Who is Red John?

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List of seven

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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I FOUND THE CLUE FROM THE SEASON 3 FINALE!!

Its not red sweater guy either its red shirt guy!!

When Jane is talking to Carter the camera switches to show whats behind Jane.
Janes head is blocking the word "cappachino" so all you see is the word "CAP"
Right then a man in a red shirt and a black cap appears.
He is shows for a few seconds them the camera changes.
The camera goes on him again and then Jane and Carter stand up while he is in the background.
Now listen this man is 5 feet behind Carter when Jane shoots.
All hell breaks loose and everyone runs then Jane sits back down.
A good 3 MINUTES goes by then the cops come.
-Right after the cops come you see the guy again!!!
In reality he woulda been long gone by then.
The whole mall cleared out!
You see him run across the screen behind Jane blatantly as the cops close in.
He kinda looks like Macalister but maybe not....
Please go back and watch and tell me what u think..
Somebody PLEASE screenshot it and enlarge it for me i am not good at that, d666 I'm looking at u lol.
*this is deff the clue Heller was speaking of the is blatantly shown 4 times for a reason.
And the end when he runs across 3 minutes after the mall cleared out proved it to me.

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i have a 30 year old single female that sits next to me at work.  through discussions with her, i realize that single women of her age either obsess over their 16 pet cats, or they obsess over TV shows.  the problem is that people like her (TV obsessed) are the ones that go on message boards and scream for Jisbon.  More power to them.  If they can't find love in life, i guess the gallon tub of ice cream and tv romance gives them the warm and fuzzy.  I do believe though, that this demographic is the one that spends more time online posting and hoping for all shows to become romantic.  The demographic that preferred the RJ storyline was just as big, but while they watch the show, don't express their feelings as much.  basically, i think that Jisbon gets more run online than RJ simply because those that like Jisbon are the type that spend more time stalking tv shows online than those that preferred RJ (minus the hardcore fans on this site of course). 

Of the 7 listed suspects, everyone agreed that Reede Smith was the biggest longshot.....and so do I.  But of the original 7, he is the only one that is confirmed to still be alive......

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I have two possibilities;
First is Jane, there are many hints in the show that make it seem as though he has a split personality or has had a psychological break.  They are too many to recount and often subtle.

But my new pet theory is Abbot.  He has been manipulating Jane since he was introduced and kind of orchestrated Jane and Lisbon getting together at the end of this season.  If I am right the next season will feature Jane and Lisbon getting closer and then she will be murdered by the reemerged Red John. 

Abbot (Red John) wants Jane and Lisbon close so that he can inflict pain onto Jane.  In the past Jane may have wronged Abbot unknowingly, or represents the archetype of someone who wronged him.  Abbot will eventually reveal himself to Jane, because he wants to rub his nose in it - "I did this to you, because you wronged me.  I beat you!" 

Like I said these are both just pet theories and I cannot wait to see what they have in store for us.  Just found this site, and I am going to read all the theoeries you fine people have.

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Chokim, AKA known as the greatest love scene ever.

Cho walks in the scene from behind the office corner, about 20 feet away from, at the moment, arguing Abbott and Kim. As Cho walks toward them, his motion slows down and the camera intermittently switches back and forth between him and Kim's sensual attention completely devoted to evaluating of Cho's figure from head to toe. Her lust is more dripping than the pen she unconsciously brought to her luscious lips. 

Kim's day dreaming is abruptly interrupted by Abbot's annoyed exclamation;
"Agent Fisher... was I clear enough?"

To what she replies:
"Sorry boss, can we discuss this later?"

Abbott shakes his head and walks away, meanwhile Cho reaches Kim and she adopts his speed of walk right beside him. Cho doesn't seems to notice her.
Fisher's question is direct and without beating around the bush:
"Cho... Wanna have sex?"

Cho gives her a quick glance and replies:
"Sure." while the second part of his answer comes as he turns his head straight ahead, again: "Why not?"

They continue to walk silently by each others side throughout the next two hallways when suddenly the hallway ends with a wall infront of them. It also branches to the left and right. The arrow pointing to the right reads: the interrogation room. Kim turns that way.

Cho turns left.

For few seconds the hallway is empty... then Kim runs back from right wing to catch up with Agent Cho. Finally, she's caught up with him when Cho sits down to his desk and starts flipping through the file in front of him. Kim halts at the desk. Irritated she utters: "So?"


Cho looks up to her with his trademark expressionless and comes to riveting conclusion;
"Oh, you mean right now!"

Her WTF countenance is more than enough to send the suggestive message even Agent Cho can't misinterpret. He stands up, gently touches Kim's elbow and invites her in the nearby direction:
"Let's do it."

They walk few feet further and Cho inquires:
"Would you mind?"

Jane looks up from his couch. Smiles, and vigorously jumps away, but hastily turns back and with playful tip-toe goes behind his beloved furniture, pulls a plastic wrap over the seat and implies:
"Go ahead, kids." then with grin on his face, for the last time before he leaves the scene gives the voice to every true fans expectations:
"It was about time."

Cho, in modestly uncomfortable manner but decisively firm decision wraps the love scene up:
"I'm on top."







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So i read in the comments of a youtube video  "enough time for them to get married though! ;) " refering to jisbon in season 7 , because of the only 13 episodes. And i tought, enough time for redjohn to comeback, kill the entire team (new and old ) , kidnap lisbon, then patrick and red john finally meet (for real this time ) after an epic mindgame between them, red john says "Well patrick, now is indeed game over , and i won " ( he kill himself so patrick wouldnt have his revenge and avoid to tell him where lisbon is ) . Jane approaches slowly to red john , takes his gun , then he sits in a chair just like in season 3 finale , drinks some tea and slowly aim the gun to his own head, he says " At least i hope van pelt was right , and u girls are in the other world so i could see you now "  then the camera slowly goest to the right showing some trees , and then "BOOM !!! " 
SORRY FOR BAD ENGLISH.

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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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