Question: How does Patrick Jane help the CBI?
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In the season 4's finale "The Crimson Hat", after being fired from the CBI, Jane finds himself in a Las Vegas bar, where he meets an attractive woman named Lorelei (Emmanuelle Chriqui).
He proceeds to get arrested.
Lorelei bails him out, and the two eventually make love in Jane's apartment.
The next day, however, Lorelei reveals herself as an associate of Red John, and says her presence in Jane's life is "a gift".
She brings forward Red John's proposal for friendship and a 'change' in Jane's lifestyle to help him overcome his depression.
Jane is genuinely shocked and tells Lorelei to get out.
However, he later confides to Lisbon that his breakdown had been tailored to get Red John to believe Patrick was really giving up.
Red John communicates through Lorelei that he will only meet Jane in person if he kills Lisbon and brings him her head as a "present".
The CBI team executes a plot where they fake the murders of Lisbon and Rigsby at the hands of Jane, and the team goes into hiding.
On hearing this over the news, Red John sends a message across to Jane to meet him in Nevada.
Darcy is investigating the apparent deaths of Lisbon and Rigsby.
She discovers that the body found does not belong to Rigsby and gets immediate arrest warrants issued against the entire team involved in the deception.
Meanwhile, a limousine pulls over in the middle of a deserted street where Jane is waiting.
Lorelei and a huge, armed man emerge from the car, and she claims Red John is inside.
Lorelei looks at the box Jane is bearing and wryly asks if it contains a football or a cabbage.
He tells her it is a melon, specifically a honeydew.
She does not react angrily, apparently since Red John (and thus she) became aware of Jane's deception.
Lorelei does have her enormous, powerfully built assistant beat Jane up "a little".
Jane sits in the front seat of the limo while a dark shadowy figure sitting in the back whose voice is distorted with a radio transmitter, and whose face is not visible, greets Jane.
He tells Jane that he was fooled for a while by Jane's plot but was apprised of the truth by a "good friend" inside the FBI.
At this moment Lisbon and her team, who were to move in and arrest Red John, are arrested by Darcy and her squad.
Lisbon, cuffed on the side of the road, frantically tells Darcy about the plan and the imminent danger to Jane's life.
Just as Lorelei is about to reluctantly punish Jane by cutting off two of his fingers, the CBI and FBI teams arrive.
Jane emerges unharmed.
The FBI fire bullets at the fleeing limousine, which comes to a stop.
Lorelei is arrested unhurt, although the driver/bodyguard is killed.
Darcy opens the back door, which reveals CBI Director Luther Wainwright, bound and dead, with a cell phone attached to his body.
Lorelei is interrogated at the CBI by Jane and Lisbon.
She refuses to speak about Red John but tells Lisbon that she and Jane have been lovers, calling Jane "lover" frequently.
Jane tells Lorelei with certainty that she will eventually reveal what she knows and walks out of the room, ending season 4. 
The series follows Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) based in Sacramento, California.
Although not an officer of the law, he uses skills from his former career as a successful yet admittedly fraudulent psychic medium to help a team of CBI agents solve murders.
The ultimate goal of Patrick Jane in his cooperation with the CBI is to track down the killer known as "Red John," who was responsible for the brutal murders of his wife and daughter.
Jane formerly had a lucrative career as a con man, successfully posing as a psychic medium and enjoying near-celebrity status.
Five years before the events in the show's pilot episode, he appeared on television to claim that his paranormal abilities helped the police profile a serial killer named Red John.
Red John, angered by the perceived slight, murdered Jane's wife and young daughter in revenge.
Jane subsequently abandoned his job as a psychic and teamed with the CBI, using his skills to help them solve various crimes.
His main focus is on the cases involving Red John or Red John copycats.
He admits to faking the supernatural aspects of his skills, often asserting that "there's no such thing as psychics," yet he has finely honed skills in cold reading, hypnosis, and pickpocketing, as well as powerful observational skill and a deep insight into the human psyche and behavior.
His last act at CBI was to finally find Red John and kill him.
After spending two years off the grid, Jane cut a deal with the FBI to work for them, bringing with him former CBI Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon, the only person who seems to be able to keep Jane's theatrics and lack of boundaries under control.
Jane and Lisbon work with their former fellow CBI agent Kimball Cho, FBI Agent Kim Fischer, are supervised by the no-nonsense Agent Dennis Abbott and are now based in Austin, Texas.
The rest of the former CBI team, Wayne Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt, have started their own security firm, but keep in touch with their former colleagues.
Patrick Jane is a consulting member of the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation) crime fighting unit.
He is unconventional and commonly defies police procedure, often acting without apparent empathy for suspects or families suffering loss.
His past is revealed slowly through the show's five seasons.
The revelations come through flashbacks and Jane's statements.
In the episode "Throwing Fire" it is revealed that Jane was raised by a swindler father who included his young son in his carnival psychic act, touting Jane as "the boy wonder".
Jane never went to school, as revealed in the episode "Rose-Colored Glasses".
He married Angela Ruskin, who was from a similar background, her family being members of a traveling carnival and "carnival royalty".
The couple had a daughter, Charlotte.
According to The Mentalist Code (2013), Charlotte Jane was named after two films written by the father of Bruno Heller, Lukas Heller: Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.
Prior to working at the CBI, Jane suffered a nervous breakdown due to guilt over the death of his family.
He has kept the incident a secret from his CBI co-workers, and it is not in his records.
Jane uses his mentalist abilities to solve crimes, but his main objective is to find Red John.
