The Mentalist (2008–2015): Season 2, Episode 8 - His Red Right Hand - full transcript

The CBI team is faced with a violent and shocking crime in their own office, but must work the case in spite of their alarm of who may be behind it. Meanwhile, Rigsby and Van Pelt are definitely an "item."

Rigsby. (Clears throat)

Oh, hey. Yep.

You got it, boss.

We're up.

Lisbon?
Yep.

Oh, no. No,
she's gonna call here next.
(Chuckling)

She'll know. Get out.
Grace, wake up.

(Groans)
how is lisbon gonna know
i'm with you, hmm?

Right, yeah.

(Cell phone beeps)

Mmm, leave it.
Mmm, no.



No, oh, oh. (Sighs)
get out.

Get out, get out.
(Groans)

Agent grace van pelt.

Hi, boss. What's up?
(Shower turns on)

Mm-Hmm.

All right.

(Cell phone beeping,
indistinct police radio chatter)

Bosco.

And to what do i owe
this pleasure?

You're up.
Where are you at?
(Patrick)
crime scene. Why?

Coffee run?
Usual for you, boss?
Yeah, tall drip, black.

We need to talk.
About what?

Come see me
when you get back.

Okay.
Look forward to it.
(Phone clicks shut)



Okay, boys,
let's get back to it.

Morning.
Well, almost morning.

(Woman) morning, everyone.

We got a caucasian male, 50s,
gunshot to the head.

(Patrick)
and tastefully garnished

With an explosion
of yellow roses.

Security guard saw the body,
called sac p.D.,

But this is a state cemetery,
which is why we're here at, uh,

Oh-Dark-Thirty.
Swell spot.

(Kimball) check out
the stippling.

Looks like he was, uh,
shot at close range.
Yep.
And fibers in the wound

Indicate clothes
were removed postmortem.

(Sniffs) hmm.
Huh?

You smell nice.
Is that lilac soap?
Yeah.

You got something, jane?

Uh, yes, i do.
Uh, he's naked.
Let me write that down.

Well, it makes him look
kind of sad, don't you think?

Vulnerable.
A little comic, even.

Meaning what?
He was posed like this.
He wasn't just dumped here,

Willy-Nilly.
This is a statement.
Doctor, the mark on the hand--
Is that a burn?

Mm, looks more like
freezer burn, actually.

Oh.

Oh?

That explains it.

His liver temp is 45 degrees,
but it's only around 58 in here.

So somebody froze his body
in that position

Then dumped him here.

Could be a signature,
maybe a serial pattern.

Lisbon and i will
talk to bosco about that,

See if he has
any similar incidents.
Yeah, come on.

Let's get out of here.
Let forensics do their thing.
(Sighs)

You smell lovely.

What is that?
Is that lilac?

Uh, yeah. Thanks.
Oh.

It's pretty.

Yeah.

Morning, rebecca. They
look good. One of those for me?

You know, it's all right
to like me now.

Your boss and i made up.
That's okay, rebecca.
I don't like him, either.

She's a liar.
She loves me.

(Liz) in your dreams.

Aah! (Screaming)

(Liz) oh, my god!

Oh, my god! Oh, my god!

(Woman sobbing)

No pulse.

Jane, some help?

Apply pressure to the wound.

Apply pressure to the wound.
Come on.

Now!
Press as hard as you can.

(Woman continues sobbing)

This is special agent cho.

We've got agents down
on the fifth floor.
(Liz panting)

Yes, inside the building. We're
in lockdown on my authority.

I have three agents down.
I need e.M.T.S...

And roll s.W.A.T., sac p.D.
And c.H.P., and have them...
(liz) 17, 18, 19...

Set up a perimeter.
Suspects may still be here.
20, 21, 23...

Just
lock this place down now!
(Sobbing)

5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15...

(Liz) hicks? Bosco?
Pick enterprise.

Bosco, hicks.

Stealing
major crimes' food--

Violation of penal code
section 484, i believe.

It didn't have a name on it.
Uh, this one does.

I-It's mine.
It's from cornaro's.

