Now just an observation I noticed at the time but haven't seen people mention on here yet;

Stiles has a terminal illness with 'a couple of weeks' a couple of weeks before blast. His crazy ritual with the women and the blood, stating he knows far more than PJ or RJ ever could. Then claims it is not a a death but 'a departure, as I will return!

Now - say everyone's right about RJ not being dead and this all being a ruse, which I personally don't believe but wish was true, surely this would explain the two year gap?

Stiles wanted to lay low for a couple of years to take the heat off him as RJ and also to make him appear as more of a messiah when he returned from the dead to lead Visualize. This was all his plan. He's the only one who doesn't have a weapon at Janes house, is early like he's relishing it, and is quick to point out to PJ several have the tattoo.

He happily leaves the embassy where he had immunity because Jane asks him to - also why is the FBI after him after all these years? Sets the stage for him planning all
this, he's the only one with the tools and the resources to do so, and takes heat completely off him, maybe that why we see his lookalike in My Blue Heaven.

He is really the only candidate from the list with the skills to be RJ as we all imagined him and maybe Heller knew this and this was best way to fool us all as The Mentalist loves to do.

I've always wanted it to be Stiles so just making an observation that's probably wrong but surely all this conveniently explains why we've jumped ahead two years and so many plot holes?

That or we have been truly robbed of our time and effort analysing all these clues! Which is a very real possibility.

I don't know, may well just be clutching at straws but I do hope we didn't see the two best characters in The Mentalist killed off with the line 'they died in the blast' and if McA survived so could Haffner and Stiles. Surely this isn't what the show has turned into with the terrible characters, acting and stories we've had since 6X06.

And makes sense that the gunshot could've been at Haffner. Maybe.

This 2 month break has first of all pissed me off......................and now,i'm slowly losing interest in this god forsaken show. This show doesn't need 22 episodes to cover whatever it is BH wants to cover,15 would have sufficed without all these BS filler episodes. Now back to the matter of RJ,if BH is as good as we thought he was..............he must have made up his mind indefinitely as to who RJ is by the end of season 1 and made clues to back his own theory up. Up to now,nothing he showed us makes any sense so i hope he gets his shit together and delivers what we all deserve.

Simple question. I want to see how many people still BELIEVE RJ is alive. I HOPE he's not dead but honestly I can't imagine BH bringing him back after that bullshit episodes since 6x6. He kind of dissapointed me and yeah.. -.-

Green: RJ is alive
Red: RJ is dead

I can't believe people are still reading into the RJ thing.  Bruno doesn't even respect his fans or the RJ storyline enough to bother to explain anything or tie things up.  Saddest thing is that they never knew who RJ was until that season, which pretty much means that none of the clues ever meant anything and they probably wouldn't hold up now.  It was all a load of rubbish.

On another note, watch Sherlock if you haven't - now there, clues fall into place.

I just read they castes a heartthrob for Lisbon's love interest.
Before people say "f heller" or "stupid storyline"
Remember janes date? The commercials made it look like it was just jane getting back into his grove .
But it wasn't ! The whole show is misdirection with huge purpose .