Are we on the verge of seeing that smile again?This season of The Mentalist has forced Jane to endure a disconnect with the Red John case--and of course, it‘s an uncomfortable thing, especially if you have a very personal stake in the serial killer you‘re pursuing. They‘ve had some luck before, but thanks to his tendencies and other past events, the case was passed on to Bosco.

As the team tries to save the Compass Killer‘s fourth victim, another surprise gets dropped on the November 25 episode of CSI: NY.

They‘ve long been hinting about a dark secret between Bosco and Lisbon.  He loves her?  Possibly.  Did they do something together?  Maybe--the parallels between that secret and the other secret between Rigsby and Van Pelt is just irresistible.  Did he kill someone, and she helped along, as Jane suggested?  Possibly.  But who really knows?  It did open a new can of worms to play with--and suddenly Bosco is not the good person he claims to be, not by the book when he had Jane arrested.

A violent crime at CBI headquarters might be Red John‘s fault on the November 19 episode of The Mentalist.

Jane and Bosco end up working together on the November 12 episode of The Mentalist.

I would‘ve begun this preview with the thought of the guy who plays Rev. Newlin on True Blood being the bad guy in last week‘s The Mentalist

Cue one more familiar face in the upcoming season of 24: Gregory Itzin is confirmed to return to the show‘s eighth season as crazed former president Charles Logan.

Isn‘t it about time that Patrick Jane--former fake psychic turned CBI consultant, as he loves to insist--tackle something of the supernatural kind?

Jane blacks out because of a baseball bat and flashes back to his childhood on the November 12 episode of The Mentalist.

Jane solves a crime from the comforts of prison on the November 5 episode of The Mentalist.