‘The Mentalist’ season 6, episode 13 preview: Patrick Jane wants a tank

Are you ready for “The Mentalist” to return to TV? Well after a pretty long delay, Patrick Jane is going to be back in action starting on Sunday night with “Black Helicopters,” an episode that features Mexico, underground tunnels, and requests for both helicopters and a tank.

This is also the first time that we have seen Lisbon featured (albeit briefly) in any promotional material for the show in quite a long time. What is she up to? She seems firmly situated back in Austin rather than being out on the ground, where she could be encountering all sorts of violence. This may just be a coincidence, though, for this scene, and not anything that should be read into on a significant level.

As for what we can tell you about the larger case here, Van Pelt and Rigsby will be back once again for this story, as they try to figure out just what in the world is causing former CBI members to be targeted in nefarious ways. For now, this seems to be the more Red John-esque long-form storyline of the show. We’re not saying by any means that anyone is going to be killed a la Red John, but it is something that should definitely be considered.

This is the first of many new “Mentalist” episodes that will be airing the rest of the spring. One advantage to being off the air so long, after all, is that you get to run for many weeks in a row.

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