Emily Swallow Won't Return As Kim Fischer, Cast In Bravo Series

Emily Swallow will not return as Kim Fischer during season 7 of The Mentalist.

After only 14 episodes, the FBI agent will leave the team. Swallow confirmed recent rumors on Monday.

"Don't be sad! I'll still be popping up on your tv screen :)," Swallow tweeted in response to a concerned fan on Sunday.

The actress will indeed continue her TV career, this time on Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce.

It is currently unknown why Swallow was written out of the upcoming season. The character of Jane Fischer only appeared in the post-Red John world, and it looks like another female agent will quickly take her place. Josie Loren will appear as rookie Agent Michelle Vega in the 13-episode seventh season, and she will probably be introduced in the premiere.

Filming for season 7 is already underway, with episode 3 ("Orange Blossom Ice Cream") already completed and episode 2 ("Graybar Hotel") currently in progress. The premiere, "Nothing But Blue Skies," will shoot next.

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‘NYPD Blue,’ ‘Franklin & Bash’ alum to guest

Who is the latest actor joining the world of Patrick Jane? It’s someone who may already know a thing or two about solving cases on TV.

Per a post on her official Twitter, “NYPD Blue,” “The Jamie Foxx Show,” and “Franklin & Bash” actress Garcelle Beauvais is going to be guest-starring on an upcoming season 7 episode of “The Mentalist.” As for who she will be playing, all we can tell from some photo online is that she will be someone within the world of law enforcement.Her character has a badge, after all, and seems to mean business.

“The Mentalist” is still in the early stages of season 7 production, but has already taken a big risk in filming in some pretty public places. Luckily, they don’t have anything that spoiler-related that they necessary need to hide this early on in the season. We know that Jane and Lisbon now know how the other one feels, and we’re assuming that they’ll try to make a relationship work now. As for whether or not it will, that remains to still be seen (but we’re feeling hopeful).

Sadly, there is still no official premiere date for the show, but if we were one to guess, our assumption would be that the show will come on the air in either January or March. It’ll be the former if CBS has a show they want to replace on the schedule; meanwhile, it’ll be the latter if they have a good fall schedule and want to just air the show out until the May sweeps. There’s no confirmation that this is the final season, but that is our feeling going into it. (We’re fine with being pleasantly surprised later.)

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'The Mentalist' Season 7 Spoilers: Sociopath To Upset Jisbon? Erika Flynn Returns

The Mentalist's Patrick Jane and Teresa Lisbon better watch their backs; sociopath Erika Flynn is back and looking to drive a wedge into the newly created Jisbon relationship.

Played by Firefly's Morena Baccarin, Entertainment Weekly reports that Flynn will reappear in episode 3 of season 7. Guilty of murdering her husband, Flynn first appeared in season 3's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and later escaped custody in Season 4's "War of the Roses."

When fans next see Erika, she will be overseas.

"Jane teams up with Erika Flynn in Beirut, Lebanon, where he and Lisbon have gone at the request of the CIA to take down an international weapons dealer," Entertainment Weekly reports. "Erika has agreed to help Jane and the CIA in exchange for a pardon on the murder charges she's still facing and the chance to return to the U.S. But as always Erika has agendas of her own, one of which may, or may not, be inserting herself between Jane and Lisbon."

Will this wily seductress wreck Jane (Simon Baker) and Lisbon's (Robin Tunney) relationship, or will the two investigators be wise enough to steer clear of her traps? Find out more when The Mentalist returns in 2015.

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A few more notes on a new character

As a “Mentalist” fan, you must be feeling the burn right now. It is not exactly clear when the show will be returning to CBS, and there’s also the large possibility that season 7 could be the end of the road. At least you have Jane and Lisbon, right? We at least feel pretty good that the show is not going to turn around and suddenly break them up now after getting them together, mostly because that would be the most awful thing imaginable.

Unfortunately, we have no further news right now about the relationship between these two. Instead, we are here to write a little more about the Michelle Vega character. If you remember from when we last wrote about her, we described her as a very ambitious new FBI agent who is looking to become very proficient with all forms of combat. We’ve learned a little more now, and it’s starting to sound like she will be more of an on-the-job adversary to Patrick Jane than someone he can rely on for shenanigans.