(Mouth full) meatball sub
is really their best thing.

You better hope i don't tell
mandy you went off your diet.

She's in new hampshire
with her sister all week.

Oh, there you are.
Agent hicks, your form 41s.

And, boss,
the attorney general's office

Called about
the armenian cartel thing.

And you better hope
i don't tell your wife

About you
going off your diet.

(Laughing and choking)

Breathe, breathe.

Come on,
breathe, breathe.

Clear!

(Defibrillator whirrs, zaps)

He's back.

(Monitor flatlines)

There's no breath sound
on the right side.

His pulse is really weak.
Run i.V. Wide open.
We're code three.

Let's move, let's move.

(Siren wailing)

You okay?

What do we got?
Lockdown's in full effect,
buildingwide.

Same with the capitol
and the d.O.J.
Good. Cho's liaising
with the sac p.D.

They're setting up
a 2-Block perimeter.

Now nobody gets in or out.
All civilians
are being sent

To the downstairs lobby
for holding.

And swat's on the way up. We're
gonna do a sweep room by room.

Suspects could still
be here.
Get with security.
Check all the camera footage,

And set up teams to interview
all of the guards, janitors

And everyone
down in the lobby.
(Grace and wayne)
yeah, you got it.

He's gone. Go on now.

Jane.

You may be in shock.
Look at me.

There should be three bodies.
There--There's only two.

Where's agent hicks?
I'll get cho on that.

Lisbon, listen. Maybe we
should just wash up first.

Come on.

Come on.

(Water splashing)

(Exhales deeply)

(Water splashing)
(sniffles)

So you never saw hicks
this morning?

No. I haven't seen him
since yesterday.

And yesterday,
was he angry or upset?

You think marlon hicks
could have done this? Oh, no.

We have to check
every angle, rebecca.

Let's back up.

When you went out
to get the coffee,

Did you see
anything unusual?

Somebody who
didn't belong here, maybe?
No.

Everything was fine.
It was normal.

(Whimpers)

God, i'm sorry.
I'm not helping.
(Liz whispers) it's okay.

Um, uh, i was gone
maybe ten minutes and i...

I-I didn't
see anything weird.
And then bosco called
the team in early this morning.

Do you know why?
Well, i thought that maybe it
was the armenian cartel arrests.

You were that close
to making an arrest?

Y-Yeah, um, uh... there was,
um, a break this week.

Um, an informant came through,
the boss said.

It was something about,
um, a, um, um, a warehouse.

(Patrick) uh, lisbon.

Did forensics come up with
an i.D. On the frozen man?
I haven't
checked in with them.

It's not really a priority
right now, okay?
Okay.

I guess.

You were saying?

Camera four, also nothing.

Just an ordinary day.

Weird, huh?
These guys are like ghosts.
Yeah, no kidding.

We cleared the building top to
bottom. There's no sign of them.

B.F.S. Are dusting every
stairwell and door for prints,

But it'll take days
to go through them all.

Lisbon said i should see
if you needed a hand here.
Jimmy,
go to camera five now--

Lobby entrance,
same time code.
(Typing)

That's rebecca coming back.

She was gone
9 minutes, 30 altogether.

I don't recognize
hat guy here.

Put him on the list
of people to check out.

Okay, jimmy, camera six--
The garage entrance.

Hang on.
Something's screwed up here.

(Typing on keyboard)

Some files are corrupted
on this data drive.

Um, that's not possible.
Our firewalls are--
Have been breached.

Camera six and seven--
That's the garage.

They were disabled remotely.
Looks like at least

A 30-Minute gap.
Which means we have
no way of knowing

Who went in or out
via the garage.
Jimmy, get somebody
from i.T. Down here now,

Figure out what
we're dealing with.
Okay, i-I'll tell my boss.

(Sighs) ten minutes.

It was all over
in ten minutes.

Okay, got it. Thanks, avila.
I owe you one.

Agent lisbon,
i just spoke to the governor.

I told him that i have
my best team on this one.

I know you'll do us proud.
Thanks, boss.

I just reached out to
sac p.D. Narcotics

About that
armenian drug cartel that--
In a minute.

