The mentalist
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The mentalist |
| Original title | The mentalist |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2008-2015 |
| Production company |
Primrose Hill Productions , Warner Bros. Television |
| length | 42 minutes |
| Episodes | 151 in 7 seasons ( List ) |
| genre | Crime , dramedy |
| Theme music | Believe (Theme from The Mentalist) |
| idea | Bruno Heller |
| production | Charles Goldstein |
| music | Blake Neely |
| First broadcast | September 23, 2008 (USA) on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 1, 2009 on ORF eins , Sat.1 |
| occupation | |
The Mentalist is an American crime series directed by Bruno Heller and produced by Primrose Hill Productions and Warner Bros. Television for the US broadcaster CBS from 2008 to 2015 . It is about Patrick Jane, who worked as a medium before joining the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and is now a consultant to various police agencies. In the course of the series, he first helps the police in California and later the FBI in Texas to solve murder cases. In the USA the series started on September 23, 2008 on CBS, in German-speaking countries on March 1, 2009 on ORF eins .
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The Mentalist is about Patrick Jane, who used to make a living as a Psychic . He deceived people of good faith by pretending to be a medium of communicating with spirits and reading minds. He himself is convinced that he has no mystical powers, but was not embarrassed when marketing this claim. In truth, he only has an outstanding ability to observe and combine things, which he already trained in his early youth when he appeared at fairs with his father. Occasionally he helped the police solve cases. But when Jane boasted on a television show that she was instrumental in the investigation into the serial killer Red John, and portrayed the killer as a pathetic insane, he drew his wrath. Shortly thereafter, Jane's wife and daughter were cruelly murdered by Red John.
The series' storyline begins a few years after these events. After staying in closed psychiatry, Jane now works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He supports the investigator Teresa Lisbon and her team in solving murder cases and at the same time hopes to find a lead on Red John in order to get revenge on him, which he finally succeeds in the sixth season. He solves the often puzzling cases primarily through unconventional methods, whereby his extraordinary ability to observe, his knowledge of human nature, his audacity and his abilities as a hypnotist benefit him again and again. He no longer claims to actually have psychic abilities and describes anyone who claims to be a liar.
After Jane exposes and kills the serial killer Red John during the sixth season, he escapes and hides from the FBI for two years . When the authorities finally find him, a deal is negotiated and from now on Jane supports the FBI as a consultant in Austin, Texas . At Jane's express request, he also works at the FBI with Teresa Lisbon, his superiors from the CBI days. In the season 6 finale, Teresa Lisbon and Patrick Jane become a couple. In the finale of last season, the two finally get married and Lisbon tells Jane after the wedding that she is pregnant and that he will be a father again.
concept
Due to the protagonist's ability to grasp seemingly unimportant details, draw conclusions from them, and analyze people, the series is often compared to other television shows, especially Millennium - Fear Your Neighbor As Yourself , Dr. House , Criminal Intent , Life , Monk , Profiler and especially Psych , a show that started two years before The Mentalist and has a similar plot. In both series, a supposed clairvoyant works as an advisor for the California police. However, The Mentalist differs in that Jane does not see herself as a clairvoyant and considers anyone who claims to be a clairvoyant to be a fraud. Shawn Spencer, the clairvoyant from Psych , however, claimed that as white lie to avoid being arrested, and sticks to it. Moreover, The Mentalist significantly darker than Psych . Although it was recognized that the idea of the show was not particularly original, it received critical acclaim for its "thoughtful execution".
characters
main characters
Patrick Jane
The main character of the series. He comes from a family of showmen. His father meticulously trains him in all kinds of tricks, deceptions and deceptions. Patrick Jane has mastered numerous card and magic tricks and, thanks to his father's training, is also an outstanding pickpocket. As a child, he and his father commit numerous frauds, which he displeases with increasing age and leads to a conflict with his father, who celebrates all profits from the frauds at illegal poker tables. His most outstanding ability is to draw conclusions from the facial expressions and gestures of his counterparts. This makes him a very good apparent clairvoyant in front of an audience. In this way, he can recognize whether his assumptions are correct, but also respond in a flash if he realizes that his assumptions are going in the wrong direction. He uses this talent again and again later as an investigator and also organizes spontaneous live shows in which he convicts the perpetrator.
After his family was murdered by Red John (for ridiculing Red John in the media), he ended his career as a cheater and a medium with supposed psychic abilities. He now uses his amazing powers of observation to hunt down the murderer of his family, but also other criminals. At the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), his job is to act as a consultant to support and accelerate the investigation of a special unit. Although he is a little eccentric, he is also very attentive and perceptive. This will help him resolve the cases that the CBI is investigating.
Patrick Jane drives an old Citroën_DS and is financially very well secured. Several times he uses thousands of dollars of his private wealth to speed up the investigation. Again and again, however, he also shows that he could easily make a fortune at the gaming tables, which he only does now and then for investigative purposes. He has also mastered all tricks and strategies at the gaming tables, but it is not uncommon for him to win through his powers of observation alone.
Jane's special characteristics also include a very relaxed approach to service regulations and a preference for crossing borders of all kinds. In the constant search for Red John, he pays no attention to anything to find the murderer of his wife (Angela Ruskin Jane) and his daughter (Charlotte Anne Jane). With the murder of his wife and child, he has since been afraid of re-entering into closer emotional ties and will still wear his wedding ring until season 7.
After the exposure and killing of Red John in season 6, Patrick Jane flees abroad from the police. After two years, however, the FBI finds him and persuades him to return, assuring him of complete impunity.
While working with Teresa Lisbon, he gradually falls in love with her, but cannot admit it to himself. Only at the end of the sixth season does he confess his love to her and the two become a couple. In the season seven finale, they get married and Lisbon implies to Jane that she is pregnant, which he notes with joy.
