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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The Mentalist Season 6 episode 11 Ending Fan Fic:

After the Blake Association was uncover and destroyed by joined forces of PD, CBI, FBI, Homeland action skips another 2 years ahead.

We're seeing Jane and Lisbon living happy ever after on some beach in California. They have pretty little son named Matthew.
Patrick works as therapist. After harsh 8 hours of work he comes back home, going upstairs and his eyes see a white piece of paper sticked on his door with a red writing on it.

"Dear Patrick, after 4 years of break I've gathered few ideas of my whole new killing style. Whatcha think? - Roy"

Janes enters the room and his eyes are full of tears.

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"If you don't get horny Watching The Mentalist, than  I'm PIGEON!"

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Brians death on family guy was more dramatic, and better acted.

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I want to congratulate everyone here, even if you didn't choose McAllister as Red John. Most of us knew after the promo and the Bertram Episode (no way was he gonna be Red John)  that it was the Sheriff.

Which does leave a lot of us disappointed, we were pretty much spoon fed who Red John was in the last episode no real twists or anything. It was impossible for McAllister's body to be burnt to a crisp, he was standing next to Patrick and Bertram and the bomb didn't touch them. 

Now us Mentalists (the people who used this site) are in want of one last trick. Something that gives us closure. There is a 97% chance this won't happen, but what if McAllister wasn't Red John? Red John hypnotized him to make him believe he was Red John. One last ditch effort to get Jane of his tracks, through all his right hand disciples at Jane so he can escape. This would mean its like Mashburn or CBI Ron it really wouldn't matter as long as they summed up all the clues and made it fit.

 I feel that's the only way to salvage the Red John storyline from a dexter/lost ending. No one expects this now, it would make Bruno Heller an equal to Joss Whedon. An epic ending yet to come, like Angel and Firefly/Serenity. All these recent interviews about finding out who red John is? And the leaked episode (which was the same) an EPIC ploy by a GREAT MAN HELLER.

One can only hope. Unlikely but most of us would love this. Hell I'd even take Partridge as being Red John, faked his own death to be in the clear and is free to continue murdering. Sure it could be two years from now the next episode, Red John may take that long for the heat to die down before committing more murders. Then somehow Jane notices a similarity in one of the new murders, believes Red John is back from the grave (McAllister who its not) and feels like he is losing it/going  crazy.

Please comment let me know what you think, would you like something like this? Like the beginning of Scream 4 we think we knows what's happing 2-3 times but we don't. We need something epic (Wes craven is a tier or two below Joss Whedon for me right now if McAllister is Red John with no more explanation, Bruno Heller is on the bottom of my pyramid.

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I just can't get over it. Probably reading some wonderful theories on this website made the episode look even worse than what it really was. I don't know. The fact that some people actually liked me scares me.
Probably Bruno Heller deserve the "How to completely fuck up a successful storyline" oscar.

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The mentalist plot: 
A famous "psychic" outs himself as a fake and starts working as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation so he can find "Red John," the madman who killed his wife and daughter.

TL;DR - waste of time.

 thanks bruno

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Will we get more information about Red John?

Heller: We won’t be going back.  …  Once the curtain is drawn back from these evil Wizard of Oz
characters they tend not to be very interesting dinner companions. They
tend to be ego-maniacal one-track minds … There is a great deal of
[backstory], if anyone waned to ask those questions, I’d be happy to
answer. There’s a lot of questions about motivations and what [Red John]
was doing and when and how… It makes for great Internet fodder, but
it’s not very entertaining for a weekly TV audience.

Baker: When Red John dies there’s a part of Jane that
dies in that moment as well. It’s kind of what he’s been about since we
met him. It takes a little time to get back on his feet again. He
doesn’t have a wife and kid, he doesn’t have a relationship with anyone
other than those he worked with at the CBI and this perverse
relationship/obsession with Red John, which is now over … In the very
next episode there was a line that referenced Red John and I was pretty
adamant about losing it. Because we’ve said “Red John” about 4 million
times and 3 million in the last 7 episodes … It’s nice to have to have a
good clean cut and not have Jane speak of him … Even if he speaks [of
killing him], he doesn’t mention “Red” or “John” in same sentence.

It's over guys, we will never ever get answers for our questions. What a waste of time !!!. Who will watch mentalist now ? Even if episode 8 was crapy, i would watch next ones only for answers ..but now that we know RJ is a psychic and that we won't get any answer (he is mar, the list of suspects, visualize farm, ...), there are no reason i watch mentalist again.

Mentalist is over !! Ending as bad as Dexter and Lost.

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