Gorman is the minor antagonist of The Mentalist TV-show. He is a law officer, who serves Adrian Essex as an assasin. He is played by Daniel Travis.
Biography[]
Gorman calls Grace Van Pelt to control Justin DeGeorge's safety. Justin became a witness of crimes of a drug lord named Adrian Essex and is ready to give a testimony. Grace hear some kind of noice and gets stunned. When she regains consciousness, she rushes to see what happened to Justin and hears gunshots. She finds Justin's corpse. Justin's daughter Trina vanished. Lisbon's team immediately goes there to investigate. Patrick Jane manages to find Trina, but she doesn't remember what happened. Essex is checked, but he escapes after his drug dealing business is exposed. Patrick deduces where he is and Essex is arrested. Patrick also deduces that Gorman is Essex's mole and assasin. He was hired to kill Justin DeGeorge and already killed at least five people under Essex's orders. Patrick creates a plan. He lies to Gorman that Trina remembered something and is hidden from Essex. Gorman comes to kill her, but gets killed by Grace Van Pelt. Later, it turns out that while Gorman was paid to kill Justin, he didn't do that, Trina did. Gorman wanted to kill her to prevent her from speaking as it would expose Gorman betrayed Essex.
Trivia[]
- He is somewhat similar to Craig O'Laughlin. Both are sent to kill other criminal (Todd Johnson and Justin DeGeorge respectively) and try to kill Teresa Lisbon, but are killed by Grace Van Pelt.
- He is also somewhat to Roy Carmen. Both are corrupt law enforces who are hired to kill a criminal (Justin DeGeorge and William McTier respectively) by someone who paid them (Adrian Essex and Milton Howard respectively).