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Tuesday 20 May 2014

The Mentalist 6.21 "Black Hearts" Review

                                                   
What another couch scene with them both! Ha
At the deserted hospital where Cho (Tim Kang) and Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) discovered the dead girls, it's found their organs were harvested and that the remaining girls are missing.  Fischer (Emily Swallow) wants to know what she can do and Abbot wants her to see who was at this hospital.  Fischer also tells them that the Kasimi brothers are dead and were killed in jail.  Lots of plot holes in this ep as the FBI were meant to put the brothers in protective custody and yet they were left in jail and it was obvious they would be killed. Then later on they find that a doctor named Alexander Lark (Robert Joy) has had his licence revoked and was operating on the girls, killing them to remove their organs.

Wylie (Joe Adler) is able to find the companies that owned the trucks hiding behind several subsidiaries, the CEO of which is a man named Ridley (Titus Welliver).  Lisbon (Robin Tunney) is offered a lucrative job opportunity in Washington and she tells Don Anderson (David L King) she must think about it.  Pike (Pedro Pascal) tells her he went through a lot of trouble to make sure she was considered for the job.  Patrick (Simon Baker) walks in and says hello to them both and that's about it.  Patrick and Lisbon talk with Ridley who is evasive and at the same time attempts to lead them on a wild goose chase, by telling them he has nothing to hide and that he went through so many companies as it's a tax thing.  His CFO will be happy to show them the books.  Of course Patrick knows he's lying and makes reference to his office being sparse and undecorated.  Ridley adding it's just an office.

Cho and Fischer find Lark's daughter (April (Magda Apanowicz) and she doesn't know where her father is but he used to go to a beach at Corpus Christi.  Cho and Fischer find him and arrest him, but Anthony (John Hensley) is given a call by Ridley to make sure they don't get Lark alive.  There's a bomb under his car but he only triggers it after they move away from his car.  Another plot hole since he could have pulled the trigger when Lark was at his car and Cho and Fischer were still inside.  Yet he had to call and get confirmation from Ridley, what was the point of waiting, if he wasn't going to set the bomb off, why plant it.

Lark is shaken up and needs a drink to calm him.  He operated on the girls and at first he thought about how he was killing them but after that he didn't anymore.  Oh Sid how you've fallen from CSI:NY, ha.  He tells them a man would come to pick up the bodies after he harvested the organs and he didn't know his name. But he had a tattoo, 'vini, vedi vichi' (came, saw, conquered) on his arm.  Fischer asks Wylie to check out any leads with the tattoo.  Later Anthony goes to April's house and takes her necklace, which they find in Lark's cell after he's found hanged.  So he must have committed suicide thinking April had been killed or worst subjected to the same fate the other girls were, some would call that poetic justice.  Fischer recognizes the necklace and April is still alive, she hadn't realized her necklace was taken, she thought she lost it. Another plot hole, they still left Lark alone in jail, seems like FBI jails are prone to people getting killed or killing themselves.

They also find that the truck company in which the girls were found in and radar shows the ships and where they are heading and the girls on the move to various location where Ridley had connections, including Columbia.  Daniela (Zuleyka Silver) is told by Cho that he's still searching for her sister and will get her back. They inform the relevant authorities and Cho has a personal message for the Colombian embassy official, Moreno (Luis Fernandez-Gil) saying he needs to get a warrant to search the ships as they come in, adding that he doesn't want to make an enemy out of Cho.   Lark also recalled seeing a man from Nigeria at Ridley's house asking for a transplant and he was an oil company official.  He remembers his gold watch cos it was like the one that he had too.

Lisbon and Patrick pay a call on Ridley's house and Patrick looks at the photos.  Ridley tells him he's put them there cos his wife wanted them there, but Patrick knows that Ridley put them there to intimidate people.  He knows Ridley's lying.   The Nigerian man was at a party a few weeks ago and looking at the photos from the event management company, Fischer remarks on how Lisbon would prefer to be doing this with Patrick, cos they always work together.  Lisbon adds they don't, but yes they used to an awful lot in the past.  Lisbon telling a lie there, she's probably gotten good at it over the years working with Patty, yes you do and you have! Ha.

