"The Mentalist" Scarlett Fever (2009)

Director:

Paul Holahan

Writers:

Bruno Heller (creator)
Erika Green (written by)

TV Series:

"The Mentalist" (2008)

Original Air Date:

15 February 2009 (Season 1, Episode 15)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A wealthy jewelry designer is poisoned at a party and the CBI's investigation uncovers the double lives of a number of people around her.

Plot Keywords:

Country Club | Party | Drug Dealing | Lesbian | Jealousy

Cast

  (Episode Complete credited cast)

Simon Baker	...	Patrick Jane
Robin Tunney	...	Teresa Lisbon
Tim Kang	...	Kimball Cho
Owain Yeoman	...	Wayne Rigsby
Amanda Righetti	...	Grace Van Pelt
Yancey Arias	...	Victor Marquesa
Lisa Arturo	...	Jackie Shaper
Andrea Bogart	...	Patience Broadbent
Jolie Jenkins	...	Mandy Riljek
Marguerite MacIntyre	...	Heather Prentiss
Meera Simhan	...	Asra Hadami
Michael Stoyanov	...	Wardell 'Digger' Suggs
Eamon Hunt	...	Lawyer
Brandon Waters	...	Oscar Marquesa
Mark Weiler	...	Gangster

Runtime:

Germany:42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Company:

Primrose Hill Productions

Quotes:

Teresa Lisbon: How many times have I told you - no hypnotism? It's illegal, and it's unethical. And you cannot keep doing it!
Patrick Jane: Calm yourself, woman. It's no big thing.
Teresa Lisbon: Oh, really? This man's lawyer is right this minute coming down the hallway wearing a mean face. Something tells me he'll argue that point with you. Let's go!

Soundtrack:

Cierto

Death at a posh residence in Sacramento, California...

Another intriguing episode of THE MENTALIST with Simon Baker as the man who has a good reading of people and plays upon instincts to trap a murderer's confession.

As usual, the dialog is crisp and to the point and Baker has to find out who wanted to kill a woman named Scarlett at a house party where the woman was poisoned and fell to her death from an upper floor railing. Naturally, most of the guests have some sort of grudge to hold against the victim. But after the second murder of a young female on a massage table, Simon realizes where the trouble lies after a perceptive conversation with one of the guests.

He plots with the first victim's child, a young boy, to get the murderer to reveal their guilt.

It's clever and well done with another sly performance from Baker, who seems to be enjoying himself immensely in this handsomely produced series.