Owain Yeoman, Robin Tunney, Simon Baker, Tim Kang and Amanda Righetti on The Mentalist. (Photo: CBS)

Starring: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Owain Yeoman

A team of the Californian Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may officially be lead by haughty agent Lisbon. However, her mediocre intelligence and methods by the book are no match for 'mentalist' Patrick Jane. Formally, the ex-medium-hustler is just a police consultant. In fact the detectives soon learn to look to him for ever brilliant and surprising observations, deductions, ploys and traps. No criminal ever outsmarts Jane - except perhaps Red John, who unwillingly motivated Patrick to start fighting crime.