Haven't seen the LEAKED episode, but the ways others are describing it, I'm sure its the real deal. People are complaining about the horrible acting and everything else but also about the sound effects and music. The sound effects and music not being there means that the final editing had to happen. This also means that there could have been re-takes for the scenes in which acting is below par according to the fans. So the episode is real and the identity of Red John might remain same but just the feel and reveal could be better on Sunday. I hope its a decent episode. I hope we don't have to become Red John ourselves and kill the writers and editors of The Mentalist one by one.

Tyger Tyger..

https://twitter.com/jimmygadd/status/404056166956691457

https://twitter.com/jimmygadd/status/404056542283976704

I think we are in the unfortunate situation that what has been revealed is not that Thomas McAllister is Red John, but that Bruno Heller is not as clever as we thought he was.

I suspect he has fallen into a hole where by he's taken this story too far, and he doesn't know how to clean it up. He's created a tangle of clues, subterfuge, and tricks that he doesn't know how to untangle. The result, for people like us who go over every scene, every trick, every angle, is disappointment.

Episode 6x8 is the biggest let down of the entire series. It isn't so much the choice of who is Red John, it's the execution of the episode. The actor who plays McAllister either wasn't up to the task, or wasn't given enough to work with from the writer. Bradley Whitford (season 3 finale) did a much better job of playing "Red John", and was much more convincing.

Unfortunately we've been hoist by our own petard; we've analysed too much, and expected too much.

Last episode, Patricks comment when Reede broke down in custody:
"... Confessed to murder, Red John would never break like that, not even as an act"

Well, seems like he broke even worse...

I'm also hoping for it to be fake but I guess the whole season has to be fake then. Grown up men saying 'Tyger Tyger' to eachother and tattooing their secret clubsign on the arm. 

The list was a mistake to begin with, it removed all suspense of revealing Red John. They wasted 7 episodes on what? No information about Red Johns past and how he could gain so much power.

"I am psychic" - that should explain it all? 

You are psycho, Heller

Just for fun.....
Remember this parody theory last week?
Theory #11157 • By BadKarma


I think we've exhausted the theories on who Red John is based on evidence, so here's my theory on how Jane catches Red John based on evidence...

Jane chases Mcallister into the Park. Dumps muffins all over him and he gets mauled by pigeons. Mcallister has panic attack from his fear of pigeons and faints. Patrick Jane ties him up and holds him down. Tom wakes up and Jane slices him up. End Scene.

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 THE EPISODE WAS NOT LEAKED!. IT WAS ON THE CBS PRESS WEBSITE. IT WAS NOT HACKED!. THEY PURPOSELY LEFT THE LINK IN THE FREAKING VIEW SOURCE. IF ANYONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, IT IS CBS NOT ANY HACKER! SO jimmy gadd SAID IT WAS HACKED....... RIGHT..... IF YOU ARE COMPUTER ILLITERATE AND CAN'T FREAKING USE A SIMPLE RIGHT CLICK VIEW SOURCE, THEN THAT MAKES YOU ASSUME THE SITE WAS HACKED. FOR A SITE TO BE HACKED, IT MEANS SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY HACK HAS TO HACK IT, THEN STEAL THE VIDEO. WHICH WAS AND IS NOT THE CASE. CBS HAD IT ON THERE TO EASILY FOR ANYONE TO SEE. LIKE A PUZZLE THAT TAKES 10 SECONDS TO SOLVE. SO STOP BLAMING HACKERS AND STOP SAYING IT WAS LEAKED.. NEITHER OF THAT IS TRUE...... CBS HANDED IT OUT LIKE FREAKING CANDY AND IF THIS IS THE REAL ONE, THEN I AM ANGRY BECAUSE IT IS CBS WHO IS AT FAULT. IF THIS WAS A MISTAKE ON THEIR PART, THEN THEY SHOULD OWN UP TO IT AND STOP BEING LITTLE GIRLS AND BLAMING OTHERS. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO MESSED UP, OR THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE, EITHER WAY ALL FINGERS SHOULD POINT TO CBS!!!!!!!!!! AND NO ONE ELSE! EVERYTIME I GET ON THIS WEBSITE I HEAR ABOUT HACKED AND LEAKED......... SHUT UP ALREADY AND USE COMMON SENSE. PLEASE. PEOPLE SHOULD BE FLOODING CBS WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY THEY ARE LYING TO THE PEOPLE. WHAT SUCH CRAP ON THEIR PARTS. AS OF COURSE UNLESS THEY INTENDED THIS. THEN WHATEVER. BUT IT STILL ALL POINTS SIMPLY BACK TO CBS LETTING PEOPLE SEE THE VIDEO VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY EASILY. NOBODY STOLE IT, NOBODY HACKED THEIR STUPID WEBSITE. AND IF THIS IS THE REAL VIDEO, THEN BLAME CBS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. AND TELL THEM TO REMAKE THE DAMN THING BECAUSE IT COMPLETELY SUCKED! THEY SHOULD HAVE ENDED IT WITH THE FIRST TIME JANE THOUGHT HE HAD KILLED RED JOHN, THAT WAS A PERFECT FREAKING WAS TO DO IT, BUT NOOOOO, THEY HAD TO DO A BULLSHIT FLOP ON THEIR ASSES AND MAKE THIS SHIT CONTINUE AND RUIN A WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT ENDING TO THE RED JOHN STORY A LONG TIME AGO WHEN HE THOUGHT HE KILLED HIM THE FIRST TIME. AND THIS TYGER TYGER SHIT IS SO ANNOYING. SO IS NO TRUE QUESTIONS THE AUDIENCE WANTS ANSWERED ACTUALLY ANSWERED. IN MY OPINION, AS SAID ON THIS SITE, MANY MANY PEOPLE HERE WOULD HAVE MADE A BETTER FREAKING STORY LINE/ PLOT BETTER THAN THESE LOUSY WRITERS. FORGIVE ME FOR MY OPINION