Teresa Lisbon
Teresa Lisbon is the head of the team and Senior Special Agent. She reports to Wayne Rigsby, Kimball Cho, Grace Van Pelt and CBI advisor Patrick Jane. Although Lisbon is often upset by Jane's unusual behavior and decisions behind her back, she values him as a valuable member of the team and supports him in some of his theories. Her mother was killed in an accident (she was run over by a drunk man) so Lisbon had to look after her brothers and her alcoholic father. She is the only one on the team whom Jane trusts completely and to whom he confides details of his past. Both work well together, but Jane often causes her problems with the local police because of his demeanor. In the course of the exposure of Red John, the CBI is disbanded in the sixth season and Lisbon works as a simple policewoman until she joins the FBI with Jane. At the end of season six, Jane and Lisbon become a couple after Jane managed to prevent Lisbon's move to Washington, DC, and her marriage to FBI agent Marcus Pike.
Wayne Rigsby
He develops strong feelings for Grace Van Pelt and is a good friend of Jane's. Rigsby, like the others, is often annoyed by Jane's behavior. He has a good friendship with Cho. Wayne is decent and doesn't particularly like breaking rules. Rigsby spent two years in fire investigation prior to joining the CBI. He became a father in the fourth season. His son Benjamin appears for the first time in the fourth episode of the fifth season. In the following episodes, Rigsby's feelings for Van Pelt become visible again and the colleagues start a forbidden relationship again from episode 20 of the fifth season. At the beginning of the sixth season, Rigsby and Van Pelt get married. After the CBI is dissolved, Rigsby and his wife set up a private security company. Both later do not switch to the FBI, but stay with their own company.
Kimball Cho
He has a dry sense of humor and is Rigsby's friend. Cho, probably the most down-to-earth on the team of investigators, is often the only one who sees through Jane's salon tricks. He probably owes this to his extraordinarily good comprehension. In Lisbon's absence, he is often her representative. When Jane Van Pelt says he moved with telekinesis a toothpick across the table, Cho says simply: "He blows on it." Before he came to the CBI, he has in the Special Forces of the US Army served. During his youth he was in a gang and therefore was also in the juvenile prison. After the dissolution of the CBI, Cho trained as an FBI agent and later worked with Jane and Lisbon for the FBI in Texas. When his team boss Abbott moves to Washington at the end of the seventh season, Cho becomes head of the FBI team in Austin, which he is rebuilding together with the remaining agent Wylie. Agent Michelle Vega dies in his arms.
Grace Van Pelt
Van Pelt is the newest member of the team at the start. She often takes over the phone service, more or less voluntarily. She has a deep belief in religion and the paranormal and often clashes with Jane because he makes fun of it or he does something that she considers religious or moral wrong. Some episodes show that she reacts to Rigsby's feelings, but nothing serious develops in the process as it would be against service regulations. In the course of the second season, however, she gets into a relationship with him, with both initially trying to keep this a secret from their colleagues. Van Pelt is very strictly organized and a little nervous, but overall a very valuable addition to the team. In the middle of the third season she becomes engaged to FBI agent Craig O'Laughlin, who is shot by her at the end of the season. In the sixth season she marries her colleague Wayne Rigsby. During Jane's two-year escape, Van Pelt has a child from her husband. She ends up staying with Rigsby at her own security company and not joining the FBI.
Dennis Abbott
Dennis Abbott is a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI. He oversees the closure of the CBI after the involvement of Gale Bertram, who was head of that agency, in the Red John case emerges . Patrick Jane and Dennis Abbott get to know each other. After Jane kills the serial killer Red John, he is wanted by Abbott, who finds him after two years and brings him to the FBI. There, Jane works under Abbott's supervision in the Austin branch. The close friendship between Abbott and Jane becomes apparent at the start of season seven when Abbott helps Abbott deceive vengeful DEA agent Bill Peterson and secure Abbott's wife Lina a high-profile job at the Commerce Department. At the end of season seven, Abbott leaves Austin and joins the FBI in Washington.
Kim Fischer
Kim Fischer is an FBI agent. Patrick Jane meets her during his escape and initially considers her to be a simple tourist. However, it later emerges that she is Abbott's subordinate and is supposed to get Jane to return to the US. She also works at the FBI branch in Austin and therefore works with Jane. At the beginning of the seventh season, it is mentioned that Fischer was transferred to Seattle to support her mother, who had a stroke.
Jason Wylie
Jason Wylie is the team's computer specialist. It only took him three years to graduate from college, and he completed his training with the FBI in half the time. He could choose his place of work and chose Austin . Wylie is fascinated by Jane's mind games. He is just as enthusiastic about his young colleague Michelle Vega. Over the course of several weeks, he worked out a plan to invite Vega on a date. When the right time seems to have come, the two are slowly getting closer and they have arranged to meet on a first date, Vega dies on an assignment.
Michelle Vega
Agent Michelle Vega is assigned to Abbott's team for season seven. Because of her demeanor, Jane immediately notices that she must have been in the military before. At first this is denied by Vega; but later she admits to have attended the United States Military Academy at West Point at the insistence of her father - a professional soldier . However, she left this when her father developed liver cancer . Since she and Jason Wylie are the youngest members of the team, a close bond develops between the two. In episode ten, however, she dies of a shot in the stomach just before the two of them are supposed to meet for the first time.
Minor characters
Red John
The serial killer Red John has long been the invisible opponent of Patrick Jane in the series and the reason that Jane cooperates with the investigators: About five years before the time of the first episode, Patrick Jane, at the time an alleged clairvoyant, told a ( TV talk show that he was using his supernatural abilities to help the police find Red John. He also made jokes about the serial killer, calling him pathetic and weak. When Jane got home late at night, he found a note from Red John on the bedroom door.
