In Sacramento, state legislature lobbyist and lawyer Harvey Dublin goes missing from his limousine and his driver, Peter Russo, is found next to it shot in the head. New CBI director Gale Bertram, involved in a financial scandal Dublin's office handled, gives the case absolute priority, but Patrick refuses to work on it after being saved by Red John. Lisbon tricks him by confronting him with the mourning Russo family, so he vows revenge, saying she won't see coming, while predicting the kidnapping is fake. Written by KGF Vissers

Wealthy San Francisco investment broker Landon Wale (45) was shot in the Sacremento company K-Ram's HQ. Patrick is criticizing the questioning technique of the detective Reece, who arrested him, holding the smoking murder weapon, having responded to a call for help from his own, dodgy brother in law Danny Ruskin. The SPD was responding to an anonymous call. Widow Concetta Wale realizes a solid golden Aphrodite statue is missing from their home safe. K-ram was a fake company, part of one of Danny's financial scams. Patrick is released in Lisbon's custody but dumps her to find and protect Danny first while the team tracks down the financial scams. Written by KGF Vissers

Junky Celia Jovanovich's body washes up the Sacramento River. She was rehabilitated after joining Bret Styles's Visualize cult two years ago, and has its tattoo. She was 'blindly' matched with cult cook David Herren. Patrick advices the CBI to ignore FBI agent Vint Molinari's investigation in missing Kristina Frye's case after identifying her voice in a lead planted with a smiley in her blood, Red John's MO. Agent Craig O'Loughlin is already all over the cult, which has an almost omnipresent lawyer, Julius Coles. Written by KGF Vissers

Convicted sociopath Henry Dahl is shot ten times trough the head in his San Francisco motel room shortly after his release on account of faulty DNA evidence. Patrick is openly uninterested, while the attorney general's office is in PR panic. TV host Karen Cross, once the top prosecutor whose high-profile convictions included Henry, films Jane sleeping, but her company paid Dahl's motel as scheduled guest, now replaced by his victim Jenny's widower Max Winter, who claims to have reached reconciliation years ago, to devote himself to fine son Jackson. Wayne must watch Grace date dashing FBI agent Craig O'Laughlin, which makes him cockily competitive. Henry's art study and cocaine dealing mate Arty Mock is found hiding in his halfway-house. Henry had an admirer, Sean Meyers's wife Betsy. Patrick accepts Cross's live TV dare, but has to revise his conclusion. Written by KGF Vissers

Californian former horse race jockey Bill Sutton is found beaten to death on the tracks. Patrick and the CBI team investigate possible motives from ruthless colleague - and stable competition, gambling, personal debts, an alleged accident and possible cheating. Patrick devises a complicated sting to trick the killer. Written by KGF Vissers

Gentle children's books illustrator Austin Marr (23) is stabbed to death in strict federal judge Pauline Fitwilliam's guest house. Austin was the lover of her contrary youngest daughter, Abigail 'Abby', who is missing and was recently released from drug rehabilitation. Pauline points to the White Supremacist gang of Raymond Tubbs, whom she put in jail and threatened her and her family, to which end he may use coke dealer Howard 'Howie' Dressler. Patrick mistrusts the estate security and makes Abby's sister Sophie confess a secret: the lovers just had their first row, and indeed her fingerprints are on the knife. Patrick deducts mundane 'best friend' Danielle stole Abby's credit card. Pauline's ma Ethel Sebring is being buried after a lingering disease, treated by Dr. Saban. Patrick ties everything together and sets an unsavory trap. Written by KGF Vissers

Former Soviet officer Yuri Bajoran is blown to smithereens by a bomb in his office while the CBI interrupted his take over talks with even richer tycoon Walter Mashburn to examine the death treats against Bajoran. Patrick, wounded as lightly as Walter, sensed the soon disclosing web of hatred between both men, who once rivaled for Yuri's widow, and various other businessmen, as well as disloyal staff. Written by KGF Vissers

Patrick is kidnapped and handcuffed in a basement, where the kidnapper is shot by his young female accomplice, Rachel, who promises him a torturous death to revenge her dad's death in jail. FBI liaison agent Craig O'Laughlin joins the CBI search, teamed up with romantic rival Rigsby by ever-insensitive Lisbon, going trough the list of people holding grudges. False identities in an old case prove crucial. Lisbon walks straight into Rachel's trap. Written by KGF Vissers

