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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Red john was sitting in sophie millers chair. He noticed she takes no notes and uses a recorder . A recorder he left for jane to find . A recorder with fears of heights and pidgeons. The real red john isn't scared of anything !
Rigsby finds the recorder . Sophie thought rj was lying about everything. Jane concluded this was true but "maybe there clues" . Why the f would macalister spill his beans. Look like his lying . And then chop off her head and leave her recorder behind .???not logical

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There are two red johns. Lol i know. Macalister was "playing" red john for the BA. He along with partridge were faking crime scenes to look like red john did it .
Partridge was killed because he had that info.

The "real red john hasnt killed in years" as partridge said. Said not to jane, but a random forensic guy.
The murder mystery Kim was reading what about Patricks life . I bet anything on it .
Why would macalister a sheriff go to sophie miller. Give her his fear of pidgeons and then kill her by chopping off her head right before patrick found out she knows something !!!! Thats nuts !

The real red john went and saw sophie miller and gave her all lies as she thought but he really gave her the fears of the BA members !! Jane said they were clues even tho they he was "lying" to sophie .
Sophie miller is another thing to add to the "Macalister wouldn't do that list."

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Please stop with the Partridge theories! It's beyond embarrassing now and it makes you sound like a maniac! Enough already!

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Theory #16294 • By RedOrBlueFuture
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Please can you just answer something guys, I am just curious but here goes:

GREEN: I am happy with the ending to Red John and find Mcallister is a fine ending. I am looking forward to the side of the series.

RED: I want more explained and further episodes involving Red John, Heller didn't end it right and the red John theme should carry on somehow. 

Thanks Guys :)

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Woo. Go watch the episode Red John again. When talking with gale Bertram Bertram says I hate to tell you but km just a humble foot soldier for the BA. BRETT John is the top brass. He said Brett not red john. A very subtle hint. Plus if McAllister was red john he wouldn't need to kill Bertram as a loose end because he was planning on showing himself regardless to kill Jane. If he needed Bertram dead he would've let him and Reede die in the explosion and just faked his own death then disappear. It was when Bertram hinted Brett john to Jane that sealed the deal for him. It couldn't get out that Brett partridge is red john. Plus Jane was testing McAllister when he asked him if Brett partridge helped him fake his death, weeks after partridges "death". Add in the obvious that partridge would need to know how to fake a death to help McAllister and you've got very subtle hints that partrdige is still alive. If the BA contacts people while remaining unknown then partridge wouldn't need to die since he wouldn't know the person calling or why they he was planning. If McAllister was red john he wouldn't need to kill partridge or Bertram is what I'm saying. Plus McAllister never said he was red john. He said " I am the Blake Association " meaning he was sent there by the top guy, Brett partridge to kill Jane and Bertram, who is suspected of being red john, so the real red john can escape and live freely.

My guess. Partridge is red john and helped McAllister get the body and DNA the day McAllister found out where they were meeting, after partridge fake his own death, so McAllister could survive and wouldn't be killed. McAllister helped partridge get the body to fake partridges death as well. If you look the body has long hair in the back and partridge had cut his hair short so it can't be his body. In return for helping McAllister live partridge asked McAllister to do him a favor. Save Bertram and smith and make Jane believe one is red john. Then kill them both to make it look like they killed each other in a duel to the death. That way McAllister could live and partridge, red john, could also get Jane off his back because he was getting too close. It all wpukdve worked too if jane wouldn't have suspected McAllister and brought the pigeon.

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For any story to be truly entertaining, there has to be some plausibility in the story itself.  That doesn't mean that we have to believe that the story DID happen, just that it COULD happen.

Mr. Heller and company are in serious risk of pushing the boundary of believability of this story beyond the bounds of plausible entertainment and into something we all just shake our collective heads at, say a collective "pshhhhhaw", and walk away from.

Some of the things I find incredibly difficult to believe:

1.  Tom McAllister could make that voice,
2.  Tom McAllister could seduce a woman like Lorelei and get her to do anything he wanted,
3.  Tom McAllister could seduce the blind woman Rosalind Harker,
4.  Tom McAllister could seduce ANY woman,
5.  Tom McAllister could convince any male followers (such as Craig Laughlin) to do as he wished,
6.  Tom McAllister would have the means (time, money, resources (such as transportation to Malibu and Mexico on a moments notice from Northern California at a moments notice)) to commit the atrocities that were committed by Red John all while remaining Sherriff in Napa County,
7.  The FBI has the authority to simply disband a state agency such as the CBI (there is still something known as state sovereignty covering such matters),
8.  A person with great insight into human behavior (such as the character of Patrick Jane) wouldn't have put two and two together when coming across a beautiful American woman in his hideaway in Mexico just a day before the FBI shows up to make him a "deal".

These are just a few examples of things that seriously stretch the bounds of credibility within the show.  If the story continues on this arc, then soon it will become SO unbelievable as to be completely unwatchable.

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First thing we know. Whoever Red John is, was there in the house of PIGEONS with Lisbon in S06E01, as he had to have painted the face on Lisbon. Partridge was there. We do not see him die, and we do not see anyone else in the room. Could it be that Partridge fakes his death so that Lisbon wouldn't suspect him when she wakes up (his plan all along).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4mhDdZPD-o

Second thing we know. Red John was part of the Blake Association (BA), he would have had the tatoo on his arm. Brett Partridges upper arm in the Cremation room was cut out. A bit suspicious? If it was a body substitute, BA wouldn't want the substitute to be identifiable from Partridges own body. Also, the act of cremation itself is a bit suspicious, why would they burn the body? So it cannot to identified? In the scene, no one checks to see his face! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgWQ8AhfrGc
 
Third thing we know. "Faking your own death was easy. Brett Partridge was Blake Association. His job gave him access to the primary DNA database. He switched your DNA records with one of a body you had on ice" (S06E08) Partridge could have easily faked his own death, McAllister admits it himself, and so does Jane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-aR7jD9Yc

Lastly, the god damn voice. I know that Simon Baker does the voice for Red John, but is it not possible that he does the voice in the style of Red John's character?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TcWNyrWaZ0

IT IS POSSIBLE!

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