“Dear Mr. Jane, I don't like the way you slander me in the media. Especially not through your dirty and greedy fraud. If you had real mental abilities, you wouldn't have to open the door to see what I did to your beautiful wife and child. "
The first thing Jane saw when the door was opened was a smiley face on the wall. Red John had painted it in the blood of Jane's wife and child. From now on Jane seeks revenge, therefore works with the CBI and never makes a secret of the fact that his goal is to kill Red John personally.
Red John always makes sure that his trademark smiley face is the first thing you see before discovering the body. It is drawn clockwise with the victim's blood. Because the blood does not freeze immediately, but continues to flow down, the face appears as if it is crying. According to investigations by the CBI, Red John uses three fingers on his right hand over which he has pulled a rubber glove. As mentioned in the pilot episode, he kills his victims with a large number of stitches and cuts, and if they are women, he mostly rapes them beforehand. His victims are mostly women, but there are exceptions: for example, he kills a man who wanted to give Jane information about the whereabouts of Red John as part of a deal.
Red John is apparently killed by Jane in a mall at the end of season three after falling into a combination of different traps. However, at the beginning of the fourth season, Jane came to the conclusion that the person killed was not Red John, but merely a member of his network. At first, Jane keeps this insight to herself and only shares it with Teresa Lisbon.
In a murder case in which a young girl is killed by a serial killer, Jane meets James Panzer, a citizen who is privately looking for the serial killer. Jane realizes that Panzer is the serial killer and wants to create a myth about the San Joaquin killer who is himself. However, Jane can't prove anything to him and so he gets Panzer to vilify Red John on a television show. Panzer is found dead - with the typical Red John smiley at the scene. Now that the FBI is investigating, Jane tries to frame the murder of another person's tanks, not Red John. Ultimately, however, Red John proves to the authorities that he is still alive by committing another murder.
At the end of the fourth season, Jane tries to lure Red John out of cover through an elaborate deception: He simulates a nervous breakdown and burns the Red John case files. After a dispute with the CBI boss, he leaves the agency. Six months later, Lorelei Martins appears, who takes care of the seemingly unfounded Jane. She reveals herself to be the helper of Red John, who now, according to her statements, sees Jane as an old friend and wants to give him a new identity. But at a high price: Jane is supposed to murder Lisbon and bring her head with her when she meets Red John as evidence. Only now does Jane Lisbon reveal his plan and fake her and Rigsby's deaths. The FBI finds out, though. When Jane meets Red John in a black limousine, he knows about the deception. He tells Jane that he infiltrated the FBI and that informants work for him there. In a subsequent firefight, an FBI agent shoots the person in the car who pretends to be Red John. However, it is the bound and gagged CBI boss Luther Wainwright, who has a loud cell phone with him, that Red John talked to Jane about. Lorelei Martins is then arrested. In secret and not entirely legal conversations with her, Jane manages to convince her to divulge everything about Red John. Before that happens, however, due to a dispute between the CBI and the FBI, she is brought to the FBI, which Jane absolutely wants to prevent, as the FBI is infiltrated by Red John. Jane is initially powerless and when the CBI later manages to claim Lorelei Martins as a prisoner, she has already disappeared from prison - Jane's elaborate deception seems to have been in vain. But he finds out that Martins was brought to a special women's prison and not freed by Red John. With the help of Bret Stiles, who owes Jane a favor, he helps her escape. Since the authorities are not allowed to find out about it, Jane pretends that Martins has kidnapped him and he flees with her from his colleagues and the police. However, she doesn't want to tell him who or where Red John is. The CBI finds out that Lorelei Martins had a sister who has since passed away. She was raped and subsequently murdered by an unknown person; before she died, however, she still managed to write "Roy" on the floor. When Jane finds out about it, he immediately knows that Red John is the killer, as he has used Roy as a pseudonym several times. However, he cannot convince Martins that Red John brutally murdered her sister. So she doesn't want to tell him who Red John really is. Jane then helps her to escape and fakes his own kidnapping to give Martins the opportunity to find out for himself who the perpetrator was. He tells her she can always come and tell him about Red John. During the time she says a very important sentence; Jane said later that she was probably not aware of the scope of this sentence.
"God, you're just like him [Red John], you know that? Relentless manipulation! I only wonder why the two of you didn't become lifelong friends the moment you shook hands. "
"My God, you're just like him [Red John], you know that? Constant manipulation! I wonder why you didn't become lifelong friends the moment you shook hands. "
Jane concludes that he has met Red John before, but has no permanent connection with him. He then makes a list of all the males he has shaken hands with and makes short notes on them. After a while Martins reappears, she kills some people who have handed her sister over to Red John. However, she does not want to reveal the true identity of the serial killer to Jane, but decides to hunt him down herself. A short time later she is found dead, she was murdered by Red John. At the end of the fifth season, Jane narrowed the list to seven people. To his amazement, he learns from a DVD in which Martins is forced by Red John to read out a message from him before her death, that Red John already knows that he made this list because the serial killer found out about Martin's testimony about the handshakes Has. He even managed to name the same seven suspects - so Jane was never a step ahead of Red John. Red John announces that he will again kill people who are close to Jane. Six people among the seven suspects work for investigative agencies like the FBI, one of the suspects, Gale Bertram, is even the head of the CBI.
At the beginning of the sixth season, Lisbon decides, contrary to Jane's warning, to locate the suspects' cell phones with the help of spyware. When she receives a suspicious report, she drives to the place where Bret Partridge's cell phone was located. He's one of the suspects. She finds him there mortally wounded and is overwhelmed by Red John herself. He paints the typical smiley on her face and then disappears. She can later be taken out of the building largely unharmed. According to Jane, the reason for this unusual behavior on the part of Red John is that he was afraid of something.
