Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight,
They're taking you away. Leaving me lonely.
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight.
Slowly fading out of sight." - Merle Haggard
The Mentalist in a nutshell: It's all an ILLUSION (read: VISUAL LIES) (See B.S.) that will blow you away in the End. It's just a matter of time.
Dr. Linus Wagner: Everything you told me, Mr. Jane, is total fiction, isn't it?
Jane: From the INCEPTION
It's 6:25 and time is running out for Golden Man Patrick Jane and an innocent man on death row in "Silver Wings." While Jane plays games with time to trick the real murderer into confessing her crime of passion, it appears he is powerless to stop Lisbun's passion from running out on him. The opening scene set the tone for suspension of disbelief when the murderer hired a private investigator to kill the friend of the innocent man who was looking beneath the surface of local ponds noted in the big circle map to find the gun used in the murder of the psychiatrist's wife. So the PI blows-up the guy at a bus stop and steals his bag as the Snyder + Snyder bus pulls away? Why didn't he just rob the guy and determine how much he knew? And if he knew the truth and found the gun, why didn't the PI kill him in his office instead of blowing up the bus stop? (Note: there is no such thing as a "limited bomb" device.) While the innocent man had three days to his execution, time flies for Jane, who is powerless to stop Lisbuns from taking flight with her new love, who may be leaving for FBI HQ in Washington, DC.
The episode had the usual references to fire: Wiley cues the fire alarms and his computer lets us know what time it is. (It's really 11 o'clock.) Perhaps writer Tom Szentgyorgi was making a comment that time was also running out on TM, particularly as the show has been the victim of constant time changes since it was sentenced to death in the Sunday "graveyard" spot. Fear not, Tom, it's just an ILLUSION the show will end. THE MENTALIST will live on in re-runs. It's just a matter of time.
This BLUE BIRD is All an ILLUSION
Scrambled eggs:Jane appears to be a Sherlock Holmes super-sleuth character, but in reality is a mental patient with a cracked eggshell who suffers from paranoid delusions due to feelings of extreme guilt in the deaths of his wife and child who were burned as he was (CBI = intensive burn care?) in a horrific car accident involving a driver named Tanner when he failed to stop at a BLINKING RED LIGHT CROSSING AN INTERSECTION, hence the RJ symbol, while he was driving intoxicated and spends his days with the remote watching TV shows, which generate his ideas for the delusional episodes. Note: Jane's eggshell blue car - a vintage 1972 Citroen DS 20 that Warner Bros., producer of "The Mentalist" for CBS, had in its inventory. It was used in the 2008 movie "Speed Racer." For "The Mentalist," the car was shipped from Germany and painted eggshell blue (it was originally red).
Burning Clues: "The Mentalist" is obsessed with fire, as in half the episodes it plays a significant plot point. Items: Jane burns his Red John files with a bottle of booze. Out of the Frye-ing pan into the... As Kristina Frye discovered, when you get too close to Red John, you get burned. "Tiger, Tiger burning bright, they were "Au-burned." In the "Red Mile" episode Jane arrives at a crime scene outside Auburn, California. Shouts from Alabama football fans of "Roll Tide" first appeared during the Alabama-Auburn Tiger IRON BOWL game in 1907. Note the Auburn football game was playing on the bedroom TV in "Desert Rose. "Curiously, a corpse was found in a burned car in "Ruby Slippers," in which Jane discovers the identity of Fifi Nix, like Jane's Phoenix, has risen from the ashes of his past life. In "Red Dawn" Jane is given a desk next to a fire extinguisher that is there, then it's gone, then it's there again. Fake Red John read all about it - catch the fire-y headline on the front page of the newspaper Tim Carter was reading before Jane shot him. Red John appeared to Jane in the burn mask. Jane: It's not my fire.
THE WILD WESTPHALL WORLD OVER THE RAINBOW
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Red John is Patrick Jane's imaginary evil twin, his "perfect symmetry" alter-ego (Jane/John)Professor Moriarty character in a Tommy Westphall" imaginary world like "St. Elsewhere's" snow globe and "Life on Mars" that is the dream state of Jane. (NB. The fake Jane character in "Red Moon" where a corpse was found in a burned car was named Ellis Mars (El - He is Mars.) Ellis Mars: The mind is a powerful weapon. It can create reality. Mr. Nguyen was LOST (also in the Westphall Universe) but was found in "Green Thumb."
Jane: Perhaps we can see each other again.
Lorelei: That’s not up to me.
Jane: Oh, you have no say in it?
Lorelei: None at all. It’s very "Westphall."
Jane: I don’t follow you.
Lorelei: I do what Red John tells me to do.
Red Face to Face
Mentalist in a Box
The Man with Two Names -- Red John's alias is ROY Tagliaferro (read: "cut iron"). The ROY CUT IRON anagrams are "court irony" and "you r citron." How ironic that Jane, the court jester who arrives at the crime scene in his Citroen, a master reader of how others' emotions control them and the need to let go of the past, was a prisoner of his IRON-ic chains to the past. Until Jane leaves his OLD LIFE BEHIND, The Mentalist is on the mental list, a prisoner of his own device.
ROY G BIV - Green, Violet, Blue and the other colors of the Rainbow
"Over The Rainbow"
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high there's a land I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow why oh why can't I?
"The DESERT ROSE"
Perhaps Bruno referred to a song that Sting made famous. The lyrics will burn in your imagination and perhaps provide a clue about Patrick Jane's:
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
I dream of fire
Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire
This desert rose
Each of her seven veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this
And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realize that nothing's as it seems.
Jane: Lisbuns, I've been winging it, but now I think it's time our dream comes to an end.
Read John "Seven"Come 11: my mental list of 7 scripts so you can dream along with me
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