Susan Darcy is a federal agent assigned to the Panzer case. She first appeared in Blinking Red Light and has been a recurring character throughout Season 4. However, after the botched FBI sting operation to catch Red John which led to the death of CBI Luther Wainright, Darcy's duty was taken over by her supervisor Alexa Shultz.
Biography
In the Season 4 final episode The Crimson Hat, Red John reappears and admits that he has a good friend in the FBI who found out that Jane didn't kill Lisbon, who disappears, and Rigsby, whose supposedly body is found but unidentifiable, in order to become his friend. Together with her team, she interferes an operation of Lisbon's team and gets Jane in trouble. As the limousine is about to get away, she shoots for the car. When she opens the door, she finds Luther Wainwright on the backseat and discovers that she killed him.
In Blinking Red Light, she becomes the lead investigator on the Panzer case. Then in Always Bet On Red she quickly becomes suspicous of the Jane's claim that Red John is dead. He is in fact alive, something Jane doesn't want her to find out, as Red John would kill her for having such knowledge.
In that same episode Red John is able to follow her home and take a video of her sending it to CBI headquaters on Grace's computer with a text saying "she's cute I'm going to have fun", but Grace and Jane make it to her apartment in time preventing her from possibly being killed by Red John,
In the end Jane is able to trick her that Red John is dead, but she nevertheless continues investigating and is even more suspicous when a morgue attendent, who she previously talked to was dead after arriving with several CBI authorities to Rosalind Harker's house where Red John visited but escaped before authorities arrived.
She then in the episode Cheap Burgundy had Jane assist her with a case she was investigating, but during the investigation she kept trying to find out the truth that Red John was in fact alive, however Jane kept denying it. On one such conversation it was confirmed that Susan lost a sister to drowning and that she blamed herself for what happened.
Eventually, Jane admitted that Red John was alive and before catching the killer she accused Jane of being one of Red John's acomplices and at the end of the episode she told Wainwright.
In Season 5 premiere, Alexa Shultz mentioned that Darcy is suffering from a mental breakdown following the botched FBI sting operation in which she was responsible. As a result, her assignment to catch Red John came to a halt. According to Agent Reede Smith, her career was destroyed. It is possible that Red John needed to kill Wainwright because he could have fingered Darcy as the one person on the FBI he told that Jane might not have killed his team, as he suspected something by the way Lisbon was acting.
Appearances
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