because he is.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/11/24/the-mentalist-red-john-interview/

If he is a writer, then I'm a poet...

"Heller Heller in the night,
first we thought you were so bright..
why so much pretend ?
just to give us a crappy end!"

But is Red John really dead?
Heller: Red John is dead. It’s passed that point.

it's done guys
 
this is from interview with the writer,casts among 20 questions

Until Rosalind harker does not appear and confirm that sheriff is the Red John, i will consider McAllister as a pawn of red john, on the other han rosalind can cover red john by confirmig his identity as sheriffs

We all hoped these provocative questions would
indeed be answered, but they weren't and by the sounds of it never will
be! This is unscrupulous! :(

For me the episode needed be in two parts or a
special length episode to tie all these things together!


Also, I would have cast Red John from the very beginning,
so that you had that coeternity of the same actor making those vital appearances,
not a year before you film the iconic episode.
But I don’t think I call it that
now.  The way it should have been is Red John
is Moriarity and Jane is Holmes an equal, this just didn’t do it justice.       


However, here’s how I would have written it
from a writer's perspective. Please feel free to comment and mention
things I may have forgotten and I will do my best to answer them.


1. Who is Red John?

For me he was
Michael Kirkland (Kevin Corrigan)



2. How did he become Red John?


Due to the trauma, he, Bob and their
mother had endured from their father, to the point where she killed herself. In
addition, Bob was the stronger one and managed to escape his father leaving
Michael to his Dad.

Furthermore,
Michael may have been responsible for his mother’s death; she’d killed herself
with a razor blade. So who knows? 


    

3. How did he come to be a member
of Visualise, did they help him become Red John?



The man he met was
Stiles who introduced him to Visualise, learning of the trauma he had suffered,
he showed him way he could become strong, powerful, by creating this new
identity Red John. We saw a ritual being held, in which Stiles drew a face
somewhat similar on the woman. So is that how the crying smiley was
created. 


 4. How did he have so
much influence over people and how did that make him feel?

I would say from a physiological point
of view these people that helped him in his game made him feel less weak, made
him feel powerful, clever, which is exactly how Red John has been described
over the past six years!

 I can’t answer how he influenced them, but
perhaps it was blackmail and charm?  







     



5. Why kill women in the way
that he does?



Again, this answer is straightforward. His mother’s
death, the trauma of what she or what he did is was still haunting him emotionally
and he feels that pain, yet it’s more of not because he feels guilty it’s more
of what he witnessed in himself and his father’s abuse that has crazed him.


    

6. Where had he met Jane before?



Bob had explained
to Lisbon that he travelled a lot, firstly for his mum’s work and then his
Dad’s. So the Kirkland’s and the Jane’s could have easily grown up together on the carnival,
hey maybe he and Jane did become friends for a while and this made Michael feel
wanted by someone, it helped take off his mind of his Dad’s abuse and drinking.



Once Michael met Stiles he moved away from the
carnival, years later Jane had made fun of him on the TV show, which made him
feel betrayed, perhaps he’d also shown Jane some of his Mentalist skills when
they were kids.

    

7. How did he know the list
before Jane?


It took me awhile to figure this out,
but Shaun Barlow was on the carnival, when Jane’s family was. So it’s possible
that Michael knew him and predicted the list for him, if Michael came to visit
him.

On the other hand,
Cho, Van Pelt, Lisbon or Rigsby could have worked for him and giving him the
list, but I feel that would be too heart-breaking.

         

 


8. How did he learn the happy
memory, which Jane never told anyone?

How did Kirkland know that Jane
was in the asylum and why kill Sophie Miller?



Again, this took me
awhile to come up with, so here it goes:

Sophie Miller could
never have told Jay Roth about Jane due to patient confidentially, so when Jane
was in the asylum Red John could have posed as a doctor, Sophie could have
easily been on leave or off sick.



So, Jane could have
told Red John about his happy memory, after all Jane was having a break down,
he did say that during that time he couldn’t remember all the things he’d told
her, so it’s possible he couldn’t remember this, which links to the fact that Kirkland
knew he was in the asylum.


