In minutes on site in Sacramento, Jane solves the mall murder on John Rasmussen. Virgil Minelli transfers the Red John investigation from Lisbon's to Sam Bosco's team. Yet Patrick promises to help solve 'one more' ordinary case, a ransacked motel-room Jane Doe. From a group photograph he cleverly identifies Jaffe publishing secretary Monica Dunninger, who went missing with $1,000,000, abandoning husband Hollis, daughter Kessie and even son Ansel with then presumably terminal cancer. Jane sets a fictitious bait-trap. Written by KGF Vissers

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. Written by KGF Vissers

Lisbon eagerly leaves Dr. Roy Carmen's therapy to answer an anonymous call leading to the corps of recently released William 'Bill' McTeer. Catching him for seven child molestation made Lisbon's reputation, then as SFPD inspector, then under Bosco. The last victim's pa Dreyer Whelan swore to kill Bill. Jane and the team find several logical suspects, but Lisbon's print in on the murder gun, so Minelli transfers the case- to Bosco. Written by KGF Vissers

Well-groomed Gordon Hodge is found by joggers, robbed and killed in the Deerfield woods. He was the Sinner Saints motor-biker gang's full-time lawyer, who masterly prevented their contraband and other crimes leading to convictions. The team finds he cheated inscrutable gang leader Vaughn McBride with his biker lover, Constance. His wife Nina Hodge knew, but chose to ignore his infidelity to avoid further embarrassment, especially their gentle adolescent son Lucas. Furthermore Felicia Gutherie, whose brother was killed by the gang, wanted revenge. Jane unravels the truth and sees to justice for as many as possible. Written by KGF Vissers

Smalltown Deputy Nick Fisher asks CBI to investigate how Alan Foster (43) was killed despite the advanced alarm in the mansion he renovated on site while his wife Lillian remained in their San Francisco home. His hand clasps a B-button, referring to Walter Beckworth, the house's builder 80 years ago, said to haunt it since he was pushed to his death from the very same window. His granddaughter Victoria Abner sold it to Foster, unable to pay her taxes, but calls him a thief. Construction site thief Jeb Haas says he saw Lillian on the murder night. Jane finds the ghost tricks. Rumor has it the house contains a treasure. Written by KGF Vissers

Countryside welder Kirby Hines (29) has been killed and dragged onto land, the disputed oil rights on which are worth millions. His widow Donna and family hide secrets. Patrick can only advise from a distance, being jailed on a charge of abusing CBI information in his search for Red John. While the team tries to get Sam Bosco to rescind the charge, Jane expertly manipulates his jail mates, and even arranges to get a suspect in the Hines case to get arrested and jailed. Written by KGF Vissers

Minelli orders Patrick Jane and Lisbon and company to play nice and work together with Bosco and his team to locate a kidnapped woman being held for ransom. Written by CBS Publicity

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. Written by CBS Publicity

During a CBI benefit sponsored by the Doverton jewelry firm where Jane performs successfully, Carl Ward, husband of owner Esther, catches but is shot into hospital by a diamond robber. Jane suspects an inside job. Ex-con Doyle Murphy is found shot in his apartment, last visited by ex-brother-in-law Donny Culpepper, whom he owed money. The team also finds links with Ester's nephews Tom and George Doverton. Jane sets the trap. Written by KGF Vissers

At Barney Sloop's prestigious baseball academy in Amtzenville, the owner is found beaten to death, skull crushed in his Zen garden. His business partner Freddy Fitch inherits the academy. Barney's wife Leslie, which he left a year ago after their 3 year-old son Michael's death, cashes in $20,000,000 life insurance. His paternalistic coaching,domineering pa's and a ball on the head make Jane remember his apprenticeship as dad's 'clairvoyant' carnival boy-wonder. He stills finds and proves the surprising key secret. Written by KGF Vissers

In small town Rancho Rosa, locals spouses Selby (33) and Jana Vickers are found stabbed in their car. It's their 1995 high school class's reunion, which they never attended. Selby was a social leper since he confessed a cruel prank at Derek Logan's expense 15 years ago. And he was involved in blackmail. Patrick works out the past and abuses Rigsby's own secret to force him to help set a trap. Written by KGF Vissers

While Central Valley town Salter's mayor Melba Walker Shannon dug at Heaton Krupp's Granton development project's first spade, she unearthed her media liaison Martha St.Clair, stabbed to death at home. The CBI team reluctantly obliges the D.A.'s orders to cooperate with Mike Brewster's TV documentary on their work. Granton was opposed by tree huggers and Jasper's masked eco-terrorist. Yet Jasper kidnaps Jane to insists he has nothing to do with the murder, nor with a later fire bomb. Written by KGF Vissers

In Marin County's Zenith car dealership, saleswoman Liselle Douglas (28) is found in a showroom car trunk. Jane soon understands the salesmen rivalry. And the lengths they went to for clients, and some of those for rare cars, while there are also some. Jane even bets with an arrogant moneybags. Written by KGF Vissers

When a member of Cho's former gang, the Avon Park Playboys, is found murdered, Patrick Jane insists on helping Cho with his off-the-books investigation.

