This blog matters not in the least, but it does interest me in deductive reasoning in the series Bruno Heller is involved in called the Mentalist on CBS.
I really do not appreciate fake Australian American accents like those on Fringe or the Mentalist in Simon Baker, in this day of "You got to load up shows with international actors so the blokes will buy the series and show it back home eh", but these programs are the best fare there is to give one's mind a break from chess and Inspiration, that one does what one does to cope along the way.
The Mentalist is about a character Patrick Jane who is basically Sherlock Holmes observational disciplines that was used for Dr. Moriarity lucre, until Jane smarted off to a serial murderer named Red John, in which the murderer hacked up Jane's wife and daughter.
Thus setting the stage for Jane hunting the pyscho and the psycho enjoying being hunted by Jane, a sort of cat and mouse, with Red John the cat and Jane thinking he is a cat is played as the mouse constantly.
There has been speculation in who Red John really is as the poem The Tiger by William Blake was introduced and the brainiacs of the world state that Tiger tiger burning bright is a dual personality poem.
Some think it is Simon Baker, some the head detective in Robin Tunney from Prison Break and the list goes on to Amanda Righetti from The OC to Jack Bauer's old lady on 24 in the anemic looking Leslie Hope.
For my analysis, I looked to a known character who left the show to do 24, but was heading the California bureau and had every opportunity to be involved, and to be all through the law enforcement grid, and that would be Gregory Itzin, who played Virgil Minelli.
The only thing which did not match Mr. Itzin was the season finale in which Red John did show up, but his voice was high pitched. This of course can be one of Bruno Heller's poetic license as he has this array of sociopaths who work for Red John and keep showing up to entertain Jane.
The thing is though the latest episode has a character who noted the TIGER TIGER theme again, but this murderer also tried to knife Jane, which did not fit with Red John's theme, unless of course Heller had Red John awaiting with another sniper rifle to save Jane in case his fellow detectives did not arrive in time.
A great deal of loose ends are in Mr. Heller's work, including Jane looking absolutely like bad acting panic stricken over Red John, and then smiling sedately as he reads Tiger Tiger, on a matress laying on the floor with Red John's signature a bloodly smiley face over Jane.
It is too much of a stretch that Jane's team could be in two places at once, as much as Jane, even if he had multiple personalities could be Red John, as his own nuts would recognize their master.
Sociopaths are adept at hiding themselves, but in close inter relationships with someone touted as a profound observer of human nature, his detectives could not hide the one thing Red John loves and that is attention.
They were all seated at computers when Red John struck on the agency computer in an early episode, so barring some wild story of computer programs dreamed up, that leaves one castaway culprit in the Itzin character.
I do hope in many ways that Itzin is the Red John sociopath, because I really enjoy his work, and was not pleased when he left for 24 and never returned, as 24 was really bottom rung.
That of course is not to ruin things for viewers as anything can happen in Hollywood, but logic points to Itzin.
Strangely for me, the creepiest part of the Mentalist now is Simon Baker having those odd expressions which do not match the scene. He acts so murderously vengeful in stating he will execute Red John, and then cowers in fear when Red John appears.
Normal rage would overcome fear and have Simon Baker as a male spewing taunts to hide the fear shown.
In addition, the terror is later mingled with this look which is not "pleased you are gaining information on the serial murder you are tracking" but more of a look he is Dr. Jekyl in finding his inner Mr. Hyde.
But as stated, Jane can not be two places at once, and the crazy women who are attracted to Red John would reveal he was Red John in their lust for him.
Oh well as none of this matters, it ends here.
agtG
The Tiger
William Blake
Tiger Tiger. burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye.
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat.
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp.
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile His work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger Tiger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
The Tiger
William Blake
