- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
Even if you enjoy The Mentalist, its tireless devotion to its own clichés can get a bit much. Oh look, Patrick Jane just insulted another witness. And he’s just seen right through a macho suspect. And here comes the stunt at the end where he tricks the murderer into revealing his/her identity.
But just when you’re ready to give up, the writers roll the dice and do something different. Not radically so, but enough to keep us interested. This week, it’s showing us at the beginning who commits the murder (of a local news reporter whose car veers off a mountain road), and at the end tossing in a character who will instantly have everyone thinking, “Red John!”
About this programme
7/22. The CBI team looks into the death of Cassie Flood, a journalist whose car careered off a winding mountain road. It looks like an accident at first, but Jane soon realises that foul play was involved and the investigation leads to billionaire philanthropist Tommy Volker - and Lisbon and Jane uncover evidence that Cassie was about to blow the whistle on his shady dealings. Guest starring Henry Ian Cusick (Lost).
Cast and crew
Cast
- Patrick Jane
- Simon Baker
- Teresa Lisbon
- Robin Tunney
- Wayne Rigsby
- Owain Yeoman
- Grace Van Pelt
- Amanda Righetti
- Kimball Cho
- Tim Kang
- Christian Dos Santos
- Kirk Acevedo
- Cassie Flood
- Jennifer Peo
- Ed Hunt
- Ted McGinley
- Ryan Kasmir
- Amir Arison
- Steve Berman
- Jeremy Glazer
- Tommy Volker
- Henry Ian Cusick
- Amanda Shaw
- Rhea Bailey
Crew
- Director
- John F Showalter
- Executive Producer
- Bruno Heller
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