Plot

Patrick is temporarily blinded by a bomb blast that leads to the CBI investigating the murder of a stock-broker.

CBI gets another bomb alert, this time real, with a message 'Are you smart enough to find it?'. Jane does, but too late to save James 'Jim' Medina (44) handcuffed next to it, his front marked 'You're next'. The explosion blinds Patrick for a few days. Medina, a stockbroker, got hate-mail from ex-colleague Terrence 'Terry' Andrews (46), an ex-state bodyguard, now Hype nightclub bouncer. Jane discharges himself to take charge, brilliantly observing and manipulating. He finds a link with Medina from his scam-medium past clients. Grace's date proves problematic.—KGF Vissers

The CBI receive a message informing that there is a hidden bomb somewhere and challenging Patrick Jane to find the bomb. When he deciphers the message, he finds a man handcuffed inside a van with the message "you are the next" marked on his forehead. However, it is too late to save the man, but the explosion temporarily blinds Patrick. Meanwhile Grace Van Pelt is dating the lawyer Dan Hollenbeck and Wayne Rigsby is jealous. While Lisbon and Cho are investigating the suspect of planting the bomb, Rigsby, Van Pelt and Patrick discover who he is.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Patrick Jane pulls into CBI HQ. He notices Van Pelt chatting with a man at the pastry cart outside.

She comes in to work super cheery. Jane tells Rigsby about the guy who kissed Van Pelt outside. Jane gets a text on his phone and runs to show Lisbon: "There's a very large bomb nearby, are you smart enough to find it?"

They evacuate. Lisbon thinks it could be a hoax. Jane's bothered by the personal nature of the text. He goes to inspect large cars nearby. Lisbon gets a call and stops following him. Jane finds a man tied up inside a van, gagged. The timer ticks down, but they can't get the door open. On the man's forehead it says "U R Next."

Lisbon drags him away from the van right as it explodes. Jane is thrown rump over tea kettle across a car hood. Still, he stands up, seemingly OK. But there's something in his eye, he says. He can't see.

He sits in a hospital bed with his eyes bandaged. He has a minor concussion and temporary blindness caused by blood clots. It might take 48 to 72 hours for his vision to come back. He's low on patience.

Cho visits. The victim is a stock broker named James Medina. He was reported missing recently. Jane says whoever did it wanted him to watch Medina die.

Lisbon reassures Jane that he'll be fine. She gives Cho a look when Jane pouts. He tells them not to look at each other like that. He can feel their pity.

At the Medina residence his wife sends their kids to stay with their aunt. She says her husband received hate mail, phone calls, email. An ex coworker named Terry Andrews came by the house a few times and was threatening.

Andrews was a statehouse employee, security. And he has a minor record. He's a bouncer at a club. Lisbon and Rigsby pay him a visit. He's not sorry Medina is dead. Rigsby puts a hand on him to take him downtown and he fights him off. Lisbon cuts corners, pulling out her Taser.

Jane comes in to HQ, eyes bandaged, following an officer and using a cane. Van Pelt and Lisbon try to tell him he's not supposed to be there. He claims his other senses are heightened as he stumbles through the office.

Rigsby interviews Andrews. He says he was alone when Medina was killed. Jane blunders into the interview and asks outright if Andrews killed Medina. He says he could have and he wanted to, but he didn't.

They got into it because an envelope fell off Medina's desk and Medina told him to pick it up and he wouldn't. Jane wants to hold his hand. He has artistic fingers.

Jane pronounces him innocent then he walks out.

In the office he takes the bandages off his eyes, but he still can't see. Jane says Andrews is filled with anger, but not guilty anger. Lisbon cracks up, saying she's going to make him a super hero outfit.

Jane is convinced there's a connection between Medina and him. He wants to visit with the widow.

At her house, Jane asks to hold some of James' things to get a "sense of his being." Lisbon thinks Jane's being a nut, but he's just pouring on the touchy feely.

From a horseshoe charm, he guesses they liked horses. He can tell a Rolex is expensive. He asks what the engraving is. It was a bull, from the brokerage.

Jane remembers meeting a woman and holding the same watch. He thinks years ago he did a psychic reading for someone else at the same firm. He can't remember who, but he thinks it'll be in his records.

Rigsby sees Van Pelt get a text from her boyfriend.

Rigsby wants Jane to find out about Van Pelt's boyfriend. So Jane calls her over, saying that they were wondering who the man she was kissing by the coffee cart was. She says it's none of their business and storms off. Rigsby isn't pleased with Jane.