According to a report from TV Guide, this character is actually going to be fairly by-the-book, and is willing to work so hard to impress her superiors that she’ll sacrifice almost everything in her life. This means not having a whole lot of friends or free time, and we’re not sure that this is something Patrick would support at all. Now that Red John is dead, the guy likes to fit in some of his time for relaxation.

As for when “The Mentalist” could return, our guess right now would be either in January as a three-month fill-in series while another show is on hiatus, or March where it could run straight through to the end of the May sweeps. Either way, we expect a run weekly of all 13 episodes, and then we’ll see where the chips fall for the show from there.

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Amanda Righetti and Owain Yeoman Exit the CBS Drama—Did Van Pelt and Rigsby Make it Out Alive?

The Mentalist family is down two members.

While their impending departures from the CBS series was first reported in August, before the sixth season even premiered, Amanda Righetti and Owain Yeoman's final episode as series regulars didn't air until Sunday, March 23.

Righetti and Yeoman, who have been with the show since it began in 2008, play special agents Grace Van Pelt and Wayne Rigsby, the show's fan favorite couple who wed in the season five finale, so viewers have been anxious to see how their story ends.

So did both Rigsby and Van Pelt make it out of "White as the Driven Snow," which began with Van Pelt kidnapped and in some serious danger, alive? Warning, spoilers ahead!

Though it looked rocky for a moment, Rigsby and Van Pelt both made it out of the hour alive...and happy!

Pulling off a tricky ruse with Jane (Simon Baker), Rigsby was able to rescue Van Pelt from Richard Haibach (William Mapother), the person hunting down and killing former CBI agents, though he was severely injured in the process.

After his stellar work on the case (and a recovery, of course), Rigsby was offered a full-time position with the FBI, but he turned it down as the couple decided to leave the law enforcement life behind. Don't you love it when your favorite TV characters actually get a happy ending?!

Fortunately, Righetti's fans won't have to wait too long to see her back on their TV screens as we exclusively reported that she's set to guest star on Chicago PD and Chicago Fire as a pediatrician during the NBC hit drama's upcoming crossover episodes. And there's even buzz that a third spinoff, Chicago M.D., could be in the works.

Prior to Sunday's episode, fans of the show were able to make#GoodbyeWayneandGrace a wordwide trending topic on Twitter. "Am so proud and humbled by #GoodbyeWayneandGrace trending worldwide," Yeoman wrote. "So lucky to have such awesome followers. Thanku."

The Mentalist airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on CBS.

Two Cast Members Say Goodbye

On this past Sunday’s episode of The Mentalist, the show’s fans said goodbye to two characters that have been there from the beginning.

Wayne Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt, played by Owain Yeoman and Amanda Righetti respectively, always had a mutual attraction that played out on screen. The “will they, won’t they” on and off relationship between the two characters led to much humor and drama as they navigated the waters of having an office romance.

The two dated other people in the show at times, with Grace Van Pelt even becoming engaged to an eventual villain who turned out to be Red John’s accomplice, but the two were reunited in the sixth season again.

In an interview with TV Guide, Yeoman said that both he and Righetti were satisfied with the closure provided for their characters.

“I feel very satisfied that we gave the characters the conclusion that we did,” Yeoman said. “We chose both the most satisfying but also the most practical way of ending their characters.”

On Sunday, Yeoman live-tweeted his character’s last episode of The Mentalist, even noting in one scene that it was a “very emotional scene to shoot” because it was “our last shot as a team” and the “last scene of my last night shooting.”

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The Mentalist's Owain Yeoman Hails Rigsby's 'Action-Packed' Send-Off — Next Stop: Gotham? (Interview)

On CBS’ The Mentalist (Sunday, 10/9c), someone is hunting and killing CBI members, present and past — the latest target being Grace, who was abducted at the close of last week’s episode. That harrowing development paves the way this Sunday for an “action-packed” swan song for two original cast members: Owain Yeoman, who plays former CBI agent/Grace’s husband Wayne Risgby, and Amanda Righetti herself.

