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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so to be honest I read a lot of your really amazing theories with one backdoor after another - Red John still being alive - just mindblowing! I wish that there were some tangible evidences for that RJ will be back! (comment ;)) 
However, I must say that i do not really think that RJ will return. I actually didn´t even find the way they ended things bad, maybe just a little disappointed - but in general im pleased. I do am a huge Fan of the RJ storyline and would love to see it continued... however in my opinion there are arguments that say something different.
Firstly, the producers wanted to move on in a quick way - go another direction to also attract new viewers.
Secondly, there have already been mannnnyy interviews with BH and SB and the others, talking about how they liked the ending, see McAllister as an amazing RJ, saying that this was really THE END of RJ and now moving on. - Sure it may have not been the best written story on TM, but it was still very exciting, when also not quite as satisfying as many hoped it to be (my opinion)
Furthermore, would the whole cast and crew lie about that? and that already tons of times? - i don´t think so.

Its just to me, that I don´t want to get my hopes up, waiting for the BIG BANG finish.... and then being even more disappointed than before since it did not happen, leaving me in this ditch, where i cannot get out of.

My highest respect to all of your great theories with such great images of how the show could have been even better, but surely i would like RJ storyline to continue... but just cannot believe it. But if a crew/cast , could pull this off then it could only be the best of all time! - THE MENTALIST ♥

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It's over. Rj is done - wasted on being mcallister. a shame. Time to wind this show up.

The Yellow King from "True Detective" is the new red John.
The big question now is who is the yellow king?

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Macalister is not Red John reason #1748385
(I re-wrote it and added some)

Why on earth would Macalister show up at Patricks house knowing darn tootin well what was going on and submissively let it happen, then set off a bomb that would f him up in the process i assume right ?
Then let Patrick live; fake his own death, just to appear a day later to frame Bertram as himself and kill Patrick?
He coulda just killed everyone Jane's house and handled it there instead of getting surrogates and dragging bodies and all that noise. Makes no logical sense.
Red John could of killed Patrick a kajillion times in six seasons but he didn't. He choses to let patrick know he has this "list", kills Partridge, hires an outsider to un shadily put a bug on Cho's desk, kills her, then goes to a meeting at Janes house and blows it up and only kills Styles and Haffner and lets Patrick live. Then it was finally time to kill Jane ONE DAY later ! Why? "The game is over and i won". Oh, really did you? Just because he walked out with a gun its game over? Lol. Seriously laugh out loud. He coulda pulled out a gun on top of that roof at GVP and Rigsby's wedding !

Also Jane said the scene at his house was theatre, and what ever seemed to be true then the OPPOSITE was true.
Well the opposite of what happened would be that Red John was not even on the list.
Macalister faking his death wasn't the opposite of what happened at all.

And what about the infamous gunshot? A concussion bomb is a grenade. It goes boom! We all heard a gunshot then the house blew up but we missed what happened in between those two events.
Patrick had a flashback at the hospital. His flashback ended right before the gunshot. If it was simple amnesia from the bomb them he woulda forgot a whole lot more than just moments before the boom.
*I think this PROVES that there was mind control and hypnotism going on at his house. By whom? Most likely the real Red John. The guy/girl who made Kristina Freye a mute . The guy who makes his followers love him and die for him with a smile on their faces. Charles Manson'ish in so many ways.
The BA and their members exhibit hardly any similarities to Red John followers. Blake Association is just normal cops and law enforcement that are doing favors in a mafia like way for a boss that they have never met or even know his name. And they don't have crazy eyes like Sheriff Hardy, Bosco's secretary, Rosaline Harker (jk), Todd Johnson, the lady that stole the baby, and the lady in the church. Lorelie Martins is different . She was more than a simple pawn. A high ranking night in shining leather armor.

The reason why Jane seems off in episodes 1-8 is even more proof. Hardly caring that Red John guessed the list, telling Lisbon fatal secrets, not caring that CBI was shut down and just being totally apathetic in every way.
Jane is not a "new man".
He has not gotten over anything or quieted any dark spirits that haunt him. He still sports that wedding ring. He did not just join CBI's and his nemesis, the FBI because he was bored . He needs them. Jane uses people on the regular.
He has a plan, and watching it unfold will be like 10,000 dominoes all falling down one by one .
Check mate .

