- Patrick is forced to turn to a woman with amnesia to help solve a murder case on an Indian reservation, while special agent Hightower delivers an ultimatum to Rigsby and Van Pelt about their personal relationship.
- During Cho and Van Pelt's drug joint stake-out, a mildly shot-wounded girl missing a shoe and her memory stumbles onto them. Her tracks trace to a barn with the bloody corpses of hikers couple Michel and Janine Langham, shot up close, presumably accidental witnesses, and tween Shoshone Indian Leonard Railton from Storm River Reservation, an ex-con, shot from far like Jane Doe. He was in the same marijuana growing gang as park ranger Tisdale and his baby suffered from poisoning. Rigsby and van pelt are ordered to decide whether to split up our volunteer one of them to be reassigned.—KGF Vissers
- New boss Madeline Hightower needs two agents. Rigsby and Van Pelt volunteer, but she assigns Cho and Van Pelt. Cut to them collecting trash bags and Van Pelt worrying because she knows Hightower knows about her and Rigsby but hasn't acted yet.
They're getting back in the car late at night when a woman bleeding from her head walks in front of them. They get out to help.
Jane gets there first. The woman has amnesia and no shoes. A bullet grazed her head. Jane goes to talk to her. He takes her hand and tells her to feel the pain flowing away. She still doesn't remember her name, but she remember she was in a cold, dark room, lying on the dirt and straw floor. It smelled like horses.
They go look for a stable. They find her shoe and then a stable. There are multiple dead bodies inside.
At the hospital, a doctor tells Lisbon and Van Pelt the victim was probably unconscious for a while. She doesn't know how long the amnesia will last.
They find Jane playing three card monte with the woman. He assures them she's not faking the amnesia, explaining it's hard to lie when you're thinking about something else.
Hightower summons Lisbon, Rigsby and Van Pelt to her office.
She tells them what they already know, they either have to transfer or break-up. They have til tomorrow. She holds Lisbon back and tells her she should have dealt with it. She'll be writing a "corrective memo."
Jane observes the three come out of the meeting angry. Meanwhile, Cho reports two of the victims are Janine and Mitchell Langham, a couple in their 50s who were hiking nearby. There's no ID on the third victim, a man in his early 20s.
The coroner thinks they were shot with a high powered rifle, the Langhams up-close and Jane and John Doe from a distance.
Jane announces he thinks the Langhams weren't the intended victims because their IDs weren't taken. Van Pelt announces John Doe is Leonard Railton, who grew up on a nearby Native American reservation. (The episode title means "red water" in Shoshone.)
With everyone sent on assignments, Jane tells Lisbon there's no point in hiding her frustration with Hightower, she'll just explode.
Rigsby tracks down Van Pelt to check on her. He says it's good because they don't have to sneak around anymore. He suggests they'll open up a bottle of wine that night and talk. They exchange "I love yous" and kiss, Hightower sees.
Jane and Lisbon meet with Leonard's parole officer, who suggested he move back to the reservation and is Shoshone herself. He had a girlfriend named Darian. When the parole officer hears they're going on the reservation she insists on going with them, saying that many people there will view them as foreigners with badges.
Cho and Rigsby talk to a park ranger who points them toward the trail the Langhans were on.
Van Pelt shows Jane Doe photos of the victims, but she doesn't recognize them. She's getting stressed out because no one's filed a missing person's report yet. Van Pelt says she'll stay with her.
Cho and Rigsby walk the trail. Rigsby says it's complicated but Cho says it's a simple matter of figuring which he wants more: the job or Van Pelt.
On the rez, Jane and Lisbon meet Joseph Silverwing (Wes Studi), who says Leonard was a good kid and had no problems. Jane sarcastically thanks the parole officer for opening things up for them.
Jane wanders into the community center and tries to talk to some teens who are shooting pool. He says he'll give their best player three chances to sink a ball before him. The kid gets $50 if he wins, Jane gets answers. Before the kid shoots Jane notices him checking out a girl in the corner and tells him it's never going to happen, she's crushing on the tall guy. The kid misses them all.
Jane lines up his shot and nails it.
He sits down and talks to four of them. They say Leonard had a lot of money, starting about six months ago. They assumed... "Everybody knows what goes on in the woods," says one.
Cut to Cho and Rigsby, hopelessly lost in the woods. Rigsby finds a water tank, and then a pot plant - actually a farm. Rigsby is figuring this means bad guys with guns when they get shot at.
They duck for cover and realize they have no cell reception. But there's only one shooter. Rigsby draws fires while Cho goes around. By the time they get there, the shooter's gone.
Back at the office, Jane doesn't think Leonard was involved: he would have bragged about it to his friends. He thinks Leonard felt shame over whatever he was up to.
Jane and Lisbon visit Leonard's girlfriend, who has an infant, who wasn't Leonard's. She says Leonard made her throw out powdered formula because he thought it was causing the baby's rash. She knew he had too much money.