After Robert Kirkland, who himself was looking for Red John and started torturing and killing suspects from a false list, was shot dead by Reede Smith, Patrick Jane found out that Red John had a tattoo on his left shoulder. So he lets the remaining five suspects come to. However, it turns out that three of the suspects have a tattoo: Reede Smith, Gale Bertram, and Thomas McAllister. An explosion kills McAllister and two other suspects, and only Jane, Gale Bertram, and Reede Smith survive. When Agent Lisbon arrives, all she sees is the tattoo of Roadstead Smith. In the subsequent exchange of fire, Reede Smith is wounded. When Jane wakes up in the hospital, he tells Lisbon about the tattoos. At this point, however, the two suspects are already on the run. It turns out that there is a secret organization within various agencies: the "Blake Society" (in the original: Blake Association). The members of the organization have this tattoo on their shoulder and also identify each other through the code word "Tiger, Tiger" (from a poem by William Blake ) - words that Red John once whispered to Jane. After the organization tries to kill Reede Smith, he surrenders to the Lisbon team.
In the episode The Game is Over (Original Title: Red John , Season 6) Gale Bertram - who is now the main suspect in the Red John case - and Patrick Jane try to meet. After the FBI prevented Jane from doing so, the two meet in the cemetery where Jane's wife and daughter are buried. There Gale Bertram claims not to be Red John. This turns out to be true, as he is shot by his companion shortly afterwards. Then the real Red John appears, Sheriff Thomas McAllister, who had only faked his death in the explosion. Jane had first met him in the second episode of the first season. McAllister reveals himself to be the head of the Blake Society . This time, however, Jane is one step ahead of him, he now knows Red John's weakness; with the help of a pigeon and a few breadcrumbs, Jane can distract McAllister, wound him and shoot his companion. Red John aka McAllister is wounded and initially flees. However, he is soon caught by Patrick Jane, who strangles him after a short conversation and then escapes.
The list of seven suspects
Bret Stiles ( Malcolm McDowell ) is the leader of the Visualize sect and meets Jane for the first time at the end of season two. The charismatic Stiles has numerous contacts with politics and the law enforcement apparatus. He also has good information about Red John, which he made clear at the beginning of the third season by revealing the whereabouts of Kristina Frye, kidnapped by Red John, to Jane as a thank you for solving a murder case that was involved in his sect Visualize.
Stiles accepts Jane as an equal. He realizes that Jane can manipulate people just like him, but also that Jane hardly does this anymore for nobler reasons. Stiles doesn't disagree when Jane subliminally calls him a charlatan. He acknowledges that Jane is intellectually superior to him, but he credits Jane for not trying to expose him or for taking action against Visualize. In fact, a certain respect develops between the two (in the case of Jane ex-) scammers, which prevents them from attacking each other. Jane, who used to pull off scams similar to Stiles on a smaller scale, respects Stiles and his visualize, even if he makes no bones about what he really thinks of the cult. In the course of the series, an almost friendly relationship develops, whereby it is always clear that Stiles only uses this to protect his sect from the police.
The structure of Visualize is an unmistakable swipe at the Scientology organization, even the Bret-style person is visually vaguely reminiscent of its late founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Gale Bertram is the chief executive of the CBI and appears for the first time at the beginning of the third season. He's always keen to do well in the media. He has a slight sympathy for Jane, but does not get along with his investigative methods. In the meantime, Jane suspects him of being an informant for Red John - ultimately rightly. He is a member of the Blake Association, a secret group of corrupt police officers, judges and other law enforcement officers. In the sixth season, Bertram is shot dead by another member of the Association.
Robert "Bob" Kirkland is an agent with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and has a keen interest in the Lorelei Martins case and her prison break. He also killed a Witness who was wounded and in a coma in the hospital, who apparently knew Red John, by air injection on his hospital bed in season five. Patrick couldn't speak to this witness because of it. Kirkland also assigns Homeland Security employees to photograph the cards with all the suspicious names from Patrick's attic in the CBI in a secret operation. Kirkland then pulls the other Homeland employees off and only deals with Patrick's card of the Red John suspects in his private apartment. Kirkland, however, seeks revenge on Red John himself and is murdered by Reede Smith on his behalf.
Brett Partridge is a forensic scientist and is called in by the CBI in murder cases. He has a strong affinity for Red John and appears to greatly admire and revere him, which he also expresses. Jane and Partridge meet again and again at crime scenes. In the first episode of the sixth season he is murdered by Red John, so that he is eliminated as a suspect. He was also a member of the Blake Association.
Raymond "Ray" Haffner is a member of the Visualize sect and a member of the CBI who wants to set up his own business and has offered Lisbon a job. Haffner took on Teresa Lisbon's team's cases for a while when Lisbon and her team were suspended from duty. Jane, who was not suspended and reported to Haffner, manipulated him and played his employees off against each other, so that Lisbon was brought back again.
Reede Smith is an FBI agent working with Gabe Mancini. They were called in to the case of Lorelei Martins, who escaped from prison with the help of Jane. In the seventh episode of the sixth season, Smith is said to be murdered by members of the Blake Association, but can escape with the help of the CBI, whereupon he becomes an informant for the CBI and reveals the existence of the Blake Association. Of the seven suspects, only Smith survives.
Sheriff Thomas McAllister is the Napa County Sheriff . The CBI assisted him in solving a number of serial killings that took place in his district. In the episode The Game is Over (original title Red John ) Sheriff McAllister is revealed as Red John and killed by Jane. He said he was also the head of the Blake Association.
Other minor characters
- Virgil Minelli
- is the head of the CBI. However, during the second season he quits his service there and retires after losing four of his agents, including Sam Bosco, to the crimes of Red John.
