The Mentalist

Mariette Hartley who played Elise Vogelson rose to fame in the70's being in over 300 commercials for Polaroid opposite James Gardner.

Goof: When Jane is going through the missing kids with Van Pelt, Marvin Pettigrew is listed as missing for 63 days. Later when Jane talks to Marvin's mother, she tells Jane that Marvin has been missing for 61 days.

Michael Irby and Max Martini both starred in The Unit.

Belladonna is also known as the devil's cherry.

This episode reunites guest stars Anthony Martins and Ajay Mehta who played brothers on C.S.I. New York in the first season episode The Fall.

Plot hole: Foxglove Parkway is in Nevada. The CBI has no jurisdiction to operate in Nevada.

Goof: When Cho is searching the victim's room, he borrows a red-handled screwdriver from the landlord, Lance Gladstone. After loosening the screws from the cover to a vent, Cho hands the screwdriver back to Lance who places it in his pocket. But in the very next scene the screwdriver is back in Cho's hands as he removes the vent cover.

This episode reunites Stargate SG-1 Alums Christopher Judge (Teal'c) and Jay Acovone (Major Kawalsky).

This episode reunites series lead Amanda Righetti and Rodney Rowland who both guest starred on C.S.I. in the second season episode You've Got Male.

When Patrick asks Eve "A Stanford-educated wine-maker and a pay-by-the-hour dance instructor...what'd you talk about? "the words "pay-by-the-hour" were removed from the sound track. There is a pause before the word "dance" and you can see Simon Baker's mouth move. The words are still on the closed-caption display.

The Chinese gangsters are said to be taken care by Chinese Embassy. In reality, Chinese nationals in Sacramento will be cared by Chinese Consulate-General of San Francisco.

Goof: Mr Porchetto answers sarcastically to Lisbon's question "What Mexicans?" with "Julio Iglesias. Who do you think?!" Julio Iglesias is Spanish, not Mexican, a fact known to anybody with Latino ascent.

When Lisbon introduces herself to the amnesiac Jane, she calls herself "Detective". However, it's established that her title is "Special Agent" of the CBI.

The game shown on the TV at Doc's bar in the opening scenes is an from an actual U.S. college football game. On September 16, 2006, the #19 Nebraska Cornhuskers played the #4 University of Southern California (USC) Trojans in Los Angeles. The score on screen was 21-3 for USC and USC went on to win the game 21-10.

Carmine is French for red crimson.

The title of the episode refers to the little red book Jane forges to deceive Haffner.

Realistically, Timothy Carter's corpse would have been too rotten to be recognizable.

When Sally is holding the keys in front of Debbie, the biting of the key faces a different direction between shots.

The necklace that Craig O'Laughlin gives to Grace Van Pelt wasn't made until the late 1990's/early 2000's. Back then they were either clasped or strung (no clasps), never toggle.

In the opening scene, the closeup of the phone ringing just before the bomb explodes shows the front end of a blue car. However when the bomb explodes, the blue car is just pulling into the parking spot. It wouldn't have been visible during the closeup on the phone.