The hit police procedural drama series "The Mentalist" is on its seventh and last season, and everybody is interested on what direction the long-running series will take. The series, which first aired in 2008, will culminate to Patrick Jane leaving behind his FBI duties for good. The show has brought about the possibilities, with Jane talking to Lisbon about it in the current season. However, TV Line revealed that the former mind reader and the co-CBI agent he has cozied up with will solve crime mysteries until the end. 

TV Line stated that the end of "The Mentalist" will put the CBI partners head to head with a terrorizing murderer who goes by the name of Lazarus.  The villain, according to the site, works as an exterminator but has psychopathec tendencies. The showdown between the felon and the crime-solving duo will run in a two-part special. The penultimate episode is titled "Brown Shag Carpet." The series will then be wrapped up fully in "White Orchids." There is still more than a month before the last mission is deployed though. 

In the meantime, fans can gear up for the show's return on Jan. 7 with the episode "Green Light." In promotional photos shared by TV Fanatic, it looks like Jane will be having a blast on his birthday in the Airstream with Lisbon. One photo even shows their lips locked. Amid the small celebration is Abbott entangled in a mess where he is forced to keep quiet about the error the agency has committed. Abbott will have to weigh in what's really important to him. 

Meanwhile, Zap2it's TV By The Numbers showed that "The Mentalist" is doing great in the viewership department. From last week's 1.3 million adult viewers sticking with Jane and his adventures, the end of the year saw a 1 million viewer surge. The numbers were collected from Dec. 28, when CBS aired "The Silver Briefcase."