Fall Asleep To The Darkest Mentalist Theories

The Mentalist fan theories explained, from Patrick Jane's carnival con-artist childhood to the Red John murders and the darkest reading of his character. This video works through the most unsettling fan theories about The Mentalist, the CBS crime drama that ran from September 23, 2008 to February 18, 2015 across seven seasons and 151 episodes. It traces how creator Bruno Heller built a hero who is half detective and half con artist, how Red John's murder of Angela Ruskin Jane and Charlotte Anne Jane rewired the show's fan culture, and how years of an open mystery produced numbered suspect lists and theories that turned Patrick Jane into his own villain. Each theory is presented on its own, in order, with the specific episodes and evidence the series actually provides. What's covered in this video: The origin of Patrick Jane as a child billed by his father as a psychic medium on Midwest carnival stages, and why Bruno Heller described him as a mix of Sherlock Holmes and a street psychic. How Bruno Heller came to The Mentalist after Rome at HBO, a series cancelled largely because of production costs. The pilot flashback in which Jane, on a talk show hosted by a man named Davis, mocks Red John as an ugly, tormented little man and provokes the killer's reply. The crime scene Jane finds behind the bedroom door, including the bloody smiley face on the wall and his wife's toenails painted with her own blood. The theory that Jane traded his family's safety for his reputation, supported by the season two premiere "Redemption," where Agent Sam Bosco reads case file testimony that Angela had begged Jane to quit the psychic act. The reading of Jane's charm as a clinical instrument rather than grief, drawn from "Little Red Book," where he dismantles Agent Haffner's team, and "Black Gold and Red Blood," where he bugs Bosco's office and is charged with a felony. The season one episode "Red Sauce," in which Jane engineers a mob boss's phone threats and has Rigsby pose as a hitman to frighten a confession out of a suspect. The suspension and firing in "Red Rover, Red Rover," after CBI Director Wainwright judges Jane's interrogation to be psychological torture. The risks Jane imposes on Van Pelt in "Red Hair and Silver Tape" and "Blood Money," where a hitman known as Mister Black holds a knife to her throat. The Kristina Frye arc, played by Leslie Hope, from "Seeing Red" through "Red Letter," the "Roll Tide" cold reading, her disappearance in "Red Sky in the Morning," and her catatonic return in "The Blood on His Hands." The Blake Association and the network of accomplices that made suspicion contagious, feeding numbered fan theories about J.J. LaRoche, Brett Partridge, and even Teresa Lisbon. The TV Tropes Wild Mass Guessing theory that Red John was a dissociative alter ego of Patrick Jane, and why the series made it plausible. The season six reveal of Red John as Thomas McAllister, sheriff of Napa County, played by Xander Berkeley, and why the culture of suspicion outlived the answer. Mentioned in this video: The Mentalist, CBS, Bruno Heller, Rome, HBO, Patrick Jane, Sherlock Holmes, Red John, Angela Ruskin Jane, Charlotte Anne Jane, California Bureau of Investigation, Teresa Lisbon, Sam Bosco, Van Pelt, Rigsby, Agent Haffner, Director Wainwright, Hightower, J.J. LaRoche, Brett Partridge, Kristina Frye, Leslie Hope, Thomas McAllister, Xander Berkeley, Napa County, Blake Association, Mister Black, TV Tropes, Wild Mass Guessing, Alabama Crimson Tide, Roll Tide, Seeing Red, Red Letter, Red Sky in the Morning, The Blood on His Hands, Redemption, Little Red Book, Black Gold and Red Blood, Red Sauce, Red Rover Red Rover, Red Hair and Silver Tape, Blood Money. Chapters: 0:00 Intro: The Boy Who Spoke To The Dead 9:53 The Talk Show That Killed His Family 17:18 Charm As A Clinical Weapon 23:15 Kristina Frye: Hollowed Out Alive 31:55 Lorelei Martins, Used And Discarded 39:34 The Blake Association Never Ended 47:49 Why McAllister Disappointed Everyone 56:53 The CBI Was Rotten Inside 1:05:57 Jane's Engineered Romance With Lisbon 1:15:07 The Happy Ending Was A Con 1:23:16 Heller's Darker Original Pilot 1:30:41 The Reveal Fans Refused To Accept