TEXT: Mentalist: Someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion. A master manipulator of thoughts and behavior. CBI Jane: Are you ready? Feeling awake, mentally alert? Lisbon: Yes. Jane: Fantastic. Okay. I want you to imagine a screen between you and I On that screen I want you to project a basic shape like a square, but not a square. Got it? Lisbon: Okay. Jane: Lock it in. Now I want you to project another shape and put that shape around the shape you already have. Lisbon: Okay. Jane: Excellent. Here's the fun part. Now concentrate and project that onto the back of my mind. Look right here. Open up your mind and send it to me. Okay, now I'm starting to feel it. It's a triangle inside a circle. Lisbon: No. Jane: It's not? Lisbon: No. I was thinking of an octagon inside a rectangle. Jane: Liar. Lisbon: All right. All right, you got me. Van Pelt: Hmm, pretty good, huh? He got me and Rigsby the same way. Lisbon: How did you do that? Jane: Oh, that's nothing. That's just a calibration key to real mind reading. Now I have access to all your innermost thoughts. Lisbon: Yeah, right. Jane: I'm serious. Lisbon: Okay. So what am I thinking right now? Jane: You're thinking, "I'm so glad Jane is joking around and he can't actually read my mind." Lisbon: No. Well- well, actually, yes, but-but not for the reason you think. Jane: What reason do I think? Lisbon: Never you mind. Rigsby: You're blushing. Jane: You are blushing. Cho: Hey, we're up. Suspected arson/murder on a farm in Marquesa. The county d.A.'s asking if we'll check it out. Lisbon: Let's go. Cho: All right. Marquesa Lisbon: Chief Piller, why the fire truck? Shouldn't they be gone by now? Chief Piller: Well, took forever to put the fire out
SUMMARY:
Jane and the team head to a small farming town to investigate the murder of a National Guard veteran, Rich Garcia, who was killed in an arson fire. After learning Rich's fellow veteran buddy, Dave Martin, was killed in a house fire a few years back, the team goes to question the town's police chief, also a veteran from Rich's unit, only to find his house ablaze. With three out of four members from the unit killed by fire, the CBI digs deeper and learns Dave discovered something more valuable than gold to the drought-stricken farming community - a limitless water supply on land purchased for him by his fellow soldiers. When Dave would not cut them in on the potential profits, his "buddies" set his house on fire. Evidence points to the only surviving soldier, Ben Machado, but when someone tries to set him on fire, the team realizes the killer they're after is not motivated by greed but is instead out to avenge Dave's murder.