The Mentalist won't return until 2015, but the cast will return to set before July comes to a close.

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Set to reenter CBS's lineup around midseason, The Mentalist will bring Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) back for a 13-episode seventh season. Despite the series' extra-long hiatus, production will start up in just a few weeks.

"We start shooting on...7/30," tweeted Karl Sonnenberg, The Mentalist's police and medical technical advisor.

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Season 7 may be shorter than normal, but series creator Bruno Heller promises that the "encore" performance will be just as entertaining as past years.

"The purpose of an encore is to get people leaving the theater happy and giving them what they want and hitting your marks as strong as possible, so that will be the intention," Heller told The Hollywood Reporter.

While The Mentalist had to restart the series' storyline following the death of Red John, the fact that Jane and Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney) have finally acted on their romantic feelings for each other should serve to keep the program fresh (see video below).

Find out more when The Mentalist returns to CBS in 2015.

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