Lisbon goes back to the rez to talk to the owner of the souvenir shop where Leonard worked. The owner says Leonard worked there six months. Jane entertains himself by trying on a "war bonnet." The owner says it belongs to another culture and is really a pastiche to fit Americans' idea of Native Americans.
Jane sticks behind when Lisbon leaves. He buys postcards of the area and a flute.
Back at the office, Jane calls Van Pelt to bring Jane Doe to the office.
He shows her the postcards with pictures of the area on them. He thinks she's local. He tries to get her to relax and put herself in the photo.
Rigsby comes for Van Pelt and pulls her into an interrogation room to briefly make out and tell her, it's very simple, he loves her more than the job. There's an opening in the San Francisco major crimes unit 90 minutes away.
They come out later disheveled and Lisbon rolls her eyes. "Really? Now?"
Cho reports that the park ranger Tisdale is depositing $2,000 a month above his salary. Lisbon and Cho go to the park, where he tries to deny it and then runs. Lisbon tackles him.
Back at the office, Tisdale is irritated with Cho for getting lost and wandering into the pot farm. He was paid to direct tourists away. He swears he's never seen the people who were killed. He doesn't want to tell them who paid him.
Hightower watches Cho with Tisdale and admires his interviewing skills.
Jane walks in and asks why only one guy was guarding the crop. Tisdale says it's doing poorly and has been for about six months.
Hightower pulls Jane out. He tells her the pot farmers didn't kill Leonard. She asks if what he does is guess work and he says yes, that's pretty much it. He guesses she's married, but not happily.
He's right, but she turns the tables on him, saying that she thinks he's talking about her personal life as his way of expressing displeasure with the way she's handling Lisbon. She asks him to judge her on her results and let her use her methods and she'll do the same with him, to a point.
Finally, she tells him not to interrupt interrogations; it's rude.
Back in the office, Jane whispers to Van Pelt to grab Jane Doe and bring her to the rez for Leonard's memorial.
The parole officer isn't happy to see them there. They stand and listen until Jane says he has something to say. He introduces Jane Doe and says she was with Leonard when he was killed.
She looks at the audience but doesn't recognize anyone. But Jane turns to Joseph Silverwing and says he thinks Joseph knows her. He denies it and Jane asks him to prove it. He gives him a pencil to hold and tells him to say he doesn't know her. Jane watches Joseph and decides he was wrong. Lisbon arrives.
He takes Jane to the back and says if they want them to leave, just "say the word" - a phrase he used when trying to help her recover her memory. Suddenly she blurts out that she sees it.
Jane coaches her through describing what she sees. She describes a lake and mountains - where "the bad thing happened." She says "they" left something on the shore. But that's as far as she can remember.
Lisbon shuts Jane down and pulls him out of there, not happy. Van Pelt admits to telling Lisbon what they were up to. He tells Lisbon he was just trying to protect her, but she yells at him that she can take care of herself.
Still, he convinces her to stay, adding that he'll need a paper cup. They head to the lake in the post card and Jane tells Lisbon that Jane Doe didn't remember a thing, it was post hypnotic suggestion from the trigger phrase "say the word."
Jane says the killer is now feeling paranoid and will be compelled to make sure they left nothing behind. And he knows it's at the lake because the pot crop died and Leonard was worried about the water his girlfriend was using for the powdered formula.
They meet up with Cho in the woods and Jane explains that Cho followed whoever left the memorial for the lake. They walk up to see who it is. It's the souvenir shop owner.
Cho arrests him. They find a shotgun shell in his pockets. He tries to say he just found it. Jane thinks there are barrels of toxic waste in the lake and Leonard was going to tell. He denies it. So Jane dips his paper cup in the lake and offers him a drink. He won't take it.
Back at the office, he tells them he thought Leonard would keep his mouth shut because of his record. But when the baby got the rash, Leonard got worried. He heard Leonard arranging to meet someone at the lake, so he went, too.
Flash back to Leonard with Jane Doe, who is taking pictures. A shot takes each of them out. The shop owner says the Langhams arrived when he was cleaning up. He says he's sorry. "Well," Jane says, "as long as you're sorry, we'll just let you go."
Van Pelt drops by Jane Doe's hospital room, with her driver's license. She's Camille Dillon, an internet journalist from Oakland. Her mom's on her way from Des Moines. Apparently she taught Leonard when he was in juvey. She remembers something was wrong, someone was dumping something. She remembers he called her. She remembers who she is. Van Pelt clearly relishes the moment.
Late at night, Van Pelt goes over to Rigsby and tells him she loves him, but she loves the job more. And she doesn't want the responsibility of him leaving the unit. "I know who I am," she says.
Hightower tells Lisbon and Jane the pot farmers were arrested and she got an angry call from a guy named Silverwing about some stunt Jane pulled. Jane and Lisbon both start to explain when Hightower says they solved a triple murder and no one got hurt. She tells Lisbon to keep up the good work.
They find Grace crying at the elevator.
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