Patrick Jane

**Patrick Jane** is the titular protagonist of CBS ' *The Mentalist*. He was portrayed by starring cast member Simon Baker and guest Star Chris Bonchu.

## Background

Patrick Jane was born in either 1969 or 1974 to conman, Alex Jane and raised as a carney. Growing up, Jane 's father verbally abuses his son. Though not ever stated, Patrick probably spent some of his childhood into the foster system, and has memories of Eileen Barlow, and her Uncle, Sean. One time Alex plays a big scam where he forces Patrick to pretend to use a crystal with supposed healing properties for a grandmother and her ailing granddaughter. Eventually, Patrick meets his future wife, Angela Ruskin. After falling in love, the couple eloped after learning their similar backgrounds and leave their carney life behind, even marrying each other and having one daughter, Charlotte. ("Pilot")

Through his earlier days, Jane feigned being a psychic. On one of his times working with the police, Jane puts away the criminal known as Don Bowman. ("Ball of Fire").

On one of the talkshows he guest stars on, Patrick insults an infamous serial killer known as Red John, calling him an "ugly little man." In retaliation, red John breaks into the Jane household, where he kills Patrick's wife and their daughter. Returning home, Jane sees a note written by Red John. A very distraught Jane sees Charlotte and Angela brutally myrdered nd notices red John painted Angela's toenails in her own blood and wrote his signature smiley face on the wall *("Pilot", "Red John's Friends")*

The event of Patrick's loss caused him to go through a mental break down and incarcerate himself in a psychiatric ward, being treated by Sophie Miller, whom helps Jane get his life back on track. After spending six months in the asylum, Jane is released, but not before telling Sophie that he is grateful for her help. ("Red Dawn", "Red Brick and Ivy")

About fifteen years prior, Patrick had an acquaintance, Jack Hellion, and claimed that he still owed him money.

Four years before the start of the series, Patrick went to the CBI building, seeking out Agent Teresa Lisbon, and asks about the developments and leads in the Red John case, Lisbon politely tells him that she cannot reveal anything and asks Jane to come back later, setting an appointment for three hours. While escorted to the elevator, Jane provokes Steve Hannigan, who punches Jane in the nose, with Jane noting that he deserved the punch. Lisbon comes and helps Jane into her office, giving him ice for his bleeding nose. Jane meets Virgil Minelli, asking the supervising agent about the Red John case. Minelli allows Jane to come with Lisbon on her investigation and provokes the judge she is talking too. Jane's hunch about the victim having a date proves to be true and Cho confirms it. Later, Lisbon tells Mr. Jane that he shouldn't look into Red John's files, but Jane reveals her boss has allowed him to view them. Gaining access to the files, Lisbon asks for his insight on the case with the five suspects in the room, to find out who the liar is. Jane states he is not a psychic, but Lisbon thinks he has a gift. Coming into a room with the five suspects, Jane asks them who killed Dellinger, but Lisbon asks the suspects to leave. However, Jane tells Lisbon that he is eighty percent sure who the killer is. Jane is able to find that the killer is none other than the lawyer, Nathaniel Kim. Thanks to his skills, Jane is hired by the department thanks to Minelli seeing Jane's potential, but Steve is transferred to another unit. Lisbon finally leads Jane to the Red John files, with Jane thanking her. The next morning, Lisbon finds Jane asleep on the couch he dragged in. They are called to a case, but Lisbon allows himto catch up on sleeping.("Red Dawn")