TVLine spoke with Yeoman about bidding the show adieu after nearly six seasons, having Rigsby go out with a bang, the “pairing” he’ll miss most and whether there’s a place for him in series creator Bruno Heller’s buzzy new project, Gotham.

TVLINE | Where does this Sunday’s episode pick up in relation to last week’s, where Wayne had just called Grace and then we saw someone come up behind her?
It’s sort of an immediate follow-up, and it escalates from there. It was great fun for me because it was an action-packed episode and in many respects very unlike our show, which has become a bit synonymous with being a little sleepier, a little slower. But from the minute this one starts, it doesn’t really let up.

TVLINE | Yeah. In some of the photos Rigsby looks like he’s getting pretty aggressive with people, slamming Heibach (played by Lost’s William Mapother) up against a wall and stuff.
It’s a very different Rigsby than the one we’ve known in the past. I sat down with the writers and we were trying to work out how best to say goodbye to a beloved character and give it a proper finale, and I think where we’ve ended up in this episode is a real fitting tribute.

TVLINE | Does Heibach now top the list of suspects?
In many respects, yes. But the beauty of this storyline is that every single one of those people has a beef with the CBI. Now that of course Red John is out of the picture, there’s that feeling that everyone’s taken a big collective sort of sigh of relief. But it’s important for the life of the show to make sure that there’s a feeling of a new antagonist there, so we’re going to learn throughout this episode what this antagonist’s motivation is in attacking these CBI characters. I can’t give away exactly who it is, but the person who does end up being the main antagonist in the episode is brilliantly played. The whole thing felt like a little bit of a mini feature for me — it was very location heavy, very action heavy and there’s a lot of twists and turns. The CBI, and particularly Rigsby and Cho, are together taking matters into their own hands, saying that if someone attacks us personally this is a personal call to arms for us.

TVLINE | You mentioned this antagonist’s motivation. Is it an understandable one?
I think Bruno [Heller] very carefully made sure that all of those people have a genuine motivation. Long-term fans have an involved knowledge of the characters going way back into the history of the show and they will definitely understand why this character has a bit of beef. So yeah, it’s very interesting and I think it puts us all in a very extreme situation. It was very funny to shoot these huge “winter” landscapes location in 80-degree heat while we were spraying everything down with fake snow. That was a little bit befuddling for the mind. But for me, the action really doesn’t stop. There’s a series of car chase sequences, and at one point, I’m actually holding someone out a car, to an almost Mission Impossible effect. It was great fun to shoot.

TVLINE | Since this is your and Amanda’s last episode — and without spoiling the outcome — does it end in a way that viewers will be like, “Well, yeah, I guess it does make sense that they’re leaving the show now”?
I hope so. I mean, I think it’s been an important development for the show to try to move things forward. After six years on the air, the formula of a show can become comfortable, so the need to introduce new blood and a new angle is very important. Hopefully people who have followed the show from day one will understand, while they might not love the idea of two beloved characters leaving. Certainly, within the mythology of the episode, they’ll understand why it is that those characters are not going to be around. I think it gives closure for sure.

TVLINE | Of course, the news of your departure leaked back in August. But when did you know how you were going to be written out? Were you given any kind of a timetable?
It was always [meant to happen] on or around the episode that we ended up leaving. Bruno has had a very clear mythology of the show from day one — funnily enough, in one of the first ever interviews, he said, “I see this show running for six years,” and here we are six years later with a lot of these things being tied up. Clearly, the man’s a genius, the true mentalist. But it was discussed with us, and we went back and forth on a couple of scenarios. It’s very hard, I think, to make sure that you honor the life of that character and do it in such a way that makes people feel like that character has been fairly treated in his or her departure. But feel like the characters had run their course. They had the love story realized with the marriage earlier in the season, and all the really worthwhile, creative stories have been told from Rigsby and Van Pelt’s point of view.

