The Mentalist in a nutshell: It's all an ILLUSION (read: VISUAL
LIES) that we have seen before.
Dr. Linus Wagner: Everything you told me, Mr. Jane, is total fiction, isn't it?
In "Red John's Rules" Patrick Jane
reveals his Red John Usual Suspects aka the un-Magnificent "SEVEN".
IMAGINE if any of the seven "usual suspects" Patrick Jane has not
eliminated as Red John is finally revealed as the master serial killer
of all time, is the audience going to buy it? Which of these guys will
live up to the audience's diabolical expectations? Sinister Stiles?
Pathetic Partridge? Hapless Haffner? After six seasons Bruno Heller will
have to create an ending more shocking than the Usual Suspects or the head-in-the-box in "Seven." But these guys? Bruno better call Kevin Spacey and see if he's available.
Et tu, Bruno?
EW: There’s this smart line near the start of the third act of Seven,
where the audience is warned that when we meet the film’s serial
killer (KEVIN SPACEY), there’s no way he’s going to live up to our expectations. He’s
just a man. Has that concerned you, building up the villain for so long
that it can’t top expectations?
Bruno: Sure, if season 5 we just opened a door and said “tah-dah!” and
it was some mid-range actor, that would be disappointing. The trick is
going to be — and this is coming — bringing the audience along and
making them second guess themselves and ask, “Is that him? Is that him?” Red John ultimately is just a man — whenever you see the great
criminals reduced to the flesh it’s sort of disappointing
(If Bruno means what he says, then Bret Stiles (read: BELT RESIST) who
is played by the top actor of the bunch, Malcolm McDowell, is the
fictional Red John, which means Red John is VISUAL LIES...an ILLUSION.)

"First he's there,"
EW: Will you cast Red John next season?
Bruno: Will I cast him? He might already have been cast. You might already have seen him.

"And like that he's gone."
The moral of the story: there are no Red John rules as there is no Red John.
The Mentalist is an ILLUSION:
Jane appears to be a Sherlock
Homes super-sleuth character, but in reality is a mental patient ("resist belts") 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. 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

Mentalist in a Box, It's a BAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD**, The BIG W: The characters of Rigsby, Cho, Van Pelt and Lisbon
are also Jane's creations ala the "Wizard of Oz;" the Tin Man,
Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, and Dorothy in reality are the assistants and doctors at the mental hospital and the RJ minions are Jane's fellow mental patients. In the final scene Jane
confronts "Red John," and in an homage to "OZ" awakens from his dream state
to realize the true
identity of RED JOHN - the Big W - Johnny Walker RED. (** Mentalist writer Dan Cerone co-produced "It's a BAD BAD BAD BAD WORLD on "Charmed")
.
Shaking hands with Red John
Drink Scotch Whiskey all night long and die behind the wheel
Call me Deacon Blue
BLOOD and SAND
½ oz. Johnnie Walker Red Label
1 tbsp. orange juice
½ oz. sweet vermouth
½ oz. fresh cherry syrup
Orange peel for garnish
Add the Johnnie Walker, orange juice, vermouth and cherry syrup to a
shaker filled with ice. Shake until cold and strain into a rocks glass.
Garnish with orange peel.
UPDATE: As the first episode of the sixth season of the MENTALIST has
been revealed - "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
It takes a toll on my soul,
Because I'm starting to believe the lies you strung with red,
Is it all just a game?
One day I'll heal and I'll be covered in scars (Red and Itchy)
And never forget why did it all fell apart.
When you finally came clean about the lies and the games you played from the start!
-Red in Tooth and Claw
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 our 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.
Jane: Lisbuns, want to see my Magnificent Seven? I mean
READ John's "SEVEN" COME 11:
"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.
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(BTW- after Simon Baker is finished with "The Mentalist, "DS" would
make the Tasmanian devil a movie star. JSR@rome.com )
“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 Aurora 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?
"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
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