## Red John Story-Arc

### Season 1

During one of the cases involving the murder of a young girl, Mercy Tolliver, Jane manages to get Juniper Tolliver angry after learning her husband killed their daughter. Jane earns a suspension for this act. He appears at Los Angeles, much to Lisbon's shock that he is disobeying his suspension. While helping them unpack at the LAPD, Jane meets Grace Van Pelt, who believes him to be a psychic, but is disappointed when she learns he was a fake psychic that led to the eventual death of his family and wrath of Red John. On this case of the murder of a wife and her family friend doctor, Jane notices that this case is a Red John copycat, having studied him for years. While staying at a hotel, Dr. Wagner poses as Red John and gives Jane a letter, causing Jane to know that Red John never taunted him in public like this and spends the whole night writing a diary, something he mentioned to Dr. Wagner earlier. Jane is actually able to notice that it was Wagner who killed that poor man and that poor girl, as they were business Partners. Wagner tries to kill Jane to cover his tracks, but Patrick is saved by Rigsby. After the case is closed, as the team packs for their journey back to Sacramento, Jane apologizes to his team for misleading them, however, they don't accept his apology since he made them go tough on the victim's family. Approaching a very upset Lisbon, he places an origami frog on her desk, and designs it to make it hop. Lisbon is surprised yet happy at Jane 's trick as Patrick gives her a small smile. Later on, Jane goes to his house and lies underneath the smiley face Red John painted on the wall earlier before falling asleep in the same room his family was killed in ("Pilot").

TBA ("Red Hair and Silver Tape")

Lisbon sees Jane and Van Pelt walking around the office and asks what they are doing, Patrick answers he is trying to find where Grace left the keys. Having his hand the whole time, he "finds" it near the ficas and claims since he found it, he gets to drive. At Chris's memorial, Jane, Rigsby, and Cho meet two of Christine's friends, Win and Hope. Later, Jane tells Cho and Rigsby to leave him at the beach, and meets Flipper after seeing his hairstyle the same as the victim and goes to his residence, where Lisbon and Rigsby find him and Flipper. Jane and Lisbon later go to where Christine and her friends had partied, with they discover the body of a security guard in dry cement, Jane accusing Dane for sleeping with Christine, calling him by the nickname Pops. Dane punches Patrick in the face, causing Lisbon to arrest him for assaulting Jane. Later, Patrick summons Hope, Win, Danny and Andy, where he pretends to hypnotise the teenagers. hope goes into a trance, but Jane knows she is faking it. The next day, Jane accuses the four teens being the one responsible for Christine's murder, so that neither would tell and would all share the guilt. All four are arrested. ("Red Tide")

TBA ("Ladies in Red")

TBA ("Redwood")

TBA ("Red-Handed")

TBA ("The Thin Red Line")

Jane plays an exercise with Teresa and is able to tell was shape she was visualizing. On the crime scene in Marquesa, Jane is able to find where the killer was hiding. While at the Garcia home, Jane finds Rich's daughter, Maddy in the kitchen, telling her that her mother needs her. Patrick manages to get Susan to confess of her affair with Trey Piller, the chief of police, who becomes a suspect until Rigsby saving him from a fire at Piller's house. After checking in with Rigsby as how he is getting along, Jane and Lisbon go to Alton's Grove to talk with Tommy Olds. Jane notices the aquafer and deduces that it is worth killing for. During Machado's interrogation, Jane enters in the middle of it, revealing that Dave Martin might be out for revenge and tells Ben that he hopes he burns in hell. He and Lisbon have a conversation about revenge, especially when Jane states he will kill Red John like he killed his wife and daughter. Later, Jane poses as Dave Martin and is able to get a confession out of Ben before revealing himself and having Ben's confession on a recorder and threatens to light the barn on fire. However, a voice yells out to them and to their horror and shock, someone sets the house on fire. Rigsby and Cho manage to get there in time and apologize for being too late, as Lisbon didn't know he was going to pull an idiotic stunt. Jane tells Cho to arrest Ben, who admitted to killing ben Machado and gives Rigsby the recorder. Rigsby notices someone standing by a tractor and notifies Jane. Both of them go to run, but Patrick gives up immediately out of breath after running for his life. The next morning, they interrogate Tommy, and Jane is able to notice the game he is playing and able to break through, comparing Tommy's thirst for revenge with Ahab's revenge for the white whale, praising him for his work and showing him a copy of the book and tells him why he knew it was Tommy and says he will go down as his real self, and Tommy admits to his crimes. Before Jane leaves, Tommy tells him to tell Maddy that he is sorry for putting her throughout the pain. Teresa and Patrick go to the Garcia house and tell Maddy and Susan what happened. Maddy proclaims that she will set him on fire and see how he'll like it. Jane tells her revenge is never the answer before he and Lisbon leave. Lisbon comments that his advice his acceptable, but Jane still has not changed his mind about revenge as the two of them dash to the van as it rains. ("Red Flame")

TBA ("Red Brick and Ivy")

 TBA ("Red John's Friends")

 TBA ("Red Rum")

 TBA ("Paint It Red")

 TBA ("Crimson Casanova")

 TBA ("Scarlett Fever")

 TBA ("Bloodshot")

 TBA ("Carnelian, Inc.")

