"The Mentalist" stars Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his razor sharp skills of observation. Within the Bureau, Jane is notorious for his blatant lack of protocol and his semi-celebrity past as a psychic medium, whose paranormal abilities he now admits he feigned. Jane's role in cracking a series of tough high-profile cases is greatly valued by his fellow agents. However, no-nonsense Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon openly resists having Jane in her unit and alternates between reluctantly acknowledging Jane's usefulness and blasting him for his theatrics, narcissism and dangerous lack of boundaries. Lisbon's team includes agents Kimball Cho, Wayne Rigsby and rookie member Grace Van Pelt, who all think Jane's a loose cannon but admire his charm and knack for clearing cases.
First Aired: 2009-05-19 Lisbon suspects that serial killer Red John is drawing Patrick Jane into a trap when the CBI team investigates the murder of a young girl and the abduction of her twin sister.
First Aired: 2009-05-12 Patrick Jane must find a clever way to convince the troubled kids at a wilderness program to confide in him about what really happened surrounding the death of one of their peers.
First Aired: 2009-05-05 Patrick Jane uses his mentalist skills to play suspects off each other in order to solve the case of a wealthy software company CEO found murdered on his yacht.
First Aired: 2009-03-24 A story of greed and betrayal pits Patrick Jane against a group of financiers when the CBI investigates a series of murders at a corporate retreat in the wilds of the Sierra Nevada foothills.
First Aired: 2009-03-17 Patrick Jane must rely on his other senses during the murder investigation of a financial advisor when he loses his sight as a result of an explosion.
First Aired: 2009-02-17 As Jane and the team investigate the poisoning death of the "queen bee" in a country club, they discover that the community is full of secrets, including love affairs and drug abuse.
First Aired: 2009-01-18 Though everyone suspects that a business tycoon's son-in-law was behind the recent robbery of a $50 million painting, Patrick Jane believes someone else is to blame.
First Aired: 2009-01-13 Patrick Jane sets a mentalist trap to find out who is responsible for the murder of a high school boy who antagonized the local self-proclaimed witch by killing her cat.
First Aired: 2009-01-06 Patrick Jane, enticed by the promise from a convicted murder that he'll reveal information about Red John upon his release, becomes singularly focused and quits the CBI in order to prove the prisoner is innocent.
First Aired: 2008-12-16 When a leading scientific researcher is killed by poisoning, Patrick Jane takes a personal interest in the case when he learns the prime suspect is the victim's wife, and Jane's former psychiatrist.
First Aired: 2008-11-25 When the police name a drug dealer as their number one suspect in the murders of the State's witness, Patrick Jane sees a different motive and suspect.
First Aired: 2008-10-28 When a girl is found covered in blood and holding the murder weapon that killed her best friend, she becomes an obvious suspect, though she can't remember anything. But Jane, believing she's innocent, engineers a risky maneuver in which she must relive the terrifying events in order to spark her memory.
First Aired: 2008-10-21 After a weathly investment banker is found dead inside his locked safe room, the team soon learns that the man was living a double life and stealing millions from his clients. Patrick uses a mental conundrum to get the man's clients to reveal what happened to the banker.
First Aired: 2008-10-14 When the body of a high school girl is found on the beach, Patrick decides to employ a mentalist trap in order to get her friends to reveal the truth behind her death.
First Aired: 2008-09-30 Lisbon and the team investigate the death of a waitress in Napa Valley as Patrick decides to take matters into his own hands by going undercover.
First Aired: 2008-09-23 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.