Title Patrick Jane [Feats Evaluation] ✅

Discord - AnythingPerson/anythingperson This document will provide an evaluation of Patrick Jane’s cognitive achievements throughout the TV series. *Note that the best way to TRULY understand and interpret PJ is to watch the series. I’ll try my best to continue improving the document so please DM anything that you see is wrong/incorrect etc. as well as suggest any improvements or aspects i should look into, anyway let's move onto the actual document. Patrick Jane The Mentalist [TV Series 2008-15] Patrick Jane is an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation, and helps by giving advice and insight from his many years as a fake psychic medium. He uses his keen powers of observation, his knowledge of psychology, and his genius to help lead the investigations. “Every villain is a hero in his own mind.”
FSIQ Thinking/Reasoning/Intelligence EQ/SQ Planning/Strategy/Tactics Manipulation/Deception Miscellaneous “Excerpts” S1 E1 (00:00) - Immediately, it starts off with Jane walking to the murder scene with agent Lisbon just outside (Victim) Mercy Tolliver’s house, where numerous police officers, news reporters, and people gather around. The police are arresting their prime suspect who’s the neighbor kid that found the body. Jane observes the kid’s visible confusion and the body of the victim leaving in a van by a man with a skull tattoo on his forearm. Jane then attends Mr Tolliver’s speech where he thanks all contributions by law enforcement and volunteers that helped find their daughter, while holding his wife’s hand. Jane notices her apparent discomfort on her face and subtle attempts to escape. [Observation, Emotional Understanding & Perception] (02:13) - Jane observes the pictures and ornaments displayed on the fridge, and is able to draw multiple inferences from them such as the relationship between the entire family. [Observation, Abductive Reasoning, FRI, PSI, Emotional Understanding & Perception] (02:51) - Jane confronts Mrs. Tolliver and calms her down by serving tea through his open body language and manner. Jane reveals that he has been watching her and her husband and understands the feelings she is experiencing, through Jane’s knowledge about her, it eventually leads to her being open to him about the whole ordeal. “You only pretend to like skiing right? (1) You're pleased that your best friend recently gained some weight. About 10 pounds. (2) You wish you’d been more adventurous when you were younger. (3) You love India, but you’ve never been there. (4) You have trouble sleeping. (5) Your favorite color... is blue. (6)” (1) A picture on the fridge shows Mrs. Tolliver’s displeasure in skiing next to her husband, who is joyful. (2) A pin on the fridge had the text “I’ve lost 5 lbs, ask me how” allowed Jane to make an inference that someone close to her has gained some weight, as women are usually
envious of each other in these topics. He suspected that she was happy hence the pin. The number he gave was an estimation that was close enough to be most likely correct. (3) A general statement among most adults. (4) There was one poster about India present on the fridge, but there were no more Indian ornaments or pictures anywhere else. (5) Judging by Mrs. Tolliver’s body language and all these problems around her (aka her family issues and doubts), it's easy to assume that she has trouble sleeping due to all the amount of stress. (6) A huge picture of blueberries was hung on a very accessible view. Continuing on the conversation, Jane leverages his information by saying “There is no point in hiding things from me”, making it seem as if he knows everything and she should just tell the truth. Jane questions why she thinks her husband murdered her daughter through his earlier observations of her doubt. She denies it at first but finally reveals that last year they have been very strange with each other, and neither one would admit that anything was wrong. “I think she tried to tell me once, and I didn’t—I...” Jane asks if she confronted her husband about her question, because as he stares, “most wives are able to tell when their husband is lying.” [FRI, Hot Reading, Coercion, Persuasion, Emotional Understanding & Perception Abductive Reasoning, VCI, Analytical Thinking, Interpersonal Intelligence] (6:11) - Mr. Tolliver walks in and Jane immediately asks him if he killed his daughter. At first he struggles to come up with a response and avoids the question trying to show disbelief, Jane asks again and he says he didn’t do it. Mrs. Tolliver reacts by crying and leaves the room. “An innocent man would’ve punched me by now.” Jane alludes that due to Mr. Tolliver’s behavior by avoiding the question and struggling to answer it as well as his mannerism of answering, showed signs of lying. Seconds after, Mrs. Tolliver enters the room with a gun pointed at her husband and fires, which kills Mr. Tolliver, in spite of revenge for her daughter. Jane is unphased by the entire course of the scene, the police enter the house due to the gunshots and he calmly says to agent Lisbon: “Honestly it’s not as bad as it looks.” [Emotional Understanding & Perception & Management, STP] (11:15) - Jane infers that one of the victims is gay, as even though he is the family doctor, the husband had no qualms about letting him stay alone with his wife at their house. [Abductive Reasoning] (11:27) - Jane, alongside agents Rigsby, Cho, and Lisbon approach Dr. Wagner, a psychiatrist who’s a professional partner of Gregory Tannen (one of the 2 victims
alongside Allison Randolph) to interrogate him about the victims, when Rigsby drops a remark that this seems like the work of Red John, Mr. Wagner lies and asks: “Who’s Red John?” Pretending as if he has not heard of him, Jane takes notice of this behavior. [Emotional Perception] (13:41) - 5 years earlier, we see Jane as a psychic medium for Jenny and acts as the bridge between Jenny’s dad and Jenny, creating a touching experience and making many people believe in his spiritual power. [Acting Skills, Emotional Manipulation, Influence] (15:12) - Jane deduces that this crime wasn’t committed by Red John because he knows that Red John is a showman/an artist that has a strong sense of theater evident by his previous killings, he noticed that Red John always has a select pattern, which is the face on the wall that he draws with the victim’s blood, and that face is always the first thing you see before entering the crime scene. However, in this crime scene it is the opposite, you see the body then you have to turn around to see the face. “You see the face first, and you know, you know, you know what’s happened and you feel dread. Then, and only then, do you see the body of the victim. Always in that order.” [Pattern Recognition, Deductive Reasoning, Observation] (18:09) - Jane makes a good first impression with Van Pelt, traversing from an awkward to comfortable relationship. [Charisma, Social Skills] (20:28) - Helping Jane’s previous observation about Wagner lying about not knowing about Red John, he notices that Dr. Wagner has books on criminal psychiatry with chapters of Red John, which further alludes to Jane being correct about his judgment of Wagner lying, and in turn, gives him an inference in which to suspect Wagner of being the culprit of the murder, as he was hiding a solid fact that would tie or suspect him to the crime. [Observation, Inductive Reasoning] (20:37) - Jane asks Dr. Wagner if Tannen kept a diary, adding another line. “Our last case was solved because the victim had a diary.” To which Wagner replies: “Diary? I don't think so.” This so-called ‘diary’ was fabricated by Jane to create doubt in Wagner early on, this was also his first step in his plan to expose Dr. Wagner. [Short-Term Planning, Fabrication, Setting Traps]