her the second she steps outside, a brilliant high-society grifter is coerced into consulting for a lavishly funded, politically isolated FBI task force in San Francisco whose bosses will disavow them the second an operation goes sideways. Supervised by an agent burned out from handling Patrick Jane, the unit takes down untouchable crypto-barons, rogue venture capitalists, and predatory tech oligarchs—racing to close the trap before a billionaire’s phone call to Washington kills the case.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS

• Format: 45-minute episodic procedural / psychological whodunit.
• Batch Structure: Industrial, high-efficiency streaming release (11 episodes per block).
• Setting: The San Francisco Bay Area (the gleaming, glass-and-steel retreats of Palo Alto, Napa, and Big Sur juxtaposed with the brutalist, fog-choked Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue).
• Tone: Cynical, intellectual, and dryly humorous. Succession’s corporate viciousness meets The Mentalist’s psychological traps, filmed with the muted, procedural discipline of David Fincher’s Mindhunter.
• Target Audience: Viewers craving sharp, closed-loop cases, clever psychological stings, and workplace camaraderie—free from melodramatic soap-opera plots, magical hacking tropes, or unearned romances.

PART 1: THE CORE PREMISE & STREAMING STRATEGY

1. The Anti-Melodrama Mandate

The Mentalist succeeded when Patrick Jane outsmarted arrogant narcissists; it stalled whenever it leaned into sprawling, comic-book conspiracies (omnipotent cabals, the wholesale slaughter of entire bullpens, and rushed romantic airport sprints).

FLYNN eliminates these pitfalls:

• The Reality of Crime: Syndicates are not all-powerful secret societies. They are fragmented, greedy, and staffed by cowards looking for a tax write-off.
• The Reality of Investigation: No magical tech analysts cracking satellite encryptions in five seconds. Investigations are won through psychological pressure points and paper trails.
• The High-Society Ticking Clock: The antagonists are the 0.01%—tech founders, private equity vultures, and offshore crypto facilitators. The ticking clock is political: the team has 48 to 72 hours to lock down undeniable fraud and homicide charges before the target's defense attorneys and political donors force Main Justice to quash the warrant.

PART 1.5: THE INSTITUTIONAL BACKSTORY

(Showrunner Doctrine & Writers' Room Architecture — Not for Direct Exposition)

WRITERS' ROOM MANDATE:
This backstory is the internal logic that holds the universe together. It must never be delivered in an exposition dump or nostalgic callback. Characters do not reminisce about "the old days," nor do they name-drop Patrick Jane, Teresa Lisbon, or Red John. The past is 90% below the waterline; the audience infers it entirely through behavior, institutional paperwork, and character baggage.

1. The "Jane Protocol" (The Myth of Replicable Anomalies)

Between Sacramento (CBI) and Austin (FBI), Patrick Jane achieved a statistical anomaly: a 90%+ clearance rate. When Jane permanently retreated into civilian obscurity, the Department of Justice’s Executive Directorate did not view his tenure as a miracle of human grief and charm. They viewed it as an asset class.

In federal bureaucracy, leadership believes every anomaly can be standardized. Quantico’s Operational Support Section authorized an obscure pilot program: The Non-Traditional Cognitive Asset Directive (NTAD). The theory: high-tier sociopathic minds (specifically elite confidence tricksters) possess pattern-recognition and social-engineering capabilities that formal academy training strips out of sworn agents. FLYNN is the field test of that bureaucratic delusion.

2. Why Kim Fischer Was Drafted

In federal service, personnel files are inescapable. Special Agent Kim Fischer spent years trying to transition into counterintelligence management. However, her HR jacket contains an indelible operational record: under Dennis Abbott, she was the supervisory agent who successfully handled Patrick Jane without being killed, compromised, or publicly disgraced.

When Main Justice authorized Vance’s unit under the NTAD framework, the automated personnel algorithm flagged Fischer as the Bureau’s sole living Subject Matter Expert on "Consultant Mitigation." She was assigned to Vance's unit not by choice, but by bureaucratic inertia. She treats Flynn with the quiet, vigilant detachment of someone handling toxic waste.

3. Arthur Vance’s Trojan Horse

Vance does not believe in "mentalists" or criminal consultants. He views the NTAD initiative as academic nonsense.