- Kristina Frye
- is a professional medium that foresees a murder in the first season and is therefore suspected by Jane, who thinks she is a cheat. However, she turns out to be innocent. There is a reunion with her in the last two episodes of the second season. She feels drawn to Jane and he agrees to meet her once, as he too begins to develop feelings for her. In the season finale, she gets in touch with Red John on a live show and is kidnapped by him in response. Jane finally finds her again and is able to free her, but she is severely traumatized and thinks she is dead.
- Sam Bosco
- was a senior special agent with the CBI. He was Lisbon's mentor when she was a younger agent. He is the director of the new serial crime unit that took responsibility for resolving the Red John case. He is critical of Jane for not being a real cop and therefore believes Jane is corrupting the people around her. Despite being married, he has secret feelings for Lisbon. Everyone on the team except Lisbon noticed this. When the Red John case is withdrawn from the Lisbon team in the second season and placed under his control, he and three of his detectives fall victim to the serial killer, with which Red John wants to cause Lisbon and thus Patrick Jane to transfer the case again becomes.
- Walter Mashburn
- is a billionaire accused of murder midway through season two. However, Jane and Lisbon can prove his innocence. In the third season they meet the Playboy again and Lisbon spends a night with him.
- Madeleine Hightower
- was the successor to Minelli, who first appeared in the middle of the second season. She is a special agent, very strict and blames Lisbon for Patrick Jane's mistakes. In season three, LaRoche suspects her to be Red John's mole at the CBI and goes into hiding with Jane's help. In the sixth season, she gives Jane a clue that induces Jane to start a game of cat and mouse with Robert Kirkland. He is in danger of death. With the help of Lisbon, Hightower manages to free Jane unscathed. According to her own statements, Madeleine Hightower will only be able to lead a normal life again when Red John is dead.
- Craig O'Laughlin
- was an FBI employee and the fiancée of Grace Van Pelt. At the end of the third season, it turns out that he was Red John's informant. He is shot dead by Van Pelt and Hightower in a hut while trying to kill Hightower.
- Todd Johnson
- was a paramedic who killed his girlfriend and two policemen in the ninth episode of the third season. In the end he is caught by Jane. Shortly thereafter, he was set on fire in his prison cell and died of his injuries. Before his death he quotes from the poem The Tyger by William Blake , which Red John also recited.
- JJ LaRoche
- was an internal investigator for the CBI. He begins his work after the police killer Todd Johnson was murdered (burned) in the CBI and it is clear that the perpetrator must come from circles of the CBI. With the progress of his investigation, Jane even hires a professional burglar to steal information from LaRoche's house (3x20). He is very unpopular because of his cool, unpredictable manner and the fact that he initially thinks all CBI employees are suspect. Due to his excessive weight and lengthy speech, he seems very sedate. However, it often shows that he can act very quickly. In particular, intellectually, he is one of the few who can stand up to Jane and see through his plans. After Hightower went into hiding, he is now her successor, but then leaves the CBI and goes back to the internal investigation. During the course of the fifth season, LaRoche is again embroiled in an important case that deepens the collaboration between Jane and LaRoche and reveals a long-kept secret from episode 20 of the third season. LaRoche was murdered in episode 13 of season 6. His last words were: "My dog ...".
- Luther Wainwright
- was LaRoche's successor as head of the CBI. He radiated a youthful energy and was still very inexperienced. Jane impressed him, however, and so he felt great sympathy for him. He attached great importance to statistics and, like Patrick Jane, paid great attention to trifles and trivialities. At the end of season four, he is found dead in Red John's limo. He was the youngest special agent to hold a senior position at middle management level.
- Summer Edgecombe
- is a prostitute who is occasionally hired by the team to help investigators through her job as an informant in cases. Cho had a relationship with her but ended up breaking up with her.
occupation
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book by Andreas W. Schmidt and the dialogue director of Wolfgang Ziffer on behalf of the synchronous company Cinephon in Berlin .
Simon Baker (2013)
Robin Tunney (2013)
Amanda Righetti (2009)
| Role name | actor | Voice actor | Main role (episodes) |
Supporting role (episodes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Jane | Simon Baker | Marcus Off | 1x01-7x13 | |
| Teresa Lisbon | Robin Tunney | Vera Teltz | 1x01-7x13 | |
| Wayne Rigsby | Owain Yeoman | Tobias Nath | 1x01–6x15 | 7x13 |
| Kimball Cho | Tim Kang | Alexander Doering | 1x01-7x13 | |
| Grace Van Pelt | Amanda Righetti | Kristina von Weltzien | 1x01–6x15 | 7x13 |
| Dennis Abbott | Rockmond Dunbar | Jörg Hengstler | 6x10-7x13 | 6x07–6x09 |
| Kim Fischer | Emily Swallow | Ghadah Al-Akel | 6x12-6x22 | 6x09-6x11 |
| Jason Wylie | Joe Adler | Andi Krösing | 7x01-7x13 | 6x10-6x22 |
| Michelle Vega | Josie Loren | Sarah Everything | 7x01-7x10 | |
| Brett Partridge | Jack plot nic | Julien Haggége | 1x01, 2x23, 5x15, 5x22–6x01 | |
| Red John / Thomas McAllister | Xander Berkeley | Lutz Riedel | 1x02, 1x23, 2x23, 6x02–6x08 | |
| Virgil Minelli | Gregory Itzin | Lutz Mackensy | 1x03–2x08, 3x10, 5x05 | |
| Kristina Frye | Leslie Hope | Sabine Arnhold | 1x07, 2x22–2x23, 3x03 | |
