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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Theory #270 • By culling_987
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Do we really know that Red John is a man? Could he not be a woman, or maybe a man and a woman? Or maybe he is a small handful of people who gather together and play poker once in awhile...

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Theory #269 • By vam
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I think patrick jane is rj as he is never killed by any of his accomplices. I think he already killed rj but uses his names to do justice and kill everyone who is evil and thus everyone who gets close to jane personal life gets killed as he doesn't want anyone to look up his past history before joining CBI.Never dates anyone and there is no love life indicated by the writer for jane, how many Tv series has a lead with out a personal life or even one GF.

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I believe that we are being led down a garden path with all this talk about Red John being a character we are already familiar with.

I believe that Red John has been exceptionally honest with us.

I believe it is a man whom we have yet to meet.  Reginald is his first name,  Surname is Onn.
He is known as Reg Onn,  therefore he told us his name, he has effectively hidden in plain sight...

But then again,  I'm not sure I know what I'm talking about at the best of times...

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i think its stilles in 03x03 when frye re-appears Patrick go to the house that stilles told him to go, he said "i know more than red john" so i think he has someone inside RJ force, but RJ doesn't realize that one of his close friends its a spy?, i dont think so, so the other posibility is that Stilles is RJ


sorry for my english im from Uruguay

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I think Bret Stiles is Red John. He can manipulate people; in a Season 4 episode, he tried to convince Grace to join his cult; it seemed fairly easy for him to do though she declined but he was able to "hypnotize" her for a few seconds. He is very smart, he has the means to travel as he pleases, he has connections (as we can see all of the people that "work" for him) in and out of the police and the FBI. There's something really "weird" about him; he's almost likable though he can also be scary. He's not in a lot of episodes but his character reappears here and there with new elements every time. The fact that he's kept in the background shows that there's more to find out about him in future episodes or maybe the producers of the show are trying to confuse the viewers.

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Okay.. Why can't I post this theory?! maybe cuz it's true ;)

Maybe it's a little far- fetched, but what if PJ helps RJ, without
knowing? Like RJ (or someone who works for him) hypnotized Patrick. This
would be the reason why RJ knows what PJ is about to do (and why he is
one step ahead of him everytime). I know it may be a bit unlikely, but
some people believe RJ is Patrick himself, or Lisbon. Remember that
episode when a guy walks into the CBI with a dead girl, but he thought
he brought a bag of potatoes? I'm not saying one of those hypnose-
freaks is RJ, but maybe one of them works for him. Think about it..

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Theory #261 • By Cho11
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Elementary, it has to be Jane.

CBI staff can solve no crime alone.
Jane solves every crime.

Thus, Red John is Jane and will not get caught until Sherlock is brought in. I understand that Sherlock's contract has been completed since the 2nd season of the British show.

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