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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Has anybody else noticed that in the last episode aired, s6 ep 19, Kirkland is drinking a bloody mary, the same drink Patrick repeatedly ordered in the restaurant in s4 ep 23 on the anniversary of RJ killing his family?

Love to hear your theories about the significance of this.

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https://twitter.com/lauradenem/status/325954087717842944/photo/1

Jane and Kirkland Coctail .  I
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Who is Red John???That makes me crazy, i read a lot about The Mentalist and Red John and i  have some ideas but none makes me feel i'm right. Is it a man from "Jane's past in carnival", a CBI/"security" agent, someone we don't know yet?…I really don't know but i have some new clues to help us.
That clues are words from the video "Seven suspects" from CBS website (http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_mentalist/red-john/) extract in very slow motion.

At 1sec of the video : RED red / RED JOHN h / NOTORIOUS / DREAD / COLD / SERIAL KILLER

At 2min 2sec : ARTIST red / SERIAL KILLER / NOTORIOUS / MURDER / UNKOWN / TEACUP / CLOAKED / HANDSHAKE

At 2min8sec : COLD red / SERIAL KILLER / NOTORIOUS / MURDER / UNKOWN / TEACUP / CLOAKED / HANDSHAKE / SHADOWS / STRAWBERRIES / SERIAL KILLER

At 2min17sec : HANDSHAKE red / SHOWMAN red / GENIUS jh / COLD h / LEFT / RIGHT / STRAWBERRIES / SCENT / DREAD / SHOWMAN / SIGNS / VISUALIZE / SERIAL KILLER / NOTORIOUS / MURDER / UNKOWN / TEACUP / CLOAKED / EVIL / HANDSHAKE / SHADOWS

Letters in small letter are in red in the video.

Last things:
- Do you know a character whom first letters name are J.H.?
- I think that Bret Stiles is the key to find who is Red John, i don't understand why Patrick Jane doesn't "use" him... Before i was thinking he was afraid Red John kills Bret and avoids him to help but the story with Lorelei shows me Patrick don't care to lose somebody in his quest to find Red John except for Lisbon maybe.

Sorry for my poor English.

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i just noticed that in the finale episode in season 2 (23-2) (min 39)

when red john shot the boy and the girl, u can see that red john was holding the gun by his right hand 

so he is not lefty 

but later in another season he was holding the cup of tea by his left hand 

its weird right ? there are two people involved not one as we expected and one of them is lefty 

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Some interesting theories floating about here, here are some of mine:

1) It is NOT Brett Patridge, he seems weird but is not even close to having the influence, power, connections to be Red John
2) Brett Stiles would be a good fit but I think he is too old (also he has always wanted to help Jane e.g. finding Kristina Fye and getting Lorelei Martins out of jail)
3) It is not Ellis Mars or CBI Ron (same reason as Brett Patridge as they do not have enough power and prestige and Ellis Mars seems really stupid and was easily exposed as being a fake psychic)
4) It is not Walter Mashburn, he does have power and influence but i think he lacks the mental capacity and evilness for being Red John.
5) Dean Harken could be a good fit as he has power and influence and also seems to be smart but he was easily fooled by jane's plan in the bio-chemicals episode so I am not sure.
6) Director Bertrand and Virgil Minelli have always seemed kinda mysterious to me and not what they appear to be. I think they are NOT Red John as they do not match the physical description and age of him but I believe they may be accomplices or somehow connected to him.
7) Bob Kirkland is really popular as a choice to be red john among followers of the show but I do not think it is him, it would be too obvious although I do find it weird why he is obsessed with Jane and red john so i think he may be an accomplice trying to cover red johns tracks as he may suspect jane is getting close to figuring out who red john is (he might have gotten jane's research to study it himself and see if red john has made any "mistakes", clues or trends which he would then tell red john about to not repeat it)
8) Ray Haffner could also a good fit for red john as he is a senior member of the CBI and is quite smart himself (starting his own private agency). I honestly do not know too much about him to make a prediction
9) Van Pelt has also seemd mysterious to me from the start, Jane mentioned that she suffered a past trauma as a child and her sister commited "suicide". I think there is more to her than what the show has already shown. I do NOT think she is red john but she could be a long term undercover accomplice or something.
10) Oscar Ardilles has always seemed antagonistic to me so he could be Red John, he is resourceful and seems to be intelligent. Plus his name O Ardilles is an anagram for "a soldier" and Lorelei mentioned that Red John sees jane as "comrade". Also, "Cut Iron" is an anagram for "in court"
11) It is NOT Patrick Jane's father either, he is smart (taught jane everything he knows) but probably is not resourceful enough and would not ruin his son's life by killing his own granddaughter and daughter in-law. Plus he would be too old
12) One interesting theory I have is that it could be Jane's twin brother or something that even jane does not know exist (in the show, NOTHING has ever been mentioned about Jane's mother). The twin brother could have become bitter about Jane's success as a psychic and for be estranged so he exacted revenge on him by killing jane's wife and daughter and being a serial killer. This would explain his intellect.

In summary, I think the best bet for Red John could be Ray Haffner, Oscar Ardilles or someone from Janes past carnival life like a twin brother.

Thoughts?

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It's obviously kirkland... and what the hell is all this talk about jane being red john, haven't you seen the episode where they MEET so it couldn't be jane... I think it's kirkland because he always snoops around and doesn't say why he needs the information about red john and I remember when a helper of red john said "Red john is an excellent young lover" and bret stiles seems too old to be a lover of young women... and Kirkland asks the help of the FBI agent to get info on Red John.

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I've always had a sneaking suspicion it's one of Lisbon's brothers. We know one is tommy, apparently another one is named james; however, the last is unnamed. Why would they give us the other two but not name the third. He has to play a role sometime otherwise they wouldn't mention him. Their father was abusive which could make him have violent tendencies and we all know Lisbon's controlling so red John may kill women who remind him of Lisbon to gain control over them the way Lisbon had control over him. It would explain why so many red John disciples have an obsession with doing things revolving around Lisbon and not just Jane.
Examples: bringing RJ Lisbon's head
Mashburn sleeping with her if he's a disciple,
Ray haffner and Kirkland talking to her being friendly,
And O'Laughlin shooting her instead of high tower which was his original mission.

Plus I suspect Lisbon either knows or has her suspicions because of how weird she's been acting and giving he weird looks behind Jane when he mentions getting closer to RJ. It's not Lisbon but she's worried because it might be her little brother. Hence why she wants justice instead of death if Jane gets to red john. Jane may have met him in the past or Lisbon introduced them off camera which would explain hand shaking. Just a theory that popped in my head so probably not enough evidence I just wanted to put it out there for bragging rights if I'm correct.

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