- While CBI investigates the murder of a California State Senator's aide, Patrick works on his own under the assumption that the victim was killed by her lover.
- Californian state senator Melinda Batson's recently graduated aid Kristen Marley was pushed from a Sacramento bridge, staged as a suicide. The rumor of an affair with Melinda's husband and chief of staff Elliot is denied and he has an alibi, but Jane taxes their marriage loveless. CSI concentrates on Kristen's dubious stepbrother Harlan McAdoo, who expected a false alibi from her in another crime. Patrick turns a false trail into a crucial clue. And handles Bosco's obstruction in his Red John interest.—KGF Vissers
- Sacramento
Jane joins the team on a bridge. The victim below is Kristin Marley, a state senator's aide. Rumor is she was having an affair with a senator's husband.
At the body below, Jane gives the body a once over and notes she's missing a shoe. They think she was tossed over the edge.
At the state Capitol they meet with a staffer who heard the rumors about Kristin and the senator's husband, who is also her chief of staff.
Jane and Lisbon meet with Senator Melinda Batson and her husband Elliot. Jane pokes around Kristin's desk. He finds a photo of her on a dais labeled "Senator Kristin Marley" on the back.
The senator tells Lisbon that Kristin's step-mother called a several times on the day Kristin died.
Jane finds a scrap book with photos from Europe.
Lisbon asks the Batsons about the rumored affair. They both deny it. They provide each others alibis, saying they were on a conference call in the office the night of the murder.
Jane finds a vial of sand in Kristin's desk and pockets it. He interrupts Lisbon with the Batsons, denying their claim that they're happy. He says there's no sexual heat between them. They end the interview.
Outside they run into Virgil Minelli and Batson's dad Walter Crew, a former politician. He calls Kristin "good people." He tells them to let him know if they have problems in their investigation.
Minelli warns Lisbon to tread lightly.
CBI HQ
Lisbon hesitantly walks into Dr. Roy Cameron's office. She's 42 minutes late for her mandatory counseling. She says she's not traumatized by nearly getting killed and watching Jane shoot someone. He'll see her next week.
Lying on his leather couch, Jane notices the smudges on the ceiling he usually stares at are different. It's been moved. He gets the Janitor to help him move it back.
Rigsby says Kristin's stepmom Charlotte called her 11 times the day Kristin died. Her son Harlan was picked up on a carjacking charge recently and used Kristin as his alibi, but she didn't back him up. Listening, Jane suggests they look for Kristin's lover. He pulls out the vial of sand to illustrate for Lisbon that Kristin was a collector. He predicts she would have kept a memento of her lover, something small. Maybe in a jewelry box. Van Pelt says there was a box like that in her room, but it just had cheap jewelry in it. He tells her to check the secret compartment.
Jane spies Boscoe across the room and thinks Boscoe has something new on the Red John case. He goes after him. Jane asks him about the folder he's carrying. Jane tells Boscoe that he has to understand Red John doesn't make mistakes. If he left something it's because he wanted them to find it.
Van Pelt calls, reporting that there's nothing in the jewelry box secret compartment.
Boscoe runs Jane off.
Cho and Rigsby visit Charlotte McAddo. She's not too upset over Kristin's death. She says she doesn't remember why she called her 11 times. She says she hasn't seen Harlan in days. Both men notice there are filtered and unfiltered cigarettes in her ash tray. They leave, then discuss outside where Charlotte's visitor is hiding.
They go back inside and find Harlan. They take him in. He calls Kristin a "stuck up bitch" and says she got too good for her family when she got her statehouse job. He says he hasn't heard from her since he got released. Lisbon says they found texts between them.
Cho and Lisbon want to get a warrant for Harlan's car but they don't have anything to keep him on. Lisbon gets Van Pelt to keep him entertained while they search.
Rigsby tells Jane to let the Red John case go and the fact he was wrong about the jewelry box. Cho thinks they might be ahead of Jane in solving it. But Jane says he's pursuing another strategy and will have the case solved in a day.
Van Pelt talks to Harlan, smiling at him sweetly and telling him she doesn't think he had a thing to do with Kristin's murder. But she suggests they fill out a timeline of his whereabouts just the same. He eats it up.
