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.

I got stuck trying to figure out what was "square-like but not a square". I may have been really tired.

I think I'm about ready to hang my hat up on Life.

I thought last night's was pretty good!

Yeah, I went with rectangle because it's also a quadrangle. A rectangle in a triangle.

I must be weird.

I need Life to move away from Reese and Tidwell.

L&O, however, was excellent.

I haven't watched my dvr'd Life yet, but I did catch L&O for the first time in several years (I haven't really watched first-run eps since Jerry Orbach died), mostly because Katee Sackhoff was in it. Too bad her role was relatively small (she did get the "and" position in the opening ep credits, though), but Clancy Brown really stole the show. I liked the political machinations that McCoy played with the governor, too.

I put a crescent in a circle because I froze on not-square and couldn't think of anything actually simple.

Reese and Tidwell still creeps me out.