Who is Red John

Yesterday I read something here that made me think... what if the moment when Jane finally discovers who Red John is hasn't been shown to us yet? I mean, he did killed McAllister and this is mentioned by agent Fischer when she talks to Lisbon, but nobody ever really states that this man was indeed Red John, she only says "he stopped the 10-year reign of a mass murderer".

What I'm saying is, Jane kills McAllister, we jump two years forward. We don't really know what happened in that time, maybe killing McAllister was part of Jane's plan to catch Red John, and we will get to see his entire plan and the real Red John in the series finale.

That would be a hell of a trick Bruno Heller put on us. So he would be telling the truth when he says Red John is dead, because he is dead in this moment of the show, two years later, but that doesn't mean he has shown it to us.

Hell, maybe I just refuse to believe that McAllister was Red John, I still believe that there's something better waiting for us, and yes, I'm still part of that crazy group of people who think Partridge is Red John (yeah I know, we're a hopeless case!), and would love to keep sharing theories. Anyway, sorry for my english and thank you for taking the time to read!

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Bruno Heller, on the first episode of season 6: "There is a clue buried in that final sequence that will pay off big time in the finale of the Red John story. A very big clue. No one will get it from the clue as it is laid out in the episode, but it will pay off later."

Now does anybody know what the hell is this man referring to? He hasn't talked again about this "very big clue" (he hasn't explained ANYTHING for that matter).

Asuming that Heller was telling the truth and there's indeed a big clue hidden in the final scene of this episode, the only thing that I can think of is the room full of pidgeons. When Lisbon opens the door of that room, a pidgeon goes out flying, so here's my question: if Red John is McAllister, and McAllister has a pidgeon phobia, is it really posible that he was in the shadows waiting to get Lisbon with a pidgeon flouting around? Doesn't make sense at all.

I really hope this is a big trick and everything will be later well explained, And it may be wishful thinking and I may be delusional, but my money is still on Partidge. Yes, he is "dead", but McAllister was also "dead" and there he went walking around churches and getting scared by pidgeons, so I don't think we can rule out this theory that easily.

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First of all, I really hope Partridge turns out to be Red John. He is my personal favourite and I think Red John has the connections to fake his own death and get away with it. He was there from the first episode, the very first line he says is "Red John enters here", as he walks across the room (which seems to me like he is making fun of Lisbon and the others right in their faces), and in "Red Sky In the Morning" Patrick spooks him in the victim's room when he comes back to say one last thing to him, and at the end of the episode we see Red John do that exact same thing to Patrick (which I see as a way of getting back at him). The pieces just fit so well that I'd love it if it turns out to be him!

However, the theories about Michael Kirkland being Red John are very interesting, though I hope this doesn't end up with him being Red John.

Just one last thought.I don't think Bob Kirkland's twin brother is actually Red John, because, if he was, would he just had ordered Reede Smith to kill him? Just like that? I think Red John's egomaniacal personality would had made him kill his own twin brother by himself, and not just have somebody else to do it for him.

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