I have enjoyed this blog for a while now and since we all seem to think it (might) be over here's a few lingering questions and thoughts which I haven't noticed mentioned yet…some of these could be answered if I just went back and rewatched (I'm lazy, though)
-Did the tombstone for janes wife in the wide shot of the cemetery have her name (incorrectly) as priscilla ruskin jane? i could have sworn i paused it to read the names because I actually forgot what they were, and I think it said Priscilla, but her names supposed to be Angela. Maybe I didn't look closely enough.
-As for Bertram's comments on the phone to Jane regarding a voice, what he said was something like "Do I have to use a funny voice or something?" Yes, it's a red herring, but you all seem to be baited by it too easily. I think there was a natural explanation for the question - he was jokingly asking Jane as to whether he needed to pretend he was someone else calling in to his phone because Bertram knew Jane's line would likely be tapped and didn't want police to nab him before he gets to escape with all his cash (how did he get all of that anyway? secret drug stashes he's selling from the evidence lockers? what?). What he did NOT say was "Do I have to use *THAT* funny voice anymore?" which some of you seem to be remembering the line as. It was more like, "Are we being listened to? Can I speak openly?"
Other miscellany -
-If RJ is still out there, why do we assume he necessarily has/had the three dots? I don't know if the Blake Association all went en masse with thousands of unknown, widespread members to a single tattoo parlor to get inked up together. He could be a member, know the password (probably created it, if we assume he's the poetic mastermind who loves Romantic English verse), and never need to have the tat. Beyond that, they all seem to identify solely by verbal code "Tyger, Tyger" - I suspect cops might beat each other up if they had to ask one another to take their shirt off each time they wanted to identify themselves as members.
-I enjoyed reading the theories that RJ is a woman, and when I was thinking about that, I started noticing how 50% of the women on the show are redheads, which is far disproportionate to real world populations and even disproportionate to model/actresses across tv shows. Clearly the red haired beauties tied in easily with all the red themes in the show, but beyond that, I wonder if there's some linguistic play on the names…not exactly sure how to put this - Red John, John as in John Doe, Jane Doe is the female counterpart to that anonymous name non-identifier, Jane is Patrick Jane, but Jane could also be Red Jane (instead of Red John) and the pun could be she's a redhead (hey, they used a redhead for our first, and apparently preferred Red John - Timothy Carter).