So why did he build his task force around it?
Vance spent 25 years watching pharmaceutical executives, venture capitalists, and predatory bankers destroy lives and walk away with deferred prosecution agreements, while street-level offenders received mandatory minimums. He wanted a specialized unit to hunt the modern economic elite.

Main Justice refused to fund a traditional white-collar squad with aggressive wiretap privileges. But Vance discovered that the experimental NTAD "Consultant" pilot came with a massive discretionary budget, direct reporting lines to the Executive Assistant Director, and broad jurisdictional leeway. Vance agreed to take the grifter (Flynn) and the babysitter (Fischer) solely to use the program as a Trojan horse to hunt the untouchable rich.

PART 2: THE UNIT (CHARACTERS)

                       [ ARTHUR VANCE ]
                     Special Agent in Charge
                  (The Moral Engine & Anchor)
                             │
            ┌────────────────┴────────────────┐
            ▼                                 ▼
   [ KIM FISCHER ]                     [ SPECIAL AGENT MILLER ]
 Supervisory Agent / Handler          The Grey Accountant
(The Exhausted Professional)          (Ledgers & Slasher Trivia)
            │                                 │
            ├─────────────────────────────────┤
            ▼                                 ▼
        [ FLYNN ]                      [ MAYA WARD ]
   The Grifter Consultant            Junior Agent / Tactical
(Self-Preservation & Wit)          (Charismatic Quantico Prodigy)

1. Arthur Vance (Special Agent in Charge) — The Man We Root For

• Visual & Presence: Worn, sharp, deeply charismatic (think Giancarlo Esposito or Bryan Cranston). Tailored suits bought on a government salary.
• Psychology: Vance is the emotional heart of the series. He is not a saint—he manipulates federal funding rules, bends administrative protocol, and leverages political rivalries. But he is driven by an unyielding moral fury against economic impunity.
• The Burden: He operates with zero institutional safety net. Main Justice embraces him for press conferences when he seizes half a billion dollars in offshore assets, but abandons him the moment a donor calls the Attorney General ("Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan").
• Dynamic with Flynn: Transactional and guarded. He recognizes her genius, despises her moral bankruptcy, and refuses to let her con him.

2. Flynn (The "Anti-Jane" Consultant) — The Ambiguous Survivor

• Visual & Presence: Striking, composed, effortlessly chameleon-like. She can blend into a Napa wine cellar or a Palo Alto boardroom with ease.
• Status: Asset-stripped, legally paroled into Vance’s custody.
• The Living Arrangement (The Open Door): No ankle monitor. The FBI doesn't need to track her. Vance and Fischer know that if Flynn runs, she won't make it to an island in the Pacific; "The Butcher"—a ruthless, old-school racketeer she swindled out of eight figures—will find her within days.
  • She lives in a bleak, sterile, government-subsidized one-bedroom apartment in the Tenderloin. Fluorescent lights, laminate counters, an unmade cot, and a single clothing rack where a borrowed $12,000 gala gown hangs in a dry-cleaning bag next to empty takeout boxes.
• Psychology: Flynn is not good at heart. She is not seeking redemption or solving crimes out of civic duty; she is surviving. She misses her luxury lifestyle and would happily vanish to a beach if the Butcher were dead. The viewer loves her tradecraft, her razor-sharp intellect, and her deconstruction of elite phonies, but is constantly kept on edge: Is she closing the case, or securing an escape route?
• The Food Quirk: Undercover, Flynn evaluates Grand Cru wines and Osetra caviar like an elite connoisseur. But in private, she detests high-end cuisine as an overpriced pretense. Her genuine love is cheap street food, gas-station pastries, and takeout pizza.

3. Special Agent Kim Fischer (The Handler) — The Competent Adult

• Role: Operational Handler & Lead Case Investigator.
• Psychology: The character the audience deeply respects and feels for. Fischer is a consummately skilled investigator who played by every rule, only to find herself managing an unrepentant criminal. She has seen all the consultant tricks before: the staged disappearances, the cold-reading manipulation, the grand theatrical stunts.
• Dynamic with Flynn: Fischer refuses to play along. When Flynn tries to psychoanalyze her, Fischer cuts her off with subpoena delivery dates. She is the bulwark standing between Flynn's schemes and federal procedure.

