The Mentalist in a nutshell: It's all an ILLUSION (read: VISUAL LIES) only a bird brain like US would swallow. (See B.S.)
Dr. Linus Wagner: Everything you told me, Mr. Jane, is total fiction, isn't it?
Jane: From the INCEPTION
In episode "Black-winged Red Bird" a drone designer is overcome with guilt for an accident that resulted in several fatalities involving one of his killer drone Red Birds, which are actually black, and plans his own death in another FIERY CAR CRASH with a device of his own making. Patrick Jane quickly recognizes the designer's guilty conscience because "he had his last meal" and then sees through the lies and coverup by the Usual Suspect, the designer's boss who stood the most to lose.
Meanwhile on the burnt Red John investigation, Jane nearly lost his dinner when he found Sophie Miller, his ex-therapist, lost her head to Red John over dinner. The big reveal was Red John used the name of Jay Roth when he was a patient of Sophie, who thought he was "an excellent whistler." (or was he a whistleblower?)
Speaking of revelations, Tom Szentgyorgyi gets political again following his "Red Dawn" script by exposing the lies about the effectiveness of drones, the black-winged red birds, that kill more innocent people than the intended target. Speaking of lies, Tom also wrote several scripts for "Lie to Me" which starred Tim Simon Roth, another great observer of human behavior. In this episode so many things are not what they appear, such as the imaginary world of Titus Stone - "what was inside of him was more real than what was outside of him."
Can the Mentalist audience believe anything they see? Yeah, suspension of disbelief is the bedrock of fictional writers, but how long before the audience says enough of the lies? Perhaps Tom is making a statement about our M.A.D. drone policy that is BREAKING BAD.
Speaking of black-winged red birds and Lore-a-lies, hey Tom, how about title credit for this Scott Neysayer?
This BLUE BIRD is All an ILLUSION
Jane (to Lorelei): I know it’s hard to believe now, but you’re gonna talk to us. You’re gonna break down, and you’re gonna tell us everything you know about Red John. You’re gonna sing like a bird.
A Scarlet Tanager
(NB "Tanager" was the name of the ship in the "Usual Suspects.")
The clever long con of "Usual Suspects" was Keyser Söze's identity. (Fast Fact: Kevin Spacey revealed that Bryan Singer managed to convince every one of the major actors that they were Keyser Söze. When first screened for the company of actors, Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) was so burned when he found that he wasn’t Keyser Söze that he stormed off into the parking lot and argued with Bryan for a half hour.) The clever long con of "The Mentalist" was Red John's identity. Bruno has dropped more red herrings casting suspicion on every character on the show. Like Kint, the answer was right in front of us the whole time: Jane was Red John, his imaginary nemesis. (Fast Fact #2: The CBI Headquarters is actually the rear entrance of the Pico House, a former luxury hotel and a National Historic Landmark located in Downtown Los Angeles, designed by architect Ezra Kysor. )
It's all an ILLUSION:
Scrambled Eggs: Jane appears to be a Sherlock Homes 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: Note the Auburn football game was playing on the bedroom TV in "Desert Rose." 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. 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 WEST-PHALL WORLD
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.
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
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.
Drink Scotch Whiskey all night long and die behind the wheel
Call me Deacon Blue "Do I look like I have two heads?"
"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, can you whistle me the tune to the "Usual Suspects" ?
Read John "Seven" Come 11: my mental list of 7 scripts so you can dream along with me
"Dragon Star" (2014) Logline: Code-cracker tracks a serial killer who returns after seven years to terrorize his hometown. Tagline: You can go Holmes again. DRAGON_STAR_-_Final[1] (BTW- after Simon Baker is finished with "The Mentalist, "DS" would make that Tasmanian Devil a movie star. )
"DIVE" Logline: An American naval officer is forced to pilot a Colombian cartel submarine loaded with cocaine into San Diego harbor. But there's something else on board. Tagline: Sub-text: Hidden between the lines.
"COLUMBIA ROADS" Logline: US embassy investigator discovers prophecy that threatens civil war in the US. Tagline: All Roads lead to Columbia. Download -COLUMBIA ROADS-
“FACESPACE” Logline: CIA Deep Throat recruits a conspiracy writer to stop a mind control op using social networks. Tagline: Who is like FACESPACE and who can defeat it? Download FACESPACE 7-21
"SPYDER AND THE FLY" Logline: A black op team gets caught in its web of deceit. Tagline: "Come into my parlor said the Spyder to the Fly, but who was the Spyder and Who was the Fly?"
"THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS" Logline: Two bloggers, Richie Scalia and John Scott, get in way-over-their-head trouble. Tagline: Hindsight is 2021
Dr. Linus Wagner: Everything you told me, Mr. Jane, is total fiction, isn't it?
