Brooke Harper (The Mentalist)

Brooke Harper, aka Lindsay Smith (Lisa Sheridan; 1974-2019), is a villainess from "Miss Red," the antepenultimate episode of The Mentalist's first season (airdate May 5, 2009). 
Brooke Harper was introduced as a psychiatrist and the girlfriend of wealthy CEO Jim Gulbrand, the episode's murder victim. She was interviewed by Patrick Jane and Wayne Rigsby regarding Jim, and as for an alibi, Brooke stated that she was in her office working at the time of the murder. However, an investigation into Brooke revealed that the actual Brooke Harper is a 64-year-old woman, meaning that the woman Jane and Rigsby spoke to was an impostor. Brooke's reveal was cemented after she was seeing one of her patients, when she escaped out through the window upon being informed that CBI was looking for her.
After Jane and detective Kimball Cho tracked Brooke to the Backgammon Club, they caught her opening one of the lockers containing a box full of cigars and took her into custody. Brooke was looking for $10 million in Jim's cash at the time, and the episode's progression revealed that her real name was Lindsay Smith, and she was from San Diego. She had also pulled many cons before the events and had been convicted twice before her relationship (and latest scam) with Jim--who Brooke/Lindsay claimed to genuinely love.
Brooke denied killing Jim, after which Jane gave the villainess a key to Jim's storage locker at a train station. This was used to track Brooke, who was with a wheelchair-bound Stuart Hanson, who was in charge of security at Jim's company. Once Brooke opened the locker to retrieve the money, Stuart rose up from the chair and held Brooke at gunpoint, revealing himself as not only a con artist, but Jim's killer as well, as he was the one who convinced Jim to move the money to the station. Following Stuart's arrest, Brooke/Lindsay was also arrested for her crimes as a con artist.
==Trivia==
*Lisa Sheridan later appeared on Perception as the evil Rebecca Abbott.
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