4. Special Agent Miller ("The Grey Accountant") — The Dry Slasher Fan

• Role: Forensic Data & Financial Analyst.
• Psychology: Deadpan, monotone, and practically invisible in a room. Miller does not engage in social chatter. He views forensic accounting as the only objective truth in human history. To Miller, a doctored balance sheet is an offensive moral failure.
• The Quirk (The Slasher Enthusiast): Miller has an encyclopedic, passionate obsession with vintage 1970s–1990s practical-effects horror and slasher cinema (John Carpenter, Tom Savini, Dario Argento). When corporate targets commit homicides to silence whistleblowers, Miller studies the crime scene photographs and dryly compares the injuries to horror practical effects:
• He respects craft—whether in an audited ledger or a low-budget horror film.

5. Special Agent Maya Ward (The Tactical Prodigy) — The Rising Star

• Role: Tactical Lead, Evidence Specialist, Field Runner.
• Archetype: Carrying forward the vibrant, commercially magnetic lineage of Grace Van Pelt and Michelle Vega. Athletic, striking, and ambitious—an ex-collegiate heptathlete who graduated at the top of Quantico.
• Psychology: Ward is professional, lethal with a sidearm, and believes deeply in the mission. She is not a cynic yet. She looks brilliant in both a tailored tactical vest breaching a server farm and holding a hidden wire at an elite tech mixer.
• Bullpen Dynamic: Ward is the human pulse of the office. She idolizes Fischer, regards Flynn with healthy skepticism, and ruthlessly runs the Walk-In Whiteboard Bet, demanding cash payouts from Miller and Vance when leadership storms the floor.

PART 3: THE SERIES ENGINE & TONAL CODES

                               THE EPISODIC ENGINE
  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │ 1. THE CRIME: A Silicon Valley / Crypto Titan commits fraud or murder.    │
  │ 2. THE WALL: Local cops call it an accident; DOJ orders a stand-down.    │
  │ 3. THE DATA: Miller discovers the numerical anomaly in the ledger.       │
  │ 4. THE CON: Flynn engineers an undercover sting targeting executive ego. │
  │ 5. THE BREACH: Maya Ward executes tactical entry before data is wiped.   │
  │ 6. THE PRESSURE: Vance leverages seized billions against the DOJ brass.   │
  │ 7. THE DEBRIEF: The Whiteboard pays out. Cold pizza in the bullpen.      │
  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

1. In-Universe Deconstruction (The Realities of Crime)

The series grounds its universe by rejecting the romanticism of past procedurals:

• The Blake Association Reality: Corrupt networks are treated with diegetic scorn. When a captured subject tries to claim allegiance to an old law enforcement brotherhood or displays the three-dots mark, Flynn shuts them down:
• The Abandoned Accounts: The remnants of old syndicates aren't armies of hitmen; they are forgotten, un-monitored dark-money pools sitting in offshore shell entities that tech executives quietly pillaged after the founders died.

2. The Walk-In Whiteboard Bet

Behind Vance’s office hangs an unauthorized dry-erase board. The unit runs a rolling pool: not if the DOJ Assistant Director will storm in to kill an investigation on behalf of a venture capitalist, but what time it will happen and which elected official made the call. Flynn routinely wins the pool by reading the regional director’s body language and grooming tells as he exits the elevator.

3. The "Case Closed Pizza"

The debrief ritual of the unit. When a multi-billion-dollar trap snaps shut and the DOJ has taken credit on cable news, Fischer orders cheap, greasy delivery pizza. Flynn, returning from a private estate where she tasted five-hundred-dollar tasting menus, sits on the edge of a desk in her ruined designer heels and eats cold takeout pizza with pure, unfeigned delight.

PART 4: PILOT BLUEPRINT (EPISODE 1.01)

Title: "Ghost in the Ledger"

Act I: The Incident

• San Francisco, 2:00 AM: The Head of Systems Security for Aether-K, an elite venture-backed predictive-AI firm in SoMa, falls forty stories from his luxury penthouse balcony. The local police rule it an alcohol-fueled accident. Aether-K is 72 hours away from closing a historic $12 billion sovereign wealth fund partnership.
• The Bureau: Vance suspects murder—the security chief was an uncredited compliance whistleblower. Vance pulls Flynn from her bleak Tenderloin holding apartment.
• The Introduction: Fischer establishes the ground rules: "There are no tracking bracelets here, Flynn. You walk out that door, and within forty-eight hours, the Butcher's people will have your skin on a drying rack. You work the case, or you take your chances with the street."