TVLINE | What will you miss most about being on the show? Any on-set antics? Any cast member’s eccentricities?
I’ve had a long-standing, fun “bromance” as it were with Tim [Kang]’s character, Cho — we affectionately called them “Chigsby,” and that will definitely be the thing that I miss the most. Tim and I share a very similar sense of humor and he always makes me laugh. When I speak to people about that, I forget that they just don’t know how funny Tim is. They say to me, “Does he ever smile?” I’ll definitely miss him and just being part of that big family unit. After six years, you end up seeing more of them than you do your own family, so it was a sad day to say goodbye but I felt like we’d really, really closed the chapter in a very appropriate way.

TVLINE | You mentioned your regard for Bruno Heller. If there was an opportunity, who would you like to play on his new Fox series, Gotham? Maybe the Riddler?
I’d had a conversation with him! I said, “I’m just going to let you know, Bruno, that I do look particularly good in a Batman costume.” He said, “That’s great, but unfortunately [on Gotham] Bruce Wayne is 11. So as much range as you have, I don’t know if you can play an 11-year-old.” But if Gotham’s on for another 20 years, it should be just about right for me to step in as Batman! I wish him the best of luck with that — I think they have a really interesting and a really unique take on that whole mythology.

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What departing star may already have new TV gig? (Amanda Righetti)

Regardless of whether or not this is the final season of “The Mentalist,” one of the series’ stars is clearly winning out already when it comes to getting another gig that could turn into something much more.

According to a new report from E! News, Amanda Righetti is going to guest-star in an upcoming crossover episode of “Chicago Fire” and new series “Chicago PD.” What is her role? She’s going to play the part of a pediatrician … which is of course causing all sorts of rumors on its own.

What is the reason for that? Think along the lines of the fact that there could be yet another spin-off for the NBC franchise, since there are rumors about a “Chicago MD” starting up featuring Righetti in the cast. Sources are conflicting as to whether or not there are discussions about this, we’re sure that it is something that has at least been discussed. Why not think about it? This franchise may not be a smash, but the numbers are pretty solid. The only reason that we’d be skeptical about this actually working out is because of the fact that it’s hard for any network to have three shows, and NBC already has a limited schedule thanks to NFL football being on during the fall.

Righetti is going to be departing “The Mentalist” very soon, and the show’s future is still being worked out. Yesterday, we wrote a piece suggesting that it is still very much possible that another network could pick up the show, even if it is canceled.

‘The Mentalist’ season 6 enlists (ironically) ‘Enlisted’ star for guest spot

It’s been a little while since we have been able to talk much about “The Mentalist,” but there have been some pretty big reasons why. For one, the show has been off the air for a good while, and we’re also not going to be seeing it head back in the immediate future thanks mostly to the beast known as the Olympics. While Patrick Jane may be able to take out Red John, some championship figure skaters may still give him a a run for his money.

What we are here to report today is that at some point later this season, a familiar TV face will be stopping by. As confirmed courtesy of her own Twitter account, Angelique Cabral, otherwise known right now as Jill Perez on Fox’s criminally-underrated and under-watched comedy “Enlisted,” is going to be appearing. Sadly, there is no word yet on just what sort of role she will be playing.

As of right now, most of the scoop out there about the rest of this season is that there will be a new love interest for Lisbon, and that Patrick Jane is going to have to continue adjusting to life without some sort of singular focus. That, in many ways, will be the major struggle that he and the show face. How do you make his journey compelling after he has found justice in his own way? That is a very difficult challenge especially since, in true realistic fashion, he never got all the answers about Red John that he probably wanted.

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The Mentalist Casts Graceland Actor as Lisbon's New Beau

TVLine has learned exclusively that Pedro Pascal — whose recent TV credits include Graceland, Red Widow and an upcoming arc as Game of Thrones‘ Oberyn Martell — has joined the CBS procedural in the recurring role of FBI Special Agent Marcus Pike.

Pike is described as “a charming man with integrity, a blue-collar cop with FBI smarts.” As previously scooped by my Inside Line column, when the G-man enlists Jane and Lisbon to help track a band of art thieves, he takes an instant shine to the latter and sets out to sweep her off her feet.

