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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The whole thing started spiralling out of control with the introduction of the BA.  I know that "Tiger Tiger" was there for years, but It could have been nothing more than the fact that RJ's mom read him Blake poetry as a kid after repeatedly dropping him on his head.  Then it was a compulsive thing RJ passed on to his followers.  Before Season 6 I thought of them saying TT as a way of giving PJ a big FU when he thought he was going to get useful info out of someone.  The fact of having a psycho serial killer with a cult like following being the same person that leads a very secretive society of law enforcement offers, not only is unrealistic, but also made it impossible for everything to work together.

Now that everything got convoluted into a giant pile of donkey dung, the only way to salvage the first 5 seasons is to back track a little and separate RJ and the BA.  Let McAllister be the leader of the BA.  Maybe RJ even had a friend inside the BA that helped him out from time to time.  Yes they used TT as a calling card, but that is the only definite link between RJ and BA and could have been RJ's way of selling out the BA, or maybe RJ was actually part of the BA at one point, and got obsessed with the TT thing.  But i would see him as a maybe a member but not the leader.  even if it has to be McAllister, letting him be a creepy local sherriff who moonlights by hacking up girls makes sense, but not the leader of BA.  (On a side note, the biggest error in heller choosing mcallister is the way mcallister was in the beginning.  He couldn't even control his chub long enough to take down GVP, but we are expected to believe that he took down all those other women over the years without screwing up). 

The hot chick from Leverage never said it was RJ that hired and killed her, just that he had the ... tattoo, which was an indication of BA, not RJ.

And no, i don't think it was CHO.  I just picked him to honor the fact that he is the best thing going for the show now that JISBON is intact. 

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None of the clues matter unless the RJ story comes back. It looks like a commercial decision to scrap that storyline was made, to try and cater to the majority. There were clues and plans, but if they're going to revisit it, it's definitely last double-episode material as they care too much about ratings.

That double episode is pivotal to the series. Noone wants a box set of Jisbon. If anything, season 7 will NEED
to engage and explain the RJ storyline, so fans worldwide revisit moments from every past season. This is what compels the average viewer, even Jisbon fans, to REWATCH.

Warner Bros knows this, that's why it was so important to get in one final season, so they could give a clean legitimate finish to the RJ Arc.

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Kristina Frye is Red John. She is sadistic and lesbian and likes to spank her victims so long that their back becomes red. Than, she does faceslapping to them, smack, smack smack. After being slapped by her, the victims have really red cheaks. 
That's the reason, why she calls herself Red John, actually meaning Red Joanna. 
She's intelligent, smart and equal to Patrick and she slapped his family to death. 
Would make as much sense, as the actual thing. We will see. 

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Kira Tinsley:
I have already talked about this scenario ad nauseum.
Tinsley was a young sloppy outsider placed ina game full of experts.
She was pointless yet she gave the most important clue about red john IN THE SHOWS HISTORY.
So i find it Plausible that her role and purpose was not as simple as a Rj mistake as we think..

It takes 3 seconds to use a taser and slit a throat.
Why did Rj leave her alive for the exact second Janes arrives.
And why was her last not words but sentence a name and not "tattoo on left shoulder" ?
Red John left her alive and did not use his knife for a reason.
He pinned her down and hypnotized her to say the tattoo thing.
She obviously didn't see the tattoo that night.
And lets say she was intimate with this person and saw the tattoo before. How would she know that the tattoo clue would be worth anything to jane? Theres tons of men in the world she coulda been killed by.

But she was not intimate with anyone. Her last words were so important and they led Jane right to the Ba.
Every clue fell right to Jane! Think about it if you were Rj a mastermind and wanted to take down the Ba how would you do it? He got what he wanted plus faked his death all by simply leaving a few breadcrumbs for Jane.

*That was the game. That was RED JOHNS RULES.
Jane knew this as he starred at the lady feeding the pidgeons.
He even got the last riddle of how to take down Macalister...BIRDS!
Season 6 was a huge chess game masked by a game of checkers.
Styles will return. Another poster reminded me of Styles last speech to his cult.
U know the one with the two hot babes one naked one not with fearful symmetry.
He spoke of leaving and returning. Simple as that the dude is pulling a Jesus.

**But Heller said this Heller said that you guys are all idiots its just a tv show!
Yea its a tv show built on surprises WHAT THR FUCK DO YOU THINK HELLER IS GONNA SAY?!
Do coaches give away info before a game just because a media guys asks? F NO!
For you to sit there alone at home and think for sure you know whats entail for season 7 you're dumber than dicks.
Did you guess Carter was Fake? Did you guess Mac was RJ and BA?
Be prepared to be surprised. Formermale

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I'm just gunna pretend the mentalist ended with Timothy carter being red john. Fuck macallister.

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I know it's been a few years down the road and Bret Stiles has passed. But whatever happened to visualize? As far as I know, they have been under severe FBI investigation for a long time now. I think they should at least address this issue. 

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Macalister is NOT red john #74960"3'xe&(65

Rebecca Anderson and the foster care lady died for red john. Died with a smile of their face too.
Their devotion is that of a CULT like following. This is not a group of corrupt cops their dying for either.
They're dying for a reason too. Rebecca spoke about red johns plan. Seeing ones true self.
Todd Johnson spoke of the same.

Todd Johnson was killing cops
in serial killer fashion FOR RED JOHN. Why would he kill a SELECT group of cops one by one?
One of the cops was Hightower's ex boyfriend.
I believe these cops were Ba.
"The plan" Johnson spoke of was taking down the Ba. Killing cops does not seem like a Macalister thing to do.
And who killed Todd Johnson? Who set him on fire to suffer and why?
Red John followers either take a pill or magic killer goo is used.
Set a follower on fire? Craig Olaughlin set him on fire bc OLaughlin WAS Ba.
Red john didn't want Hightower dead why would he?
The ba wanted Hightower framed or killed or both. To cover up their Todd Johnson business.
-the red john i know does NOT hire an outside hit-woman (remember?)
And why would he send a guy to kill Hightower who did nothing by the way?
Red John handles biz himself.
He does not care about framing Hightower for the murder of Todd Johnson. Or care about OLaughlin at all. He was BA. Red john is against the ba.
*It all started with the DVD from Lorelie.
After that each clue easily led to the BA. Jane took each clue at face value and he never does that. He took them at face value externally, but inside he knows what going on.
Partridge saying tiger tiger.
Sparing Lisbon because WHY? Because Jane was doing what rj wanted, take down the Ba.
Sophie Miller
Kira Tinsley
The usb
Were all clues that literally fell of janes lap!
-What does a show do when all it has left is a bunch of questions?
It already made the two main characters canoodle and happiness cant get any higher right?
The only thing left to do is fill the plot holes.
Its one of the greatest shows of all times final series. Honestly, what do you think their gonna do? And fuck everything bruno Heller has said!

People think i am crazy but the clues are all there. The reason we hated season 6 is bc we got no answers. There is no answer in Macalister, the head of the Ba, being a serial killer guro Charles Manson type.

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