The Mentalist's Patrick Jane and Teresa Lisbon are two halves of fans' perfect couple, but season 6 may not bring the pairing viewers have been hoping for.

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Now fully immersed in the post-Red John, Jane (Simon Baker) and Lisbon (Robin Tunney) have smoothed out the bumps in their relationship and are moving on with their lives...just not into each others arms.

Despite Lisbon's impending relationship with FBI Agent Marcus Pike, series creator Bruno Heller has not completely ruled out any possible of a Jisbon romance.

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"They haven't been thinking about [their growing closeness] while it's been happening, so all this accumulated emotion and feeling has been building up, essentially, behind them," Heller explained to TV Line. "It's only when they step away from that and can turn around and look back that they will really start to see how they feel about each other, and it's great fun to explore that on the page. I think it's going to be a whole different look at these two characters."

Fans may have to wait until next season to truly see this concept play out, however. Lisbon is set to meet Pike in episode 16 ("Violets") and their five-episode arc will conclude dangerously close to the end of the season.

Despite this, The Mentalist writers could still pen a major Jisbon scene for the season finale. After all, Heller has conceded that there is a form of love between the two.

"I think there's a great deal of love between them and they now have to find out what kind of love that is and what does it mean," Heller told Entertainment Weekly.

Considering The Mentalist has worked hard to keep viewers through the transition from Red John to the FBI, it would be a shame fans were driven off by a relationship that fails to materialize.

The Mentalist airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. Click the video below to see a preview for the series' most recent episode, "The Golden Hammer."

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