APART from making tea, driving Lisbon crazy, and outing murderers with clever mind games, Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) has spent the past five series of The Mentalist doing little else but hunting for Red John.

Now the California Bureau of Investigation’s most unusual independent consultant narrows down the list of people who could be the serial killer to seven suspects in The Mentalist. However, the man who murdered his wife and daughter strikes again, and the victim is linked to his past.

There is a rumour Red John will be caught in season six, but actress Robin Tunney, who plays Lisbon, has her doubts: “That would definitely be the end of the show, because his motivation for being there has gone.”