Walter Crew Residence
Jane chats with Walter and notes all the pictures of Melinda on the walls. Walter says she can go far, if she listens to him. He asks what Jane wants to talk about. Jane sits down and asks him how long he was sleeping with Kristin. Walter doesn't aggressively deny it. Jane guesses he might have been black mailed. But Walter says he's used to dealing with those sorts of things without resorting to murder. Jane tells him he'll have the killer in the morning.
Cho and Rigsby try to jimmy the lock on Harlan's car. They look in the trunk for signs he transported Kristin and find her other shoe.
Lisbon tells Harlan about the shoe. He admits being mad at her, but says he had nothing to do with it and doesn't know how the shoe got there.
In the office, Jane asks Lisbon if she thinks Harlan is smart enough to have come up with the bridge toss. He announces again that he'll have the case solved in 12 hours.
Jane goes to the statehouse and rifles through Kristin's things. She tells the Batsons that he'll find evidence of her killer in there. They say they heard from Minelli that someone had been arrested, but Jane tells them it's the wrong guy.
At the office, Lisbon is holding off having Harlan arraigned. Minelli tells her to get on with it and Jane asks how hard Crew is leaning on him. Lisbon resists. They have til morning.
In the darkened office, Jane leaves Lisbon a message saying he found what he was looking for and is leaving it in the top right hand drawer of her desk.
Awhile later, the Janitor from before opens the drawer and finds a note. It says "ah ha." Lisbon and Jane turn on the lights. Jane accuses the guy of being a fixer. He was there when Jane mentioned the secret compartment on the jewelry box and he thinks he planted Kristin's shoe in Harlan's car, too. Jane shows him a bug he found in the overhead lights. The guy insists in accented English that he's on the cleaning crew. They're not buying it. Then he says he's feeling weak. As Jane pulls a chair out for him, the man reaches for a letter opener on top of a desk, grabs Jane by the neck and holds the tip to his throat. His accent is gone when he tells Lisbon to kick her gun accross the floor and cuff herself to the door. She does.
He lets go of Jane and runs. Lisbon tells Jane to go after him. He runs to the parking lot. A car comes at him. It drives past and crashes into another car.
Walter Crew, Melinda and Elliot Batson come by the office. Lisbon shows them the supposed maintenance guy in a darkened interrogation room and says he's the PI one of them hired to obstruct their investigation. She says he's agreed to talk in exchange for leniency. Walter tries to take Melinda out of there. Lisbon tell them they're facing a lot of jail time. Elliot wants to know what kind of deal he can get. He hesitates. Jane announces they already know Melinda's gay and Elliot's the beard. He admits it. He confirms that their own people started the rumor about Kristin to hide Kristin's affair with Melinda. Elliot says he wasn't with Melinda the night Kristin died, but he saw her later and she was a mess.
Lisbon tells them about the momento they found in the PI's car. It's a necklace with either an M or a W. Melinda says she was having a relationship with Kristin and then her dad seduced her. He says he was trying to make a point about Kristin just being another girl.
Melinda says she followed Kristin that night and saw her with her dad. After he left, she went into Kristin's apartment. She hit her with a bookend. Then she called her dad. He said he knew someone who could handle it.
Which brings them back to the Janitor/Fixer. Jane tells the person in the interview room to let the PI go. We see the PI slumped over with a bandaged bloody head. Melinda realizes he's dead.
Later, Minelli tells Jane he's appalled he abused a corpse to get a confession. Lisbon says his neck was broken in the crash. She defends their actions, saying they should be commended. "Congratulations," he tells Jane, "you finally got her to drink the Kool-Aid."
Rigsby follows Van Pelt around like a puppy and congratulates her on her interview with Harlan. And then he totally wusses out asking her out.
Jane breezes into Boscoe's office holding a pastry box, saying he got the message and is going to leave them alone. He puts the box of donuts on the table with one hand and slips something under the table with the other. Boscoe orders someone to take the donuts way. The camera pans down and we see the bug under the table. Jane listens to them talk about the case in an ear piece. He lies down on his couch and listens.
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