The Mentalist: Pilot

California Bureau of Investigation consultant Thomas Jane along with Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon and her team, investigate a double murder in which a pro golfer's wife and her doctor were killed in Palm Springs.

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8.3/10 (40 Votes cast)

Episode Info

Episode number: 1x1
Production Number: 276040
Airdate: Tuesday September 23rd, 2008

Director: David Nutter
Writer: Bruno Heller

Alternate Airdates:

AU (Nine)	Oct 05, 2008
BR (Warner Channel)	Nov 06, 2008
NL (SBS 6)	Jan 01, 2009
Austria	Mar 01, 2009
UK (five)	Mar 26, 2009
FR (TPS Star)	Apr 20, 2009
FI (MTV3)	Sep 03, 2009
BG (PRO.BG)	Sep 22, 2009
Czech Republic	Nov 30, 2009

Guest Stars

Jack Plotnick As Brett Partridge Recurring	Tara Karsian As Medical Examiner Recurring
Zeljko Ivanek As Dr. Linus Wagner Recurring	Jeffrey R. Nordling As Price Randolph
Steven Culp As Morgan Tolliver	Tim Guinee As Tag Randolph

Co-Guest Stars

Angela Martinez As TV Reporter Recurring	D. David Morin As LAPD Captain
Gail O'Grady As Juniper Tolliver	Kelvin Han Yee As Davis Kelvin
Lana Asanin As Kelly	Mandy McMillian As Jenny
Mark Llewellyn As Homicide Detective	Mary Alexandra Stiefvater As Alison Randolph
Michael Holden (1) As Lawyer	Shaun Toub As Michael Moradi

Main Cast

Simon Baker As Patrick Jane	Robin Tunney As Teresa Lisbon
Tim Kang As Kimball Cho	Owain Yeoman As Wayne Rigsby
Amanda Righetti As Grace Van Pelt

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Episode Quotes

Patrick: Hello Mrs. Tolliver?
Mrs. Tolliver: Who are you?
Patrick: I'm Patrick Jane. I'm here to help you.

(Reading the note)
Grace Van Pelt: Greetings old friend. It's been a while. I hope you are keeping well. I am thriving and happy. I have twelve wives now and will soon begin courting number thirteen. Why can't you catch me? You must feel so powerless and stupid and sad. Oh well. All the best. Red John.

Patrick: This isn't Red John. Red John thinks of himself as a showman, an artist. He has a strong sense of theater. In all of the previous killings, he made sure that the first thing that anyone sees is the face on the wall. You see the face first and you know. You know what's happened and you feel dread. Then, and only then, do you see the body of the victim.

Patrick: An innocent man would've punched me by now.

Mr. Tolliver: Who are you?
Patrick: I'm the police. Did you kill your daughter?