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* [[Arc Fatigue]]: It has been three seasons and still Jane is nowhere closer to Red John. Apparently the writers think the audience can just forget the trailer of season three finale and say the man Jane killed isn't Red John. Damn shame, because the finale is epic.
* [[Author's Saving Throw]]: That damned [[Reset Button|reset buttony]] season four premiere. {{spoiler|It basically negates all the epic [[Gambit Pileup]] in the season three finale.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: Red John, albeit of the [[Affably Evil]] variety. One of the first things we learn about him is that he murdered a small girl and her mom in revenge for the father insulting him on TV. He has killed 8 men and 16 women, the latter his preferred victims, 4 via an accomplice he later killed. He seems to have moved on from killing women for kicks and now is obsessively fixated on Jane; most of his recent victims are either to cover his own tracks, bar the two copycats he killed for "cheap imitations" of his work. Unusually, he actually somehow associates with other serial killers and seems to control them to a degree too.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Jane breaks out of ''jail'' using a pen, a piece of muffin, and [[Eek! A Mouse!|the warden's muscaphobia]]. We later see him walking down the road in his regular clothes.
** [[Da Chief|Virgil Minelli's]] speech to the reporters in "His Red Right Hand" counts.
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* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Patrick Jane, arguably, yes he is quite the jerk, but considering that his wife and daughter were murdered by a serial killer, you do have some sympathy with him.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Patrick Jane is the epitome of this trope. He is brilliant, charismatic and manipulative. He runs rings around poor Lisbon, the rest of the team and the criminals. Nobody ever knows the full plan except him and, on the rare occasion something goes wrong, he will get out somehow. The audience want Patrick to succeed in catching the murderers and to eventually get Red John even though his methods are often questionable.
* [[Narrowed It Down to
** Seemingly lampshaded in "Blinking Red Light." Jane tells Lisbon to go with her gut and pick the suspect who looks like he did it. She immediately chooses William Mapother. {{spoiler|Subverted in that he was innocent; double subverted when the killer turns out to be played by David Paymer.}}
* [[Relationship Writing Fumble]]: Jane and Lisbon are a possible case.
* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: The new CBI Special Agent in Charge, Hightower, is an epic bitch to the team. She broke up Van Pelt and Rigsby, scolded Lisbon continuously, and hang Jane's fate on the team. By Season 3, she was getting [[Rescued
* [[Snowball Lie]]: Seems to be getting that way after "Always Bet on Red", as Jane goes so far as to {{spoiler|forge evidence to hide the fact that he lied to the jury and really ''didn't'' kill Red John.}}
* [[Tear Jerker]]: In an extremely rare moment, we see Jane cry in private after a supposed psychic calls him out on the one thing he had been wondering since the murder of his family: had his daughter been awake when she was killed?
** And {{spoiler|Bosco's deathbed confession of his love for Lisbon, and her reply. I didn't even ''like'' Bosco, and I was on the verge of tears.}}
** Lisbon finding a tape of Jane at the end of "Every Rose has its Thorn." It may double as a [[Ship Sinking]].
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'''Erica''': (off camera) Sounds like an amazing woman.
'''Patrick''': {{spoiler|She was.}} }}
** When Jane met {{spoiler|an accomplice pretending to be Red John. Especially when he describes to Jane what they smelled like before they died.}}
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** Jane breaking down, saying that he cannot keep up following Red John and telling Lisbon that he might just stop. This is after burning all the information he has on Red John and basically drink himself to sleep.
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