I just got word
from the hospital.
He's not dead?

No.
No, bosco's in surgery,

But i wanted you
to prepare yourself.

His injuries are
extensive, critical.

Teresa, i'm, uh, i'm sorry
to ask this, but i need to know

That you're gonna be able to
go on with this case,

No matter what happens.
If--If you can't,

Just let me know, and i'll
put someone else on point.
Not necessary.

You think sam bosco is gonna
let a little lead stop him?

Please.

I hope you're right.
Good luck.

Nothing on hicks.

I had a uni run by his house,
but he's not there.

No car in the driveway.
I've got something. You know
that armenian drug cartel

That bosco
was close to nailing?

It's run by a guy named
michael assanian.

Oh, bad guy.
Outside of the mexicans,

Biggest heroin distributor
on the west coast.
Bosco must've spooked him.

He left the country
three days ago.
So maybe he leaves town
to keep himself clean

While his people kill bosco.
Yeah, makes sense.
Kill the team, kill the case.

It's worth checking out.
Lisbon, did we get an i.D. On
the man from the cemetery yet?

What is with you
and this case?
Oh, it's just a feeling.

You think it's connected
to bosco?
Maybe.

How?
Hard to say. Uh...

Fine. Cho, call it up.

Forensics may have posted
something by now.
Thank you.

Run down this informant.
See if he's got anything for us.

Lauro in narcotics
said you could use his name.
Yeah, will do.

Forensics says cemetery guy's
fingerprints belong to

A dr. Towlen morning,
age 55, stockton.

Towlen morning.

Jane?

Cho, with me.

(Car door closes)

(Piano playing)

(Doorknob rattles)

(Doorknob rattles)





Oh, no.

Hicks.

How did you know
it was red john?

Towlen morning was
the family doctor

For janet and carter peak.

The peaks were red john's
third and fourth victims.

Carter presumed to be
the fourth.

They never found his body.

That was nine years ago.
Why attack the cbi today?

Yeah, it's puzzling.
I'm red john.

Why do i kill morning and hicks
and attack bosco's team?

(Whispering)
carter and janet peak.

Nine years ago.
Carter and janet peak. Nine.

(Normal voice) nine years ago,
i'm a lot less experienced.

Something went wrong with carter
and janet peak, a mistake.

Now he fixed it, but somehow
now it's come undone.

Hicks came to see the doctor
for a reason.

He was checking something out.
And red john killed him for it,

Killed them all.
Except for bosco, i mean.

Bosco had a lead
in the red john case.

Cho, go inside.

Check the doctor's files
for carter and janet peak--

X-Rays, labs, everything.

Why did bosco want
the medical records?

What did he know?

He's in i.C.U.
In a medically induced coma.

He's not gonna tell us
anything.
I know. I know.

The case files will.

Van pelt, have b.F.S.
Search bosco's office

For any new evidence or notes
in the red john file.

You and rigsby start working
the secretary, rebecca.

Mm-Hmm.

Hey, boss.

Nothing from rebecca.
The b.F.S. Techs are

Still taking apart
bosco's office, but so far--
Is jane back?

I haven't seen him.
Find him, would you?

Yeah.
(Minelli) special agents
nick martinez and mark dyson

Died at the scene here.

And special agent marlon hicks

Was found dead
at a secondary crime scene.

Special agent samuel bosco
remains in critical condition.

We are devoting every resource
to this investigation.

And i promise--I promise
the agents' families,

We will not rest

Until we bring the perpetrator
to justice.

Special agent minelli,
our condolences.

Would you describe your feelings
at this terrible time?

Wow, meredith. That...

You media guys--That's just...

You know, for eight years,

I've put up with the idiotic
questions of the media,

And i've never said squat.

But today...

I must tell you, meredith,

You've really set a new standard
in horse's assery.

You people have no concept
of what we do.

We go into dark,
horrible places,

Alone and afraid,

And we do it with no money,

With broken-Down vehicles

And with computers that have
more viruses than a $10 whore.

How? Good people.

And i lost
three good people today,

And a fourth
who's in critical condition,

And you ask me how i'm feeling?

