High school reunions are rarely pictured as places of happiness. It seems that no matter how much has changed, when reunited, people are ever the same. Unless, of course, they end up dead...then they are definitely far more interesting.
When a husband and wife end up dead on their way to his high school reunion, Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) has a little too much fun... Of course, this is the standard for Jane and one might argue that in reality Theresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney) would never allow him anywhere unsupervised, but I think she enjoys the chaos.
The interesting question is if he really did not expect a brawl to occur when he encouraged a man, formerly called frogman by his classmates, to stick up for himself. Jane might play the innocent, but when has he ever done anything that didn't generate the exact response he expected? And was it really all that wrong of him to let the jerk get punched in the face?
Unconnected to the murder, we had an interesting development within the team. Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) got to work in the field on this case, which I feared might cause tension for her and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman). Luckily, this only happened so that Jane could blackmail Rigsby into pretending to be a former student of the school and unmask the murderer.
It seems Rigsby was right all alone, and Jane knows that he and Van Pelt are involved (duh!). And is it any surprise that Jane would use that information to get what he wants without actually having to reveal anything. He's probably happy for the couple.
While Rigsby's stint using his memory palace was quite successful, the most memorable line of the episode goes to Cho (Tim Kang). When a suspect claimed he listened to his brain which told him to run, Cho responded, delightfully deadpan "Your brain's a fool." Oh Cho, much as I love Rigsby and Jane, they could not deliver your lines the way you do.
In the end, the murder was solved, and the evidence was not destroyed because of vanity. Jane must have an easy time recognizing vanity since it is so much a part of him as well.
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