Russet Potatoes

Episode aired Mar 31, 2009
TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

Robin Tunney and Simon Baker in The Mentalist (2008)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A man drags a woman's corpse to the police station, hypnotized to think it's a sack of potatoes. The team looks for a hypnotist.A man drags a woman's corpse to the police station, hypnotized to think it's a sack of potatoes. The team looks for a hypnotist.A man drags a woman's corpse to the police station, hypnotized to think it's a sack of potatoes. The team looks for a hypnotist.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

4User reviews

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Trivia
Red-haired actress: Wynn Everett.

Goofs
When VanPelt and Dr. Daniel leave his building, they walk out through a set of doors marked "emergency exit only." Others enter through the same doors seconds later.

Quotes
Dr. Royston Daniel: You're ambitious, more than you'll let anyone see. Girl from Nowheresville, destined to make it big. But you worry that you'll always be small town, small time, you haven't got what it takes. And that's why you're so shut out to everything but this job.
Grace Van Pelt: Dr. Daniel, no offense but I've been working with Patrick Jane for 9 months now. You want to get under my skin? You're going to have to up your game.

User reviews4

Featured review

8/10

A great episode whose potential would never be realized again.

The tension that occurs in this episode and all the plot twists it contains are simply magnificent, the whole theme related to the hypnotist academy is wonderful, unfortunately, the series perhaps seeing that they would be a little more "realistic" decided to discard this concept.

It would have been amazing if any disciple of Red John had participated in the academy and either because of their talent or ability, become an additional threat to Jane, we were very rarely shown their hypnosis abilities during the series and the few times they came up, they didn't feel as epic as they did in this chapter.

The truth is, despite how realistic the series tries to be, it presents so many fantastic phenomena that having become involved with the academy again wouldn't have seemed strange.

However, Great Episode.