Just when eveything seemed to be fine for everyone, Nothing Can Stay Gold happened on The Mentalist. Jane takes extreme measures as the team tries to apprehend a deadly gang of armored car robbers before their desperation to remain free costs more innocent people their lives.
At the beginning we see some lights. Finally a self-confident Wylie asks Vega out, and then asks Abbott for romantic advices outside the work affairs. Man, those people are become a family and a group of friends. Then, Jane tells Lisbon about his plans for her for a romantic weekend, since he just wants to be with her - awwww. Duty calls so Cho and Vega need to go and find a pair of robbers, but when they find them, tragedy appears. There's a fight in which Vega is shot and die at the hospital.
Cho feels responsable for Vega's death, as she was just become part of the FBI-family. He is determinated to make the criminals pay for killing Vega. Just like an old Patrick Jane searching for vendetta, he doesn't want to listen to anyone; and that's Kimball Cho the Ice Man: the same man who cries watching Vega's file on his computer. This scene made my heart melt.
Cho doesn't even want to go for Jane's plan when he shares with the team the idea of breaking into the house, where the robbers have taken hostages, and make them confess. Cho's anger and desire of payback Vega's death is still high. I see even Mr Kimball Cho has some dark side and saw what happened when someone you cared about die in front of you. Everyone reacted differently: Lisbon's character developed at the point she can hug someone, so she hugs Wylie, who's the most saddest in the team. Jane doesn't believe in the Great Beyond, Lisbon does. She needs to believe Vega is somewhere safe and sound. I find always beautiful the way Lisbon keeps showing her faith.
Anyway, since Jane doesn't believe neither in Hell nor Heaven, he's still worried about Lisbon's life as he wants to see her wounded or worse dead. Vega's death surely gave him a lot of thinking, more than the previous episodes. As Lisbon refuses to stay out of the action, Jane offers himself to the criminals in order to make them change their minds and turn against each other. Jane's plan was all that: it's all about money. The two robbers never wanted to share their money. The case concludes with a man down, shot by Cho, and one injured.
The end was absolutely awesome and dramatic. It gave me chills and made me cry. Vega's funeral while a sad song was playing background were perfect. It hadn't be easy for Patrick Jane to be at someone's funeral and surrounded by all that pain - he's been there before, and this makes him thinks: he doesn't want to feel the same anymore with Lisbon. Here we go. I still wonder why a woman should chose to quit her career to stay with her man. But, by the way both are unreasonable. She can't quit, he doesn't want her to play cop. What's the solution? Jane leaves her. Again. And it's not easy, he's suffering. He wanted to leave the country to stay in a happy place with his girlfriend, but he didn't realize yet that the happiest place in the world is to be with her.
Will Vega's death impact on all of The Mentalist's character?
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