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
50
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
40
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
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
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.
“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.”
Suttreee▲ 29about 0–75% inread it ↗
“fantastic scene with Lisbon”
Suttreee▲ 29about 75–100% inread it ↗
“barely saved by a classic "the mentalist"-moment with a cool twist; Lisbon as a psychic”
Suttreee▲ 29about 75–100% inread it ↗
“that ending scene perfectly sums up the major obstacle in the Jane/Lisbon relationship”
wesrerec▲ 21about 90–100% inread it ↗
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
Rene Rivera as Josef Rosales