Anyone else watch this? Very good episode - Patrick is hit on the head & reverts back to his “psychic” obnoxious con man persona. And he doesn’t remember his wife or daughter, much less their murders.
The actor pulled off the change in character very well.
I know at the end Lisbon takes him back to his old house to jog his memory about the murder - and I had to leave the room! Can anyone tell me how he reacted?
Also - he said he was happy without any memories. Should the others have left him that way or tried to bring him memory back?
At the end, Patrick was standing in his bedroom with the mattress beneath the smiley face on the wall, and you could tell that it was all coming back to him. He didn’t say anything, but the look on his face made it clear.
Lisbon, outside the room, just said “I’m sorry” and then it ended.
I watched it. I was kind of disappointed actually. I thought the storyline was kind of cheesy. He was actually drowned by a criminal he was looking for, and was unconscious for 7-8 minutes. He recovers with a certain condition that the doctor says could take hours or even days to recover from…(really? they couldn’t do any better than that?) Then towards the end, he gets away with a lot of money, and says he’s happy not remembering his past life. Finds a woman, buys her expensive jewelry and quits the CBI. This again had me saying “WTF.” How could he get away with taking the money from the crime scene? It was a set up so was their no surveillance??? That just didn’t’ sit well with me. His reaction at the end was that he was rather upset at seeing the Red John smiley face, but he didn’t say anything…it was obvious that he was starting to remember but I thought the whole thing was handled poorly.
I must respectfully disagree - I thought it was a very interesting study in Jane’s personality. He really was an unsufferable git before his wife and daughter were murdered, if that portrayal was accurate. I think you missed something fairly special at the end, well he’s back - watching Jane coming to the door and opening it was amazing, with all the emotions playing over his face as he seemed to deflate.
Lisbon is a serious hard-ass - she was willing to let him walk away from the CBI, but he crossed the line with stealing the money from the killer, and she had to do what she had to do then. It was interesting to watch her interactions with Jane throughout the episode, too - she was crying before Jane was resuscitated, and defended him when he was being a real asshole, then put him back in the misery of his reality at the end.
I thought it was one of the better episodes.
Did anybody else connect that pattern of light on the door as Jane was going into the “kill room” at his old house? It was very much like the pattern in the opening logo for the show. I rewound it and had my wife fix it in her mind and then when the end credits came up I asked if she saw the similarity.
I don’t know what to make of it, but it appeared to be an obvious visual clue or whatever.
The blend of excellent writing and excellent acting is almost unbeaten in any current show that we watch. They never fail to impress with how far over the “standard line” they’re willing (and able) to go.
I thought it was one of the better episodes, too. I really liked Cho in this episode - he is the anti-Jane, which we don’t usually see quite so starkly. It just occurred to me, thinking about Cho and Jane, that Jane truly was a predator before his family was killed - normal, everyday people had almost no defenses against someone as smart and ruthless as he was.
Once again I have to say how impressed I was with the season finale last year, though - one of the best episodes of tv I have EVER seen, and this episode brought that to mind again.