I'm feeling sad...

You... moron.

Any other questions?

Okay, then. Good day to you.

Elizabeth, carry on.

Virgil.

Horse's assery.

(Chuckles)
nice.

I shouldn't have done that.

Hey,
you told them the truth.

I did. It felt good.

Stick with us, boss.
We need you.

Okay.

Yes.

I gotta run. You got this?
Go.

(Horn honks)

(Clears throat)

(Indistinct conversations)

Evening, gentlemen.

(Monitor beeping steadily)

(Typing on keyboard)

Hi.
Hi.

You are?

Oh, i'm sorry.
Uh, patrick jane, cbi.

I'm a friend of his.
Uh, how's he doing?

He's not good.

The next two days
should tell us a lot.

Oh, he was in such pain.
Is he getting enough morphine?

He should be.

Looks good. Call me
if you need anything else.

Will do. Thanks, doc.

What are you doing?

Unplugging his morphine.

I'd ask a doctor to do it,
but i think i know

What they'd say.
Are you crazy?

Yes, that's exactly
what they'd say.

They wouldn't understand
the moral imperative here.

Bosco is the only person

That can tell us
what he found on red john.

Now he may die.
We need to wake him up

And have him tell us
everything he knows,

While he still can.

You can't do that.

Why not? Morphine doesn't
make him any better.

It just stops the pain.
Yes, that's what it does.

Pain is nothing.
Pain means he's still alive.

We need him now, lisbon, now.

He is useless to us
when he's dead.
Shut up. He's gonna live.

Maybe and maybe not.

God, you're a cold bastard.

Oh, please. Y-Y-You--You need
to think logically.

He would want us to do this.

How could you know what he would
want? You don't even know him.
But you do.

If he had to suffer pain to stop
red john, he would do that.

You know that he would.
You know that.

What's all the commotion?

What the...

Did you touch
that machine?

No.

(Sighs)

(Minelli) good people.

And i've lost three
good people today--

(Turns video off)

(Van pelt)
is lisbon with you?

No.
(Indistinct
police radio chatter)

What's going on?

We got a hit
on bosco's cell phone records.

Just before the attack,
bosco called a cop

Down in cloverville,
not far from stockton.

The cop told me when they
tore down an old strip mall

Last week, they found a body
buried in the foundation.
A body?

The cop who posted the bulletin
said he got a call from bosco,

Saying he'd go
and check it out.
What body?

This one. Cloverville p.D.
E-Mailed a copy of the x-Rays.

John doe, 30s.

See here? His head was
almost cut off. Vicious.

Then there's this.
(Clicks key)

What's that?
His leg.

He's missing a leg?
The coroner told the cop it was
not part of the attack.

A much earlier amputation,
he said. Distinctive.
The files we got
from dr. Morning's office--

This matches an x-Ray
we found there.

Carter peak.
Carter peak--Retired army,

Lost his right leg
during the first gulf war.
They found
the missing red john victim.

Better still.

This is red john's mistake.

This is it. He made a mistake,
and this is it.

(Jane) killing carter peak
wasn't red john's m.O.

He was a man who was killed
with his wife.
(Squish)

His body was removed
from the scene.

It is unlike any
of red john's 14 other murders.

Maybe carter returned
unexpectedly.

Maybe there was a struggle.
So peak's body resurfaces.

Red john hears about it somehow,
and it upsets him.

"A," how does
he hear about the body?

Off the bulletin, i guess.
It was statewide.

And "b," why does it upset him?

There's evidence
on carter peak's body.

That's why he tried
to make it disappear.

Damning evidence, like d.N.A.
We gotta get to cloverville.

The cement matrix preserved
the body remarkably well.

We were able to run
a full d.N.A. Crime kit--

Hair, skin, under
the fingernails, etcetera.

We need someone
sitting on this place 24/7

Until we can move the body
up to sacramento.

Whoops.

Uh, my bad.

Whoa. Uh...

That's weird.

Yeah, it is.
Where's the body, doc?

Uh, let me--Let me check
the log here.

