'The Mentalist' Season 6 Spoilers: First Look At Lisbon's New Boyfriend In 'Violets' [PHOTOS], Who Is He? [VIDEO]
The Mentalist team is preparing to pose as cons to dismantle a ring of art thieves, but Teresa Lisbon will steal someone's heart instead.
Lisbon To Make Major Career & Relationship Decisions On 'The Mentalist'
The former CBI agent will get a new love interest during "Violets," and it won't be Patrick Jane (Simon Baker). Instead, Lisbon (Robin Tunney) will have a romantic five-episode arc with Pedro Pascal's FBI Agent Marcus Pike (see gallery above).
A member of the FBI art squad, Pike will be teaming up with Agent Abbott's (Rockmond Dunbar) crew for their sting in episode 16. Described by TV Line as a "charming man with integrity, a blue collar cop with FBI smarts," Pike will swoop in to take on a role that fans have long hoped that Jane would play.
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While the end of the Red John story opened up possibility of a relationship between Jane and Lisbon, a Jisbon pairing has yet to materialize. However, series creator Bruno Heller has not completely ruled out the possibility that the long-time partners will eventually find themselves in a romantic relationship.
"They haven't been thinking about [their growing closeness] while it's been happening, so all this accumulated emotion and feeling has been building up, essentially, behind them," Heller explained to TV Line as the series moved into its post-Red John plot. "It's only when they step away from that and can turn around and look back that they will really start to see how they feel about each other, and it's great fun to explore that on the page. I think it's going to be a whole different look at these two characters."
With The Mentalist still on the ropes for a season 7 renewal, there is an ever-increasing chance that Jane and Lisbon won't be given enough time to properly analyze their feelings for one another.
The Mentalist airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. Click the video below to see a preview for the series' next episode, "Grey Water."