Pascal debuts in Episode 16, and will be around for at least five episodes. The Mentalist resumes Season 6 on March 9, with Episode 13.

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Jane Scores a Date With…. (spoiler)

We’ve seen The Mentalist‘s future, and it involves him asking a pretty lady out on a date.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Devious Maids‘ Brianna Brown will guest-star in an early 2014 episode of the CBS drama as Krystal Markham, a woman connected to a case that the FBI is working on.

The fun comes when, to both Lisbon and Agent Fischer’s surprise, Jane asks Krystal out on a date – the first one the widower has initiated in years.

Brown’s previous TV credits include the aforementioned Devious Maids (where she plays call girl-turned-trophy wife Taylor), a recent episode of Revenge, True Blood and General Hospital.

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“Green Thumb” Episode Will Introduce A New Tech Guy

A new character is headed to The Mentalist.

On the show’s upcoming tenth season titled “Green Thumb”, a new “gung-ho” tech analyst named Jason will be introduce. The role is played by Joe Adler.

Sadly, Amanda Righetti and Owain Yeoman will leave The Mentalist in the very same episode (more here).

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Mentalist exit 'sad' for Righetti (interview, video)

The Mentalist's Amanda Righetti has revealed her departure from the show is "bittersweet".

The actress, who plays special agent Grace Van Pelt, will leave the crime drama with co-star and screen spouse Owain Yeoman (Wayne Rigsby) after the current sixth season.

"I'm still filming. I'm getting ready for it. I'm anticipating life without The Mentalist, which is a mixed bag," she admitted.

"It's a little bittersweet. It was a long run, an unexpected long run, but a welcome one and the show's been great to me. There's a part of me that is sad to see it coming to a close."

The 30-year-old said she would miss her co-stars including Simon Baker, Robin Tunney and Tim Kang the most.

" You become like a family after six years," she said. " It's a long shoot - we shoot nine and a half months out of the year - and the days are long so you better be doing it with people that you like otherwise it can be really miserable."

Amanda, an original member of the cast since The Mentalist started in 2008, admitted that the show's writers have kept the cast in the dark over their exit storylines.

"They tell us but then it changes so you can't really trust what the writers tell you. Even the stuff they give us are very small and ambiguous," she said.

"They lie to us, absolutely! They'll say (one thing) and then they will change their minds and say, 'I think we're going to go a different direction this episode'."



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6x09: Patrick Jane Meets NEW Series Regular In Post-Red John World (spoiler, snak peek)

Two years after killing Red John, The Mentalist's Patrick Jane is secretly living south of the boarder, seemingly content until Kim Fischer comes into his life.

A new sneak peek clip from this week's upcoming episode, "My Blue Heaven," shows Jane (Simon Baker) meeting Fischer (Emily Swallow) for the first time at a local restaurant (see video below). While recent previews suggest that the pair will enjoy each others company, Jane should treed lightly since Fischer is actually and FBI agent.

With the FBI still pursuing the faux psychic for his murder of his serial killer nemesis, Fischer could be poised to bring him in and somehow set him back on the path of crime solving.

"When you're as good a detective as Jane is, it's very hard to walk away even when you want to walk away," said series creator Bruno Heller, according to TV Line. "Some people won't let Jane walk away from what he's so good at. And our new female lead has something to do with that."

However, it does sound like FBI Agent Dennis Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) will get his chance to arrest Jane.

"You can't go around killing people willy-nilly without some sort of ramification," Heller told TV Line. "Jane is going to be in a position where his personal desires are not the point.... What he does in the future is not going to be entirely up to himself."



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Rigsby & Van Pelt leaving soon (by the end of December)

Amanda Righetti has confirmed that she will, in fact, be leaving The Mentalist. Her last appearance on the hit CBS show will come in early December. Righetti isn’t the only actor bidding The Mentalist adieu either. Owain Yeoman has announced that he is leaving, too. This means huge changes are coming to the show. These two have played such major roles on the show that it certainly won’t be easy to fill their shoes. This will no doubt mean Patrick Jane and Teresa Lisbon–portrayed by Simon Baker and Robin Tunney, respectively, will have even larger roles in the coming seasons.

