I'm not normally one to get one somebody else's case, but I'm absolutely done with people that keep insulting other people on here. You have the right to not agree with anybody, but you prove you are a mean person by insulting people who believe in unlikely theories.
Partridge could very well be dead, and he could very well be Red John. That doesn't mean that people in the camp you are not in are stupid, blind, or even devotees of Partridge. There is compelling evidence he is Red John and there is sufficient evidence that he is dead as well. We will find out next episode, according to an interview. This means that either we're going to see his dead body, we'll see him alive, or somebody will say that he is, in fact, alive. At this point, I wouldn't blame Partridge fans one bit if he is shown as alive and Partridge fans make fun of everybody who called them names. The fact is, there is enough suspicion around his death that a writer mentioned it of his own accord in an interview.
Besides Partridge, the only other logical possibility is Bertram. If he is Red John and O'Loughlin killed Todd Johnson (who worked for the FBI, by the way, not the CBI where Jane always claimed there was a mole), the ending of Season 3 makes more sense for this one simple reason: how did Timothy Carter know to be at the mall's food court, with a gun, and pretend to be Red John? O'Loughlin had no clue Jane was taking Bertram to the food court. Even Bertram had no clue until Jane drove him there. Jane specifically doesn't tell him where they're going to 'meet Hightower' when Bertram asks, and he is also INCREDIBLY reluctant to go with him. If Bertram is Red John, he may have asked for some sort of protection by one of his minions, especially since he understands that Jane is a loose cannon. If he is Red John, he could have already had protection like that lined up. But if Bertram is not Red John, Timothy Carter's appearance at the mall's food court means that Jane, Cho, or Rigsby leaked, unintentionally or not, their plan to lure Red John out of hiding by going taking Bertram to the mall.
After Bertram, the logical order of Red John goes: McAlister, Smith, Stiles, Haffner, Kirkland. Haffner, Kirkland, and Stiles are 100% not Red John, really. So many people like Haffner, and while I can respect that, he's genuinely outsmarted by Jane in the second episode of Season 4.
I'd probably give odds like this: Partridge 60%, Bertram 25%, McAlister 10%, Kristina Frye 4%, Smith 1%. Frye gets a few votes because I think the unexplained question from season 2 is going to revolve around her, and I always thought it would be neat if she was Red John, because she's the first character Patrick ever connects to in the Mentalist, ever. I also think that it's about a 50/50 shot that this 'returning character who we thought was long gone' is going to be between her and Partridge.
Cliff notes:
Stop being dicks to Partidge people (and Kirkland people, though it's a little more excusable in this case)
Show some respect...before this season, there have been very few insulting posts on here. Now, every other post is intended to demean a particular candidates' supporters.
Wait on bended knee for tomorrow night. If you go to the following website between 7:30 and 8 central time on Sunday, you may be rewarded ;-)
http://www.couchtuner.eu/watch-the-mentalist-online/
