Just watch Sherlock (miniseries). It will make you forget all about this stupid Red John. If only Jane hired Sherlock, it would've been over in under a season.

For starters I'm utmost disappointed with the final episode, as I'm sure a lot of us true fans are. I just can't get the people "liking" this episode. And what I can stand less, is the people that crave to see "some action" between Jane and Lisbon, i cringe every time I hear or read the word "Jisbon" (I'm cringing right now as I write it, damn), hell, the last thing I tuned in for watching this show was the romance; in fact, I hoped there will be no romance between them, because that will just destroy the image of the show. This show is not about romance, it's a crime show, it's about a man with phenomenal mind prowess in a search for revenge and justice for the death of his beloved wife and daughter. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate romance or drama, but for god's sake, if you search for romance just go and watch a drama show, there at a crap load of them. But don't watch a serie about serial killers and murders and hope there will be a Romeo and Juliette side story to it, that 's just misplaced and plain stupid.
Sorry for the rant. But understand that I'm on tremendous amount of anger and mixed feelings which the damned last episode just triggered. I even felt sorry for Red John at some point which normally wouldn't even be considered, seing as the man was portrayed in previous seasons... But I guess Heller, ultimately, wanted his super vilain to die as a miserable man, and not live up to the legend that was Red John. By that he destroyed his character, along with ours hopes, and any future prospective that we will ever watch this show again.
Farewell my friends, that was a real pleasure reading your theories and thoughts, some of them were by far better than the dull ending we witnessed.

For all of you who think it is the actual Red John episode:

- In a post-episode interview Simon Baker and Bruno Heller both display the body language of 2 people saying a "Truth Lie," which is a lie that is partially ground in truth.

- When has an episode ever been leaked to French iTunes? When has it been leaked via source code? When has it leaked promotional pictures of Patrick killing the freaking guy himself?

- Why does it airing make it the real episode? Bruno Heller obviously wanted it to be an international trick when he leaked it to French iTunes

- Why in the penultimate few seconds does it cut away from Patrick Jane, to a woman with red hair and a child...

EASTER EGG: THE VERY LAST PERSON SHOWN IN THE EPISODE IS BRETT PARTRIDGE, IN FRONT OF A SLIDE.


Your move, dumbasses. I see its the same few people posting and complaining? Another part of the trick, or are you just the people who fell for it? Because every part of the trick was fun, until the whiner babies showed up in their droves.

I have finally figured out the pigeon trick.

After the explosion Jane was in the hospital where he got his "thing" replaced with a live pigeon.

Then wore a speedo to meet Red John.

Thats why throughout the episode, Jane was acting weird and uncomfortable.

He was either running around or feeding pigeons, so that the pigeon chirping inside his speedo remains concealed.

I think we will see the same pigeon again in the next episode when he meets a new girl.

Jane is in a coma from the explosion at his house. We still haven't met RJ

When he said : do you want to know how i got the list?
I'm a real psychic
i just lost it
HAHAHAHAHA

Hey guys, just wanna share some of my thoughts abt why i think it make sense for mcallister, among the 7 suspects, to be red john. Some of them are alrdy shared, some of them are of hindsight but dont mind me, im just dishing out everything on my mind now cause i might not watching the mentalist anymore since theres no more red john lol.

1. he has the oldest appearance in the show.

2. he has the most free time as a sheriff in Napa, compared to the rest except maybe partridge.

3. in season 6 epi 2, jane notes that he walks very quietly, similarly to the case where they first meet face to "face" at the end of season 2 (well, mask).

4. sophie miller mentioned that jay roth (red john) is middle aged and in good health, that pretty much rules out bertram and smith (somewhat fat), brett and haffner (too young), and stiles (too old), only mcallister and kirkland qualify.

5. he shaved his moustache from season 1. Why is that? Why not keep his original appearance? Might be nothing but i feel its possibly because he's gonna be involved in something big that requires his appearance to look "clean", like being red john himself.

6. he's the only one who kept quiet when jane shared his reason of gathering the remaining 5 at his house, the rest are either amused or skeptical. Abit of a giveaway here.

7. when jane asked him to meet him as a "favor", nothing else being mentioned, mcallister was casually calm, and immediately deduces that it is about red john. How could he know that, among other things? The other people were curious and/or frustrated, and they were also provided a half-truth (to give the latest info about red john). Giveaway also, on the writers' part.

8. when lorelei named the list of suspects, she addresses mcallister as "sheriff thomas mcallister". She didn't say "agent reede smith" or "agent robert kirkland" or "director gale bertram", why? Because mcallister is red john, and he is an authoritarian, enough for her to subconsciously address him as "sheriff".

9 when the bomb went off and it conveniently "kills" mcallister as well, him being one of the suspects with the tattoo, its quite the giveaway also. How can they kill off one of the strong suspects without explaining? Something is off, and we all know why now. 

All in all, i think jane already had a hunch that mcallister is red john the moment he called the 5 suspects to meet him. And im just disappointed that the writers decided not to disclose how red john knew abt the suspects list, kinda lame really. But overall nice episode, especially the part where jane kills him, really brings out the "revenge kill" feeling in us lol.