| Sam Bosco | Terry Kinney | Lutz Schnell | 2x01–2x08 | |
| Walter Mashburn | Currie Graham | Viktor Neumann | 2x13, 3x07 | |
| Madeleine Hightower | Aunjanue Ellis | Natascha Geisler | 2x17-3x24, 6x04 | |
| Bret Stiles | Malcolm McDowell | Wolfgang Condrus | 2x20, 3x03, 4x16, 5x08, 6x06 | |
| Gale Bertram | Michael Gaston | Roland Hemmo | 3x01–4x02, 5x01, 5x03, 5x14, 5x22–6x08 | |
| Craig O'Laughlin | Eric Winter | Marcel Collé | 3x03-3x24, 4x12 | |
| JJ LaRoche | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Tilo Schmitz | 3x10–4x02, 5x04, 5x18, 5x21, 6x13 | |
| Raymond Haffner | Reed Diamond | Jaron Lowenberg | 4x02, 5x13, 6x02–6x06 | |
| Luther Wainwright | Michael Rady | Tim Knauer | 4x04-4x24 | |
| Richard Haibach | William Mapother | Jens Heinrich Claassen | 4x07, 6x04, 6x15 | |
| Summer Edgecombe | Samaire Armstrong | Tanya Kahana | 4x08-4x22, 5x10 | |
| Lorelei Martins | Emmanuelle Chriqui | Anna Carlsson | 4x24–5x01, 5x08, 5x16, 5x22 | |
| Roadstead Smith | Drew Powell | Sven Gerhardt | 5x01, 5x22–6x07 | |
| Robert Kirkland | Kevin Corrigan | Boris Tessmann | 5x05–6x04 |
production
The location of the series is California's capital Sacramento , where the headquarters of the CBI is located in the series. In fact, the building shown in many episodes is the back of the Pico House , a former luxury hotel in Los Angeles . In episode 1x16, a large part of the cast can also be seen outside at Pico House .
The studio set for the interiors of the offices was built in the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank . Many scenes were shot in the immediate vicinity, such as some scenes from episode 2x01 and the season finale of the third season. Both cases were filmed in the Burbank Town Center Mall .
Views from the office windows and from Jane's shed on the roof repeatedly show the Tower Bridge of Sacramento (a lift bridge), probably from a hotel built there.
The FBI building shown from season 6 (in the series in Austin , Texas ) is the Dianne G. Van Hook University Center of the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita , which is also located in the greater Los Angeles area , and was built in 2010 .
Scenes from episode 7x03, which takes place in Beirut, were shot in Los Angeles on St. Vincent Court Street .
Range
With an average of 15.6 million viewers, The Mentalist was the most successful restart of a series in the 2008/2009 television season and in 2008 it was also the most successful fictional series in the USA.
Charisma
United States
In order to react to the increasing loss of viewers, the US networks in the 2008/09 season relied primarily on classic crime series, which generally have very high ratings. Even so, it was a surprise that The Mentalist reached 15.6 million viewers in the US with the first two episodes. Such values are usually obtained from established series such as Navy CIS , CSI: Miami or Criminal Minds . So it was not surprising that CBS ordered a full first season. CBS aired the first season from September 28, 2008 through May 19, 2009. The second season aired on CBS from September 24, 2009 through May 20, 2010. On May 19, 2010, CBS announced at the Upfronts that a third season had been ordered, the first airing of which was to be seen from September 23, 2010 to May 19, 2011 on CBS.
The fourth season ran from September 22, 2011 to May 17, 2012 on CBS. Due to consistently good ratings, CBS announced the production of a fifth season in March 2012, which could be seen from September 30, 2012 to May 5, 2013. On March 27, 2013, the television station CBS announced that a sixth season of the series had been ordered. In May 2014, CBS announced the extension for a seventh season. As it became known in September 2014, this should be the last. The broadcast began on November 30, 2014 and ended on February 18, 2015 with a double episode.
 Broadcasting information and ratings of the series on the original channel CBS
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| Season | Episodes | Broadcast period | Audience ratings | Time slot | source | |||
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| 1 | 23 | September 23, 2008 - May 19, 2009 | 17.41 million | # 6 | Tuesday 9:00 p.m. | |||
| 2 | 23 | September 24, 2009 - May 20, 2010 | 15.37 million | # 10 | Thursday 10:00 p.m. | |||
| 3 | 24 | September 23, 2010 - May 19, 2011 | 15.24 million | # 9 | ||||
| 4th | 24 | September 22, 2011 - May 17, 2012 | 14.57 million | # 12 | ||||
| 5 | 22nd | September 30, 2012 - May 5, 2013 | 11.82 million | # 24 | Sunday 10:00 p.m. | |||
| 6th | 22nd | September 29, 2013 - May 18, 2014 | 11.27 million | # 26 | ||||
| 7th | 13 | November 30, 2014 - February 18, 2015 | 11.81 million | # 25 | Sunday 9:00 p.m. (episodes 1 to 5) Wednesday 8:00 p.m. (episodes 6 to 13) |
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Germany
In Germany, Sat.1 broadcast the first season from March 1, 2009 to August 2, 2009. The first episode reached 2.32 million viewers and was thus among the top 5 programs of the advertising-relevant target group on March 1. The second season was broadcast by Sat.1 on February 28, 2010 and ended early on June 6, 2010. The second season was continued from September 5, 2010 to October 24, 2010. The third season started on February 13, 2011 and ended on November 13, 2011; it also included a break from broadcasting. The broadcast of the fourth season started on February 5, 2012 on Sat.1. The broadcast was interrupted on April 29 after twelve episodes of Sat.1. The continuation of the fourth season ran from September 23 to December 9, 2012 and on January 6, 2013 the fifth season began to be broadcast. After the broadcast was interrupted by a summer break, as with the previous seasons, it was continued on Mondays from July 29, 2013. The season finale took place on September 30, 2013.