Okay, you guys gotta get
your signals

Straightened up in sacramento.

Cbi already picked up the body
night before last.
Cbi did?

Yeah, night shift logged it
right here.

California bureau
of investigation, an agent rojo.

The body, samples,

Uh, everything we had,
it looks like.

See for yourself.

Arrived at 2:15 a.M.
With a meat wagon.

The night
before the cbi attack.
I can get you photos, though.
We usually keep a set.

But the crime scene kit,

The d.N.A. Samples...
what about the d.N.A.?
Well, i'm telling ya,

It should have all gone with
your guy. That's procedure.
He wasn't our guy.

Red john?
Call in your night shift person.
It's--It's important that we get

An idea of what this,
uh, agent rojo looks like.

(Knock on window)
you wanted to see me, boss?

Sit down, please.

Bosco's doing better.
I talked to his doctor.

Good.
(Taps desk)

That's good.

You okay, boss?

Is this about before,
the press conference?

No.

Yes.

I, um,

I have something to tell you,
teresa,

Something important.
(Knock on window)

What is it, agent?

Sorry to interrupt,
but i've been going through

The security footage, trying to
i.D. Everyone going in and out.

This is timecoded
for this morning,

Right before the attack.

According to employee support
services, that's amblyn demott,

An analyst on four.

So what?

Demott went on maternity leave
last month.

She had her baby yesterday.

There's no way she could be
where that camera says she was.

Someone switched the footage.

We can't trust anything
on any camera.

(Cho) you transferred the body
to the custody of a cbi agent?

Yeah.
(Jane) describe this agent.

Uh, dark hair, not that tall,
kinda dumpy,

Olive-Complected,

Wore these heels
that clicked...
(cho) a woman?

Wore a thing, a whatsit,
in her hair.

A barrette.
Right. Barrette.

Hey, sweetie.

Okay.

Here you go.
That's for you.

Have a nice day.

Hi, rich.

Hello, barney. How you doing?

(Whispering) hey, boss.

Boss? Hey.

(Dyson) weren't you heading
to cloverville?
Uh, as soon as i brief jane.

(Chuckles)

Samuel bosco, jr.
Getting soft.

Hey!
Screw you, martinez.

(Laughs)
hey, guys. Look what i have.

Aw, you're the best.
Did you get the coffee?

(Bosco) rebecca?

You okay?
A-Okay, boss.

Ooh!

Oh!

Rebecca. Oh!

(Panting)

(Grunting)

Red john says hi.

Hi, Boss.
- Boss?

hey.

(Lisbon) don't move.

(Gun clatter)
(grunts)

(Lisbon) bitch.

You bitch.

Keep smiling,
and i will blow your head off.

(Rebecca) don't hurt me.

I'm not resisting.

What the hell's
with all the balloons?

What are you guys doing here?
(Lisbon) get her outta here.

(Indistinct
police radio chatter)

(Engine shuts off)

(Helicopter whirring)

(Rebecca sighs)

How long are
they gonna sit there?

Shh.

What's your favorite kind
of music?

Mr. Jane, please.

I know your games.

You don't care
what type of music i like.

I'm just making conversation,
getting to know you.

Well, you want to know
how i could do

Such terrible things
for red john,

Oh, i know that stuff--
Unhappy childhood,

Sexually abused
by a close relative,

Cutting
or some other self-Abuse,

Self-Medicating,
self-Loathing,

Blah, blah.

Everyone you ever met
made you feel ashamed,

Ashamed of that ugly darkness

Festering inside you.

But he didn't.

He made you strong.

He made you feel proud
of that darkness.

Yes, he did.

He gave your life purpose
and meaning

And, uh, love.

You're very much like him,
you know--

The way you look at people
and see right through them.

That is just spooky.

I want you to think of this
tonight before you go to sleep.

You are nothing to him
but a useful object.

He is not a good man.

You are so wrong.

He is a very good man.

He's on a mission

Of love and enlightenment.

He tortures and kills women.

Don't you see?

Without death,
there's no life.

Without darkness,
there's no light.

Look at you.
Me?