 TBA ("Russet Potatoes")

 TBA ("A Dozen Red Roses")

 TBA ("Red Sauce")

 TBA ("Miss Red")

 TBA ("Blood Brothers")

 TBA ("Red John's Footsteps")

### Season 2

Jane and Lisbon go to the crime scene where the body of Martha St. Claire was found. Jane insults the chief Donner of the Sulter Police, running from the chief's wrath, Later, during an interview with Brenda Shetrick and her camera team, Jane becomes uncomfortable in front of cameras, recalling last time he went on camera, and insulted a serial killer. Jasper kidnaps Jane and takes him to a cabin in the Sierra Foothills. Jane recognised Jasper and Wilson as one and the same by their syntax and similar body language.  Patrick tries hypnotising his captor, however, they are interrupted when Jane's team and the Sulter Police arrive on the scene .  ("Bleeding Heart")

### Season 4

To catch Bianca as the killer of the murder Victim of the episode, and find Cartel, Omar Vega & his warehouse, Jane steals a couple of meth packets from Yoli's undercover cops office.  He and the team go through with it as planned, Cho puts Jane's tracking device in his jacket lining in order for him and Rigsby to follow them.  Patrick, going through with his plan to catch the killer of the Perry boys and Yoli, tells the club's false owner, deducing that Vega is Luxure's true owner and pretends to offer a similar deal of narcotics that Yoli's killer had done.  Vega's men take Jane, throwing his jacket, the tracking device and his shoes out the window of their car. Without relying on Rigsby or Chi, Patrick is on his own. Blindfolded, Jane is taken into Vegas warehouse, where his hunch of Bianca being the killer is confirmed. Vega, not believing either Patrick or Bianca and hold them at gunpoint, about to shoot them, Lisbon and the team storm in, saving Jane and arresting Vega, Bianca and Vega's men.   Later, Lisbon asks Jane how he knew it was Bianca, responding she never took off her criminal disguise, unlike her other co-workers. She nearly asks him to discuss Red John, but Jane's excused when Yoli's widower comes to talk to Lisbon. (Pink Tops)

### Season 5

Jane watches a man from forensics collecting DNA samples from Lorelei, but Patrick is prohibited from taking to her on orders of Gale Bertram and the FBI. Lisbon comes to Jane and tells him that they have a case going on. She takes him to a crime scene where the bodies of a young woman Callie Carson and a man named Rex Lango are ocated at in Callie's apartment. At the crime scene, Jane indirectly causes a fight between CBI agents Cho and Rigsby and FBI agents. After Lorelei is taken away, Jane and LIsbon visit Bertram's office, where he informs them regrettably that the FBI only pretended to give the CBI custody of Lorelei when they were in truth getting the warrant to take Martins away. Jane begs that they have to get her back before Red John's friend in the FBI can get to her, but Bertram points out that they'd have to go through the judge to get her. However, Patrick threatens to sing like a bird what truly led to Wainwright's death, and ignores Bertram's warnings. While at the courthouse, Jane plants a plastic red bead in Manicini's pocket. During the meeting, Patrick tells everyone that there is a friend of Red John's in the FBI and fakes information that all of Red John's friends have a blood red bead in their pocket and points out his "suspicions" to Judge Manchester. AN angry Manicini chases Jane through the entire courthouse, causing Manchester to sign off custody of Lorelei to the CBI. Jane ends the case by proving who really killed Callie and Rex, Callie's grateful sister thanks Patrick by hugging him a few times. However, Lisbon cuts it short, and states that Jane and her have to pick up a prisoner. Jane and Lisbon wait for a few minutes, but find that Lorelei Martins is missing.  ("The Crimson Ticket)