The reasons why he
killed Sophie Miller:

She could have
easily learned somehow that the man she was counselling was the same man who
covered her that one time and suspected him of being Red John, so Red John
killed her so she could never contact Jane and never ID him.



9. Why frame your own brother?



Easy really, blamed
him for leaving him with their drunken father, so for revenge he framed him as being
the one, but when Jane was getting closer to knowing Bob wasn’t, he had Reede
kill him. Bob knew that Red John would have him killed anyway, as he knew about the
Blake Association; however, he was unaware that Michael was involved or that he
was Red John.

    

10. The Poem?



Well what can I say
this was the biggest clue of all really, the last line of the poem!

What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Well how more symmetrical can you get then twins!


  

11. Rosalind's description
how does it link? 



Okay, well we all know Rosalind’s description, but
the biggest clue was pine needles, where Michael owned his shed there were pine
trees and dirt as they found them on the fake suspect’s body.  

  



12. Why Kill Lennon, Partridge
and plant the Bomb in Jane's house?



I’m going use a
little of Bruno’s conclusion to this: I’m going to keep the bomb has the same
but he used one of the members of Tyger, Tyger to bring in the bomb, the reason’s
Stiles and Heffner had to die was because they were both members of Visualise,
so they could ID him, especially Stiles!



He kept the others
alive, so the game could continue, so that Jane would still suspect them. As
for Lennon and Partridge, Lennon could ID him still even though he’d just woken
from a coma as he could remember later on.

As for Partridge,
he could have asked him to do something and he refused to do it, perhaps to kill
Lisbon so that Jane would kill him, thinking he was Red John.


13. He is Mar….      


Okay,
so the message on the wall in Jared Renfrew’s apartment could have been decrypted
as this He is marred. Which is another word for disfigured. If Michael did have
a scar, this could have been emotionally damaging too.

14. Phobia or fear?
(Will not be pigeon’s!)



Red John’s phobia would be more of fear in my personal opinion.
I think the way I would describe it is that he would be afraid of losing,
afraid of Jane being one-step ahead in the game, the fear of losing one’s self
and power over everything, of losing completely. Also, if Jane won he would
lose him too. I would say that
would have been Red John’s ultimate fear! Not bloody pigeons!

15. The smiley on
Lisbon?



Kirkland had once said to Lisbon that it was nice talking
to her. Perhaps he was Michael, who knows they were twins. Maybe he felt comfortable
talking to her, maybe he became fond of her (Get in line, with Jane and Heffner)
this is why he couldn’t kill her and the smiley face was different has anyone heard of the Harlequin? This is very similar to how he’d drawn the
smiley on Lisbon, which is type of clown. Again from the carnival and it would
be where his strong sense of theatre comes from.

    

            





Other possible clues
that Bruno Heller completely dismissed.

1.  Lorelei Martin’s Death

Again, this pointed to the carnival. Where Red John
killed her, it was full of things you’d find on a carnival, it felt as if Red
John was giving Jane another clue.

2. Meeting with masked Red John and the scene
with Lennon at the hospital



When Red John picked Jane up off that chair, he tapped
his arm. Kirkland also does this when he leaves the hospital.

3. Kirkland and Jane’s “first” meeting.



Okay well this meeting was what first gave me suspicion,
when Jane clearly states this:

“Do I know you?”

Which indicates that Jane sensed he knew him in some way.

4. Beard,
no beard?



In the first meeting, Kirkland had a lighter suit and beard,
I think throughout the rest of the time he was in the show, he had a darker suit and no
beard or though I am not entirely sure of this.


It’s
such a shame, Bruno Heller had so much could have done with the ending of Red
John and we got a rather dull ending, the way I see this the clues and the
links were all there and he failed to use them, why give all these clues and
not use them?



Oh,
well it’s done. No going back now Heller, but I unsure you I’ll find a way to
get in touch with him somehow.



The
Red John episode is like Marmite; you either love or hate it. I wouldn’t go as
far as to say I hated it, but it could have gone a more entirely different, edge
of your seat, mouth open kind of way.         



Tyger, Tyger! Thanks for reading - Louise

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