The Mentalist

iTricks has picked up the fact that Warner are producing a pilot of a show called “The Mentalist”.

It “centers on Patrick Jane, a mentalist who uses his skills of observation to solve crimes as an independent detective working with the police”

This sounds like a Mitchell and Webb sketch rather than a real serious show and I look forward to taking a look at it later in the year.

Fortunately I have some contacts at Warner who have released to me some previews of some of the dialog and I’ll post them here for you to take a look at:

Scene 1:

Mentalist Guy: (showing the bad guy a piece of white card with three shapes on it) “Pick one punk”
Bad Guy: “No way mentalist guy”
Mentalist Guy: “PICK ONE!”
Bad Guy: “Err, OK, the red circle”
Mentalist Guy: “Handcuff him Big Cop Guy. The red signifies blood and the circle a bullet hole: he’s GUILTY!”

Scene 2

Big Cop Guy: “Oh no Mentalist Guy: Bad Guy has scattered broken glass all over the floor!”
Mentalist Guy: “Don’t worry Big Cop Guy – I shall go into a trance and walk barefoot across it”

Scene 3

Big Cop Guy: “If only we knew the phone number he dialed the day of the murder”
Mentalist Guy:“Pass me that phone directory Big Cop Guy and pick a number between 1 and 100″.

Scene 4

Bad Guy:“But how did you know I used the pick axe to kill her?”
Mentalist Guy:“I have in my pocket a wallet. Here open it. Open it punk! You will find inside a wonky pencil drawing of an axe.”

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