There’s one unanswered theme that’s been repeated in more
than a couple of episodes. That’s Robert Kirkland and his question to people, “Do
you recognize me?”
He also has a twin that got involved with Red John, and he
purposefully changed his features so Red John won’t recognize him while he
pursues him to seek vengeance.
Who could his twin be? I think it was Brett Partridge, whom
Robert Kirkland never met.
Skipping a bit, there’s Brett Partridge’s supposed dead body that has a chunk of his
left shoulder sliced off. It’s odd that you would slice off a chunk of a dead
person’s shoulder. To what end? To hide
that the person was a Blake Associate? Why? To protect Brett Partridge’s legacy?
Not likely. To protect the Blake Association? Maybe, but if you already know
about the Blake Association and their tattoos, what good is cutting off the
tattoo? That body was a Blake Associate, but was it really Brett Partridge, and
if it was, he was a Blake Associate, and why would someone want to conceal that
he was?
I think Brett Partridge faked his own death, and replaced
his body with that of a Blake Associate, and he sliced off the Blake Associate’s
shoulder to conceal that it was. If it wasn’t for Brett Partridge’s supposed
dying words, they wouldn’t have known about “Tyger, Tyger” in the first place. It
was Brett’s plan for Jane to surface the Blake Association to get them off his
back.
Of the seven final suspects, Brett Partridge has the least
amount of positional power. You got Bret Stiles, the leader of a cult. Gale
Bertram is the Director of CBI. Bob Kirkland and Reede Smith are both FBI
agents. Ray Haffner was once a former supervising agent at CBI. Sheriff McAllister is the sheriff of Napa
County. Brett Partridge is just a
forensic investigator. Seems out of place to be a final suspect, doesn’t it?
Now think about this. Brett Partridge knows a lot about Red
John (or thinks he does), but he’s been wrong in every crime scene involving
him (or his copycats). How does someone that seemingly studies Red John get it
wrong every time? Because it’s a game he likes to play with Jane. In turn, Jane keeps making fun of Brett Partridge, but gets no rise out of him (which is his intention). That's some pretty good self control. Now why would Jane keep calling Partridge a ghoul? Because he knows he is one, he just doesn't have anything to prove it.
At any rate, Brett Partridge is Red John, there's just no solid evidence of it, yet.
