- Patrick battles with a former defense attorney-turned courtroom talk show host as CBI tries to find the person who killed a convicted felon who was set free because of faulty DNA evidence.
- Convicted sociopath Henry Dahl is shot ten times trough the head in his San Francisco motel room shortly after his release on account of faulty DNA evidence. Patrick is openly uninterested, while the attorney general's office is in PR panic. TV host Karen Cross, once the top prosecutor whose high-profile convictions included Henry, films Jane sleeping, but her company paid Dahl's motel as scheduled guest, now replaced by his victim Jenny's widower Max Winter, who claims to have reached reconciliation years ago, to devote himself to fine son Jackson. Wayne must watch Grace date dashing FBI agent Craig O'Laughlin, which makes him cockily competitive. Henry's art study and cocaine dealing mate Arty Mock is found hiding in his halfway-house. Henry had an admirer, Sean Meyers's wife Betsy. Patrick accepts Cross's live TV dare, but has to revise his conclusion.—KGF Vissers
- When the sociopath and rapist Henry Dahl is found shot several times in the head in a cheap motel, the CBI assumes the case. Dahl has been recently released based on the review of the DNA evidence of his most notorious case, the rape and murder of Jenny Winter. Her husband Max Winter becomes the prime suspect, but he surprisingly says that the reached reconciliation dedicating his life to his son Jackson and going to a shooting range. Soon there is an empathy between Patrick and Max. Meanwhile, the agents find that Dahl had a pen pall, his former sweetheart Betsy Meyers, who is married with Sean Meyers. Who might be the killer?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Lisbon comes to get Jane for a case. He slept in the CBI attic, working on the Red John case. She's worried.
Paradise Motel, San Francisco, Cali.
The victim was shot 8 to 10 times in the head. There's a toothpick model of an electric chair by his bed. Jane pronounces him a sociopath who should have been in prison. Cho says he was. His name's Henry Dahl, pardoned two days ago after nine years in prison for rape and murder. DNA proved he was innocent.
Jane wants no part of it, he doesn't care who killed the "creep," a statement he bases on the fact he made instruments of death as models.
Outside, a put-together woman chats up Jane, pointing out the state spent $2.4 million to convict him and wondering how much more will be spent to find out who killed him. Jane says not much. She turns to ask her film crew if there was anything usable.
Jane gets into a van and she directs her camera crew to get footage of him napping in the backseat.
Back at CBI, on Trial TV, the reporter Karen Cross shows the footage of Jane sleeping.
Lisbon's boss isn't impressed, even though he knows the report is bogus. Lisbon wants to know how Cross knew Dahl was dead.
Van Pelt reports that Cross paid for Dahl's motel because he was scheduled to be a guest on the show today. She's also the prosecutor who put him away, and his pardon ruins her perfect record.
Lisbon gives out assignments, sending Van Pelt to Lodi. She's bummed and when Rigsby sees he volunteers to go instead. Then he learns what her lunch plans were, hot FBI agent Craig Laughlin comes to get her for their date. He informs her he got them a ride on the bureau copter and they're flying to a picnic spot. Rigsby shrinks three sizes.
Lisbon arrives on Cross' talk show set. Cross says she doesn't believe Dahl was innocent. Lisbon says she lacked physical evidence in the trial. Lisbon says she heard Cross quit as a prosecutor because of an ethical inquiry. She calls Dahl a "reptile."
In the green room, Jane runs into Dahl's mom, who mistakes him for a shrink. He also meets Max Winter (Jack Coleman), the victim's widower.
Jane looks him over and says he seems calm. He asks if that peace comes from shooting his wife's killer. He tells Jane he can't undo what happened to his wife, but he forgave Dahl or whoever killed his wife, for the sake of his son.
On set, Cross shows footage of Max Winter attacking Dahl in a hallway before trial nine years ago. He tells her what he told Jane as she cuts him off, saying she doesn't buy it. Jane sees Max's teen son in the audience.
At Henry Dahl's halfway house in Lodi, the manager tells Cho and Rigsby that Dahl had a good looking female visitor the first night.
His apartment was ransacked. Rigsby thanks Cho for pointing it out.
"Three hours of brooding silence, then sarcasm -- it's like we're married," Cho says. Rigsby is smarting over Grace.
As they're looking around the apartment, Rigsby looks under the bed and is shocked to see eyes staring back at him. The man gets up and throws the flimsy bed off him then takes off running. He makes it down to the ground floor. Rigsby climbs on a chair on the second floor and jumps from above to tackle him.
At Max Winter's house in Lodi, Jane finds Max's son Jackson working on model airplanes in the garage. He notices the model airplane glue. Jackson claims not to know where his dad is, but Jane doesn't believe him. When Jane touches a model, Jackson says the plane needs two more hours to dry, for a total of 12.
Cho talks to Artie Mock, the man from under the bed. He says he met Dahl in junior college, they were art majors. Dahl owes him $22,000 from their drug dealing college days. He had two kilos on him when he got busted. He told Mock they were confiscated but Dahl was planning to take his girlfriend to Jamaica. They were pen pals when he was in prison.
