Fall Asleep To Every Serial Killer In The Mentalist Explained

The Mentalist explained: every serial killer in the series, from Red John to the copycats and standalone unsubs, told slowly as a sleep aid. This is a long-form, low-stimulation breakdown of the murderers who appear across the seven seasons of The Mentalist, narrated in a calm, unhurried voice for listeners who want something familiar to fall asleep to. It maps the series into three groups: Red John himself, the copycats who borrowed his blood smiley face, and the standalone killers with body counts and methods of their own. The video works through each figure's confirmed victims, signature, and fate, using details drawn from the episodes themselves. Nothing here requires you to follow along, and falling asleep partway through is the intended outcome. What's covered in this video: An opening on why The Mentalist works as sleep listening, with Patrick Jane in his three piece suit explaining what everyone else in the room missed. The scale of Red John, credited with roughly forty one personal murders and a total past seventy once his operatives and acolytes are counted. The signature itself, a smiley face drawn clockwise in the victim's blood with three fingers of a rubber gloved right hand. The pilot copycat, psychiatrist Doctor Linus Wagner, who killed Doctor Gregory Tannen and Alison Randolph, staged the scene as Red John, and was arrested by Wayne Rigsby. Why Wagner is unusual: he survives, while most imitators are killed by Red John for what he calls cheap imitations. The season two episode Red Sky in the Morning, where Dylan and Ruth film the murder of Marley Sparrow, mimic the signature, and are personally killed by Red John. James Panzer in Blinking Red Light, the crime reporter unmasked as the San Joaquin Killer, who bound victims with wire and cut their throats, with victims including Molly Maier, Michelle Karp, and Jill Reisert. How Jane manipulated Panzer into mocking Red John on television, leading to Panzer's stabbing death beside a real blood smiley face. Jason Lennon in There Will Be Blood, a women's shelter trustee who killed five women with fishing line and was also a Red John associate involved in the death of Miranda Martins. Jane's wrong wall deduction in the pilot, the fake diary planted in Tannen's office, and Wagner's embezzlement of medical relief funds meant for Africa. The Red John method in order: taser, binding, slashed throat, stabbing, then the face on the wall. The murders of Angela and Charlotte Jane in retaliation for Jane mocking Red John on a talk show, and the detail about Angela's toenails painted in her own blood, offered by the imprisoned informant Renfrew. The skywriting smiley face as the single total break from the usual indoor, tactile staging. The show's CBS premiere on the twenty third of September, two thousand eight, watched by roughly fifteen point six million viewers. Mentioned in this video: The Mentalist, Patrick Jane, Red John, Teresa Lisbon, Wayne Rigsby, California Bureau of Investigation, Doctor Linus Wagner, Doctor Gregory Tannen, Alison Randolph, Price Randolph, Dylan, Ruth, Marley Sparrow, James Panzer, San Joaquin Killer, Molly Maier, Michelle Karp, Jill Reisert, Jason Lennon, Miranda Martins, Angela Jane, Charlotte Jane, Renfrew, Red Sky in the Morning, Blinking Red Light, There Will Be Blood, CBS, California, The Somnalist.