I just finished the episode. It was decent. I thought it would be better, but I don't see a need to be down on it. I do wish that the McAllister reveal would have been done better (we discovered he was alive through the promo). That's sloppy.
The pigeon thing was super dumb, but thats about the level this show has usually been at. It's not their fault I had higher expectations.

I'm fine with McAllister being RJ. I was surprised that Xander Berkley was not very good in the role. He was fine as McAllister but not quite up to being RJ. It seems he has one character he can do and not much range. Overall though, the episode was OK. They left some room to answer some questions over the next few episodes.

Oh one thing I missed...people had been telling me for weeks on this sight that Brett Partridge was dressed as a woman feeding pigeons. Even though she didn't look anything like him, people assured me it was him. Did anyone notice how they explained that in this episode? I must have missed it  :)

Still Find it disturbing that the nun tried to kill Patrick and then fled the scene...hmm something is missing here, I know something is really missing. I cannot trust this ending, red john fooled Patrick, better be ready for a comeback of all comebacks

http://www.red-john.info/

Cant miss this, its awesome.

Heller hope your asshole closses so hard that every shit you take from now on is a painfull one!!!

-It seems obvious that there is something to whomever helped Red John know the names on the list, or am I crazy?  I am guessing that there lies a future link.

-I am overall quite disappointed & I would love to hear from all of you experts as to what direction you think the show will now go, especially based on the scenes from next week's episode.  

-Will they continue w/ some revenge based on a child of Red John's, who could now be an adult, or, as I mentioned, someone close to PJ who has betrayed him?  If not~ I am totally coming up empty as to why this show would continue to be interesting.

http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/11/poll-what-did-you-think-of-mentalist_25.html

"Awful" please.

I've completely disappointed.

Fucking Bruno Heller
Fucking The Mentalist

I am so pissed off Right now I could punch a baby

well this is the worst ending to a storyline i have ever seen in my life. i have waited years for the reveal of RJ through countless twists and turns, a fake RJ dying, the list of 7 with many awful suspects on (smith especially) but still i stuck on hoping the ending would give me the satisfaction of a 'perfect ending' (a la Breaking Bad)  But what we got instead was one of the nastiest serial killers of the 21st century foiled by a pigeon, and then ringing 911 for help..
Not only this but none of the questions that needed to be answered have been... (he is mar. physical description. how the list was acquired. physical description. Rosalind Harker etc.)
From now on i will be acting as if the mentalist was ended after season 3, as strawberries and cream was a perfect finale to Red John.

Many of the theories i have seen on here are so much better than what i have seen from the Red John episode, but my if i could have ended it, it would have been Partridge as RJ with a major personality reveal just like Tommy Olds in Flame Red back in season 1 with flashbacks on explanations to the many unsolved answers.