Enticed by the promise from a convicted murder that he'll reveal information about Red John upon his release, Patrick Jane becomes singularly focused and quits the CBI in order to prove the prisoner is innocent.
A hostage situation at a supermarket changes everyone's lives.
The remains of a teenage runaway are discovered and his parents think he was murdered by his "wrong side of the tracks" girlfriend. When it becomes apparent that she is interested in tragic love stories, i.e., addicted to Romeo and Juliet, Bones and Booth are about to concur, but new evidence leads them to believe a man helping runaways may be involved.
A woman emerges from a two-year coma not knowing who she is and with no memory of the unsolved murder of her 6-year-old daughter.
Ria blames herself when two museum security guards, that she vetted and approved, try to steal a valuable artifact. Both men are shot and killed by another guard, who is devastated that he killed the two men. Meanwhile, Cal becomes involved in a game of cat-and-mouse with a beautiful woman and the man who is stalking her.