Who is Red John?

Theories of MunnaSeth (1)

I think we are all shooting off on crazy tangents by wrongly assuming that the list drawn by Red John precisely matches the one drawn by Jane.

In the episode, Jane reveals only one name from his list of seven. He is conveniently interrupted before he gets to the other names.The seven names (revealed at the end) are as deduced by Red John (through Lorelei).

Note that Jane is NOT shown to either confirm or deny those names. Indeed, Jane does not utter a single word in the entire final scene. He merely hands over to Lisbon seven photographs (not a list), arranged in the specific order of how Lorelei calls them out in the video. This is easy enough for Jane to do since he has already viewed the video before he plays it for Lisbon.

Jane's own list contains different names - atleast one different name, anyway: that of Red John.

Bruno Heller seems to have confirmed that Red John's name is on the list, but he does not say whose list.

Thus, I feel that Red John will be none of the seven persons whose names are revealed to us. This twist can be easily explained away by merely having Jane say "My list was different" or words to that effect.

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