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* [[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.}} |
* [[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.}} |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Jane breaks out of ''jail'' using a pen, a piece of muffin, and [[Eek! |
* [[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. |
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** [[Da Chief|Virgil Minelli's]] speech to the reporters in "His Red Right Hand" counts. |
** [[Da Chief|Virgil Minelli's]] speech to the reporters in "His Red Right Hand" counts. |
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** Let's not forget Cho in "Bleeding Heart"--who turns an interview with a reporter for a documentary on its head and starts interrogating the reporter about his life ''on camera''. |
** Let's not forget Cho in "Bleeding Heart"--who turns an interview with a reporter for a documentary on its head and starts interrogating the reporter about his life ''on camera''. |
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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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize]]: Subverted in an interesting way in both "Blood In, Blood Out" with Jon "Why squirrel hate me?" Sklaroff and "Red Letter" in Rick Hoffman. {{spoiler|Sklaroff's character is guilty of some drug charges and Cho pretends to kill him to get the real killer to confess. Hoffman's character isn't the killer, but is running a human trafficking ring through his anti-human trafficking organization.}} |
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** 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.}} |
** 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.}} |
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* [[Relationship Writing Fumble]]: Jane and Lisbon are a possible case. |
* [[Relationship Writing Fumble]]: Jane and Lisbon are a possible case. |
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