Smalltown Vineland sheriff Mullery's deputies Nelson Capel and Lance Connor and Mullery's cousin EMT Todd Johnson's fiancée Keeley Farlowe were all found killed, though in different ways, in the same olive plantation where Todd lived with her and her wheelchair-ridden uncle Joe Hunnicker. 'Clairvoyant' Ellis Mars warns the murderer will strike again. Keeley's former admirer, trucker Gregor Hobart, possibly last to see her, seems amused but says he defended her against horny cook Rusty Moore, who has scratched. The bullet links the case to several other monthly cop killings. After a button points to the fire department, where only B. Kitchen didn't report for duty on the killing night, the sheriff is fatally shot and Mars claims credibility, volunteering 'psychic help', concluding a werewolf attack. Patrick set a successful trap but ends up feeling burnt. Written by KGF Vissers

At Christmas time in Sacramento, mail order Christmas gifts entrepreneur Bernard Ripple falls to his death in his fancy Santa suit, drunk and carrying a suicide note on a Christmas card, an out of character fake. Patrick discovers why he was drunk after 10 years in AA. Meanwhile the team like other CBI staff are suspects of the burning to death of sixfold cop killer EMT Todd Johnson. That's investigated by J.J. LaRoche, who focuses on Patrick, who in turn believed killer and victim were controlled by Red John. . Written by KGF Vissers

Author Charlotte Mitchell is found in a locker, shot death during a freestyle fight between promoter-manager Leonard 'Len' Artash's KO-victorious boy Manny Flaco and hot-tempered Rowdy Merriman. The bullet came from recently release murder Joe Reyes's gun. Each fighter had a grudge against her and secrets she might uncover, which also may give significant others motives. J.J. LaRoche grills Rigsby as CBI arson suspect, on account of his pyrotechnic skills and paroled motor gang dad Stephen. Written by KGF Vissers

Hernando family lemony factory worker Fernanda Talan's week-old corpse, skull violently smashed twice, is found on a cars graveyard. Patrick smells a rat and uses the guard dog to find a nearby second corpse, Valerie Brestin, similarly clobbered, financial director at Donald Beechum's firm Agile Turtle and volunteer at Donovan Treadlow's homeless shelter out of guilt after fatally hitting a vagrant by car. Patrick doubts profiler Montague's theory that this MO points to the ten years inactive serial killer Caveman, which a macabre package makes likely again, but Patrick proves the victims have a link, a bus line where they could be picked, with a criminal driver. Written by KGF Vissers

Angelino documentary maker Amber Sutherland is shot at home while turning a movie to promote Crane Creek mayor Kenyon Bagshaw's national political ambition. The local police suspects Ron Crosswhite, whom she interviewed the previous evening and probably got away with shooting his wife, city clerk Ginger (31), because officer Tom Rowley clumsily ruined the crucial video recording. While grudgingly reporting to pay a traffic fine, Jane is taken hostage by Crowley with other people in city hall to demand immunity and his wife's real killer being found. After the CBI director, politically influenced by Bagshaw, first gives the case to police chief Arnold Nail and then returns it go Lisbon, Rowley tries to shoot Crowley but only wounds another hostage. Jane gets Crowley to see sense and sets a trap for the double murderer. Written by KGF Vissers

While Van Pelt relieves US Marshal Gorman protecting Justin DeGeorge, the key witness against drug baron Adrian Essex, she's knocked out and the witness murdered. His daughter Trina probably has crucial memories, but aunt Jody, a retired army nurse, shields her most hostile against Patrick. He helps the team overcome that and Essex's accomplice Eugene Boden's alibi. LaRoche was planning to grill Van Pelt in the arson investigation anyway. FBI agent Craig supports her and successfully proposes. Written by KGF Vissers

Gold mining town Hadley's sheriff Trey Hughes calls the CBI after fellow prospector Melinda Drew found and former software developer Rick Loomis, divorced and recently moved in with his son adolescent son Jeff and new girl Cheryl Meade, who sneakily prepared to leave the naive adventurer. Patrick discovers that local claims seller Wes Attwood cheated, but he's found murdered in the trailer of local thief Scott Monroe, who didn't actually rob Rick. Patrick sets a gold trap. Written by KGF Vissers

Rich Precolumbian archaeology professor Manuel Montero, also a well-reputed traded in antiquities, is murdered in the Nothern Calirfornia Museum of Anthropology. He was meeting a buyer for a Mayan golden pendant, the only item stolen there. His transport crew is caught, also dealing in illegal arms, but Patrick believes the motive personal. Laroche's IA investigation reduced serial cop-killer Todd Johnson's torch-murder suspects to five CBI members with opportunity, including only one with a motive: agent Madeleine Hightower was the former lover of murdered CHip Jim Rance. Links between both cases are found. Patrick however sees it all as part of Red John's master plan. Written by KGF Vissers