Jane is still upset when the feds took Lorelei away, approaching late. From a distance, Rigsby and Cho decide to invite him out on a boys' night out with the other guys on the grounds that Rigsby asks him. During the investigation of the crime scene, Jane induces belladonna and hallucinates following a bunny and a teenage version of his daughter and blacks out. Hearing Jane collapse on the floor, everyone rushes into
the kitchen, paramedics rush into the room as well and send Patrick to the hospital to pump his stomach of the belladonna in his system, Lisbon accompanying him.  As Patrick enters surgery, he is visited again by Charlotte but brought back calling out for Lisbon, who informs him that they pumped his stomach and that it could be a while before it leaves his system. Jane sends her to get him something to drink, but he makes his escape and hullicinates that an ambulance truck is his blue car. Lisbon, worried about him, tells Jane that he needs to be in bed and will bring him photographs of the crime scene, but Jane says he needs to physically be there to help. Throughout the time, Jane sees his daughter, but at the victim's shop, Charlotte leaves her father, who calls for her not to go, but the Belladonna finally leaving his system. After they expose Betty, Victor's neighbor, Jane induces more tea and belladonna. ("Devil's Cherry")

### Season 6

In the first seven episodes, Jane attempts to figure out which is one of the seven suspects is the real Red John. Teresa, who has been shown the list by Patrick in the season five finale, insists that they tell the rest of their teammates of the list and bug the seven suspects' phones. However, Jane votes against the idea. However, he figures out that Grace, Rigsby, and Cho know about the list as well and what Lisbon has been doing. The two have an argument, and Lisbon rejects any of his phone calls. After solving their case of the first episode, Jane gets a call from Red John, and in a panic, Jane realizes he is doing something to Lisbon. Red John also killed Brett Partridge, lowering Patrick's suspects from seven to six. Lisbon realizes her mistake and acknowledges that Jane was right and that she will have Van Pelt remove the bugs from the suspects' cell-phones.

Patrick attempts calling his old psychiatrist, Sophie Miller but when she does not respond, he goes to her house. However, when she does not answer the door, Patrick breaks into the Miller Household, where he finds Sophie's head in her oven. This was because she could identify who Red John was. While he was at Sophie's house, he stole her recorder due to her never learning to use a computer and having people transcribe it. They learn from Sophie's recorder that Red John has a fear of heights and is an excellent whistler.

In the third episode, Wedding in Red, Jane later has Lisbon take an assignment at Napa County, the hometown of Thomas McAllister, one of the Red John Suspects in order to see if he is Red John. The first sign is when Jane and Lisbon attempt to get McAllister to climb up a ladder to inspect a hammer they think is a weapon to see how he will react. After McAllister refuses, that causes them to remain suspicious. (Wedding in Red)

In "The Red Tattoo," Jane learns from a dying Kira Tinsley that there are three dots on Red John's left shoulder. Patrick realizes that this is leverage he can use against Red John, and tells this to Teresa

In the mid-season finale, "Red John," Patrick finally comes face to face with Red John, revealed to be Thomas McAllister. He is not interested in playing any games with McAllister. Jane finally kills Red John and watches him die slowly and painfully.

## Post-Red John life

### Season 6

Two years later, Jane returns to the United States in exchange for working on the FBI team for five years on the exception that Lisbon is offered a job as well. In season 6 finale, Patrick finally admits his feelings for Teresa and they finally act on their feelings.

## Personality

Patrick Jane is sometimes defined as a charlatan, often manipulating other people and conning numerous others by pretending to be a psychic before his role as a CBI agent. When Jane was younger, he had something of a conscious, as he was wary of conning a dying girl with his father but still went through with it. The episode, "Fugue in Red," reveals more of a pre-CBI Patrick Jane: he was more of a seflish and amoral. After the death of his wife and daughter, Jane changed into a different person: a person deeply guilt-ridden over his family's death. According to Kimball Cho, he says, "Don't take this the wrong way, but the death of Jane's family made him a better person."

