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Well one thing I noticed in this episode is the clear parallel between Jane's dad and him during his childhood vs The two baseball kids and their dads.

To put it briefly, both were being used as nothing but money making machines in some way or the other. Parental exploitation for their own greed and the children were almost a means to an end, using endless deception and lies, corrupting their childhood.

What do y'all think? This was another one of my favs in season 2, especially because we get to see more of Jane's past when he was just a kid, and he's still just as sharp.

Cho always seemed like a self-blaming person, very accountable, cold, and action over mindless pondering. Never the emotional type. Seeing him cry just ticked something inside me.. I don't know what...

The best thing about The Mentalist is how each and every member of the main cast gets dedicated time for their development, not just Jane. This episode was great, Cho aura farmed like crazy I swear 😭😭.

"That's the plan."

Why did they have to kill Bosco off so early? I was just starting to love his character 😭. I wish we had more of him with the CBI gang, just imagine the amount of character development potential. Gonna miss him.

Found this old gem on r/askmen 😶

He has been quite irrelevant/useless to what seems to be the future fate of the MCU. So is he just going to end up as a wasted introduction to a character? Or how else do you think he could be reintroduced?

Lemme know!

Now, I have zero proof on how this works, but by how things are set up b/w Steve and Loki, I strongly feel like this could be a possibility, and it doesn't even "not make sense".

What do y'all think about this?

Just watched S2E5, oh boy it was a treat. But what really caught me was when Jane interrupted Rigsby from kissing Van Pelt 😭😭.

This trope had been going on since S1E16, when the Janitor first interrupted them. Oh boy it adds on to that slow burn. BUUUT, they did kiss at the end of S2E5. Soooo, cheers to Rigsby 😅.

Also side note, does anyone else feel like the plot of the cases and Jane's schemes get much much more predictable than before? One whole season with Jane and his shenanigans got me adapted lol.

Was pretty bored.. sooo.. let's give this a shot.

".. it went without saying but when I catch Red John, I'm gonna cut him up and watch him die slowly."

No cause, imagine if there wasn't really a dynamic between Pete and Tony, would there really be any drive for Tony to invent time travel and save the day?

The pattern finally clicked into me in S1E22, where he scared the hell out of Elliot with that fake Zachariah story, even though he obviously knew, that it was Elliot earlier on.

This either manifests in him breaking them, making them feel dread and fear in some way, so that the impending pressure squirms the truth out of them. A man’s mind changes completely when he realizes he's out of time.

Or, by letting them follow their to-do list, while being 2 steps ahead and catching them do it red-handed, even though he already knew mostly it was them.

Remember how in S1E2 he said "Being sorry is a far worse punishment than being dead". That little ideology of his could make sense why he busts out the truth from the suspects the way he does. Also probably because he hates boredom and wants drama lol.

He's so open with his cowardice, that kinda shows his survival instincts 😜.

Well I have this weird opinion, that, people usually seek traits of their integration type in their partners, or at least, someone polarizing/contrasting them, and I wanted to test this out, sooo, here we go!

In almost every episode of season 1, whenever there are kids involved, most of the time he tries to act gently, and handles their grief or sadness with care, sometimes even teaching them the right path, and is very playful with them! It's almost like he himself is a child...

Or, it's because.... he always wanted one... 💔. I feel like he sees his own dead daughter in the victim's kids/kids in general around him, and it's so depressive and wholesome at the same time.

Genuinely love this trope, and would like to see it more going forward!

Bonus: picture their interactions

I'm personally going for Optimus.