Act II: The Discovery

• Aether-K claims its proprietary neural network predicts global market crashes before they happen. Main Justice's cyber-crimes division insists the code is encrypted and impossible to audit within the 72-hour window.
• The Miller Break: Miller ignores the software entirely. He audits Aether-K's cooling infrastructure and local power grid draw. The company’s utility bills are flat. A server farm running that level of compute would heat a small town.
• The Fraud: The AI does not exist. It is an offshore mechanical Turk—an illegal network of 1,200 underpaid data analysts in Manila manually entering calculations behind a sleek interface. The dead security chief was going to disclose this during the sovereign wealth due diligence.

Act III: The Gala Sting

• Aether-K’s founder, Julian Sterling—a 31-year-old crypto-darling who lectures global summits on ethics—hosts an exclusive funding gala at a private estate in Atherton.
• Flynn is deployed undercover as "Dr. Genevieve Aubert," an asset manager representing an old-money Geneva family trust. Vance authorizes a designer gown; Ward wires her beneath the silk.
• The Complication: Across the courtyard, Flynn spots an operative connected to The Butcher. The mob is not tracking Flynn; they are laundering extortion capital through Sterling's seed round. If Sterling is arrested cleanly, Flynn is safe. If the sting collapses, the enforcer will spot her without federal protection.

Act IV: The Trap

• Flynn engages Sterling, exploiting his god-complex. She suggests her Swiss fund has already deduced his real secret: "You aren't using machine learning. You're using human capital. And it's brilliant. Algorithms can be subpoenaed. People can be silenced."
• Arrogant and desperate for her capital injection, Sterling brings Flynn into his private wine cellar, boasting on the concealed wire about how he handled the "logistical problem" of his security chief.
• Ward leads the tactical entry, neutralizing Sterling's private security and securing the local servers before the remote wipe command executes.

Act V: The Aftermath

• The next morning, the Assistant Director storms Vance’s office, furious that a tech donor has been cuffed. Vance slides over the asset forfeiture inventory: $650 million in frozen offshore cryptocurrency accounts, crediting the Director’s office. The Assistant Director quietly pivots, taking the folder for his press conference.
• Ward collects the whiteboard winnings. Fischer sets two boxes of cheap pepperoni pizza on the table. Flynn kicks off her heels, sits on a government folding chair, and takes a bite. The unit is operational.

PART 5: SEASON 1 EPISODE MATRIX (11-EPISODE BATCH)

the final was beatiful dont get me wrong,the whole series was crazy

From season 5 to the finale, everything felt rushed; still, I would have liked at least one or two more episodes showing whether Jane and Lisbon leave the FBI, and what Jane’s life looks like after he starts over—too many questions left unanswered.

Did anyone else have the same feeling when they finished it?

should i rewatch the series one more time in the future?

and I’m soo obsessed! I’m almost done watching House and I was looking for a show with at least 6 seasons and decided to give this a go. I’m about to finish season 2 and I can just watch this show all day.🤣

Thought some of you might appreciate this! I designed and 3D-printed Red John’s iconic smiley face from The Mentalist as a wall decoration. I uploaded the model to MakerWorld in case anyone wants to print their own. What do you think?

https://makerworld.com/de/models/3454121-red-john-smiley-face-the-mentalist-wall-art#profileId-3940638

I feel as if he is actually like well written and given something like actual character unlike other shows where its like: "Hi, I'm the villain"
And also I just like his name :)

I built a trivia app with about a 100 questions for this show and lots of others and so I wanted to share it with fans
I know not everyone likes downloading and app so for anyone who wants to check it out.

The Mentalist Trivia

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Just Download and use the search at the top

Also Let me know if there is a problem with any of the questions either via the app or here and I will fix it asap

P.S also contains themed multiplayer , Which The Mentalist Character Are You , Wordle and word search games for people in the app