The Tell

-- The Mentalist -- Patrick Jane x OC

Sarah Ellis has spent her whole life being the smartest person in the room. The daughter of a Central Valley wine dynasty, she finished Berkeley at twenty-one, turned down law school to carry a badge, and became the youngest homicide inspector in San Francisco's history. Her master's thesis dissected the art of the fake psychic, and its most brilliant subject was a television medium named Patrick Jane.

Now she's joined the California Bureau of Investigation, and the man she once called "a very gifted liar" is asleep on a couch in her new office.

Jane is used to reading people, not being read. Sarah knows his tricks well enough to call his bluffs and is too sharp to be charmed. She's the first puzzle he can't solve in an afternoon. Case by case, their rivalry turns into trust, and the trust into something neither of them is ready to name. Jane still wears his wedding ring. He still lives for one purpose: finding Red John, the serial killer who murdered his wife and daughter.

The closer Sarah gets to Jane, the closer she gets to his war. And Red John has always had a way of noticing the people Patrick Jane lets in.

Everyone has a tell. Sarah swore she'd find his. She never expected to lose her heart first.