The Mentalist Recap – Season 2, Episode 10 – Throwing Fire – air date 12/17/09. In this episode, Jane and the CBI team investigate a baseball scout’s murder. In the process, Jane gets hit in the head with a wayward baseball. As a result, he begins getting flashbacks of his childhood, and his father. Needless to say, these are not especially positive flashbacks, as his father used him in schemes to make a living.

Tossed into the fray here are two star pitchers, their very aggressive fathers, an equally aggressive partner that the baseball scout left behind, the scouts angry ex-wife, and Jane himself, who refuses medical attention (much to Lisbon’s consternation and Cho’s frustration).

We get a great deal of insight into the world of baseball, and how in your mid-twenties you can be deemed “old”. There is also some interesting insight into ho Jane grew up, and what made him who he is today.

Every story has its own story!