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Macalister is NOT Red John reason #1748385

Why on earth would Macalister show up at Patricks house knowing darn tootin well what was going on amd submissively let it happen then set off a bomb?
Then let Patrick live and fake his own death just to appear a day later to frame Bertram and himself and kill Patrick?! Lol
He coulda just killed everyone Janes house and handled it there instead of getting surrogates and all that noise.

Also Jane said the scene at his house was theatre and what ever seemed to be true then the OPPOSITE was true.
Well the opposite of what happened would be that Red John was not even on the list and planted the bomb.
Macalister faking his death wasn't the opposite of what happened at all.

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Could Jason Cooper be timothy Farragut ?
Even if he is not him, i believe Farragut faked his death with the help of styles .
Faked his death and created his own underground church.
The bleeding eyes of the red john smiley face is the darkness that seeps out of the visualize eye.
Visualize is the light and red johns church/cult is the darkness.
Harnessing all the negative evil energy and actually using it as opposed to getting rid of it or hiding it .
Do what thou will in other words.

I always thought if Faragut was alive or one of his children were alive they would kill Styles for revenge. But them i thought maybe styles helped out .
Styles seems to be connected to rj somehow. He knew where to find Kristina Freye too.
I also realized that Visualize must be enemies of the BA.
Visualize has its own cops that they control that are not BA.
Its odd that the fbi aka Ba was gunning for Styles right before his "death". Hmm?


Also Linus Wagner is back!
He killed his partner Tannen who was a plastic surgeon. He did so because Tannen was going to expose him for using money to feed African children. I DONT BUT THIS REASONING AT ALL!
There had to be another reason he killed him. Maybe Red John got a nose job and Tannen found out something he shouldn't have.
Two more weeks !

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6x14(Grey Water) Press Release:
JANE INVESTIGATES A MURDER AT A FRACKING SITE WHILE THE FBI ATTEMPTS TO
UNCOVER WHO IS HUNTING FORMER CBI MEMBERS, ON “THE MENTALIST,” SUNDAY,
MARCH 16
 
“Grey
Water” — Jane and Fischer investigate a murder at an oil fracking site,
while Rigsby and Van Pelt travel to Austin to help investigate suspects
in the string of attacks on former CBI team members, on THE
MENTALIST, Sunday, March 16 (10:00–11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS
Television Network. 

SERIES REGULARS:
Simon Baker     (Patrick Jane)
Robin Tunney     (Teresa Lisbon)     
Tim Kang     (Kimball Cho)        
Owain Yeoman     (Wayne Rigsby)     
Amanda Righetti     (Grace Van Pelt)
Rockmond Dunbar     (FBI Agent Dennis Abbott)
Emily Swallow     (Kim Fischer)
 
RECURRING CAST
Joe Adler     (Jason Wylie)
Richard Haibach     (William Mapother)
 
GUEST CAST
Shannon McClung     (Agent Collins)
Judson Mills     (Bryce Kendrick)
Colby French     (Jason Kern)
Todd Williams     (Agent Miller)
Shannon Sturges     (Susan Fitzgerald)
Sean O’Bryan     (Emmett Fitzgerald)
Paul Schulze     (John Hutton)
Cary Grubbs     (Samuel Millman)
Milena Govich     (Molly Becker)
Lincoln Hope     (Tech Guy)
Brendan Patrick Connor     (Ethan Zorn)
Claire Winters     (Jacquelyn Hutton)
Penny Peyser     (Linda Dubin)
Jenny Robinson     (Woman)
James Laski     (Dan Becker)
David Warhshofsky    (Donny Culpepper)
Zeljko Ivanek     (Linus Wagner)
 
WRITTEN BY:  David Applebaum
DIRECTED BY:  Geary McLeod

PS: Haibach and doctor Wagner are back! :D

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Heller tried to "explain" the last scene of 6x01. Read comments.

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