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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I think that chapter 2x08 teaches you a lot, and by paying attention to that chapter in particular theres a lot of things you can disregard, and options that you can exclude as early in that chapter, for example.

1.- For those who think that PJ maybe RJ, this chapter pretty much refuses 99.99% of possibilities, it cannot be PJ since he interviews rebecca and then RJ poisins her, you can see in Rebeccas face that shes facing love, shes facing whoever RJ is, so im 99% sure we can forget about RJ being PJ.

2.- Even tho is technically possible, is really hard that minelli is RJ, since he was in the questioning room in a suit, then few seconds later RJ is in another part of the building dress as a police guard, and if he was minelli, somehow the other policemen cound have seen him or recognized him, this also makes Ron a higher suspect, since from the body build that you can see from the back of red john and the fact that he could be there in the building at that time then change and go to his regular place, increases the chances.

3.- Again, from the body build of RJ in the police guard uniform, you can easily asume that is not laroche, and that is not Stiles, and that it should be someone that could remain in the building by changing his clothes and be hiddin in plain sight.

4.- In my oppinion, the producers are playing us and damn they are doing  a great work, we are as obsessed to know who RJ is as the same PJ itself,  if you ask my oppinion, the producers are on purpose making kirkland one of the main suspects, basically so we rip or heads off by saying, "He cant be, is too obvious" or " he must be, is so obvious", either way, kirkland is Red John, or is hunting Red John or is a part of Red Johns Web, one thing im sure, Kirkland is going to be the key to reveal who RJ is, the best way to keep us interest in the show for next season, is revealing who red john to us in this season without letting PJ know, so we can be waiting for the next season in pain waiting to see what would happen...

Well, This is my 2 cents, Who is RJ? at this point is completly useless to make a guess, somehow even when we find out, a lot of ppl will not be happy with the decission and we will find loose ends everywhere, probably because on the first seasons not even the producers knew who red john was.

Almost sunday and hopefully one day closer to figuring this thing out.

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I am 75% sure that Kristina Frye is RJ for many reasons:

1. She is the only smart person that can be compared with PJ, even though she is pretending to be a psychic, she is intelligent and may be RJ.

2. In season 1 red john was known to be a male when the dead guy drew with blood on the wall " he is man", RJ wont let such thing happen so he or she would write it to confuse the CBI.

3. When Kristina talked about RJ on live TV and then put to protection, she disappeared under unknown conditions and it is possible that she escaped by herself because it is hard to kidnap without attention.

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The chase between Red John & Patrick Jane despite being fictional, is regarded as the best I've witnessed. Obsession is a good word that would describe the mentalist for me. I would like to pass some simple observations regarding Red John. I strongly believe RJ is somehow related to PJ. He saved him from murder. He wants PJ to stay in the pursue and he wants to only be caught by PJ. Red John cares about Jane. Red John is a right handed skilled shooter, possibly trained by an agency(How he shot those who were trying to murder PJ in season 2 finale). Red John has an artistic/magical type of character. Killing PJ is too easy for him, he just loves playing at a mind level and is fond of Patrick in that sense. Something I also recognized, Red John never calls PJ by his family name but always by his first name. Probably  they know each other for a long time now? I believe that Kirkland is a good guy that also wants to catch Red John. Kirkland upon his first exposure in the mentalist, wanted to stay in the loop for RJ information. Then he wanted lisbon to back off from the Volker case. I think he is like Jane in the sense that he wants to catch RJ and sees him as a challenge.Of course that is just my humble opinion. The writers have made the mentalist an environment for many many suspect able to be RJ and I think that we won't get any closer to RJ unless the very end now that The Mentalist has been renewed for a 6th season.

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in strawberrys & cream pt 2 Jane sees red john and he is not a suspect listed!!

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I'll try this one more time under another email

"He is ma"

"He is MANY."

Lately we have seen Betram working with an FBI guy who is part of Visualize. It would make sense that RJ isn't one person but many people. This would a) make him/them hard to pin down b) with so many inner connections they could always be one step ahead c) they might even think someone else in their group is RJ and they just work in unison to ensure no one gets close d) when one of them gets too close to losing it, they get offed and e) they can keep their enemies..like Jane..close. Jane has a list of suspects. Maybe the whole list is RJ. It is one big group trying to keep the peace but getting rid of those who threaten their way.

He is MANY!

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Theory #2003 • By a_sleuth
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Tolman Bunting people:

 has the computer know how and contacts to crack the cbi network.

he likes games./puzzles, is super intelligent, and a kind of nemesis for PJ. 

slim, dark hair, 6ft ish.


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Theory #2015 • By Smokey McPot
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I believe it is Robert Strickland of homeland security. Why because of Occam's razor.

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