User Reviews

When there is a murder and thousands of suspects, you can count on Patrick Jane to narrow the odds. He even puts a time frame to when he would catch the culprit.

Things only get tricky when you're trying to solve a crime and politicians abuse their power to seal their footprints from the sand.

Jane always carries a self absorbed ego with him and this episode was not without his grim certainty and extraordinary detective skills to discover that the cleaner wasn't so much the mopping floors, cleaning the bathroom type and was more the type to cover up a bloody murder.

I found myself torn between deciphering 'who did it?'. The Politician and her husband were the obvious villains, but just because they didn't have the occasional heat in their marriage it didn't mean they were guilty. The stepbrother was the decoy thrown into distract us, so he was too obvious to be the one to kill his own step sister. The old lover unmasked by Jane was another suspect, but he was also the politicians father and this webbed episode turned into an entire chase that would have your head spinning.

When the cleaner put the knife on Jane it was rather foolish of Patrick to believe he was actually going to sit down, maybe Patrick believed he could outsmart him somehow.

The revelation of the many affairs that went on; father sleeps with daughter's lover, isn't really something you hear everyday and wasn't the favorite case of the hour, but how about holding a dead guy in an interrogation room to get everyone to fess up. Guilt reveals all and the truth can't remain hidden forever.

Now that Jane is off the Red John case, he is going all out of his way to get on Bosco's good side or his bad side as the case might be. His determination to catch the person that ripped his family from him, is like a venom that is seeping through his veins. It is the only crime he can't solve, the one thing he can't get his hands on and Bosco is just another splat in his way. At least that's why he planted a bug in Bosco's office, to get one step closer. It's almost depressing seeing a calm Patrick Jane carry so much pain.

We could depend on Rigsby and Van Pelt to add some romance and innocent flirtation to brighten this crime drama. Lisbon is often a tease when it comes to taming Jane, but it's just about time before he gets face to face with Red John, then all gloves are off.

Lexa Reviews

http://lexabuti.blogspot.com

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Four out of Five Stars

Grade B+

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Once again this was an episode that had everything, and the sad thing is that I really wasn't expecting it: Jane/Lisbon in mortal danger, Rigsby/Van Pelt, Cho/Rigsby "bromance", Lisbon sticking up for Jane AGAIN and Minelli picking up on this and being his usual witty self ......

I don't even know where to start. The knife-at-Jane's-throat-Lisbon-handcuffing-herself-to-the-door scene was pretty awesome. Would have been better if they don't use guest stars that I recognise and therefore know deep down that there's probably more to that character than you first think. I felt for sure that they were going to use this moment as the trigger and that at the end of the episode you would see Lisbon go and see her therapist willingly. Maybe they're saving that for the next episode.

The Lisbon/Minelli/Jane dynamic is one of my favourite things about the show. Loved how Minelli sees Lisbon slowly going over to "the dark side", how he wants to just tell them off but can't because they did solve the case, how Lisbon defends Jane even though afterwards she hates that she felt she had to do so......

Van Pelt was awesome in this episode. What was even funnier was that scene in the interrogation room was with the same actor who plays JJ's boyfriend on Criminal Minds. Aww, Rigsby/Van Pelt/Cho .... Definitely want more scenes like this! Speaking of which, Cho you are awesome. Continuity points for bringing up that woman's niece during the RJ case whilst still fleshing out Cho's character to show that he has a personal life of sorts.