Title: Zero Hour
Fandom: The Mentalist
Rating: PG-13
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Spoilers for 6x08. Do not read this unless you've watched the episode.
Author notes: A drabble. Written for the Z challenge on fan_flashworks.
Summary: It was zero hour now.



His heart skipped a beat when the sidekick directed his gun at Gale Bertram and pulled the trigger. He wasn’t really expecting that; then a voice made itself heard from the shadows gathering at the other end of the chapel, a voice he knew only too well.

Red John was there; and he still thought he was the smarter man in the room, while he actually was not. Jane still had an ace up his sleeve, so to speak.

The decade-long chase for the man that had murdered his wife and child was finally over.

It was zero hour now.