Theories of jnana (2)

The only guest stars from the list in the episode 'Red John' are the actors for Gale Bertram and Reede Smith..........


I'm not sure what to believe anymore. The list has been focused on too much it can't be real yet I feel it can't be fake because it has been focused on so much... 

But I'm about 90% sure Red John is someone we've seen this season but since Ray Haffner, Kirkland,Stiles and McAllister are missing from the episode where he is revealed I doubt it'll be them. 

But I also seriously doubt it's either Bertram (because in Strawberries and Cream, him and O'laughlin were part of a ploy to find RJ's accomplice and if he was RJ he would've figured out the trap) or Smith (who was too young to have tortured and killed two people in 1988).


But what recurring actor do we have that can't be eliminated? There's CBI Karl, that's very similar to CBI Ron that someone has talked about here somewhere I think (?), and he is the only other recurring actor returning in the episode Red John. But he might've come a little late to be Red John and he's more of a technical advisor than actor so I don't know if he could really pull off the role that is Red John but we never know.

Other actors returning this season are Aunjanue Ellis (Hightower) and also the guy that plays Jason Cooper.

I was actually thinking a bit about Jason Cooper. He was forgiven awfully fast by Brett Stiles when he betrayed him don't you think? And we know that Stiles knows who Red John is.Could it be for that reason that Stiles didn't get rid of him immediately? Cooper does get an awful lot of respect for such a scrawny man. And we all know serial killers tend to be rather pathetic people. The only thing bugging me is someone at the visualize church would probably have recognized him if he was the 'kid' painting the face on the barn. Also would Red John really stand to be someone's understudy? Or is that precisely why it's such a good disguise?

Also there's Richard Haibach (suspect in San Joaquin Killer case) coming back for some reason but it would be kind of a stretch for Red John to be such a sad, lonely character that appeared in only one previous episode, I think.

The FBI friends of red john - for me that places him to be a woman in the FBI. One who we have seen.

Patrick knows its her by now, he made his big reasoning map as a ploy - then left it in place (he didn't need a map because he would have done it all in his head). Then he left the matchstick, he knows that the FBI agent Kirkland and his people came in and saw his big map.
Red John got information from Kirkland so he could be all "look how amazing" and say the 7 names. Its really more like an 8th name was left out so that Patrick can lull Red John into a false sense of security - which is why he is going to go on a killing spree. Red John thinks he/she has won now, and wants to end it because Patrick keeps busting his friends.
This is a bigger plot structure than the usual inner-episode structure, but its the same. Patrick uses long con to bring the killer closer or out into the open. I have seen every episode and i usually have it figured out by about half way - but thats why i like this show because its got lots of twists. The writer hasn't left that many clues because they just want to make up whatever they feel like for the last episodes.

I am happy it is coming to a close. Even though the mentalist has brilliance its pretty normal formula - the main characters aren't going to turn out to be the twisted Red John themselves - thats too poxy.