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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Question: who is going to take over for Brett Styles as head Visualize honcho?

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The Red John episode had some foreshadowing:

When the series ends, Lisbon and Jane will be sitting on a park bench feeding pigeons.  The shot will zoom out as they share first kiss.  Then we will see the real Red John watching them with a eerie smile on his face.

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Plausible:  VISUALIZE will be in the show again

Unlikely:  VISUALIZE will not be in the show in the future

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I re-watched episode 4x07, "Blinking Red Light", and I realized something amazing.

Jane cooperates with Red John in order to bring down a serial killer of teenage girls, because he had no clues connecting him with the murders.

Jane could make Panzer (the killer) a bait to Red John, and catch him in the act.
He didn't though.He preferred RJ to kill him just to get rid of him.

Here is my point: Jane knows McAllister isn't RJ, he cooperates with RJ in order to reveal the secret organization within Law Enforcement.(Blake Association)

-That's why RJ tells the poem "Tyger Tyger" to Jane at the season 2 finale.
-That's why RJ leads Jane to Kira Tinsley and the three-dot tattoo.
-That's why McAllister doesn't really know how RJ got the list and says "I'm psychic"

Red John was against this organization, probably because they copied his work,
or somehow irritated him.

No doubt there is a strong bond within RJ and Visualize.Maybe Stiles discovered the secret organization, and he tried to get advantage of it, by getting away with murders, no pay taxes and other criminal acts.It's not a coincidence that when Jane learned about the tattoo, the same time FBI started to chase Stiles, after all these years.They may suspected that Visualize is behind the reveal of the tattoo.(Kira Tinsley)

And maybe that's why Partridge died.(or faked his death, it doesn't matter).
He was either about to expose the bond between Visualize and the BA or he was just RJ that wanted to mislead Jane.

In conclusion, Patrick Jane and Red John are playing a game that both are forced to play.
-Jane wants revenge,
-Red John tries to avoid the identification.

So, in this game there are times where both of the players need to act together in order to continue the game.And that also explains why Red John wants to be friend with Patrick.

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If someone informed me that Red John is the guy who lost to Jane in rock,paper-scissors,i would call them a preposterous lunatic. Even if it turns out that he was Red John,i will never accept/believe it....to me Red John is who we make him out to be.

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I think the end of Red John was just irrelevant, firstly from what fans
were expecting and secondly from the clues they provided over the
years.


I also believe that Bruno Heller just wanted Red John to be a character that
no one could ever explain how he would be RJ.So the clues don't add up,
therefore there will be no flashbacks.
In addition, to me it seems that
Jane tries to forget everything about RJ and what happened the previous
10 years.So another clue that there will be no flashbacks (except of a
possible RJ return.)


Is Red John really dead?Is McAllister Red John?Is 6x08 the last Red John episode we will ever have the chance to watch?Will they ignore the fact that we need answers/flashbacks etc.?Certainly hope not.

I'm just clueless about a possible RJ return, so I'm not that optimistic.



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Haffner is alive. Nobody wanted him dead .
When haffner grabs jane shoulders all red john like he warns him to stop. Then haffner tries to scare lisbon telling her to stop.
Stop what exactly!
Jane pissed off some really important people right ?
But Haffner isn't in tiger tiger BA? So he is not talking about them and obviously speaking about visualize .
But why by uncovering the BA is patrick pissing off visualize .

*****brett styles is on his way out (in haffners mind when he said watch out )
Who is next in line at visualize ??
Jason cooper ? Can never trust that guy.
Or did styles pull a quick move and name his son his successor ?
Who is his son?
Mayne haffner ? Maybe red john?
The bottom line is , visualize needs a new leader and its going to be interesting to see how it plays out considering they haven't mentioned them yet.

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