The Mentalist

Previously on "The Mentalist"...

Who's that?

Bob Kirkland, Homeland Security.

Do I know you? No, but I know you.

Get me everything.

Jane made a lot of Red John connections here.

This is good.

Lisbon: Why is this a Homeland Security issue?

Kirkland: It's complicated.

Agent Lisbon, Jane, CBI.

F.B.I. personnel only.

Uh, we don't want to be here, either,

but we were invited.

Uh, could you tell Agent Reede Smith

that we're here as requested?

What do you think Smith wants?

I don't know. What do you think?

Every time we go to see one of these Red John suspects,

I get edgy.

Really? Can't tell.

Really?

Oh.

Jane, Lisbon. Thanks for coming.

Miss this? Who could say no?

How can we be of help, Agent Smith?

We caught a body.

I thought it might interest you.

And why would you say that?

You tell me.

This is Benjamin Marx.

The guy you buried alive.

Excuse me.

The killer I buried alive.

And I did let him out-- eventually.

Not bad. That's a tough I.D.,

considering most of his face is burnt off.

What do you think happened to him?

You're the F.B.I.

I-I'm sure you have the answers already.

Okay.

Tell me what I've come up with.

Well, the first thing you'd notice

is that he was tortured--

with fire and whatever it is people use

to cut someone's thumbs off.

And what do I think he was tortured for?

Well, your guess would be sadistic pleasure,

but you'd be wrong.

More likely he was tortured for information--

information that he didn't have.

How do you know he didn't have it?

Because if he had it,

the killer would only have had to burn off half his face.

What else do I think?

Well, whoever did the torturing took their time,

so you would reason that they had somewhere private to do it.

Right. And I'm sure you saw

the, uh, sticky stuff on the leg of the victim,

probably sent it off to the lab.

And in three days they'll tell you

that it's pine sap, which makes sense,

because there's a broken pine needle

wedged into the sole of his shoe.

Yeah, I see.

Eventually you'd come to the conclusion

that he was kept in the woods someplace

before he was killed and dumped here.

Nice.

Uh, why are we here, Agent Smith?

Marx was out on bail while he stood trial.

Things were looking good for him, too.

I mean, you tortured him into a confession,

so a little good lawyering,

a little luck, and he could walk.

Bet that really chapped your hide, huh, Jane?

Not at all.

That's the best theory the F.B.I. can come up with?

That Jane killed Benjamin Marx and burned his face off?

We're exploring every angle.

He's an angle.

Listen. If I wanted to kill Benjamin Marx,

I would have done it the first time.

He was a sociopath that stole from widows and orphans,

and he got what he deserved.

But I didn't do it.

We'll see.

Yes, we will.

Thanks for coming.

What's going on, Jane? Nothing.

Tell me. I said it's nothing.

It's never nothing with you.

Do you think Smith is Red John?

Possibly.

Well, if he isn't Red John, he's an idiot

for thinking you could have anything to do

with Marx's death.

He's not completely wrong.

I mean, I-I didn't kill Benjamin Marx,

but I might have gotten him killed.

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Okay, no more secrets. Spill it now.

I was concerned with security

when I was working my list of Red John suspects.

Obsessively secretive.

Yeah, well, you say "tomato""

but I knew there were people that needed that information.

So I planted what you would call

misinformation on my crime board.

So whoever saw your crime board

got the list of the seven Red John suspects.

But they would be the wrong suspects.

Exactly. And it worked.

Someone broke into my office.

How do you know?

Well, I set a trap, and it was sprung.

Now this person has a fake list of Red John suspects,

and Benjamin Marx was on that list.

So somebody is torturing and killing

the people on your fake list.

Whoa, whoa. N-not necessarily.

Someone tortured and killed one person from my list.

But theoretically, his death could be about anything.

He wasn't a nice man.

I am trying to wrap my mind around this.

You put the lives of seven innocent people in danger.

No. None of them are innocent.

Marx defrauded hundreds of people...

Then he brutally murdered someone to cover it up.

I assure you, Lisbon...

All of these men are very bad.

They just don't happen to be Red John.

Do you think the real Red John could have broken in here

and killed Marx?

Well, Red John is the only person besides us

that knows the real list of suspects,

so he is the only person that has no motive to do this.

Then who broke in here?

I don't know.

Someone with easy access, a lot of resources and power.

The F.B.I. They've been wanting

to get their hands on the Red John case for a while.

They were not happy when Homeland Security took over.

True.

You know, I've always suspected the F.B.I. are watching me.

Personally.

As paranoid as it sounds,

it would explain how they got the Marx case.

But why would they do this to him?

And how do we proceed?

I can't just go to the F.B.I. and ask them

if they killed Marx.

If the F.B.I. Has been watching me,

I'll bet that someone very high up in the CBI

authorized it, or at least went along with it.

I need to talk to them.

Bertram. But you obviously can't ask him.

Madeleine Hightower then.

Hightower?

She hasn't run the CBI in three years.

What kind of information do you think she still has access to?

And if so, why would she share it with you?

Well, Red John tried to kill her.

She's gonna want to help me.

Unless she blames you.

Eh. I'm gonna call her.

Fine.

Oh. What do you have planned for the day?

You don't officially have a case, do you?

You can relax.

Get a massage, mani/pedi.

No.

I have to go and offer protection

to the six people on your list, which you are going to give me.

I was hoping you'd opt for the massage.

Oh, I can't believe it.

Finally got him back to sleep.

Good job, Mr. Rigsby.

And we don't have to leave for work for another hour.

What are we gonna do to pass the time?

Well, I don't know, Mrs. Rigsby.

Oh... don't.

Oh...

It's Lisbon.

She can wait 10 minutes.

Mmm.

Lisbon.

It must be important. You should get it.

Morning, boss.

You and Rigsby take these four.

I'll take Haibach and Lee.

Isn't Haibach the guy from the Panzer case

with all the photos of the little girls?

Yeah. I've dealt with him once before,

so maybe he'll be more likely to come with me.

Rape charges, drug charges,

human trafficking charges.

Really? We're gonna help these guys?

That's the job. We don't get to pick and choose.

We need to warn these men that their lives are in danger

and offer them protection.