Patrick also has a strong aversion to violence, often hiding behind his colleagues when there are guns involved. Usually when struck with a fist, Jane never retaliates. He had only handled a gun four times. Patrick is camera-shy, usually avoiding times when he is going to be interviewed, shown in episodes like "Bleeding Heart" (an episode of season 2). As of season 6, Jane has killed four men: Dumar Hardy, when he nearly killed Lisbon, Timothy Carter (who was pretending to be Red John), Oscar Cordero (in self-defense), and Red John himself (by shooting him and than strangling him).

## Near-death experiences

Despite being a consultant, Patrick has been in dangerous situations as much as his associates, Lisbon, Rigsby, Van Pelt, and Cho, who are are law enforcers.

### Season One

* "**Pilot:"** Jane was almost shot by Dr. Wagner before his team rescued him.
* "**Red Hair and Silver Tape:"** Malcolm and his wife nearly shot Jane and a kidnapped redheaded woman before they were both saved by Teresa Lisbon, who killed them when the man and wife nearly attacked her with a gun and a knife.
* "**Ladies in Red:"** Jane was held at gun point by Adriana twice
	+ First, when they were searching on Jason Sands' boat had Lisbon and Cho hasn't intervened.
	+ Later hold him at gun point in order to save her kidnapped stepdaughter.
* **"Flame Red:"** Nearly killed in a fire with Ben Macchiato but they both escape.
* "**Bloodshot:**" Patrick and Grace were nearly killed by the killer firing a gun at tthem. However, Lisbon saves them by shooting and killing the culprit.

* **"Paint it Red:"** Grace and Patrick were temporarily held at gunpoint by Rob Wallace
* "**Russet Potatoes:"** Rigsby (while hypnotised by the real killer) nearly threw Jane off the rooftop until he had undone the hypnotism.
* **"Red Sauce:"** Nearly shot at by one of Sonny's men until convincing them he was a CBI consultant.
* "**Red John's Footsteps:"**Nearly shot by Dumar Tanner.

### Season Two

* **"The Scarlet Letter:"**  Nearly killed by a "fixer," who temporarily held him hostage at knife-point, but he ended up dead.
* **"Throwing Fire:"** Was hit by a baseball on accident and suffered a minor head injury.
* "**Bleeding Heart:"** Was held captive by Wilson Fonteneau, who held him at gunpoint several times.

### Season Three

* "**Ball of Fire:"** Rachael continuously zapped Patrick Jane, who she had kidnapped,  with a taser that could have killed him from electrical shock. Later when she had Lisbon and Jane, Rachel could have shot and killed Jane and Lisbon had Hightower not come and shoot her from behind in close range.
* "**Jolly Red Elf:"** Leila nearly injected Jane with a lethal alcoholic serum, but Teresa, Wayne, and Kimball burst into the room before it could happen.

* "Red Hot:" Juri shoots at Jane, Lisbon, and Walter Mashburn
* "**Redacted:**" One of the suspects, Heather points a gun at Patrick, going at him, but he is saved by Cho.

### Season Four

* **"Pink Tops":** Omar Vega nearly pulled the trigger of a gun on Patrick and the killer of the episode, Bianca, until Cho, Rigsby, and a SWAT team
* "**Red is the New Black:**" One of the colleagues of Duval, Junior Acosta, nearly attacked Jane with a knife after being infuriated by him but Lisbon pulled her gun on the suspect.

### Season Six

* **Wedding in Red:** Charlie who killed the victim of that episode took Jane hostage and threaten to shoot him, causing Lisbon to stand down. McAllister shoots Charlie and rescues Jane in the process.
* **Fire and Brimstone:** Jane survived the bombing caused by Red John (Thomas McAllister) and was hospitalized in the following episode.
* **The Great Red Dragon:** Gale Bertram attempted to kill Jane when he unconscious in the hospital. However, Lisbon came in before he attempted the act.
* **Red John:** A nun (follower of Red John) attempted to kill Patrick but he dodges her attack. Later,  Oscar Cordero attempted to kill Jane, causing him to pull the trigger before Cordero underwent it.

