The Mentalist 4X11: Always Bet on Red
Added 2025-10-24 18:00:10 +0000 UTCCho's new confidential informant, Summer (Samaire Armstrong), has well-connected lawyer friend Alton Creek contact the CBI after he gets death threats, but he is blown up on his boat just as the team is walking down the pier.
Larry Dersh (Don Franklin), Creek's partner, is represented by co-worker Colette (Heather Mazur); both are less than forthcoming with information, but Dersh confirms that Creek and he argued over money. He points the blame at Summer, instead.
Agent Susan Darcy (Catherine Dent) of the FBI, investigating Panzer's murder, asks Jane if he is sure he killed Red John and what they have is a copycat killer. Lisbon wants Jane to tell the truth - that he killed a killer, but not Red John.
That night, Jane and Van Pelt watch a video uploaded to CBI containing real-time stalker footage of Darcy. The two rush to Darcy, who is safe and Jane realizes it was a message to him from Red John. Darcy refuses Jane's urging to leave the case.
Summer tells Cho of Creek's illegal poker games. Suspecting the Mob, Cho has Summer work a way to get a mobster chief, Brock Marx, to the CBI for questioning.
When Jane learns that Tom Maier, father of Panzer's first victim, has hanged himself, Jane frames him for Panzer's murder by planting evidence at the crime scene and goes to the morgue to put Tom's fingerprints on a "murder weapon" bought for the purpose.
At Tom's funeral, widow Teri reads Tom's letter of confession (forged by Jane). She is comforted by Tom's final strength of purpose.
Jane closes the Creek case by doing reads on the suspects, backed up by financial evidence. Colette is arrested for Creek's murder; she was a woman scorned, hating Creek's friendship with Summer, and her angry attempt to justify murdering Creek provides conclusive evidence.
