If you love The Mentalist and you know it....

The Mentalist has been a favorite of ours since the very first episode.  Patrick Jane, played by Aussie Simon Baker, is a quirky ex-Con Artist who works as a consultant to the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation - a ficitious agency).  Over the course of the show's 3 seasons, Jane has been helping the CBI for one reason: to find Red John.  Red John is a serial killer who murdered Jane's wife and child.  The Red John case is always in the background of the show, popping back into focus periodically throughout each season.  (If you aren't up to date on the show and don't want to know what happens, stop reading now!)

The 2 hour season finally aired this past Thursday and it was awesome!  Jane finally came face to face with Red John, played by Bradley Whitford (a favorite of mine since his time on The West Wing).  The entire episode was genious...twists and turns so you never really knew what was going on until the last second!  The plan to catch Red John's mole in the CBI was so creative.  Anyway...now for the real reason for this post.

Shawn and I both HATE Agent LaRoche (played by Priutt Taylor Vince), as I am sure you are supposed to when you watch the show.  For most of this season we both thought that LaRoche was the mole.  During the first half of the finale something happened that seemed to confirm it to us.  When they catch the bomber at the gas station, LaRoche and his men are placing him in the squad car and one cop discreetly releases his handcuffs then LaRoche kills him in the squad car.  He claims that he was trying to escape, but the whole thing looks fishy.  It is later revealed that the bomber was connected to Red John and so it seems that LaRoche is the mole because he kills him...and anyone who is brought into police custody that seems to be connected to Red John is killed.  That is how LaRoche was brought into the show in the first place.  When Todd Johnson was captured and seemed to be linked to Red John he was killed in aCBI holding cell!  Presumably by the mole...the mole that LaRoche is supposed to be trying to find.  But what if it is LaRoche?  When the episode ends we discover that the mole is someone else entirely...so does that mean LaRoche is not the mole?  Is he a second mole?  What is going on!!!  I can't believe we have to wait until the fall to find out what is going on.

So I pose these questions to you...Loyal Mentalist Fans.

On a side note.  Shawn called very early in the season that Grace VanPelt (played by Amanda Righetti) and Craig O'Laughlin (played by Eric Winter) were not going to get married.  We couldn't figure out how the show was going to do it, but we were pretty sure there wasn't going to be a wedding.  Of course, because Grace is meant to be with Wayne Rigsby (Owain Yeoman).  Grace and Wayne will be again.  I'm so happy about that!