Amanda plays the role of Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist. Owain Yeoman plays her fairly new TV husband, Agent Wayne Rigsby. The two tied the knot, following a surprise engagement, in a romantic wedding ceremony during the sixth season of the show.


“I feel like the time is probably right,” Amanda Righetti says of leaving The Mentalist, during an interview with TV Line, adding, “It’s the end of one thing but the beginning of something new.”

She also spills the beans about the show’s post-Red John era, which begins on December 1st, explaining that the show will then jump two years ahead of the Red John saga.

“Basically, they have their own private security company,” Righetti says of Grace Van Pelt and Wayne Rigsby. “So we sort of are outsourced and freelanced with the FBI, and that’s how we fit in.”

Sadly, this means that Amanda Righetti and Owain Yeoman will only appear in two December episodes before they leave The Mentalist. It definitely will be interesting to learn who producers will bring on board as new characters on the show. We have just seen Rockmond Dunbar who appeared to be FBI agent that took over (even shut down) CBI in the last episode. Shortly another new main character will be introduced - Kim Fischer (played by Emily Swallow). We don't now yet under what circumstances she is going to enter the show. Apparently she will be FBI agent as well.

Amanda Righetti Confirms Departure From 'The Mentalist' CBS Series

Van Pelt is Van Gone. (Sorry about that little joke.)

Amanda Righetti, who plays special agent Grace Van Pelt on the CBS drama The Mentalist, has confirmed her exit.

"I feel like the time is probably right," Righetti tells TVLine. "It's the end of one thing but the beginning of something new."

The actress, who has been with the procedural since the pilot episode, will be exiting alongside onscreen love interest Owain Yeoman (Wayne Rigsby). Their departure is set for the end of this season, but as for how or why those two will be written off, Righetti doesn't have a clue.

"It keeps changing," she tells the site. "It's been a little bit of a fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants season. I think it was sort of an unexpected turn for the writers too, to have the show kind of be reworked this season. So everybody's kind of trying to figure it out. And [they're] probably keeping it close to the vest so it comes as a surprise to everyone that is watching."

Of course, everyone is waiting with bated breath for this Sunday's big Red John episode and the aftermath, a spectacle that Righetti reveals will include both Van Pelt and Risby. The Dec. 1 episode will include a two-year time jump, and we'll find the whole gang in a very different place.

"Basically, they have their own private security company," Righetti says. "So we sort of are outsourced and freelanced with the FBI, and that's how we fit in."

When Yeoman and Righetti's departure was first reported back in August, series creator Bruno Heller wouldn't say much on the matter, expect that season six was sure to be a "dramatic and game changing season and anything can happen."

CBS has yet to respond to our request for comment on their exits.

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Bruno Heller on Lisbon/Jane relationship and more (Interview)

Besides the Red John reveal, are there other landmark moments this season that you're working toward?

The one question for me and other people that remains to be answered after, if and when Jane and Lisbon are done with Red John, what happens to them? I think their feelings for each other, whatever they are, have been masked by this joint mission they've been on. Now they're getting toward the end of that mission — for good or ill, success or failure. Certainly Lisbon is beginning to think about what happens after and how is that relationship going to change. They've always thought themselves that it's a brother-sister, professional relationship but clearly there is more there that they're not really aware of themselves. Once Red John is gone, if he goes, the real relationship that they have with each other is then exposed to light, if you like, then they have to deal with that.

They'll address it head-on?

Yeah, yeah. Or, well, not head-on because neither of them are quite aware of their own feelings but as their feelings become clear, then, yeah.

You're bringing back a lot of recurring characters this season, but also introducing two new players. What can you say about Fischer and Abbott?

As the series rolls on, we're introducing a number of new main characters, but the two biggest ones are FBI agent Abbott, played by Rockmond Dunbar, and FBI sgent Fischer, played by Emily Swallow. I can't really tell you how they enter or what happens with them but they come in and throw several cats among the pigeons among the CBI and cause major drama.

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