Red in Tooth and Claw Mentalist Cast

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  • Episode aired Feb 17, 2013
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Red in Tooth and Claw Mentalist Cast

The team goes to college to investigate the murder of a graduate student, and Patrick helps Bertram out with his poker game.The team goes to college to investigate the murder of a graduate student, and Patrick helps Bertram out with his poker game.The team goes to college to investigate the murder of a graduate student, and Patrick helps Bertram out with his poker game.

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    The New Moth Species and the Poker Game

    When the corpse of the brilliant graduate student Linda is found in a tank of flesh-eating insects in a laboratory in the natural history museum, Lisbon and Patrick assume the investigation and learn that she was missing for several weeks. They interview several students, including Greg that found her body; Sonia Kidd, who was her advisor, and she explains Linda was researching a kind of woodpecker; her envious classmate Megan Parker, who was trying to retrieve a book; and the researcher Paul Friedman, among others. But soon Patrick sets a trap to expose the killer.

    "Red in Tooth and Claw" is another good episode of "The Mentalist". The lead plot shows many suspects that might be the murderer and is well resolved. The subplot of Bertram, Van Pelt and Lisbon is funny and also well resolved, with Patrick teaching Bertram who to bluff in the poker game. My vote is eight.

    Title (Brazil): "Red in Tooth and Claw"

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    Red In Tooth And Claw is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of The Mentalist.

    Summary[]

    The team delves into the surprisingly cut-throat world of academics in a case involving a graduate student at a natural history museum.

    Recap[]

    The episode begins with Lisbon playing poker at the trattoria with Bertram, Judge Manchester and Aileen. She has to leave the game early after receiving a message about a murder case that CBI has caught. She arrives at the crime scene, a natural history museum, to find Jane is already there. He tells her he knows she's been playing poker regularly. Papadakis, the dean of the university and museum caretaker, arrives and tells them the victim, a graduate student named Linda, has been missing for some time. He takes them to meet another student named Greg, the one who found what he thinks is her body inside a tank full of flesh-eating insects used by the students to remove the flesh from specimens. The sight of the body causes Lisbon to faint.

    Later, Lisbon sends Rigsby the picture of the ring on the skeleton's finger, which he confirms matches one worn by Linda. She also tells him that there is a scientific instrument in the tank which could be the murder weapon. Rigsby tells Lisbon that Linda has been missing for a few weeks and people thought that she was out camping and doing research, but noticed her car was still on campus and realized that she was missing. Jane and Lisbon meet Sonia Kidd, Linda’s adviser. Sonia tells them that Linda was doing research on the diet of the northern flicker, a kind of woodpecker. Sonia tells them that Linda had no enemies, and that the department is like one big family. Jane tells her that he needs to interview some of the students, as well as visit the gift shop.

    Rigsby and Cho find Megan Parker, a classmate of Linda's in the same doctoral program, inside the crime scene retrieving a textbook. She tells them that Linda received the $100,000 dean's fellowship that year. Rigsby finds a bag full of brown sugar in Linda’s desk drawer. Megan says that she does not know much about Linda’s personal life, but knows she had a boyfriend. Lisbon talks to Professor Paul Friedman and Linda’s classmates, who tell Lisbon that Linda broke up with her boyfriend, a police officer named Ray Moran, a week before she disappeared.

    Van Pelt tells Lisbon that she has been accepted into White Hat, an advanced computer security training program, and Lisbon says she'll ask Bertram about a stipend request so Van Pelt can travel to Los Angeles to attend, but Bertram, preoccupied, upset, and mad with his losing streak in the poker games, turns her down.

    Cho and Jane go to meet Ray Moran, who is investigating a store robbery. Jane solves the case in two minutes by proving that the clerk on duty stole the money and lied about the robbery, freeing up Moran for an interview. Moran tells them that he got an anonymous e-mail with a link to a profile for Linda on a dating website. He confronted Linda, who denied creating it, and they had a fight that resulted in their breaking up. Van Pelt investigates and discovers that the same e-mail address that the message to Moran came from was used to set up the dating site profile, meaning it was faked to break them up.