Well, until your wife
and your daughter were killed,

You were blind,
weren't you?

You were living
an illusion.

But red john
opened your eyes.

And now you see the world
for what it truly is.

(Whispers) oh.

Mm.

How did you first meet him?

I'm not telling you
anything about him.

You will.

You'll wake up one day,
horrified of what you've done,

And you will tell me
everything.

No, never. I love red john.

And he loves me. And i will
never betray that trust.

One day.

But i will tell you that
i like all kinds of music,

Especially country.

And i have a cat named rex.

And i collect
porcelain frogs.

Don't ask me why.
It's just a quirk, really.

Well, the psychologist will
want to talk to you next.

He'll have a field day
with that.

But i'm as sane
and as healthy as can be.

I really am.

I know. I do have one question
before you go, rebecca--

After you took
carter peak's body

And all the d.N.A. Samples...
hmm?

Why did red john have you
attack bosco's team?

There was really no need.

The evidence was destroyed.
You know why.

No.
Oh, you don't?

Uh, red john thought
you'd understand.

I got rid
of bosco and his team

So that you could have
the case back.

Red john misses you.

And...

It's what you wanted, too.

Isn't it?

We're done here.

Very interesting
talking to you, rebecca.

Likewise.

I guess i'll see you around.

Yeah.

(Man) officer needs assistance.
She's down. She's down.

(Indistinct
police radio chatter)



Don't touch her!

(Panting)

He poisoned her.

(Whispering indistinctly)

(Monitor beeping steadily)

Mandy--
You get ahold of her?

All the flights out of boston
were delayed.

She's in the air now.

She'll be here soon.
It's all right.

You're gonna be okay.

It's gonna be okay.

Teresa.

Don't lie to me.

I can tell when you're lying.

You are.

Look, you will be--
You'll be okay.

I'm a cop.

You're a bad liar.

Your eyes give you away
every time.

Honest eyes.

(Sniffles) sam.

Tell me the truth.

You lost a lot of blood.

(Voice breaks) the doctors don't
think you're gonna make it.

I'm gonna say it, then.

The doctors better be right.

I love you, teresa.

(Whispers) i love you, too.

No. I mean, i love you.

I know what you mean.

(Whispers)
it had to be said.

Is jane here?

For the record,

I'm very pissed off
about this.

(Chuckles)
can't blame you.

Sam, uh--

We don't have time
to be nice.

Red john makes mistakes.

This proves it.
You will catch him.

Yes, i will.

Do me a favor.

When you catch him,
don't arrest him.

Kill the son of a bitch.

(Whispers) that's the plan.

(Whispers) good.

Listen...

Listen...

(Whispers indistinctly)

(Monitor beeping erratically)
(whispers) bosco?

Bosco?

(Lisbon) sam.

(Monitor emitting
continuous tone)

You weren't at the funeral.

I was there.
I stayed in the back.

You're quitting?

I tried to tell you before.

Anyway, i prefer "retiring."

Full pension.

I got my 20 and then some.

Okay, then.

We'll stay here
and catch the bad guys

While you go fishing.

Lisbon, in my eight years
as s.A.C.,

I've lost four agents--
All of them this week.

You should have quit
last week. It's too late now.

No.

It's time.

You, uh, you take care
of your people.

They're good kids.

Keep an eye on jane.

If he screws up too bad,
shoot him.

There's not a court in the land
that would convict you.

Hey.

(Whispers) hey.

Out minelli.

I'm sorry.

Jane?

You and bosco,

At the hospital...

What'd he say?

Well, he, uh...

He told me to look after you.

That's all?

No.

He said that if i didn't
look after you,

He'd come back and haunt me.

Total nonsense, of course,

But, uh, it wasn't
the right time to correct him.

Tequila.

Bosco's favorite.

Pint of scotch--

Left of the fridge, top shelf,
behind the ramen.

Yeah.

To sam bosco.

A damn fine agent.
(Clink)

It was a nice service.

Nice music.

Mm.
Not a fan of the bagpipes.

(Van pelt) really?
I love 'em.

They're so...

Lonely.

It was a nice service.