They find Betsy Myers' name on Dahl's email. She lives in Lodi and is married to a guy named Sean. There are 22 people who threatened Dahl while he was away. Lisbon assigns Rigsby and Van Pelt to stay late and look into them.
Jane finds Max at the shooting range, where he talks unabashedly about guns, which Jane finds odd for a murder suspect.
Jane asks him how he forgave his wife's killer. He tells Jane he originally started shooting, pretending the targets were Dahl. He let go of the anger for his son.
Max offers Jane a loaded gun, saying there's no better pain relief. Jane claims he's not in pain. Max offers up his alibi, home with his son.
Lisbon talks to Betsy and Sean, who didn't know his wife was emailing Dahl. Betsy says Henry was her first love and she reached out when she heard there was new DNA evidence. Lisbon starts to read her racy emails. She tells Betsy the half-way house manager ID'd her as visiting Henry the day after his release.
Jane asks to see Rigsby's gun. He goes into the interview room and hands Sean then Betsy the gun, which they fumble around. After Lisbon freaks out he tells her about Max's handling of a gun, but a different caliber than the murder weapon.
Outside, Jane runs into Karen Cross again, who reminds him about his wife and daughter being killed. He remains calm and notices the camera crew filming from across the street. She asks him who killed Dahl. He says he's not allowed to say. She asks him what he'd need to solve the case. He gives her a list of suspects and tells her to have them in the audience.
On the show, Karen Cross introduces Patrick Jane as "psychic detective, tragic victim -- you be the judge." Karen panics when he's late. He says he needed to go to a bedroom store. She tells him she'll introduce him with a clip, which he knows is his Red John footage.
He excuses himself to go hand out candles to his suspects, including Jackson.
The show starts. Jane sits on stage with Max Winter and Dahl's mom. Jane interrupts Cross as she's starting to introduce his Red John clip. He calls her a vulture and asks her if she'll give him the carte blanche she promised.
He starts by telling her there's no such thing as psychics, only entertainers skilled in the art of deception. But he's happy to do a demonstration. He rises to his feet and announces Henry Dahl's killer is sitting in the audience. He says a psychic would claim a spirit that has crossed over might have the ability to manipulate objects. He tells them Dahl will light the candle of his killer. He asks them to dim the lights.
Everyone raises their candles and he urges Henry to speak to them. Nothing happens for a while. Then Jackson's candle bursts into flame.
Jane says the owner of the firing range told him Jackson shoots with a .9 mm and they have matching carpet fibers. Max interrupts, asking Jane to stop, saying it'll ruin his son's life. Jane tells Max to make him stop.
Max confesses. Jane shoots apart Max's alibi, saying that when Jackson said a model plane only needed two more hours for the glue to set it proved he was awake and working on the model when his dad came home from killing Dahl.
Max says he can prove it.
At CBI HQ, Max's lawyer gives them a gun, saying his prints are on it and the casings will match. Max says he bought the gun eight years ago. Cho asks why, since Dahl had a life sentence.
Max says he knew Dahl was going to get out, since he's the one who set him free.
In the viewing room, Lisbon turns to Jane and asks how he knew. Jane says Max has infinite patience and suppressed rage.
Max says his real estate firm bought the evidence warehouse, which he gained access to and swapped out the DNA samples.
Max says he shot Dahl, but didn't kill him -- he was already dead. His head was busted open.
Jane says Max is telling the truth.
Later, Jane says a bashed in head is a crime of passion. They're back to Sean Myers -- who had an alibi for the 1 a.m. shooting, but maybe not earlier.
Lisbon and Jane go to a bridge where Sean's phone was traced. They arrive to find police cars already on the scene. Sean is walking up to Betsy on the underside of a bridge. Jane assesses and says Betsy went up to see about jumping and Sean's just trying to save her.
He borrows a cop's bullhorn and tells Betsy if she's going to jump to make sure she dives headfirst. Jane tells her her husband killed Henry. She's oddly moved. Sean reaches her and hugs her.
Later, Sean confesses he found the emails on her laptop. He says he just went to talk to Dahl and Dahl offered to share her with him. So Sean offered him money to stay away, but Dahl laughed him off and told him he planned on having fun with his wife. In flashback we hear him say "Maybe I'll slash her throat, like I did the last one." As he's being put away, Betsy promises to write Sean every day.
Jane tries to convince his boss to let both men walk, since they might both get off by saying the other actually killed him. No chance.
Laughlin walks up on Rigsby staring intently at a candle. Cho says he's "trying to light the candle with the power of his mind."
Laughlin knows the trick -- a candle wick dipped in liquid phosphorous will spontaneously burst into flame when it dries. The real trick is the timing. Laughlin and Van Pelt head off to lunch in Napa.
Max Winter stops Jane in the lobby, telling him they're going to drop the murder charge against him. He has a gift for Jane.
Jane asks him if the time he took to track down Dahl was worth it. He says it was.
Jane opens the wrapped package. It's a gun.
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