Lisbon tells her CBI team that they've lost the Red John case. She quickly quiets their protests and tells them that it's her fault, that they've grown "slack and unprofessional." She feels it's time to earn back the trust they've lost. Jane, on the other hand, starts packing up his belongings. When Lisbon angrily asks if he's leaving, Jane says if he can't use the office to seek personal revenge, there's not a lot there for him. He dejectedly states that their jobs don't do anyone any good, that they don't make the world better, and what's the point? He feels he's done more good as a psychic.
The team is upset, and Lisbon is disgusted. She tells Jane better leave, so he can go back to being a fraud and they can go back to their useless jobs. Jane starts to backpedal, saying he was talking more about himself, but Van Pelt gets a call about a job. With a few angry backward glances, the team abandons Jane in the office.
Next we see the CBI team split, with Cho taking his own car while Van Pelt, Lisbon, and Rigsby take the SUV. Rigsby tells Lisbon that they need Jane. Lisbon counters they even if they close less cases, the ones they do will be done right. The back door of the SUV opens and Jane slips into the car, saying he'll do one more case. Asserting her authority, Lisbon tells him to do up his seatbelt.
The team proceeds to an apartment building where a Jane Doe has been found murdered. Van Pelt, Lisbon, and Jane look over the crime scene. The woman has been hit with a stun gun and suffocated. The apartment has been thoroughly tossed, so Jane surmises that they didn't find what they were looking for. Van Pelt thinks it might have been a romantic crime, but Jane disagrees--though he compliments her reasoning.
Jane feels she's a guilty housewife hiding out. Using a family picture he found on the wall, he asks Van Pelt to do an Internet search on first the child's high school trophy and then match the surnames with "disappearance". To Lisbon's disgruntled surprise, Van Pelt's search turns up a Monica Dunninger, who supposedly embezzled $1 million from her employer.
As the team loads into the SUV to pursue this latest lead, Jane and Lisbon get into a spat over his typical mysterious way of solving crimes that leaves her in the dark. Jane puts his foot in his mouth for the second time that day, when he asserts that he's only helping out because they'll be "lost without him." Lisbon gets into the SUV and they speed off, leaving Jane behind at the apartment building.
Cho pulls up in his own car next to Jane. With his usual deadpan delivery, he asks what Jane said to the team. Jane of course describes it as an overreaction. He gets into the car and tells Cho they need to find a house for sale. Cho decides not to bother asking, and simply takes Jane to the nearest house with a Realtor sign out front.
Jane approaches the house, knocks to make sure no one is home, then looks through the piled up mail. He finds the homeowner's name, "Miles Thorsen". He uses an envelope to write a note on the door: "Monica, call me--Miles", plus a phone number. Jane of course refuses to tell Cho what he's up to, and asks Cho to stop by a fresh strawberry stand across the street.
