I'am gonna explain it in very simple way that everybody will get it.


If you still saying; "Red John might be someone else except Brett Partrige" then believe me you haven't solved the puzzle yet.
And believe me Bruno Heller knows too. But maybe he is trying to make something different. you know..
Like not a happy ending.
maybe very sad ending (imagine a Red John fooling everybody except a few of viewers.. even Patrick..)

as you know this show has two option to go end. like every other shows. (good, bad / happy, sad)

FIRST- Discovering who Red John is. (Attention: not killing, busting, stabbing... "just knowing his identity. thats enough for happy ending.) and it means we have a winner and that is Patrick Jane.

SECOND- Not knowing his ID. but this one might have TWO winners. One of it certain. he is Red John. other winner is Patrick Jane buut this  depends on rest of the episodes that will come..

Now. As you* know (I mean the True solvers*) FIRSTone didn't happen.
SECONDone did.
well. but can we have TWO winners? if you ask..
simple: Red John didn't die (yet) and nobody know his ID (yet) but everybody knows he did die. and his ID has just appeared. even Patrick think that so.
-so Patrick thinks he is the WINNER
-Red John knows he is the WINNER.

Now we have TWO option again.

ONE- İn the next episodes, if we're gonna see happy patrick but clues. it means Patrick is also going to keep his WINNER position.

TWO - Buut if we're gonna see a little clues as like other 5 seasons before we did. we will and probably Patrcik will know he is not a WINNER actually.(and i think this is the option we will see and Patrick will see.)


And how come you couldn't see the thing Bruno was trying to say us?

if you remember at 06x08. during at the scene which was Patrick and Lisbon sitting at bench and talking about the pigeons. in that scene patrick says very odd thing. he was comparing the pigeons to little dinosaurs. maybe you are gonna say to me fool or crazy. but it was really the word non-essential to say. little dinosaurs? pigeons? how come is that? and if you remember in the end we have seen a guy standing front of a old slide.

A dinosaur slide.

yes. Red John is "still" Brett Partrige.