The Mentalist comes back with its seventh and final season, and we find Jane and Lisbon two weeks after Jane declared his love for her.
What’s going to happen now?
Read our recap of The Mentalist Season 7 Premiere, “Nothing But Blue Skies”.
Jane and Lisbon are two weeks into their new relationship. Lisbon tells Jane that she should probably provide him with a key to her house. And, that she doesn’t want their collegues to know about their relationship just yet. After everything that happened with Pike, she wants to keep a little privacy. We’ll see though, that it will be hard for them to conceal how much they are happily in love, especially to Abbott, who seems to have already figured them out.
How to conceal a smile when your boyfriend hides in your pocket an origami swan?
Let’s take a moment to love Cho, please.
“Not going to Washington?”
“Not marrying Pike”?
“Ok.”
That’s it for him. Back to business. The Cho.
The case of the week involves the murder of a man, Jeremy Geist, shot near a bowling alley. The team is called to investigate because Jeremy was an FBI agent working undercover on a gang that’s been stealing military weapons from army bases, and selling them to drug dealers. The bowling parking lot was the place were the exchanges happened.
Turns out that Jeremy was killed because he recognized the man who kidnapped a friend sixteen years before, who was working in the same bowling.
It was extremely entertaining seeing Jane using his good old tricks to solve the crime.
We learn that agent Fisher asked to be transferred in Seattle, to take care of her mother. She left a sweet card for Lisbon, wishing her luck with Jane.
And a new agent is coming as a replacement, Michelle Vega, a rookie from Quantico. Jane immediately reads her, of course. An intelligent young woman, former military who had to give up that career because of her father’s illness.
One of the most interesting parts of the episode happens at the end, when Jane meets Pike, who’s back in Austin for a case. They share a few words. There is not evident hate between the two men, rather a subtle provocation from Pike, who asks Jane what plan he has in mind for Lisbon. He was ready to give her a home, a family, a future. Jane admits he hasn’t thought that far ahead yet, and confirms this to Lisbon right after, telling her: “I think we know what feels right, I think that should be our guide”.
These words are probably the most important shared between Jane and Lisbon, so far.
At the beginning, there was no “we”, there was just “I”, just Jane, and his desire for vengeance, then there was Jane and his solitude, and finally now there are two people. He’s finally allowing another person in his life, and he’s trying to be good for her. He’s being honest, and supporting of Lisbon’s decisions, even protective of her. This is a man who’s slowly walking back to life, and a woman who is making him feel how it is to be loved again, and how it feels to love, again.
I personally can’t wait to see those two walking this new path together.
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