    Lisbon tells Jane that Bertram is mad and being stingy about money because he is losing in poker. Jane goes through the dating profile and makes a list of the unique terms used, and he and the team interview students in the program until they find one using many of the terms in the profile - Megan Parker. Rigsby interrogates Megan and Megan admits that she was the one who created it out of jealousy in an attempt to hurt Linda, who was excelling in the program and had a handsome boyfriend too. 

    Jane gives Bertram advice on bluffing in poker to improve his odds of beating Judge Manchester. He then talks to Sonia and asks her to organize a seminar on memory and have the whole graduate program attend. Sonia realizes that there is an ulterior motive. He then asks her about the name of the woodpecker’s diet Linda was working on. Rigsby and Cho go to the museum and distract the students who have come on a tour so Jane can steal a moth specimen from a museum display. 

    At the seminar, Jane has several taxidermized animals set up on a table behind him, including the moth from the museum. He claims that all the animals came from Linda's office and that he will memorize what order they are in using mnemonic devices. When a student expresses skepticism, he writes down a prediction on a piece of paper and gives it to her to hold. Jane then asks Paul Friedman to rearrange the animals to prove he has not memorized the layout ahead of time. Jane then takes a look at the animals and tells the class the order in which they are arranged in the form of a story, but when he gets to where the moth should be, it is missing. He has the student read the note he handed her, which states that Paul has the moth in his pocket. This is a California jade moth, which Paul claims to have discovered, leading Sonia to realize that Linda was the one who really discovered the moth after noticing one of her woodpecker subjects feeding one, and Paul, under pressure to perform in the program, killed her to claim her discovery for himself. Jane then admits that the moth on the table was “borrowed” from the museum.

    Sonia comes to the CBI offices to thank Jane and he suggests he rename the moth after Linda. Sonia tries to flirt with Jane but notices his wedding ring and laments that "all the good ones are taken."

    Bertram beats Judge Manchester at poker, improving his mood and leading him to approve the stipend for Van Pelt to go to White Hat. She departs for LA the next day, with Rigsby lamenting to Cho that it would have been nice to say goodbye, and Cho calls him a coward for hiding his feelings for Van Pelt for so long. Jane, fearing he has "upset the ecology" of the poker game, challenges Lisbon to a game of poker to help her improve.

    Cast[]

    Main[]

    • Simon Baker as Patrick Jane
    • Robin Tunney as Teresa Lisbon
    • Tim Kang as Kimball Cho
    • Owain Yeoman as Wayne Rigsby
    • Amanda Righetti as Grace Van Pelt

    Recurring[]

    • Michael Gaston as Gale Bertram
    • John Rubinstein as Judge Manchester
    • Dakin Matthews as Cristos Papadakis
    • Judi Evans as Senator Eileen Dawkins

    Guest[]

    • Rob Benedict as Paul Friedman
    • Zuleikha Robinson as Sonia Kidd
    • Jen Kuhn as Linda Parfey
    • Casey Graf as Gregory Lewis
    • Drew Rausch as Officer Ray Moran
    • Samantha Quan as Megan Parker
    • Rosalie Ward as Jeanette
    • Aaron Norvell as Officer Ray Moran's Partner
    • Bart Braverman as Bodega Owner
    • Shainu Bala as Bodega Clerk

    Trivia[]

    • The episode's title comes from Lord Tennyson's poem "In Memoriam A.H.H.", and refers to the nature of predators.

    Who plays Red John in The Mentalist finale?

    And despite the twists and tricks of the past (remember Bradley Whitford as Red John?), creator and executive producer Bruno Heller insists that one of the names on Jane's list is indeed his serial-killing nemesis. "The cards are up on the table and they're the real cards," Heller tells TVGuide.com.

    Who was Red John in season 3?

    In the season-three finale, "Strawberries and Cream (Part 2)", Jane encounters a man (Timothy Carter, played by Bradley Whitford) in a shopping mall who convinces him he is Red John and whom he subsequently kills. ... .

    Did The Mentalist ever find Red John?

    Put on your happy face: Red John is dead. Not only was the smiley face killer's identity a surprise until the very end -- it was Sheriff Thomas McCallister (Xander Berkeley) all along -- he died a magnificent death literally at the hands of Patrick Jane (Simon Baker).

    Did Jane shoot Red John?

    Ever since, Jane's life purpose has been to avenge his family by killing Red John. In the episode Red John (episode), he finally exacted his revenge and killed Red John.