Just some observations I picked up, which make a point Heller has developed his characters for a reason- there is a real ending somewhere out there! I’ll do profiles of different characters if you like this, it’s up to you.
Ray Haffner: Some Fun Non-Facts
- Born Roy Tagliaferro
- Picked up in Italy during missionary work by Father Di Buono
- Killed 2 people on Visualize farm and meets Young Red John. *We saw the killer lurking in darkness. Its unlikely Haffner then drew the smiley in daylight in front of Martin Talbot. Young RJ drew it.
- Dropped his high-school class ring in the barn. (Later, it explains Kristina Frye's Roll Tide reference) Haffner played football in the same place as Kristina Frye's waiter. Haffner is expert with surveillance technology and Kristina was a RJ accomplice. Haffner was a very promising football player and has contacts who played in NFL such as Craig O'Loughlin
- Driven straight by Visualize, adopts new identity “Ray Haffner,” and he meets Bret Stiles
- Jason Lennon thought Ray was Red John
- Ray abducted Lorelei Martins’s sister
- He is not Red John
- He bugged Lisbon's phone so Red John could get the list
He saved Patrick from the copycat killers, tracking him down using surveillance. (Patrick makes a phone call just outside the same building before he goes in.) Haffner wore a headset to transmit Red John’s voice.
Haffner ties the hands of the people he shot in the farm (bodies in Red Barn) the same way Brett Partridge’s hands were tied. Haffner could trace Lisbon’s position, so when he sees her leaving her office, Haffner could leave to help Partridge. Since he knows he’s bugged, he could just leave his phone somewhere else. Haffner paints the smiley on Lisbon’s face.
Patrick's House: Haffner shot the people on the farm with a shotgun. Patrick repeats the ruse, but doesn't kill or shoot Haffner. He scares him. Lisbon's phone (bugged) is in Patrick's car so Red John thinks Haffner is dead.
My hope for Haffner: I hope that he gets killed by Lorelei Martins. (Yeah, she's alive.) Brett Partridge put a lot of make-up on her sister’s body and faked the DNA so no one would look into it.Jane notices that she’s not Lorelei and Jane actually wanted Lisbon to be bugged. (Jane’s got a huge plan… too big to write. Tune in Sunday night!) Jane’s known who Red John is for a long time.