Patrick is in the evidence vault and takes some pills from there and some medical clothes asking Lisbon what size she is, cos he's got a plan but she won't like it cos she'll have to lie and deceive.  This she goes along with since the Nigerian man is alerted to the FBI searching for him by Ridley and he leaves the country.  Nice scene where Lisbon brought Patrick tea and woke him up with it.  Telling him that she's always liked his couch.  Oh Patty, we know it's going to be dragged out but still nothing from either of them.  She gets a call which he tells her to answer.  They've never sat like that before in the context of each one wanting the other to speak up but it was a touching scene.

Lisbon also tells Cho about her job offer and he recalls the first day he came to work with her and he almost left cos of Rigsby.  But he stayed cos of her and he liked the way she worked.  She hugs him and he says they're having Chinese for lunch.  Cho: "I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for you, whatever decision you make it's been an honour.  Seems Lisbon has done a lot for her former team and she's an asset even now.  Patrick talks with Ridley at his home and he offers him whiskey which is actually Japanese whiskey and not Scotch as Patrick thinks.  Ridley shows him the bottle and Patrick drugs his glass.  He passes out and he wakes to see Lisbon in scrubs and Patrick in the same 'operating' on a patient.  Patrick pretends to cut him open and Lisbon drips fake blood from a sponge onto the floor, finally the patient's arm flops from the covers and the tattoo is revealed.  Of course it's really Wylie who enjoyed his role as Lisbon hands him a hanky later on to clean his arm.

Patrick then attempts to cut open Ridley and he finally gives Lisbon the password to his encrypted laptop containing the transactions he's entered into.  In an earlier scene Patrick waits for Ridley outside when he's released and he confesses to him that he took the girls but it was for the greater good of saving politicians, philanthropists and those much worthy.  Patrick says he understands cos over the years he's come across many psychopaths and monsters, yeah hasn't he!  Abbott asks Lisbon ad Patrick if what Ridley says is true that they forced him into confessing and tried to cut him open but Patrick says it's not true and then Abbot asks Lisbon on her own, adding that she's a good agent and honest, he knows Patrick is a liar and she flat out blatantly lies to him to save Patty!  Ahh.  In this case Patrick's ends justify the means! The girls are found and Cho reunites Daniela with her sister.

Pike returns and she agrees to leave for Washington with him, he then proposes to her and she's surprised. Patrick was sitting a few feet away and can't believe he didn't look up and see them kissing!  He wasn't that engrossed in his book.  Lisbon comes back for her bag and tells him she didn't tell Abbot anything for which he thanks her.  Patrick says goodnight to her.  Funny scenes where Patrick and Lisbon were faking the organ removal as Lisbon sponges him with blood though the blood on his scrubs kept changing from a bit to a lot at the front.

Patrick saying, "we make a good team sometimes."  Last time Patrick brought her coffee this time she brings him tea and really the time to talk isn't at work cos they won't be alone there in terms of not being interrupted.   As for Pike's proposal it came at the wrong time cos it was rushed and he even said it himself, that this isn't the romantic place to ask, but it's just so he thinks he can hold onto her in this way.  Lisbon isn't too happy with it either and she doesn't tell Patrick.  Pike is being forceful, first he gives her the time to decide about Washington and then he comes up with the job offer for her to begin with, then the proposal. Give her some space!  But not as much as Patty is giving her.  Not to mention Patty (Simon) getting a hair cut the next day after he left Lisbon with the cannoli!!

So the girls are found, the creeps going to get put away and that just leaves Patty and Lisbon to admit their feelings and stop her from leaving, which we know is inevitable since there's a season 7.  But still it's been dragged out.  I know it took CBS a while to make their mind up about a season 7 but at least we would have got the ending most of us wanted if season 6 had turned out to be the end of a fave show.  Hopefully it will go to a full season of 22 eps!

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