Spoiler Spoiler!!!
First of all we have a list of 7 suspects. One of these suspects is red john. This is confirmed in the tvguide by bruno heller himself. So please dont come with ridicilous thoughts like it's van pelt or rigsby or a character we dont see anymore.
Heller states in the guide the following:
There were a lot of hugs when it was over(he means episode 6x08), and a champagne toast. It was really quite moving because, in a way, it felt we were killing off an old family friend. Red john has paid for a lot of mortgages.
Than the person who plays red john(which i think its haffner) states this:
The actor playing him says he was stunned and flattered when he learned that his character one of the seven final suspects was the show's big bad. Earning this little place in pop-culture history was the last thing i ever expected he admits.
Truth be told, I thought I was a red herring.
So what we learned from this is that the list is true and red john is one of the 7.
Even that partridge and kirkland are dead(or pretend to be) i dont exclude them of the 7 suspects.
The question is which character could think that he never thought he will be the real red john but a red herring?
Most of the people here thinks its partridge or nowadays bertram. But partridge was one of the favourites from the beginning so why would a character that is very popular to be the real red john thinks that he was a red herring. Besides the character who plays partridge told that his character is dead and they never used his voice for red john(thats according to him).
Bertram on the other side which is very favourite nowadays is from the tiger tiger organisation, together with mccalister and smith. But what i think is that they are also after red john. Somehow red john is connected with the tiger tiger organisation(he has someone that obeys him which we saw in episode 6x05 by killing that PI girl kira i think). Besides red john is not one of these three. That would be so obvious and so easy to think he is red john.
What also weakens bertram to be the real red john is that he often reports all the information he gets about red john(like he is also working for another person/organisation maybe tiger tiger) and he is too tall and too sluggish to move like red john.
Like i said mccalister and smith are from the tiger tiger. However mccalister would also be perfect red john in my eyes. He has that mystic behaviour of him and he isnt so stupid as the way he looked in season 1. But him and smith are not red john as well.
Which remains stiles, kirkland and haffner.
Stiles is too old to be red john. I also think he is the father or a family member of red john.
Kirkland is a weird guy. I dont know if he somehow has to do with the tiger tiger organisation or maybe his twin michael. But something is not right of his dead. before smith shoots kirkland he turns his head and its just like he swallow something and then gets shot. I also dont know if michael is alive. But i presume that bob kirkland is dead.
For me the logical person to be red john is haffner. Everything of him exactly fits only his length is a little taller than rosalind harker described but thats possible. He is not too tall like the others (bertram and smith are maybe 6.2 or 6.3) he is just 5-10 cm taller than patrick. I will not write everything of him(the way he walks etc. etc..) most of you have writtin in a lot theories.
Also one thing is very remarkable. Haffner always behaves weird when the red john case is going on. He also asks to lisbon and the others to drop the case and kinda irritates patrick in episode 6x05 by telling him despite his smartness he couldn't catch red john. In the previous season where haffner played it was more like he was in kinda obsession and sort of following patrick.
This is also from the tv guide:
simon baker says And the moment of death itself, with Jane straddling red john and looking directly into his eyes of his prey, is one of shocking intimacy. It's almost like a love scene, as perverse as that sounds. Does Red john have a death wish? No but he desperately wants a relationship with jane to the point where he exposes himself and puts him self in jeopardy.
Who was all the time watching and asking questions about jane. For me it was haffner. (He gathered information about him in season 4 and also tried to take away his group, asking to cho and others to get information from them about jane and in season 5 trying to get lisbon to his side). I dont know but it kinda likes haffner wanted to be close to jane.
Now that i described for each suspect what i think, which one of these could think he was a red herring but is the real john?
Oww i was forgetting about something. In episode 6x04 where kirkland is shot. Kirkland and reede smith had an appointment. Kirkland brought 3 coffees, one with milk and sugar, one with milk and one black. Then he said i will take the one that you dont take. smith took milk and sugar so i suppose the opposite of that is with milk. But why 3 coffees and for who was the third one?
In episode 6x06 we see it again. Smiths drinks a coffee with milk and sugar, the interesting is that when lisbon and haffner met each other haffner asks for coffee black. I dont know why but i think the coffee scene has something to do with red john. Normally we saw that red john likes tea, but we dont know if he also likes coffee.
And the last thing i want to say is that episode 6x08 will be the last episode about red john(maybe flashback in his jouth or something can come up in the future episodes). He will be killed by patrick. After that in episode 6x09 the serie will leap two years ahead. Jane will be a wanted man and he is in south america. Lisbon will become a small-town police chief, rigsby and van pelt will get two kids and run a detective agency and cho will be working for the fbi. What i want to say is that according to there new jobs none of them is a inside person for the tiger tiger or red johns disciple or somewhat.
Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment.
