Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) is the man who knows you killed the guy because you've got your trousers on backwards, more or less, because he is a mentalist - a psychic, trickster, sort of like Derren Brown working for Scotland Yard. Jane starts working for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after his wife and daughter are murdered by serial killer Red John, helping to track down his family's killer and, by his own admission, kill him right back. Of course, in the interest of prolonging the show, Jane spends most of his time working on other unrelated cases and building up platonic relationships with his colleagues, mostly his boss Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney). After seasons of building the mythology around the illusive Red John, series six of the show should go down as one of the weakest and worst written reveals in TV history: in the eighth episode, with little climactic bluster, (it already wasted on a false reveal) Jane murders Red John and thus signals the beginning of the end for The Mentalist. The writer's have tried to breathe new life into the show, moving Jane to the FBI, along with most of his old cronies, but the show has lost its steam. In the final scene of season six Jane declares his undying love for Lisbon and the two kiss, the culmination of a sexual tension that was never really building. As the freeze-frame lingered on the pair's interlocking lips it seemed a perfect place to leave Jane and his mind games forever. Alas season seven has already been green-lit.
