Admins if you are reading this, please fix the bug already
where we can't post new theories under the same account...
Anyone still think the movie Red Dragon wasn't a significant influence on this
show? Shotgun fired off-screen so you don't see who actually got shot,
immediately followed by the house on fire? Add that to the blind girlfriend,
William Blake references, that shot of Haffner working out obsessively in
6x1...
I'm not as sure it was Partridge as I was after 6x1 and 6x2, but Heller
mentioned there was a specific reason Partridge needed to die when he did, and
there has been absolutely no mention of that (not even a single reference) so
far. The fact that Heller mentioned this, and no one else on the list of 7 has
been killed by Red John himself, makes me think there is something special
about Partridge.
I still don't think it's one of the remaining 5. Why would Bertram need to call
one of the other 4 if they are all getting invited to this thing? Now, if he
called Partridge, or the other Kirkland,
or someone else who wouldn't have gotten the Jane invite, that would make more
sense.
Jane is either being led astray with this shoulder tattoo thing, in which case
the real RJ will surprise him (and us). This doesn't seem very characteristic
for Jane, though.
More likely, as others have proposed, Jane already knows who RJ is and this is
all a long con to flush him out. Thus, singling out the 3 with the tattoo would
be classic Jane misdirection. There’s no way Jane would just shoot one of them.
And when Lisbon got to the house it
was all quiet, no more screaming. I don't even think anyone was still in there.
It would be incredibly disappointing if it were one of the 3. The plodding,
mechanical way the whole thing unfolded (first 7, then 5, now 3) almost seems
like an insult to the audience who have followed this for so long. Think about
it...everything that has helped Jane "narrow" the list so far has
been random information that fell into his lap e.g. Lorelei's slip up, the
whistling/phobia, the shoulder tattoo. Jane HAS
to have a better (read: more creative and respectable) plan.
