Here are
some facts which, when putt together, might mean something and be a little help
in the investigation of Red John.
An anagram
for one of the meanings of the name Roy Tagliferro is "ruler
incognito," and that is how Red John seems to want to be like and he gets
other people to play by his rules. The last episode of season five is titled
"Red John's rules".
Roy means
red, therefore can Red also stand for Roy. One meaning of Roy is
"king" and of John "blessed by God ", thus Red John means
"the king blessed by God". The poem The Lamb by William Blake is related to the poem Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright, as yin and
yang. At the end of the poem The Lamb,
the lamb gets blessed. Red John seems to see himself as the lamb and Patrick as
the tiger (the poem Tyger, Tyger was aimed
at Patrick). The lamb has a "tender voice" and he is "meek and
mild". Anyone who knows Red John seems to perceive him as a gentle person,
while Patrick upsets almost everyone he comes in contact with. Red John might
want to make it appear as he is the lamb chased by the tiger.
Bret
Stiles, the leader of a cult, sees himself as a god. The symbol "the seeing
eye" is actually a symbol for the devil. An anagram of Bret Stiles is
"blest rites." Red John was a member of Visualize Self-Realization
Center, and Stiles may have personally "blessed" Red John. In one
episode, Bret says to Patrick that he knows more than Patrick and Red John
could possibly ever imagine. This statement makes two things clear: (1) Bret
Stiles sees himself as a god, above everyone else, and (2) he knows Red John
personally.
An anagram
of the name Kirkland is "dark link" and another is "dark kiln."
In the poem Tyger, Tyger was mentioned
something about brain (probably thoughts) created in an oven. Robert Kirkland
means "bright fame of church-land." Visualize Center is one kind of a
church. If Stiles can be considered as the eye of the Visualize symbol, then Red
John could be the bright around the eye. Kirkland always wears ties which are
red or tiger striped with prominent red color. In the last scene of episode 16 seasons
5, when Patrick and Lisbon are walking toward the crime scene, before we see
Red John’s smiley face on the wall, we get a glimpse of Kirkland and his red
tie and the unpleasant soundtrack increases a little bit. In the episode “Flame
Red” (S01E09) Patrick said to the killer Tommy Olds (whose voice by the way are
quite similar to the voice of Red John) that “only an idiot would wear a
t-shirt
like that
to a house in mourning ... an idiot or a daring killer with a warped sense of
humor.” Well, the same thing could be said about Kirkland and his red tie on
the Lorelei’s murder scene.
Regarding
CBI Ron, his name means "ruler's counselor".
If you
reason by Ockham's razor, then Kirkland becomes the prime suspect.
