The Mentalist

Heads again.

That's 18.

Heads again.

19.

And...

Voilà.

I believe that's the wager.

Pay up.

Okay. So what's the trick? Trick?

Tell me what the trick is, and I will give you the money.

The trick is...

I have supernatural powers.

It's a 2-headed coin, right?

Looks normal to me.

Hmm.

You did something to the coin, right?

Come on, man. I gave you 20 bucks.

Uh, can I help you? Am I in the way?

Kimball said I could sit here. Kimball?

I'm a friend of his. Elise Chay.

Elise, yes. Yeah, I'm Theresa Lisbon.

Cho's talked about you.

It's nice to meet you. You must be Rigsby.

Oh, hey. Wayne. It's a pleasure.

It is. I like putting faces to names.

Um, I have to ask you--

Patrick Jane--is-- over here.

Oh. Hi. Hi.

I thought he'd look scarier.

he's resting.

Hey.

Hey. I was just meeting everybody.

Yeah, we were just getting to the embarrassing questions.

And that's why we're leaving. Our reservation's at 8:00.

Well, it was nice meeting you all. Have a good night.

let me just get this.

Okay, I'll be by the elevator. All right.

Cho. Uh, agent Kimball Cho?

That's right. It's Detective Sharon Florey, Oakland homicide.

I just caught a shooting on the east side.

I'm hoping you can help me out with it.

Uh, if you want CBI's assistance, Detective,

You'll have to run it by the special agent in charge.

No, I'm--I'm not asking for CBI, agent, just you.

Me? Why?

Well, we haven't I.D. 'd the victim yet,

But we got his phone.

There were three calls to your number in the past few days.

That bring a name to mind?

What's the victim look like?

Asian male, early 30s,

Prison tats. Uh, gangbanger, probably.

What's the address?

1300 Summit Street, Oakland.

All right.

I'm on my way. Thanks.

Duty calls?

It's a homicide in Oakland. They want help with the I.D.

You're gonna disappoint that lovely young lady

Waiting out by the elevator for a corpse? In Oakland?

A job's a job.

I'll come with you.

No. I'll do this alone.

Agent Cho.

Detective Florey.

Victim took three bullets in the back.

Wallet's missing, but I don't think it was a robbery.

He still had his phone on him

And some cash in his back pocket,

Also this-- mean anything to you?

No.

His name's David Seung,

Got out six months ago after doing time at Folsom.

He's a banger,

Member of the Avon Park Playboys.

Avon Park Playboys?

My old gang. You ran with the Playboys?

Seung's only family is his grandmother, same last name.

She lives on Telegraph Avenue.

Know what he'd been up to since getting out?

No idea. Haven't talked to him in 13 years.

What about those calls?

He left a couple messages, said he needed help.

You didn't call him back and find out why?

No. Anything else, Detective?

We're good. Thanks for your help.

Thank you.

All right. What's the story?

You heard the story.

Why did he call you for help? Are you friends?

We used to be best friends.

He was like my brother.

Morning.

Does that look funny to you?

Like, thicker?

Why?

I'm thinking Jane weighted it on one side

So that it always lands heads.

Except when I flip it,

It doesn't always land heads.

It comes up tails half the time.

Maybe there's a technique of tossing it.

You're not getting enough sex from Van Pelt.

Hey. Shh. We don't talk about that. Kimball.

Mrs. Seung.

It's so good to see you after all these years.

What can I do for you?

You never visited him in prison, did you?

No.

12 years is a long time.

I told David about you,

When you joined the army,

When you became a police officer.

He always looked up to you.

You'll be working to find who killed him, won't you?

No, ma'am. The case belongs to the Oakland police.

They'll find whoever did this.

That Detective woman--

She thinks David got killed because he was in the gang.

That's not true.

It does look like that's what happened.

No. He left the gang.

He had a job.

Just because he told you he left the gang doesn't mean he did.

He wouldn't lie to me.

Mrs. Seung,

When I knew David,

I heard him lie to you many times,

About what he was doing, who he was with.

The Oakland police will handle it, okay?

Please, Kimball.

Won't you help?

I'm sorry, mrs. Seung.

There's nothing I can do.

So he was a friend of yours?

It was a guy I used to know.

Look, we'll cover for you

If you want to take comp time to look into it.

Absolutely. Boss won't mind.

I'm not getting involved.

But he was your friend.

He was a gangbanger, Van Pelt. Bangers get shot.

All right, he's not the first guy I used to know to get shot.

He won't be the last.

That's funny. Grandma out there

Seemed pretty certain he was no longer a gang member.

She's wrong.

She seemed pretty sharp.

Maybe he got shot 'cause he was trying to leave the gang.

That happens, doesn't it?

Whatever. Oakland's got it.

How much time is Oakland p.D. Gonna spend on a gangbanger?

Not much. What's your point?

Well, there must be someone that can tell us

That he was or wasn't a member of the gang.

I mean, just for kicks. No.

Okay, then, uh,

Just to...

Soothe your troubled conscience.

So the mean streets, huh? Yep.

Your old stomping ground.

You could say that.

Stole a car over there when I was 14.

Yeah?

Crashed it over there.

Mm.

Don't wander. No worries.

we're closed.

Jon Jon.

Cho.

Is that you for real?

Yeah.

Man, I heard you was a cop.

I said, no way.

Dawg, this is Kimball Cho.

Yeah, I see him.

He's a Playboy from way back.

Called him the "ice man."

No.

Yeah, you wanted something done cold, you got Cho.

Well, it's still the same. Who are you?

Uh. Patrick Jane.

Nice to meet you. Great store.

Uh, some kind of drug dealership is it, yeah?

Nah.

You know, I read somewhere that--

And this is very interesting- the average drug dealer

Would make a better wage serving burgers.

Is that accurate, do you think?

there's chumps and there's players

In any game, bro.

I guess.

Hey.

You hear about David Seung?

Oh. Yeah.

Any idea who killed him? No.

Was he rolling with you guys again?

Is that what got him in trouble?

Why would I tell you anything?

I just want to confirm it's a gang beef,