‘The Mentalist’ season 7: Looking beyond Jane and Lisbon

There have not been too many opportunities as of late to discuss “The Mentalist” thanks to the summer season, and also the fact that the jury is still out even on when we are going to be seeing the show again on CBS. We at least know that there are 13 more episodes coming, and if we were a guessing mad we’d say that spring 2015 is the most-likely destination.

In the times that we have discussed the show, though, we’ve spent the bulk of the time trying to figure out what could come next for Jane and Lisbon. It feels like the two are definitely a couple now, and this is the territory that is going to be mined and explored moving forward. It’s understandable that they would be the focus, given that they happen to be who just about everyone wants to be spending their time talking about right now.

But what about the other characters? We wanted to at least spend a minute or two trying to figure out what some of their own futures on the show could be.

Cho – Since so much time passed between the end of the Red John case and no, it’s hard to know where the guy really is at now. However, we have liked the romantic storylines for him in the past, and anything that causes him to lighten up a little. We’re down for more of that.

Kim Fischer – More than anything else, we just want to know her purpose. At first, we thought there could be a love triangle forming, but that did not turn out to be much. This character needs to be further established before anything else can happen.

Abbott – Keep the quirks coming! At first, we thought that Rockmond Dunbar was stuck with “stereotypical FBI boss” character, but as the season progressed there were some occasional little wrinkles that showed that he may actually be a fun guy to get a drink with off the job.

Rigsby and Van Pelt – They aren’t on the show anymore, but we’d love one last appearance in the seventh season (if it is the last, which is likely given where we are now) just to see where they are now.

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