I thought exactly the same thing, erika.

And I totally know she's not as young as Tibby, but late thirties is young on a detective squad, as Bayliss found out. As the old commercial said "I've done a little reading on my own" on this particular subject. It's not personal; I'm happy to see AT on TV again, but it's no wonder kids have no idea what careers look like from what they see in the media. Everything is not like professional sports or boy bands...in some fields, it's good to be a little seasoned, you know?

And I thought I was young to have that as a hot button...who knew?

Yeah, she would be young to be in Vice too, wouldn't she? (Or she would have to be the youngest.)

Yeah, and somehow my keen detective instincts tell me it'd be difficult to be young and cute on the Vice squad. I know times are changing; Joseph Wambaugh even included breast-pump humor in his latest, but there's still kind of a locker-room vibe.

In real life, vice is often a young person's game. Almost all vice is undercover, and once someone has a fair amount of experience, he stands a much better chance of being ID'ed as a cop. Also, not having a family yet is a plus. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation starts their youngest agents in vice; my ex was doing buy-busts when he was 25.

At 25, she is too young to be a murder detective.

If you wanted to do a really innovative cop show these days, you'd do one in which no one has deep dark secrets.

I thought that Owain Yeoman was looking very good in last night's Mentalist. And not even in a hurt/comfort sort of way. Though I am surprised that two years on an arson squad made him an expert, other than relatively speaking.

Did anyone else do the mentalist trick Jane lead off with? Is the assumption that everyone puts a triangle in a circle, or is it more complex than that?

I'm still wondering why Jane brought up what he was going to do with Red John if he ever got his hands on him, other than to tie in with the Avenging Rain Man. Unless it really was to keep Lisbon at a distance (as someone on another board speculated). I mean, this is the guy who never shows his hand. Or maybe he's like first season Charlie Crews, and he doesn't really know what he'd do if confronted, and he wants to make sure that Lisbon will protect him from himself, but that's even more out of the blue. Maybe it really was because she blushed.

I didn't put a triangle in a circle.

(I did the trick though.)

I loved that scene where it took Rigsby an extra long time to get the mummy reference.

I put a circle in a triangle, FTR.