Who is Red John?

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Thomas McAllister
Thomas McAllister Reede Smith
Reede Smith Ray Haffner
Ray Haffner Gale Bertram
Gale Bertram Brett Partridge
Brett Partridge Bret Stiles
Bret Stiles Bob Kirkland
Bob Kirkland

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Theory #12641 • By Theorynow
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Red John appears to me now to be Tommy Lisbon, the brother of Teresa Lisbon!

- He fits the physical description perfectly.

- He has an affection for Teresa (his sister).

- As a bounty hunter he has ties to law officials and authorities, especially by name dropping CBI family members.

-  His name is Tommy, which is a nickname for Thomas - we all assumed that Bertram was going into Sherrif Thomas MacAllisters storage unit in the last episode, but I believe the Thomas was truly Tommy Lisbon.

- He fits the "Wheres Waldo" description, because he appears or is
mentioned throughout the series and is in the background as a part of
Teresas past through the seasons.

-  His daughter is named Annie after a famous red headed fictional character.

-  In 1988 he was a kid at the farm, but I suspect that first killing was actually done by Teresas father and Tommy adopted the Red John persona thereafter.

- As a bounty hunter he has a good shot, like Red John.

- It would be an unexpected reveal and fit the Keyser Soze descrption as Tommy is percieved as needing his sisters protection and somewhat weak on his own.

-  He must have shaken hands with Jane when they met.
 



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It has become disappointingly obvious by now that Red John is the "dead" McAllister.McAllister, whom I'd rather name with an extended monologue:"BRUNO HELLER: I can't really use Partridge anymore. They figured him out too quickly in season 2. Besides, I need someone who looks more powerful. I ran around for three more seasons and pretended that I knew where to go with it, but I finally need to choose a new Red John now. Hmm. Well, I guess I'll just pick any random season 1 male character. Eeny-meeny... Oh, yeah, this guy looks good. Who's that? A hick sheriff, just like on 'Profiler'! Ha! They'll never guess THAT!"
So why that non-choice of McAllister? Several reasons, but one of them is because Bruno Heller has been, to put it gently, following the older series "Profiler" for a few years, and Profiler's Jack was eventually "revealed" as a redneck sheriff as well. (Incidentally, Jack was supposed to be someone completely different when the show started... just as was the case with "The Mentalist". The difference was that Profiler's creator left and took his idea with him, while Bruno Heller stayed with The Mentalist - he just didn't decide whom to pick sooner).
Shame. Bertram would have been perfect, and such a satisfying choice for Red John. 
Instead, we get an idiot drawling hick who LITERALLY couldn't win a game of rock-paper-scissors. Now watch this space to hear a convoluted "explanation" next week, about how it was only Red John's ingenious act, how he only pretended to lose to Jane, how he can imitate voices so well that the hick accent was all too easy for him to do for years, every day... (which will probably also be the dumb and convoluted "explanation" for Red John's different phone voice). Yecch.
(ONCE I'd like to see a show in which the twist is that there is NO twist. Bertram looks guilty now, so most viewers expect a final twist in the next episode... and there WILL be a stupid twist, with McAllister being named Red John next week. But what a nice idea it would be for a change to reveal that... there IS no twist, that Bertram IS Red John.
Every Z-grade movie and series wants to have a pointless twist now. Having NO final twist would at least be original! Especially when the twist is as lame as a random redneck sheriff.)

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Theory #12638 • By Naveen
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Going from the fact that Jane shook the hands of RJ and RJ is one of the seven men which is sort of agreed upon by RJ and Jane themselves, and cueing in the mystery-shroud-disappeared twin brother of Bob Kirkland and the fact that his childhood was not all well....It must be Bob Kirkland / the twin / or both who personify RJ.

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Look at this promo in the 0.18 second... is the voice of Kirkland (Michael or Bob)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z77P7ebT0QI

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There is a lunatic here who copied every word I wrote down here in my theory an hour ago (about how I feel sorry for Haffner) and posted it on the official facebook page as her own. How pathetic!
People are crazy! 

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PROBABLE SPOILER!!!!! 

I will give you a link below. It shows the reactions of a dude called Americ while he watches 6x08. He claims that he gets to watch advance views of the Mentalist episodes because he has a youtube channel and recording reviews about the episodes before they air. This time, since the coming episode is of the highest importance, he doesn't provide a review but let's us see his reactions while he watches it.

This is not the worst part. There are comments below that video and someone nicknamed simplythebest286 (who claims to be Americ himself) is telling almost everything which is pretty annoying (if true) and if this is the case, FUCK HIM! And if you don't want to take risks, do not click the link below. Because I wish I hadn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYpReqi678

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