Jane: From the INCEPTION
In episode "Black-winged Red Bird" a drone designer is overcome with guilt for an accident that resulted in several fatalities involving one of his killer drone Red Birds, which are actually black, and plans his own death in another FIERY CAR CRASH with a device of his own making. Patrick Jane quickly recognizes the designer's guilty conscience because "he had his last meal" and then sees through the lies and coverup by the Usual Suspect, the designer's boss who stood the most to lose.
Meanwhile on the burnt Red John investigation, Jane nearly lost his dinner when he found Sophie Miller, his ex-therapist, lost her head to Red John over dinner. The big reveal was Red John used the name of Jay Roth when he was a patient of Sophie, who thought he was "an excellent whistler." (or was he a whistleblower?)
Speaking of revelations, Tom Szentgyorgyi gets political again following his "Red Dawn" script by exposing the lies about the effectiveness of drones, the black-winged red birds, that kill more innocent people than the intended target. Speaking of lies, Tom also wrote several scripts for "Lie to Me" which starred Tim Simon Roth, another great observer of human behavior. In this episode so many things are not what they appear, such as the imaginary world of Titus Stone - "what was inside of him was more real than what was outside of him."
Can the Mentalist audience believe anything they see? Yeah, suspension of disbelief is the bedrock of fictional writers, but how long before the audience says enough of the lies? Perhaps Tom is making a statement about our M.A.D. drone policy that is BREAKING BAD.
Speaking of black-winged red birds and Lore-a-lies, hey Tom, how about title credit for this Scott Neysayer?
This BLUE BIRD is All an ILLUSION
Jane (to Lorelei): I know it’s hard to believe now, but you’re gonna talk to us. You’re gonna break down, and you’re gonna tell us everything you know about Red John. You’re gonna sing like a bird.
A Scarlet Tanager
(NB "Tanager" was the name of the ship in the "Usual Suspects.")
The clever long con of "Usual Suspects" was Keyser Söze's identity. (Fast Fact: Kevin Spacey revealed that Bryan Singer managed to convince every one of the major actors that they were Keyser Söze. When first screened for the company of actors, Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) was so burned when he found that he wasn’t Keyser Söze that he stormed off into the parking lot and argued with Bryan for a half hour.) The clever long con of "The Mentalist" was Red John's identity. Bruno has dropped more red herrings casting suspicion on every character on the show. Like Kint, the answer was right in front of us the whole time: Jane was Red John, his imaginary nemesis. (Fast Fact #2: The CBI Headquarters is actually the rear entrance of the Pico House, a former luxury hotel and a National Historic Landmark located in Downtown Los Angeles, designed by architect Ezra Kysor. )
It's all an ILLUSION:
Scrambled Eggs: Jane appears to be a Sherlock Homes 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: Note the Auburn football game was playing on the bedroom TV in "Desert Rose." 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. 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 WEST-PHALL WORLD
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.
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
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.
Drink Scotch Whiskey all night long and die behind the wheel
Call me Deacon Blue "Do I look like I have two heads?"
"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, can you whistle me the tune to the "Usual Suspects" ?
Read John "Seven" Come 11: my mental list of 7 scripts so you can dream along with me
"Dragon Star" (2014) Logline: Code-cracker tracks a serial killer who returns after seven years to terrorize his hometown. Tagline: You can go Holmes again. DRAGON_STAR_-_Final[1] (BTW- after Simon Baker is finished with "The Mentalist, "DS" would make that Tasmanian Devil a movie star. )
“MIDNIGHT RIDE” Logline: Garage band cruises a small Pennsylvania town on a stormy night that changes the course of rock music. Tagline: “She loves you and you and you, yeah, yeah, yeah.”
"DIVE" Logline: An American naval officer is forced to pilot a Colombian cartel submarine loaded with cocaine into San Diego harbor. But there's something else on board. Tagline: Sub-text: Hidden between the lines.
"COLUMBIA ROADS" Logline: US embassy investigator discovers prophecy that threatens civil war in the US. Tagline: All Roads lead to Columbia. Download -COLUMBIA ROADS-
“FACESPACE” Logline: CIA Deep Throat recruits a conspiracy writer to stop a mind control op using social networks. Tagline: Who is like FACESPACE and who can defeat it? Download FACESPACE 7-21
"SPYDER AND THE FLY" Logline: A black op team gets caught in its web of deceit. Tagline: "Come into my parlor said the Spyder to the Fly, but who was the Spyder and Who was the Fly?"
"THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS" Logline: Two bloggers, Richie Scalia and John Scott, get in way-over-their-head trouble. Tagline: Hindsight is 2021
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