Plot summary
The team is called to Bright Arch, a wilderness program for troubled youth, to investigate the death of one of the students, Justin Prentiss. Jane is able to talk to the students in a less formal setting and finds out that Justin was part of the Z crew, a secret group that gets its name from the story of a mad ax man named Zachariah. Jane stages the resurrection of Zachariah at the school's Sacred Fire, to unearth the real culprit.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, The Mentalist season 1. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.