The Mentalist 5X13: The Red Barn
Added 2026-01-07 22:07:54 +0000 UTCRed John and the Visualize cult seem to be connected to a 25-year-old triple homicide at a barn on Elliston Farm.
Lisbon's ten-year anniversary with the CBI is celebrated and she is offered a job outside of CBI by Ray Haffner (Reed Diamond) who is starting his own security firm. She declines and chooses to stay, moreover, after learning that Haffner is a member of Visualize, and possibly worked at Elliston Farm where Red John painted his first smiley face.
The team talk to Jason Cooper from Visualize and identify the dead as Lester Bradovich, Talbot and Cherney - all members from the 1980s.
An ex-member and missionary, Father DiBuono tells them that Bradovich was under pressure from Visualize to turn the farm into a success and was pushing workers hard. There were rumours that Bradovich was giving them drugs which was against Visualize policy. He recognises the Red John smiley face and tells Jane that Talbot told him "a kid" at the farm painted it which helps Jane determine an age range for Red John.
Jane cracks the murder case by tricking the killer into confessing but she only shot Bradovich and the other two dead bodies were already there leading the team to believe it was Red John who killed the others.
Based on the appearance of the first smiley face and facts from the case, Patrick Jane narrows down his Red John suspect list to 408 names, also adding Haffner.
