I'm surprised so many people would believe that this would be the real episode.
They accidentally posted the real episode up on their own website two days before it aired? 
Come on people!        







            I'm surprised so many people would believe that this would be the real episode.
They accidentally posted the real episode up on their own website two days before it aired? 
Come on people!        
            I suspect, that BP was RJ in Hellers mind till season 6. But then fans figured it out too quickly, so he switched to another character which was there from the beginning. Less obvious plan B, I might say.
That is why nothing is explained. Clues don't entirely match. And the whole thing is rushed to the end. Even the last episode was about nothing most of the time.  Unimportant events, feeling up the episode till the last showdown. Heller simply did not know, how to connect all those clues to McAllister, so he filled the episode with nothing really.
  This is the only good reason for such a poor end of RJ.        
            I'm even more convinced now that RJ was originally Brett Partridge and Heller changed it, and screwed it up, because people figured it out. In the season two finale it doesn't look like anyone but Brett Partridge when paused as he slits the girl's throat. I guess he could be "doing RJ's dirty work" but imo it's more likely that RJ was changed.
        
            Wait for a moment!
The first spoiler was that Partridge is Red John, after a lot of people said that the Sheriff is RJ. Everybody claim, he/she saw the episode. I believe it! It's possible they made alternate endings, so we can't be sure it's the real episode. The rest are the same in the episodes, except the identity of Red John! Jane kills Red John the same way etc. Yesterday I thought that Red John is Partridge, and I woke up in the morning, and i saw its Mcallister. So what the hell are going on? ( I'm from Hungary, so we are in the morning ). I hope the real episode will be different like that, which people spoilerd!
        
IT COULDNT BE MCALISTER!!!! THEY NEVER SHOOK HANDS IN 1x02 :O i saw the leaked episode i know its him, I'm just saying... BIG PLOT HOLE
Ok, everyone stop! You're breaking the interwebs! You have not watched the real episode. Someone did in fact, post actual spoilers and you're all fixated on a rough cut leak. This smells suspiciously like red herring. Or at least, lay off the gloating emails just in case you've been duped.
The actor who plays Mcallister is a really great actor Its just bad writing and a very dry ending. The problem is really with the red john profile. It changed from an artistic serial killer with a great twisted mind to a leader of a secret organisation. He killed more with plain guns than his real killings. Even if he is a simple guy who likes to shoot everything with a face he is not good at being simple either. I think this secret organisation thing planted into show to make things easier for red john and explaining easier why he can get away with anything but it took his intelligence too also the writers creativity they just choose the easy way. say tiger tiger and every things all right. And for fucks sake all the clues? are we deluded did we just made them up!? just explain it we can leave fbi-cbi bullshit to next episode. I can understand why Patrick didn't care how red john did what he did but we do. agghhh never mind. I WILL NEVER WATCH A WEEK TO WEEK SERIES AGAIN. Only good old serialised quality shows. I think writers got used to tie things in a really lazy way.