The Mentalist

Jane? You in there?

I'm up. I'm up.

Homicide in San Francisco.

Cho and Rigsby are already on their way.

Did you sleep here?

No, I was working.

It looks like you were sleeping.

Well, I programmed my, uh,

dreams to work on the Red John case.

Oh, well, then make sure you put in for overtime.

Ah, healthy skepticism. I like it. But it could work.

Mendeleev saw the entire periodic table in his dream.

That's nice for him. Jane?

Shall we?

As a friend...

This doesn't look good.

Keeps me going.

There's evidence of a physical confrontation,

and this is where he ended up.

He was on his back when the shots were fired.

- Eight to ten rounds to the head. - Whew. What head?

- Yeah. - Ew.

Two motel guests heard muffled pops

around 1:00 A.M., figured it was city traffic.

No defense wounds. You'd think

he would've at least put up his hands to shield his face.

Or it depends on how hard he fell.

Forensics recovered the casings.

9 millimeter. Also collected a cigarette butt

and some red fibers around the body.

You woke me for this?

This man is a sociopath. He should've been in prison.

He was. Full pardon two days ago. Name's Henry Dahl.

Convicted nine years ago

in the rape and murder of one Jennie Winter.

Was a lifer at Del Norte until a new D.N.A. test set him free.

How'd you peg him as an inmate?

Give me a break.

A classic rooster build-- massive upper body, skinny legs.

Jaundiced skin, probably hepatitis "C"

from the dirty needle tattoo on his elbow.

Spiderweb representing the passage of time.

Wh-where are you going?

I'm tired, and I don't really care who killed this creep.

He was innocent.

Meh. He made instruments of death out of toothpicks.

I know you, don't I? Are you with homicide?

Right now I'm with you, unless, uh, of course,

are you with homicide?

Did you know it cost taxpayers $2.4 million

to convict Henry Dahl in the murder of Jennie Winter?

No kidding. That's a lot of money.

Now they'll have to spend millions more finding

and convicting Dahl's killer

because the state set a hardened criminal free.

How many man hours will you waste chasing

Henry Dahl's killer? - Not too many.

Anything usable?

Eh...maybe.

Get this.

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And I'm here to tell you

Henry Dahl deserved what he got.

Even the CBI agrees with me--

the premiere law enforcement agency of California.

Take a look at one of their agents

just two hours

after the gruesome body was discovered

in a South San Francisco motel room.

Not in too big a rush to catch the killer, is he?

We've identified this man as Patrick Jane,

the CBI's top criminal consultant.

Sleep tight tonight, Mr. Jane. I know I will.

This isn't unfamiliar territory to me.

A paid consultant mistaking state contracts

for a country club where he can do as he pleases.

He was tired because he was here all night

working on the Red John case. It's completely bogus.

Yeah, I know it's bogus. But that's not how it looks.

It looks like he puked in the fish tank.

Kinda does, yeah.

The Attorney General has enough to worry about

with the murder of a wrongly imprisoned man.

I need Jane awake on this.

To be honest, I'm more concerned about her behavior

than I am about his. The police never released

Dahl's identity to the press.

So what's a famous cable TV host doing in front of the motel?

Karen Cross' production company

footed the bill for Henry Dahl's motel room.

Dahl had driven in from Lodi

to appear as a guest on her talk show today.

Explains how she knew he was there.

Wait. Their connection runs deeper than that.

Before Cross joined Trial TV, she was a State Prosecutor

with 102 violent felony convictions, no losses.

Guess who one of those convictions was?

Hello, Dahl-y.

Don't do that.

Why would Dahl appear on the national talk show

of the lawyer who put him away?

Notoriety. Payback. Women.

Well, Cross can't be happy about Dahl's name being cleared.

Ruins her perfect record.

Agreed. Jane and I will go talk to her.

Now did Dahl have a local residence

A halfway house in Lodi.

You and Cho, start driving. See what you find there.

I'll grab the keys.

Hey, what's the matter? Oh. I had a lunch appointment.

Well, I can drive to Lodi with Cho.

Oh, no. I couldn't ask you to do that.

Don't worry about it. I'll clear it with Lisbon.

You know, you go do your lunch thing.

I hope you're hungry.

Hey, Grace.

Hey. Rigsby.

Hey. So you should grab a jacket.

I hitched us a ride on the TAC team chopper.

We're flying to lunch?

TAC team was heading up North anyhow, so they're gonna

drop us off at this great picnic spot I know on the River.

I mean, you said you had a couple hours, right?

Yeah. Thank you so much. I owe you one.

It's okay. We'll stop for Big Gulps.

How you doing? You all right?

Eh, it's a little chilly in here, no?

Excuse me. Hi. I'm Agent Lisbon.

I think you know my colleague, Patrick Jane.

Well, he's probably taking a nap.

He gets nervous on TV sets.

I imagine so, considering what happened to his family

after his last talk show appearance.

Even I know better than to taunt a serial killer on air.

Then you should know better than to taunt the CBI, because--

I'm a person of interest. I get it.

So let me make this easy for you.

Yes, I was outraged that Henry Dahl was set free.

Did I shoot him? No. I was in edit bay 4

at the time of his murder. The log includes

a contact number for the editor who was with me.

Why'd you invite Henry on your show?

The state may have let Henry go,

but my show is tougher than any court of law.

I was gonna nail him to the cross.

Karen cross?

You've seen my promos?

Read the trial coverage, too. It was all smoke and mirrors.

You whipped the jury into a frenzy

to cover for a lack of physical evidence.

Two witnesses put Dahl at the scene.

That doesn't make him a killer.

You caught a break when the D.N.A. test

from the rape Kit came back as inconclusive.

The new test excludes Dahl as the perpetrator.

You don't trust D.N.A.?

I don't trust anything coming out of the justice system.

That's why I left.

I heard you left because

you were gonna be fired for ethical violations.

Nothing stops me from following my instincts, Agent Lisbon.

I won't apologize for that.

I spent six months deposing and questioning Henry.

I'm telling you for a fact, that man was a reptile.

Shrink, right?

Excuse me?

The vest.

The tea.

Karen Cross always invites a shrink

to comfort the grieving mother. I'm Jodi Dahl.

Oh. I'm sorry for your loss.

Don't you worry about me.

I've been letting go of Henry for years.

Excuse me, hon.

Tea?

It's a hug in a... cup.

No, no, thank you.

I take it you're family, too.

Max Winter.

Max Winter.

The widower of the victim.

True victim.

My wife's name was Jennie.

There is nothing about you that indicates loss.

No scars of aged pain. Bravo.

Corner seat says you're wary.

Need to control your environment.

In most people, that creates tension.

But your breathing is relaxed.

What's your trick, Max?

It's... inner peace.

The kind of peace you get when you shoot your wife's killer?

Henry was innocent, it seems.

Well, if that's true, the man that raped

and cut your wife up is still out there.

That doesn't bother you?

Jennifer's life ended abruptly.

Could've been a drunk driver, could've been a meteorite.

Anger is unhelpful and unproductive.

Well, I don't know.