TEXT: Cho and Rigsby at a crime scene in a state park. Rigsby: Any place. The suspect could leave the body any place, but he dumped it on the only state land within a hundred miles of here making it ours. Great. Cho: Why is that a bad thing? Rigsby: Oh, come on! You saw the body. Cho: It's a coincidence. Rigsby: Nah. If Jane taught me one thing it's... Lisbon, Jane and Van Pelt walk up. Lisbon: Hi. What have we got? Cho: The victim's name is Emma Plaskett. Nineteen. Local girl. First responder knew her from high school. Lives at home with her parents. Has an older brother and a twin sister Maya who went missing at the same time. Rigsby: Their car was found abandoned last night on the roadside 10 miles north of here. Lisbon: Who's co-ordinating the local search? Rigsby: Sheriff Hardy here is in charge. Hardy: Ted Hardy. Good to meet you. Lisbon: Lisbon. That's Jane, this is Van Pelt. Hardy: Well we called in all our people. Our sole priority is finding the missing twin sister. A policeman shows Jane the body. Jane: Lisbon! Look. Lisbon: Oh, damn. Jane: Yeah. Lisbon: Nah, it's a coincidence. Cho: That's what I said. Jane: No, no such thing as a coincidence. Not with him. Hardy: What are you all talking about? Who's him? Van Pelt: Red John. He's a serial killer. This is his style of cutting. Jane: Look at the toenails. Lisbon: Yeah, I see them. Jane: Painted in her own blood, just like my wife. This is Red John and he wants to make sure I was on this case. Lisbon: It's strange, I'll give you that. But you're jumping to conclusions. Okay, there's no way we can know for sure... She's distracted by the sound of a plane in the sky. She looks up. Hardy: What the hell? The plane is drawing a smiley face in the sky.
SUMMARY:
When the body of Emma Plaskett is found on state land, the CBI is called in to investigate. As Jane notices the victim's toenails are painted with her own blood, the team looks up to see skywriting form Red John's signature smiley face . Emma's twin sister Maya is also missing, and the investigation begins at the Plaskett home. Jane does not think the girls were random targets, but something more personal, while Lisbon thinks this case is a trap that Red John has set for Jane. Rigsby and Cho track the skywriting transaction to a dummy corporation's P.O. Box and find a letter that leads them to the sender, a blind woman named Rosalind Harker. Rosalind had a relationship with Red John, but can only give a description of Red John based on her other senses. She does help shed some light on Red John's friend Dumar. Checking out a lead on a farm property linked to Red John, Jane is held at gunpoint by Sheriff Hardy, a.k.a. Dumar. Lisbon rescues Jane but Red John escapes. In the aftermath, Sheriff Hardy frees himself from handcuffs and tries to shoot Lisbon, but is killed by Jane.