Teresa Lisbon would never know how close she came to death. At the time, even Jane didn't understand it. As secret love for her kept him at her hospital bedside, turning the situation over in his head, he was certain Red John had been merely playing with them…until later.
He wondered if the feathered friends that saved Jane's life by panicking McAllister were the same distraction that stopped Red John from slicing darling Teresa into a thousand shreds. Intent on his mutilating, did he not see the rats with wings until he finished painting Lisbon's face?
Saved by the pigeons?