EPISODE

7. Little Yellow House

A murder investigation becomes personal for Lisbon when she learns that her underachieving younger brother, Jimmy, is being sought as a key witness.

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The FBI investigates the murder of a high-profile lawyer, who is apparently linked to Lisbon's younger brother Jimmy ( Robert Belushi ). Surprised, Lisbon brings Jane along to her hometown of Chicago, where they reunite with Lisbon's brother Stan ( Derek Phillips ) and later find Jimmy near a pond. Jane learns that Jimmy is an avid gambler and under FBI suspicion since he was present in a game with the lawyer. Jane convinces Jimmy to cooperate with the FBI and play a monitored poker game with the other players present, suspecting that one of them is the killer. Wylie and Vega watch the surveillance to figure out each player's "tells". Lisbon pretends to be a psychic and announces that the killer is holding an ace, knowing that every player is holding an ace. The lawyer's friend, Charlie McInnis, scratches his brow (his tell), and Cho confronts him as the killer while Jane tells the head player, a mob boss, that McInnis has been cheating by watching them through the surveillance camera. Cho gives McInnis the choice of surrendering or facing the wrath of the mob boss, with McInnis opting to the former. He says he killed the lawyer under suspicion that the man was having an affair with McInnis' wife, but this later proves untrue. Lisbon and Jane attend a party hosted by Stan for his baby, and Lisbon tells Jane she loves him.

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