Married gay Dr. Micah Newton (42) is found on a 24-hours golf club, skull smashed with a single expert club blow, by a colleague, according to Patrick. Lisbon's rudeness to LaRoche before the announcement he succeeds Hightower at the team's supervisor leads to her being replaced by Cho, who instantly does a fine job. Mycah got death threats as head of the transplant unit, making suspects of his successor, the surgery chief, and those denied priority for life-saving organs. Patrick works out the mystery of Micah's radiation badge being exposed badly, unlike his body, leading to expose a serious theft and the special status of patient Siberia, a Russian mob baron with an unconditionally devoted bodyguard. Written by KGF Vissers

Hedge fund Wilder broker Timothy Hartley, Nathan Vella's partner, is shot and has his throat slit in a field 100 miles from his even richer wife Peregrine née Cook's Hillsborough mansion. The corps is stolen by two armed men during transport in coroner Steiner's van. Given two earlier victim thefts inter-state, the FBI suspects organ tissue trade and sends special agent Craig O'Laughlin. Tim also was treated for an alien abduction delusion in that distant field. The coroner is allowed to collaborate clumsily for a morbid reason, which Jane helps carry to the bitter end. Written by KGF Vissers

San Francisco dating agency Symphony's CEO John Flynn (48) was twice shot in the chest fatally and dumped in a marina. Patrick immediately suspects slick, young widow Erica Flynn. He first tests her getting recruited as client but finds her alibi hard to crack, so he goes for an accomplice, with an apparent tragic consequence. However the team also investigates his ex, blackmailed client Henry Cliff and dubious staff. Wayne's an undercover job gets a romantic follow-up. Written by KGF Vissers

Ted Fisher is killed during a possibly staged break-in at his repair-workshop for troubled youths, which is roughed-up as if searched in vain, like his apartment, although neither seemed worth robbing. Donny Culpepper is arrested when J.J. LaRoche catches him during a robbery Patrick hired him for just to snoop, and he refuses to remain wanted. At night, two people are arrested, mutually at gun-point, at Fisher's shop. Fisher lied even to his hippie girl friend to have a peace Corps past, but his machine's last message contains an Iraqi accent threat. His Iraq private security contract firm Sagaris vet mate Cole Ruger claims he was called to help but arrived too late. Vivian Griswold was hired by a firm to see if Fisher was involved in a shady theft. The vindictive Iraqi turns up. Written by KGF Vissers

In Hangtree, Carson, jailer Walter Parsell, who aspires a detective career and studies criminology, is found on the street outside a robbed jeweler, fatally stabbed as with a prison shunt. Suspect ex-cons include the jail's top-dog, lifer Marcus Lansdale, whom Parsell singled out for transfer to a maximum security prison, as Wayne's no-good father, smuggler Steve Rigsby. Marcus's girlfriend's brother also has a record. Rigbsby calls pa's bluff he can find the killer in no time, which leads to Butch Carwin's drug ring. Patrick meanwhile searches in jail, concentrating on trustees. Written by KGF Vissers

Concert violinist Eleanor Artega is shot dead outside her mother Isabella's NE Sacremento shop. Ex Orlando Yglesias, a Lincoln Avenue Hermanos petty gang member, fled from the spectators at the scene. Patrick, an amateur cellist, studies orchestra director Vincent Manheiser and his players. Written by KGF Vissers

Alan Dinkler (27, no record) robs Drake Vermilion's Sacramento cash office he works in for a mere $50,000 from the much richer vault, so Patrick assumes the real target were the customer names he also had. He is killed at Gupta's gas-station with two uniformed cops who ignored his please to go away by the remote control bomb on his chest. Dinkler's roommate was hot at home, probably as accidental witness. A vague message in the restroom leads to a trap location where Lisbon is fitted with a similar bomb vest. Jane finds her and makes her obey instructions, only to turn the tables on the culprit he already guessed, but who is killed by LaRoche in a fishy escape attempt. The only interesting customer name links to the Hightower case and thus to Red John. Written by KGF Vissers

Now Hightower is found by the team but unwilling to hide out more than 48 hours longer with her kids, Patrick believes to be at an advantage as Red John ignores how close he is. After bluff-pressing LaRoche to give him the CSI mole suspects shortlist of four, to which the fat-man must be added, Patrick sets a cake-layered trap for CSI director Bertram, DA Ardiles, FBI agent Craig O'Laughlin and LaRoche. Each is 'given' given the same address, but at different floors, for Hightower's fake hideout, so where will betray who sent the hired killer, who however jumps to her death. Patrick now arranges a meeting with his top-suspect, during which he realizes he must be one floor wrong and hastily adapts. The team handles his alternative, correct suspect, while he finds himself and faces a Red John suspect, who admits to that during a lethal confrontation. Written by KGF Vissers