Jane sits by Van Pelt. He says she and Rigsby need to talk. She looks through Jane's files. She asks why who she's seeing is anyone's business. Jane says he's just nosy, but Rigsby loves her. He's just scared of commitment. And she's attracted to him, but emotionally closed off because of a trauma in her past. By the way she listens quietly, it's clear he's right.

Van Pelt opens Jane's client list and runs it against the broker records. Carol Gentry is a match.

Flash back to the Jane residence 8 years ago, Jane telling Carol her mother truly forgives her. She doesn't understand. Her mother was a vicious, evil woman and Carol always took care of her, what could she forgive her for? Jane tries to recover, saying that it's complicated. Then they run out of time. Carol gives him a check and she leaves, dazed.

Remembering it, Jane looks like he feels like a turd. He stands up to walk away, but collapses.

Minelli, the director, allows Jane to stay once he's been checked out, if only to protect him from the bomber.

They start to discuss the possibility of Carol as a suspect, but it can't be her; she killed herself eight years ago and left no family, Jane says.

Van Pelt cross-checked client's spouses with the brokerage firm. Jill LaMott's husband worked there. Jane remembers her, too.

He flashes back to the same scene with the woman and the watch, but remembers her this time. She talks about a change she noticed in her husband. She gives Jane his watch to hold. Her husband seems preoccupied. She thinks he might be unfaithful. Jane holds the watch and breathes deeply, saying he's sensing something. He tells her that her husband hasn't been honest with her, or happy. He tells her she has to confront her husband.

At Lynch-Halstead brokerage firm. The boss vaguely remembers her husband Paul, who completely fell apart after his wife divorced him. Coincidentally, Medina was the one who fired him.

At the office, they look into his record as Jane listens. Paul ended up on the streets and his wife took their son.

Cho and Lisbon go to follow up leads and she forbids everyone from taking Jane anywhere.

As Van Pelt and Rigsby chat, her boyfriend Dan drops by. Van Pelt does not handle it smoothly, nor does Rigsby, who refuses to shake his hand. He asks if they have a problem. Rigsby says no, but after thinking about it, he changes his mind and takes Dan into the men's room, telling him if he ever causes Van Pelt pain, he'll hurt him. Dan assures him he's a nice guy.

And then, when Rigsby's back is turned, nice guy Dan kicks him in the back of the knee, whacks him over the head, knocks him down and out and cuffs him on the bathroom floor.

Rigsby lies bloody and cuffed in the bathroom to the stall.

Dan straightens his tie and goes to find Van Pelt, acting like everything is fine. He's dying to meet the psychic character she told him about.

She takes him over to Jane, asleep on the couch. They wake him up. He still can't see. He shakes Dan's hand. Jane asks where Rigsby, Cho and Lisbon are. They're all alone.

From feeling his hands, Jane figures that Dan builds things with them. He smells faint chemicals.

As Jane stands to get food, Van Pelt says she'll get it for him. When she's out of earshot, Dan leans in to Jane and asks if he thinks he's dumb. If he makes one move, he'll shoot her in the head. Jane understands.

On the other side of the room, Lisbon calls Van Pelt on her phone. They found Paul's homeless squat. They found out he has a son: Dan. Van Pelt tries to react, but Dan has a gun on her. She hangs up on Lisbon. He says he needed her to access the state lot. She tells him to give up, but he says he's in too deep. Jane tells her to do as he says. Dan confronts Jane for ruining his life, so what if his dad cheated on his mom?

Dan handcuffs her and takes them both outside.

The security guard is just locking up. Jane says good night to him and takes the pause to elbow Dan in the stomach, telling Grace to run. The security guard pulls his gun, but is too late. Dan shoots him (he lives) as Jane and Van Pelt run and hide behind cars. They're heading for her car. She can't drive handcuffed and he can't see. He says they'll manage.

Jane drives, poorly, as Van Pelt tells him where to go. Dan sees them and fires. Jane drives around the lot, hitting pretty much everything as Dan keeps firing. Jane backs into a car and they stall out. Dan approaches the now shot-out passenger side window and takes aim.

A gunshot rings out. Lisbon shoots Dan in the back. Just in time. "What happened?" Jane says. "Did something good happen?"

Back inside, Van Pelt finds Rigbsy and hugs him, apologizing. She's thisclose to kissing him when the janitor comes in. The moment passes.

The next day, Lisbon watches as Jane takes off his bandages again. He pauses a moment before opening his eyes. He sees Lisbon, but tells her she has no idea how good it is to see her face, Rigsby. Ah, what a card.