A chef is poisoned to death during a competition, and CBI is forced to find his killer among his competitors, his estranged wife, and his ambitious assistant.

Dr. Alicia Seberg calls Jane from the Zitek Biosystems lab at Los Corrados to report she's (being) murdered: someone opened a flask of airborne Cryptohansa-B, one of the biological warfare germs Zitek develops antidotes against. Alas this one needs to be taken in advance. Her husband Dr. Cliff Edmunds and further colleagues Griffin Welks, Dr. Florian Tripp and Lilith Nash also had access to it. Alicia had an affair but Cliff knew and both accepted an 'open marriage'. Jane discovers the biometric access equipment was disabled for two months and manager Price knew. Janes takes offense at CDC inspector Dean Harken's arrogant rank pulling and sets an apocalyptic trap. Written by KGF Vissers

In-living, non-exclusive British private tutor James Smithson, an Oxbridge Etonian, is shot brain-dead in employer celebrity photographer Hopper Banks's estate in Citrus Heights. He had affairs with mothers of pupils. Rigsby's old San Diego PD colleague Victor Bandino, Banks's security consultant, hides something. As Jane suspected, Smithson is an alias. Scotland Yard detective Francis Slocombe confirms it's Oliver Stans, who stole Cleopatra's wedding ring from the British museum and hid in California, probably planning to sell it to top fence Louis Anglet. Jane guesses Slocombe's link with Stans and sets a dangerous trap. Written by KGF Vissers

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. Written by KGF Vissers

Sacramento Assistant DA Kelly Flower is shot dead at home. her recent cases include that of smuggler Hank Draber. Patrick Jane guesses at first sight contractor Cale Sylvan is a psychopathic serial killer, whose aliases and bank account suggest he got paid for each murder. He devices entrapment which yields trophy proof. But stickler judge Hildred dismisses the case when the defense proves Jane illegally searches Cael's home, rejecting all evidence as a 'poisoned tree'. The team keeps tracking him while Lisbon is suspended. Several surprise crimes follow, including Sylvan's, presumably ordered by his client in the Flower case. Written by KGF Vissers

Xander Harrington is fatally stabbed in the neck at the party where he was presented by pa, media tycoon Alexander, as new chief of the newspaper Daily Observer. Missing from his desk is the list of accompanying planned lay-offs. Concerned journalist Heather Evans's bloody shoes betray she stole the folder, and admits Xander's headstrong brother Ed tipped her off. The paper was investigating Bret Stiles's cult Visualise. Bret's deputy Steven Wench leaks widow Sadie, the TV branch manager, was an adulteress fearing her prenuptial. Her secretary Elizabeth Stanfeld, a Visualize member, calls a bomb threat at the Harrington home. Jane's insight saves Lisbon and Sadie's daughter Ella. Written by KGF Vissers

Unemployed math genius and social cripple Noah Valiquette (32) is shot in a park by a clown who cut off his right index. Suspects abound due to a circus movie audition. After his widow reports the house ransacked, it appears the finger was the key to a safe, but the robber failed to realize the treasure was a spa locker-room key, hidden in a cheap chess set. It was a universal code hacker, ordered by Noah's partner, Toman Bundiger, from Noah, a Dutchman and closed psych ward patient Oliver McDaniel, who escapes once told about the key. Written by KGF Vissers

At a San Desidera, California Human Rights conference, Sheltering Light Foundation against human trafficking leader Hector Brava has his skull smashed with a hotel fire extinguisher just before his speech. According to his researcher and PA Russell Bigelow, he was to expose that Christopher Lynch's World Anti-Traficking Coalition is a front for traffickers eliminating their competition. Patrick soon realizes Hector and his widow Ilsa Engels reproached each-others affairs, he perhaps with the mysterious Carmen whose call lured him to the murder place. Patrick is most skeptic about collaborating with 'psychoic analyst' Kristina Frye, whom sheriff Andy Burnside enlisted. Written by KGF Vissers

Asian student Marley Sparrow's bloody murder in theatrical Red John style is posted on the Internet before the corps is found, by water like 'medium' Kristina Frye predicted. Jane objects to her being involved and claims it's a copy-cat. Marley was going steady with a man she described to her friends, who never saw him, as cop Grady Shipp. Jane remembers that's the name of an executed cannibalistic serial killer who was in Lompoc jail with Orval Tanner, a friend of Red John. After Kristina makes a TV appeal for Red John to seek help, Jane gets CBI to protect her full-time. Shipp's address proves the layer of a camera-obsessed young man. Marley's professor supervising the film club also taught a class mentioning red John the previous semester. The only other student involved in both like Marley, acting talent Wesley Blankfein, went missing. At lake Tahoe, Jaqueline Sandoval, who interviewed Frye, is killed also in Red John style, this time convincing Patrick. Kristina disappears on ... Written by KGF Vissers