S7E4

Black Market

The Mentalist · 2014-12-21 · 41 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 7 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

The team investigates a murder linked to a counterfeit diamond operation, but an illness forces Jane to direct his colleagues from the office as he recuperates. Meanwhile, Abbott is concerned that transgressions in his past could harm his wife’s chance to obtain a prestigious job in Washington, D.C.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 7 comments — 6 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit10 read

“this was a weak episode. Or would have been, if not for that fantastic scene with Lisbon. I don't care about Willies crush on Vega, I don't care about Vegas crush on Cho, I don't care about Abbots personal life. The murderer? Hardly seemed like it mattered this episode. She had few lines, was very uninteresting, and no one really cared anyway. And the security guard? Even less so. When you put so much time into presenting subplots, you lose the ability to make the perps into real people. Instead you get rushed killers, motives and victims like this episode. When these subplots are bad, like anything involving Vega, you end up with a bad episode.”
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“fantastic scene with Lisbon”
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“barely saved by a classic "the mentalist"-moment with a cool twist; Lisbon as a psychic”
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who made it

directed: Michael Nankin
written: Tom Donaghy

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Christine Adams as Lena Abbott
Amelia Rose Blaire as Bibby Fortensky
Jeff Branson as Walker Pond
Claudia Christian as Greta Fortensky
Leonard Roberts as Elon Bell
William Abadie as Jacques Joubert
Larry Clarke as Bob Ackerman

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