The Mentalist may give viewers the fan friendly finale they have been hoping for.

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Although Patrick Jane and the FBI will close out the series with a serial killer, the Mentalist and his coworkers could have a happy ending after all.

"One of the things about getting rid of the Red John story is it allows us to play the essential lightness at heart of the show much more strongly. It's not a tragic, doom-laden show," said series creator Bruno Heller, according to Yahoo! TV. "It's not about trauma. It's about hope, and that's very much how we wanted to leave the show."

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However, Baker previously stated that he would like to see Jane have a tragic ending in keeping with his status as a tragic character. While Heller wouldn't dish on the finale episode of season 7, he did tell Enstars that "life is not serious enough to be tragedy, but to serious to be comedy."

So, perhaps Heller is planning to walk the very thin line between the two.

Find out more when The Mentalist airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. Click the video below to see a preview for the series' next episode, "The Greybar Hotel."

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