Always Bet on Red - Recap

The scene opens with Patrick and Teresa walking by a harbor, when Kimball joins them and learns that they are on a case for divorce attorney Alton Creek, not because he was killed, but because he is getting death threats. Since when was threats their headache, asks Kimball. Patrick points out that death threats are their job when the person being threatened is a rich establishment lawyer with a lot of juice. They are walking towards his speedboat, and Teresa points out Creek being a divorce attorney is likely to have many enemies. Teresa points out this one should be on Kimball, because one of his confidential informants knows Creek. Teresa receives a call from him – he is mad about them not hurrying up – and Teresa tries to calm him down. Not before long, Creek’s speedboat explodes. When they reach up to the place, they can only find a leg floating, which also disappears in a split second. Teresa thinks it’s a shark. Later, Patrick is trying to figure out something about sharks, much to Teresa’s disapproval, when special agent Darcy arrives.

She is here for the Panzer case. Patrick is willing to answer her questions, also to Teresa’s disapproval, and asks Darcy to sit down while he makes some tea. Meanwhile, Kimball is interviewing his informer. Creek hired her for a night, and reveals that he would have a new girlfriend every month. Although she did not know many of them, she suggests one of them might have wanted to kill him – she had sent a picture of a pig’s head with a knife stuck on it. When Darcy from FBI plays the Panzer video, she emphasizes on how after talking about Red John being a sociopath and serial killer, Panzer was killed. Patrick assures her Red John is dead – he killed him. After she leaves, Teresa wants to know the truth. Red John is alive, but the simple truth is not going to make things better. Patrick has already told the jury he killed Red John.

Later, Kimball and his colleague get to Creek’s partner at a lunch convention. He talks congenially, but his lawyer butts in saying he is not answering any questions. However, she can arrange for an interview tomorrow. Kimball is okay with that, but he is not getting any answers now, and leaves. Later at night, Grace receives a weird file on her computer. The upload source is from outside the CBI. It is a video file suggesting the camera operator is stalking Darcy. Soon a text file arrives reading “she is cute, this is going to be fun!” Patrick and Grace immediately leave the office. They arrive at Darcy’s and show her the video, but Patrick wants to stay. However, he still cannot reveal the stalker is Red John, but tells her that Panzer’s killers are after her. Darcy can take care of herself so Patrick need not stay.

Later, Teresa meets Patrick and lays in on him since Darcy still knows Red John is dead. Is Patrick keeping Red John for himself – is that what it’s all about? Patrick shouts back – this is not about him. He cares about Darcy. What can he do? Not before long, Creek’s partner faces Grace and Wayne in an interview. He worked with Creek for 15 years, and love was all he had for the guy. Then Grace and Wayne show him a video of the two arguing outside their office. Was it about money? It was. Kimball learns about a possible suspect from Teresa – Max. His style is intimidation. Besides, Teresa is intrigued by Creek’s account. $129.68 is something that appears quite regularly, and Creek has been hiding this from his partner.

Besides, he had a gambling habit, which obviously made his partner angry. Kimball arrives at the casino where Max is playing Craps. Kimball is using Summer’s (Creek’s hooker and Kimball’s informer) help to reach Max. Meanwhile, Patrick learns that Panzer victim’s father (Tom Mayer) has committed suicide. Dejected, he gets to work in his style. Back at the casino, Summer easily lures Max outside the casino, and not before long, Wayne and Kimball have him handcuffs. What for, asks Max. Parole violation. Max is taken to interrogation, and shown the picture of the pig’s head. He did it, didn’t he, lays in Kimball. Max drops a blob of his spit on the picture, and wants to know if Kimball has any questions, or has he come to chat. Meanwhile, after a consolatory meeting between the Mayer’s wife, Teresa and Patrick, he has a lots to do, and will see Teresa later. She informs him about the $129.68 she cannot understand what Creek could have spent on.

Later, at another interview with Creek’s partner, Wayne lets on they know about Creek’s gambling habit. Besides, they also know that the partner bought a major life insurance for Creek a month before his death. This is news to the partner’s lawyer. Meanwhile, Patrick gets to a departmental store, steals a small knife, and gets to the morgue holding the suicide victim. He puts the knife in his hand and fetches his fingerprints. Then he gets to his place before Mayer’s wife has come back. He breaks in, leaves a letter on the bedroom desk, and calls Darcy. However, the wife is already back, and he cannot make a sound. The wife is shocked to find someone has broken in, but gets to the room and finds no one and everything in place. Patrick manages to escape unnoticed.

Patrick calls Max, Summer, Creek’s partner and his lawyer to the office. He gets to each one as if through a process of elimination. And soon, after explaining that the $129.68 was for flowers he would buy for his girlfriend, and that girlfriend was Creek’s partner’s lawyer, he points the finger at her. Not before long, she is running away guilty faced, but Kimball grounds her, and she is taken away. She was angry with Creek because he promised to marry her, and later changed his mind. Then Patrick learns from Darcy that the FBI is about to search the Mayer’s house. Panzer was found in an alley close to Mayer’s house, and the forensic lab is running the blood tests right now. At Mayer’s funeral, it turns out that the FBI found a letter in Molly’s room at Mayer’s house. Molly was Tom’s daughter, whom Panzer had killed.

However, it is the letter that Patrick had sneaked in to leave on the desk. Patrick wrote it as if Tom had left the letter for his daughter before killing himself. It reads that Mayer killed Panzer because he killed their daughter – reading this out at the funeral, Mayer’s wife tells the attendees she was angry at first when Tom killed himself showing weakness. However, now that she has discovered it was because he killed Panzer. Now she finds him stronger than she ever thought. While Patrick managed to get Mayer’s fingerprint in the morgue, he also tampered with forensic evidence to prove that Mayer killed Panzer before killing himself. Besides, he has the FBI looking the wrong way because that will prevent them from believing Red John is alive. Darcy confirms they have the fingerprints and a blood match. He explains to Darcy that Mayer died in peace. Besides, the person who stalked her is already dead. So she can feel safe now.

Written By David Sibert

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