The Mentalist Recap – Season 2, Episode 2 – The Scarlet Letter – air date 10/02/09. This episode involves a dual storyline – the CBI are called in to investigate the murder of a state Senator’s intern, and Jane try’s to find out what new information Sam Bosco and his unit have on the Red John investigation.

It is all about personalities here – those of the intern, the Senator, the Senator’s husband and the Senator’s father. It is a who’s who of cover up and deceit – with a lead character (that shows up late in the show) being accidentally killed in an auto accident, and the team, as usual, pushing the envelope on investigative technique.

In a second storyline to be brought forward (the first one being the Red John case now under the auspices of Detective Bosco and his team) we follow Agent Lisbon’s mandated interaction with the police psychologist.