The German first broadcast of the sixth season took place for the first time on pay TV on Sat.1 emotions and began on January 7, 2014. In free TV , the start of broadcasting of the sixth season was on January 12, 2014 on Sat.1, bringing the series back to its broadcasting slot changed to Sunday. After the broadcast of the sixth season was interrupted by a ten-month break, it was continued on Mondays at 9:15 p.m. on February 9, 2015.
The seventh season was broadcast on Sat.1 from April 27 to July 13, 2015 .
 Broadcasting information and ratings for the series on the free TV private broadcaster Sat.1
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| 1 | 23 | March 1 - August 2, 2009 | ø 3.31 million | ø 10.5% | ø 2.10 million | ø 15.5% | Sunday 9:15 pm | |
| 2 | 15th | March 28 - June 6, 2010 | ø 3.76 million | ø 11.2% | ø 2.32 million | ø 15.7% | Sunday 9:15 pm | |
| 8th | September 5 - October 24, 2010 | |||||||
| 3 | 12 | February 13 - May 8, 2011 | ø 3.60 million | ø 10.5% | ø 2.16 million | ø 14.7% | Sunday 9:15 pm | |
| 12 | August 28 - November 13, 2011 | |||||||
| 4th | 12 | February 5 - April 29, 2012 | ø 3.43 million | ø 9.9% | ø 1.96 million | ø 13.4% | Sunday 9:15 pm | |
| 12 | September 23 - December 9, 2012 | |||||||
| 5 | 12 | January 6th - March 24th 2013 | ø 3.53 million | ø 10.1% | ø 2.03 million | ø 14.3% | Sunday 9:15 pm | |
| 10 | July 29th - September 30th 2013 | ø 2.47 million | ø 8.1% | ø 1.29 million | ø 11.1% | Monday 8:15 p.m. | ||
| 6th | 12 | January 12 - March 30, 2014 | ø 3.21 million | ø 9.2% | ø 1.74 million | ø 12.5% | Sunday 9:15 pm | |
| 10 | February 9 - April 20, 2015 | Monday 9:15 p.m. | ||||||
| 7th | 13 | April 27, 2015 - July 13, 2015 | ø 2.25 million | ø 7.8% | ø 1.08 million | ø 10.3% | Monday 9:15 p.m. | |
The highest number of viewers was measured on April 3, 2011 with 4.25 million viewers. It was the eighth episode of the third season.
Austria
In Austria, ORF 1 broadcast the first season from March 1, 2009 to July 26, 2009. It started with a double episode. The second season aired from March 8 to November 15, 2010. The first part of the third season aired from February 7 to May 5, 2011, the remaining episodes were broadcast from September 1 to November 10, 2011. From February 2, 2012 to April 19, the first 12 episodes of the fourth season were broadcast weekly on ORF, episodes 13 to 20 followed from September 5 to 26, and the last four episodes followed from December 10 to 18 on Mondays and Tuesdays in double sequences. The broadcast of the fifth season began on January 7, 2013 with a double episode and ended on September 23, 2013. The sixth season started on January 13, 2014 with a double episode and ended on November 17, 2014. The seventh season started on April 13 2015. The last episode was broadcast on July 13, 2015 on ORF 1.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, 3+ broadcast the first season from March 23, 2009 to August 18, 2009. The second season 3+ broadcast from March 12 to June 4, 2010. The third season started on March 11, 2011 and ended on March 25, 2009 November 2011 after a summer break. The fourth season started on February 10, 2012 and ended on December 17, 2012 after a summer break. The fifth season was broadcast from June 7th to November 6th, 2013. The sixth season started on January 27, 2014 and ended on January 19, 2015 after a summer break.
Awards
- Crime Thriller Awards
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- 2009: Nomination in the category The International TV Dagger for The Mentalist
- People's Choice Award
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- 2009: People's Choice Award for Best New TV Drama Series
- 2015: Nomination in the category Best Drama Series
- Emmy
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- 2009 : Nomination in the category leading actor in a drama series for Simon Baker
- Golden Globe Award
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- 2010 : Nomination for Best Actor in a Series - Drama for Simon Baker
- Screen Actors Guild Awards
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- 2010 : Nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Simon Baker
- Television Critics Association Awards
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- 2009: Nomination for Best New TV Series of the Year
Episode list
Titling
A special feature of the English episode titles is that every title up to and including episode 6x08 refers to the color red. In addition to clear naming (1x03: "Red Tide", 1x05 "Redwood") there are also red shades or red objects (often blood) or puns with the English word "red":
- 1x14, 4x24, 5x01: Crimson = purple red
- 1x15, 2x02: Scarlet = scarlet red
- 1x17: Carnelian = carnelian (red gemstone)
- 1x18: Russet = red-brown
- 2x01: Red emption
- 2x09: Rubies = rubies (red gemstone)
- 2x10: Fire = fire
- 2x11: Rose-Colored = rose red
- 2x18: Aingavite Baa = red water (language: Shoshone )
- 2x21: 18-5-4 = numerical assignment: 18 = R, 5 = E, 4 = D
- 3x06: pink = pink
From episode 6x09 this rule was added to the conclusion of the storyline about Red John, the episode names have since been given different color names.
