Who is Red John?

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Did you notice the cop who was talking to Bertram outside the house at the beginning of the show.?  He was telling him about Lisbon and Partridge.  I forget the cop's name in the episode tonight (he gave his last name), but he looked a lot like the cop who killed Bosco's secretary as she was walking through the hall by putting poison on her hand.

If so, he's obviously an accomplice of Red John and was sent to do the killing.  When Lisbon was looking at the computer screen last week, nobody else was near by...so by sending this cop, it took the attention away from all of the other suspects.  This also would explain how he was using both of his hands to wipe the knife while the real Red John called Patrick from another location. 

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I think we may have been given another clue about Red John during the final 10 minutes of the show.  Lisbon was looking at a computer display with a map of California and each of the cell phones she had tapped (P-Partridge, B-Bertram, H- Hafner, M-McCallister, K-Kirkland, and S1 and S2 for Smith and Styles).

If we the map was correct and each of the suspects actually had their cell phones, then we can probably rule out a few folks.  Kirkland was in LA, and Styles and Smith were both in the San Francisco area.  Even McCallister appeared to be about 45 minutes away from the house where Partridge was killed.  The two suspects who appeared to be near the home were Bertram and Hafner.

Since the show went out of it's way to point the finger at Bertram, I think Hafner was the one most likely to be at the house ... if it was, in fact, Red John and not one of his accomplices.

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Reading some of the recent theories got me thinking.  In a recent interview, Bruno Heller was talking about the reasons why Red John is accelerating his killings by saying something to the effect of "She is aware that Patrick is closing in on who he is".  The article surmises that maybe Heller slipped up and gave a clue by saying "she".  If that's the case, what if...

Red John is actually Kristina Frye and she is married to one of the 7 suspects.  It would answer a lot of questions that have come up in recent seasons
 - HE IS MAR ... he is married, or he (Renfrew's killer) is married to Red John
 - Red John didn't kidnap Kristina at the end of Season 2, she left because she is Red John
 - In that same episode, when Red John whispers "Roll Tide" and "Kristina sends her love", it's her husband so he would surely have that information from her
 - The man seen drinking tea with Rosalind appeared to have a wedding band, which would make sense if he's Kristina's husband
 - Kristina has the ability to hypnotize people, so she may have hypnotized PJ (perhaps when he was in the asylum) which is how she knew his happy memory
 - She knows that PJ's daughter died in her sleep, maybe she did the murder or she and her husband did the murder
 - If she's a psychic and PJ was truly a con artist who went on TV claiming that he was helping the cops catch Red John by giving the appearance that he was smarter than Red John - than she/her husband have a strong motive for the murder
 - She was Patrick's first romantic interest since the murder of his wife, how mind-blowing it would be if she was Red John
 - She wanted to help the CBI with the case before PJ nixed the idea, and that would allow her to have first hand knowledge of the cases
 - She has red hair
 - The first episode she appeared in was "Seeing Red"...maybe "Seeing Red John"???
 - Tyger, Tyger Poem ... "thy fearful symmetry" could be Adam and Eve, man/woman, husband/wife

The question then becomes ... who is her husband.  Heller says that Red John is always there, like Waldo.  He also says that he's just a man and we would be disappointed with the reveal.  My guess, the Red John is someone we have seen little of or someone who has made repeat appearances but is unimportant enough to PJ, Lisbon, and crew so that they don't know he's married. 

My guess is Gale Bertram.  Frye disappeared at the end of Season 2, he appeared at the beginning of Season 3, he called Jane "Boy Wonder", and he recited Tyger Tyger. 

It would be a bit of a disappoinment, as Heller mentioned.  But if he's married to Kristina and they worked as a team (possibly with many disciples) ... that would be a surprise ending that would satisfy many viewers.     

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