### Season Seven

* **"Nothing Gold Can Stay:"**Jane surrendered himself to the people who shot and killed Michelle Vega.  Jane is nearly shot when the criminals who killed Vega took him hostage before convincing them that a consultant of the FBI was far more valuable. He later pitted the two against each other.
* **Brown Shagged Carpet:** Kidnapped and later tried to set a house on fire. Patrick was later brought out by Teresa.

## Abilities

* **Detective Skills -** Jane has high Detective skills and able to identify the Culprit of a case easily. Most people sometimes find it out as rude..
* **Hypnosis**
* **Master Manipulator**
* **Cold reading**

## Relationships

### Teresa Lisbon

Initially, Jane and Lisbon were described as having something of a brother-sister relationship, however, many characters have concluded that they are both a little bit in love with each other. In any given situation, Patrick always chose Teresa before Red John, especially shooting down the man who could lead him to Red John, such as shooting Tanner because he was going to kill Lisbon).

Jane also occasionally helps Lisbon, often helping her. In "Red Badge," Jane offers to help Lisbon remember what happened the night William McTier was murdered, but Teresa doesn't want him in her head. Eventually, Teresa complies and wants Patrick to hypnotize her. Usually, Teresa would actually not want hypnosis. They find the killer by having Lisbon pretending to undergo a nervous breakdown and catch him in the act by remembering a detail only the killer would know.

Patrick and Teresa care deeply for each other. During season six, Jane realized that had genuine feelings for Lisbon, and realizing that when Teresa planned on leaving for DC. To prevent Teresa from leaving, Patrick creates a note that expresses a murderer may want to try it again. She and Jane both go to Miami, talking to Wesley Baxter, biggest suspect in the FBI case. At the Blue Bird lodge, Jane reveals he wrote that letter to prevent Teresa from leaving. Infuriated, Teresa throws water at Patrick in anger. However, Patrick goes to apologize to Teresa and confesses he is in love with her before being dragged away by the security at the airport. Moved by what Patrick told her and realizing that she loves him back, Teresa joins him at the TSA holding room, and asks if he means what he said, Jane proclaims he does. Teresa realizes she feels the same way, and the two of them slowly kiss, while being reprimanded by the TSA agent to cut it. Thus, the two engage in a relationship. Per Lisbon's request, they keep their relationship as lovers from their colleagues. They eventually marry in the series finale, with Teresa revealing she is pregnant with hers and Patrick's first child.

### Red John

Jane insulted the serial killer, Red John, on TV, which caused the serial killer to retaliate by killing Patrick's first wife, Angela, and their daughter, Charlotte. According to one of the adversaries, Brett Stiles, Red John enjoys sparring with Jane and sees him as a worthy adversary. Patrick and Red John first meet face to face in the season 2 finale, were the serial killer saves Jane from three students who were going to kill him. However, Red John was in a rubber, murder mask but he had also abducted Kristina Frye.

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 season six, Jane finally kills Red John, finally avenging his family's deaths.

## Trivia

### Character Notes

* During season one through five, Jane had a Motorola Razr2 cell phone. He later used an iPhone in Seasons six and seven.
* Along with Kimball Cho and Teresa Lisbon, Jane appears in all 156 episodes throughout the television series' run.
* Has no siblings (Pilot)
* Patrick Started the show losing his wife and child, but in the end he gains a wife and a child, Teresa and their unborn child.
* Jane mostly hypnotized people into stop smoking, mentioning doing it to Minelli, a student in "Something's Rotten in Redmund" and a woman named Jodi.
* Patrick has the lowest body count, having only directly killing four people and being only a consultant and not an officer of the law.

## References

1. ↑ Devil's Cherry
2. ↑ Pink Chanel Suit
3. ↑ "Red John" (Season 6, Episode 8). *The Mentalist*. Dir. Chris Long. Writers: Bruno Heller.
4. ↑ Fugue in Red
5. ↑ "Red Hair and Silver Tape"
6. ↑ Like a Redheaded Stepchild
7. ↑ Crimson Casanova
8. ↑ "Red-Handed"
9. ↑ "Red John's Friends"
10. ↑ "White Orchids"