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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None of the above Red John will be portrayed by Tom Noonan. This will blow everyone away. I forgot the name of the episode but he spoke with Jane in a limo at the end of that episode.

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Theory #244 • By theredjohn
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What if  sam bosco  isn't dead  and he  turns out to be red john ...

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Jane has to be red john. It is very logical. No one else would make much sense. For the people who think its Brett P. they are wrong. How could someone like him have so much money and have so much resources with a john like his?

Red John has to be someone with extreme manipulation skills. Someone who has great resources and money. It occurred to me that everybody who has been on the show that is an associate of Red John either ends up getting killed or they commit suicide. Out of all of these people who give their lives for Red John seems a bit misguided. Maybe Patrick hypnotize them before they become his "associate?" And if they are ever to get caught they are to take their own lives and never say that Patrick is red John.

Regardless of what we might percieve as Red John. We must look to the facts that the producer of the show would have to have shown Red John in a couple of episodes before they (if ever) reviel who he truelly is. Otherwise fans would be furious if some random person we have never seen before turned out to be Red John. Because the fans need a relationship to Red John.

Out of the movie who would you say you have the most relationship towards? I would want to believe a lot of people would say Patrick.

Wife and child: i don't want to say that patrick killed his own wife and child. Because thats just not the "patrick jane" we came to know and love. However there are many plausible explanations to why his wife and child died by Red John. A lot come to mind but none that i think the producers would like to give reason to if we were to find out that patrick is Red John.

In conclusion i don't want it to be Patrick. I would rather have it be someone else. But logically speaking (doing elimination of the people we have seen on previous episodes)Patrick is the only one with all the resources. And everybody at the CBI is stating that red john has to have great resources, otherwise he would be caught already.

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if the character who saves jane from the slasher film makers wasn't a proxy then red john is kristina frye. same skill set as jane, the rescuer was female, in too many cases to be a coincidence (as jane would tell you there are no coincidences) and she has red hair.

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Watched 5x02 last night, and there his daughter asked him if the people he worked with knew who he is?
What does that mean? He is Red John???
I couldn't think of something else.....

She was even smiling when se sat in the car next to him, just like he's fooling you Lisbon, my father is RJ.

And when his daughther says she doesn't care about Red John, he looks very sad. Like he was doing all the killing for his wife and daughter.
His daughter rolled her eyes like on that awnser like she new he had been Red John the hole time. Then PJ looks very sad, especially during the last minutes of the episode, when he is sitting in front of the window.


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Theory #240 • By expoversion
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In the episode where the two girls were kidnapped and one was killed, only Minelli knew the meaning of the name Roy Tagliafaro (cut iron). This, in turn led the team to kill the corrupt policeman who had bought Roslind Harker the toy elephant.

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I think going by the previous episodes Red John has to be somebody who's
- male, probably older: his voice is male and it was mentioned that he's a little shorter than Jane
- part of the CBI since he's always aware of what's happening and is able to hack into the system every now and then...
- someone with many followers (also in the CBI and FBI), probably a great hypnotist (incognito) as well
- someone with a major superiority complex... a father figure with a soft voice (Stiles voice is too powerful) and in a high position
- someone who knows what Jane and Lisbon share... why else would he ask for Lisbon's body in season 4 finale...
- someone who lives alone without family so he can go unnoticed
- someone whom Jane knows since he prefers to wear a mask during their encounter

Why did Virgil Minelli leave after Boscos murder... to go fishing? I doubt if a CBI chief could really relax or retire early after a highly geared-up life full of action... seems strange... when the lady who killed Bosco was being questioned Minelli was also present there and seemed quite nervous.. he probably poisoned her and was hoping she'd die soon. He pretends to be very straightforward and resentful of Jane's methods but I think he's just playing games with him and is in league with Bret Stiles. He actually tries to act stupid most of the time... I even think he faked his voice every now and then when he was CBI chief.

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