DVD publications
- United States
- Season 1 was released on September 22, 2009
- Season 2 was released on September 21, 2010
- Season 3 was released on September 20, 2011
- Season 4 was released on September 18, 2012
- Season 5 was released on September 17, 2013
- Season 6 was released on September 30, 2014
- Season 7 was released on April 28, 2015
- Great Britain
- Season 1 was released on March 8, 2010
- Season 2 was released on November 8, 2010
- Season 3 was released on October 10, 2011
- Season 4 was released on October 8, 2012
- Season 5 was released on October 14, 2013
- Season 6 was released on October 20, 2014
- Season 7 was released on July 20, 2015
- Germany
- Season 1 was released on DVD on September 18, 2009
- Season 1 was released on March 5, 2010 on Blu-ray Disc
- Season 2 was released on December 3, 2010
- Season 3 was released on December 2, 2011
- Season 4 was released on December 14, 2012
- Season 5 was released on December 6, 2013
- Season 6 was released on December 11, 2014
- Season 7 was released on December 3, 2015
criticism
“The charm of Robert Redford with a shot of Oliver Geissen:“ The Mentalist ”on Sat 1 solves murder cases through clairvoyance, but without much hocus-pocus. […] The mentalist is like Oprah Winfrey, but more savvy than Felix Krull. He seldom winks and always keeps eye contact a third too long. He smiles like a James Dean, half-sided. "
In general, The Mentalist received very positive media coverage, for example Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it was fun to watch the ongoing inference process. “But psychological dexterity is not enough to fill an hour a week. That takes complicated, interesting crimes and complicated, interesting characters to solve them. The Mentalist seems prepared to do just that. "
Web links
- The Mentalist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Mentalist at Fernsehserien.de
- The Mentalist in the online movie database
- Official website (English)
- Official website (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Mentalist Finale Recap: The Plane Truth , tvline.com, May 18, 2014
- ↑ Post Mortem: Mentalist Creator Talks Red John's Role in Original Series Finale - Plus: What's Next for Robin Tunney? , tvline.com, February 18, 2015
- ↑ The Mentalist on hollywood.com
- ^ The Mentalist Premiere Recap: Wrong Number
- ↑ a b The Mentalist. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 14, 2013 .
- ^ The Mentalist's CBI Headquarters
- ↑ The Macy's at Burbank Town Center Mall from "The Mentalist"
- ↑ Burbank Town Center Mall from the Season 3 Finale of "The Mentalist"
- ↑ FBI Headquarters from "The Mentalist"
- ↑ St. Vincent Court from "The Mentalist"
- ↑ The most successful series newcomers of the young season
- ↑ US ratings: Nielsen's top 10 lists for the year
- ↑ quotemeter.de - the online television magazine: CBS 2010/2011 or: What role does «CSI» play? . Oddsmeter.de. March 29, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
- ↑ CBS: Breaking News - CBS announces 2010–2011 Premiere Dates . TheFutonCritic.com. July 22, 2010. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
- ↑ Bill Gorman: CBS Renews 18 Shows: 'The Good Wife', 'Blue Bloods', '2 Broke Girls', 'The Mentalist', 'Mike & Molly' & Many More . TV by the Numbers . March 14, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: The Mentalist: CBS confirms order for the 6th season . Serienjunkies.de . March 27, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
- ↑ Amanda Kondolojy: 'The Mentalist' Renewed for Seventh Season by CBS . In: Zap2it.com . May 10, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
- ↑ Liz Raftery: xclusive Mentalist Video: Stars Discuss the Decision to End Red John Story Line . In: tvguidet.com . September 26, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
- ↑ “ABC Television Network 2008–2009 Primetime Ranking Report,” abcmedianet, June 2, 2009
- ↑ Final 2009-10 Broadcast Primetime Show Average Viewership . TV by the Numbers. June 16, 2010. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ↑ 2010-11 Season Broadcast Primetime Show Viewership Averages . TV by the Numbers. June 1, 2011. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ↑ Complete List Of 2011–12 Season TV Show Viewership: 'Sunday Night Football' Tops, Followed By 'American Idol', 'NCIS' & 'Dancing With The Stars' . TV by the Numbers. May 24, 2012. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ↑ Complete List Of 2012–13 Season TV Show Viewership: 'Sunday Night Football' Tops, Followed By 'NCIS', 'The Big Bang Theory' & 'NCIS: Los Angeles' . TV by the Numbers. May 29, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ↑ Full 2013-2014 TV Season Series Rankings . Deadline Hollywood. May 22, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ↑ Full 2014–15 TV Season Series Rankings: Football & 'Empire' Ruled . Deadline Hollywood. May 21, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: The Mentalist: Start of the 4th season on Sat.1 in February . Serienjunkies.de . December 28, 2011. Retrieved on December 28, 2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Adam Arndt: The Mentalist: German premiere of the 5th season from January on Sat.1 . In: Serienjunkies.de . November 26, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: Sat.1: Fresh US series in the future on three evenings . In: Dwdl.de . July 11, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: The Mentalist: Start of the 6th season on Sat.1 Emotions in January . In: Serienjunkies.de . November 21, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: The Mentalist: Start of the 6th season also on Sat.1 in January . In: Serienjunkies.de . December 18, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ The Mentalist: 7th and last season from April on Sat.1 . In: Serienjunkies.de .
- ↑ Quota check 1st season , Oddsmeter.de
- ↑ Quota check 2nd season , Oddsmeter.de
- ↑ Quota check 3rd season , Oddsmeter.de
- ↑ Quota check 4th season , Oddsmeter.de
- ^ Oddscheck 5th season: first twelve episodes ,quotemeter.de
- ^ Odds check 5th season: last ten episodes , Oddsmeter.de
- ^ Quota check 6th season: first twelve episodes ,quotemeter.de
- ↑ Quota check 7th season , Oddsmeter.de
- ↑ New record for "The Mentalist" ,quotemeter.de
- ↑ Katie Allen: Coben, Cole, Atkinson vie for crime awards ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Bookseller.com , September 7, 2009. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
- ↑ Else Buschheuer: Awake like a paper frog . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 27, 2009. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
- ↑ Television Review | 'The Mentalist' | A Detective Sharpens His Eye and Charm New York Times, Sept. 22, 2008
- ↑ Review: 'The Mentalist' , Los Angeles Times
