Questions without answers...

Nov 04, 2011 00:01

1) Did Jane just get that guy (good lord, I already forgot his name) killed on purpose? Considering that a) he led the conversation in the direction of Red John, b) he knew, based on what he'd gathered of that guy's personality, that bringing RJ up would incite this guy's need to get up on his high horse and make himself a better serial killer than RJ, and c) he obviously knew that slandering/misrepresenting RJ in the media leads to someone being either killed or seriously messed up (which has now happened three times - when will people learn??). How could he not have just led that guy to the slaughter? Or rather, how could he? On one hand, I feel like this seriously changes Jane's characterization, but on the other, I feel like his characterization was already headed in that direction since we know that he had already realized Timothy Carter was not Red John, yet expressed no remorse or guilt or anything about killing him anyway. So which is it?

2) Now that Lisbon knows that Red John is still active, she also knows that the man Jane killed was not, in fact, Red John. Whether she had already realized that and was simply lying to herself because she didn't want to believe it, or whether she truly didn't believe Jane when he told her that Timothy Carter was not Red John, I'm not sure. But I'm not so much concerned about that as I am about the fallout. Will there be fallout now?! Because if there isn't, I will be sorely disappointed. Give us the J/L issues you promised, show! Please?

I feel as though the last 10 minutes have consumed my thoughts on the episode. I don't really have anything to say about the rest of it, though I thought this guy as the killer was very obvious. Maybe it was supposed to be. After all, the "intense" part was supposed to be what happened to him, not who he turned out to be.

episode reaction, fandom: the mentalist

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