He has stated that he plans to kill Red John rather than to commit him to legal incarceration, though his direct supervisor, Teresa Lisbon, appears to doubt his sincerity in this regard.
Jane initially joined the CBI one year after the death of his wife and daughter.
The season 5 episode "Red Dawn" revealed Jane originally came to the CBI in an attempt to gain access, as a civilian, to the Red John case files.
He was discouraged from doing so, but when assaulted by a then-agent of the CBI, Stephen Hannigan, he was allowed to look at the files out of an attempt to appease him and avoid a lawsuit.
He became engaged in a then-current investigation of Lisbon and her team, managed to solve the case using his unique abilities, and as a result was employed as a consultant by then-CBI director Virgil Minelli.
Jane is shown to care deeply about Lisbon, who is not only his supervisor, but partner.
When she admits to Jane that she doesn't trust him, he tells her not only that he trusts her, but that he will always be there for her no matter what happens, and will always help her whether she likes it or not.
Throughout the various seasons both characters have revealed their affection for one another, especially if one of them is in danger.
After successfully closing a case, Jane asks Lisbon if she would like to dance with him, which she accepts.
The two of them seem to enjoy being physically close to one another, without any sign of awkwardness.
Jane has hugged Lisbon and held her hand, showing his trust in her.
He can be seen (borderline, it could be argued) flirting and playfully teasing her on a regular basis.
He admitted he missed her after being partnered with a different agent for an episode.
In the finale of the fourth season, Jane admits to Lisbon he loved her.
However, when asked what he meant by Lisbon later on in the episode, he claims to have "forgotten" what he said.
Bruno Heller claims this will be dealt with over the next two seasons.
The show's creator, Bruno Heller, has said that season five will reveal Patrick Jane's darker side.
Two years after the events of "Red John", he returns to the US under the agreement he works as an consultant for the FBI in order to avoid jail time. 
Jane has suggested on a number of occasions that he considers Red John's death or capture to be a higher priority than his own life.
In turn, Red John appears to hold a similar obsession with Jane, to the point of risking capture for the purpose of observing him.
In the episode "His Red Right Hand", he is described as being similar to Jane in his ability to "see through people".
Red John has a CBI team murdered with help from a mole on the inside, just so he can have Jane back on his case.
During the second season finale, Jane and Red John finally meet.
However, Jane is unable to see Red John's face because it is hidden by a rubber mask, and Jane is tied to a chair.
Ironically Red John saves Jane from three students who have committed a Red John copycat crimes and are about to kill Jane.
At the end of the third season finale, Jane meets a man whom he believes is Red John.
During their conversation, "Red John" encourages Jane to forget about him, and says that seeking vengeance is a waste of his valuable life.
Patrick asks if he is the real Red John, to which the man gives detailed comments about Patrick's wife and daughter.
When "Red John" attempts to walk away after their brief talk, Jane shoots him with a handgun, then sits down and waits to be arrested.
It is revealed in season 4 that the man Jane shot was an imposter, and Red John remains at large.
In the fourth season finale, Red John extends a hand of friendship to a distraught and derelict Jane, believing that Jane has lost all hope and has lost his way in life.
Jane, however, has contrived his own nervous breakdown in order to draw out his adversary.
Jane meets with Red John inside a limousine, unable to see his face.
Red John proposes his offer for friendship yet again, but Jane replies, "Go to hell".
Later, the FBI closes in on the vehicle, arresting Red John's friend Lorelei Martins, but discovering Red John was never in the limousine and was communicating via a burner phone attached to the kidnapped Luther Wainright, who is inadvertently killed.
In season 5, Jane becomes determined to discover Red John's identity.
In episode 16, he reveals that he will do anything to get to Red John.
In episode 8, Lorelei Martins accidentally reveals to Jane that he has already shaken hands with Red John.
Although Jane doesn't identify Red John in season 5, in the finale, in a pre-mortem video, Red John delivers a message via the now dead Lorelei Martins.
This video reveals the final seven Red John suspects and predicted how Jane would come across the video nearly two months after its filming; having done that, she reveals Red John's prediction of Jane's suspect list, which matches Jane's actual list exactly.
In season 6 of the series, Jane finally tracks down Red John and, in a gambit exploiting Red John's fear of pigeons, manages to shoot him.
Though Red John briefly runs away, ultimately Jane apprehends him, and in an end to this aspect of the series' plot arc, Jane strangles Red John to death.
A symbolic relationship also exists between the two.
They represent The Tyger and The Lamb by William Blake.
They are a part of a "fearful symmetry" that expresses itself in the actual drama of the series and in a secret code that presents itself covertly throughout the series. 
Lisbon tolerates Jane's misbehavior, although she is often antagonized by his actions and has to apologize for him to both her CBI superiors and others with whom Jane is allowed to interact in his capacity as a consultant to the CBI.
She sometimes places high stakes on her career by supporting Jane.
The two often engage in light flirting and teasing of one another, with Lisbon sometimes being visibly affected by Jane's charm.
She and Jane have shared several personal and deep moments throughout the series, however, which can be interpreted either as romantic interest, or just in the context of being best friends.
She is shown giving Jane multiple chances and is often seen, even when she is unhappy with his behavior, to be supportive of him and help him.
Bruno Heller, creator of "The Mentalist", has stated:Some people see that as a very sort of intense but cryptic romantic relationship.
Other people see it purely as brother and sister.
And I think we leave it to time and the audience to play that out and the chemistry of the actors.