Today’s Recapist Highlight: The Mentalist

A little girl and her mom frolic happily on the beach.  That never leads to anything good.  The girl picks up some seaweed on the sand, and is promptly traumatized for life when she finds the body of a blonde girl underneath it.  Cut to the CBI headquarters, where Lisbon and her new sporty ponytail are debriefing the team about the dead girl.  Her name was Christine Tanner, she was 15, and she was hit in the head with a surfboard and then drowned in a ditch.  Not in the ocean, as we would expect.  While she’s doing this, Jane is…waltzing with Van Pelt?  He calls it “finding where she hid the van keys,” but whatever.  Van Pelt seems to be mentally telling him to go in one direction, and Jane seems to buy it until he suddenly goes in the opposite direction and finds the keys.  The team shares a giggle at this tomfoolery, and God help me, but I think I might ship it.

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