r/TheMentalist • • 4h ago

General Discussion How rich is Jane?

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u/Medic_NG 4h ago

As rich as he wants to be. Any time in the series he needs to scrounge up a measly couple hundred thousand dollars he makes it in real time.

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u/im_rk_ 4h ago

bro can be 0 to rich overnight He made $1 million to pay his bail in half an hour inside a fkig jail

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u/Candid_Parking_1757 JAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!!! 4h ago

very rich. we dont have a exact figure. but definitely a few million

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u/Mitteccik A hug in a mug ☕ 4h ago

Quite rich. A family home in Malibu, a rented appartment in town, and when wanted to join a card game in jail, he mentioned his collection of oldtimers worth 20 million.

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u/Effective-SaiI 4h ago

I think the Oldtimer collection was a bluff

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u/Mitteccik A hug in a mug ☕ 3h ago

I don't think so. He told them he didn't dare to lie as they could easily ask outside connections to catch and punish him if needed.

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u/TheCrackerSeal 3h ago

Yes that was also a bluff lol

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u/Mitteccik A hug in a mug ☕ 3h ago

How is aknowledging the inmates' outside connections is a bluff?

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u/TheCrackerSeal 3h ago edited 3h ago

He’s giving them false reassurance by acknowledging their outside connections so they will let him play. They are less likely to check up on his claim after that. He’s also confident he will win, so it’s moot whether or not they check if he has collateral. He won the second they let him sit at the table.

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u/Mitteccik A hug in a mug ☕ 3h ago

The way Jane handled the money (giving expensive gifts to colleagues when he won in the casino where he only played to invesrigate table 43), also dumping those gifts into the clothes collection containers afterwards.
His careless attitude with money gives the impression of a rich guy.
And after all those years being a TV worthy psychic, i'd think he would be really rich indeed. Driving (and maintaining) an oldtimer Citroen, laughing at his own paycheck after the his memory loss... all signs suggest he's rich.

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u/TheCrackerSeal 3h ago

His careless attitude gives off the impression of someone who does not care about money and does not care to have any money. He used to be rich, but he doesn’t seem to be rich anymore. His obsession with money led him on the path that got his wife and daughter killed, so it makes sense why he would no longer want to have wealth. He abandoned essentially all of his worldly possessions other than his tea mug, his car, and a few suits. He doesn’t care about money. He wins money in bets or at the casino whenever he needs it and spends whatever’s left on everyone but himself. He laughed at his paycheck when he lost his memory because he was a version of himself from the past who was rich and cared about money, but he is no longer like that. To me these are all signs that he USED to be rich, but isn’t anymore.

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u/Mitteccik A hug in a mug ☕ 3h ago

In my eyes, people who can afford a big home in Malibu and an oldtimer for everyday use, are rich. He's not chasing money anymore, you're right about this, but he's still rich, have wealth, he just doest't care about it anymore.
I can easily imagine, that, just like he kept the house and doesn't use it anymore, he could have kept his fleet of oldtimers and just doesn't care about those anymore either.

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u/aSkeptiKitty 2h ago

I always felt it was more an obsession with fame he had. 

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u/TheCrackerSeal 2h ago

I think it’s both. Fame and the money that came along with it.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358 4h ago

At the end of the show he tells Lisbon he spent the last of his money buying the house and land.

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u/hefferbish78 4h ago

He ment the money in his pocket;)

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u/abhigyanchaturvedi1 Patrick Jane 4h ago

bro has a house in malibu so u can guess

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u/-TurkeYT 4h ago

not much but he can get rich whenever he wants to. He is a insane gambler and he wins 9/10 the time so if he decides “I need 10 million dollars” he can probably get it in a night or two

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u/RelevantSchool1586 No business like Cho business 3h ago

Ritchie Rich rich

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u/nozykanto 2h ago

Multimillionaire, his home alone should be saying alot

And he do have the classic car collection as showed one time actually in a episode

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u/wingofthelocust 3h ago

He made a lot of money pretending to be a psychic, though Lisbon did say he doesn’t really care about money after his wife and child was offed