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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It is impossible that Red John knows about the only happy memory from Jane's childhood and about his list of 7 suspects, so there remain just 2 possibilities:
- Red John is Jane himself
- Jane made the video with Lorelei himself and lied about his connection to the dead woman. He probably knows the victim from childhood, but lied about his "Happy memory".

If the second possibility is true, why is Jane doing all this? Why is he lying to Lisbon? I think that Red John is nobody from the list of 7 suspects. I think he just wants to get rid of Lisbon by telling her some lies to investigate in calm in other directions.

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I think the whole premise on which the list is based is wrong. Patrick is considering only those people who he shook hands with after his family was killed. But he could have met red john way before any of it  even started. From the list he made, none of the suspects are the "mentalist" kind. They don't have the same skill set as patrick. Red john is his nemesis and has to be very similar to him. Frankly speaking he treats all  of them with an air of superiority and if any one of them was actually red john...he would have found it insulting considering how touchy he is! 

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Ok one of the clues states that Red John is "just under 6ft tall."  That being said i took the list of seven suspects and looked up all their heights and here is what I found.

Brett Stiles- 5'8.5"
Gale Bertam- 6' 3"
Robert Kirkland- 5' 9"
Sheriff McAllister- 6''
Brett Partridge- 5' 11"
Ray Haffner- 6'1"
Reede Smith 6'3"

If you go by height alone you can rule out Bertram, McAllister, Haffner and Smith.  That leaves Brett Stiles, Robert Kirkland and Brett Partridge. 
Next you can rule out Brett Stiles because of his age leaving Robert Kirkland and Brett Partridge. 
I think Brett Partridge is Red John simply because he and Jane have never liked each other.

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After reading countless theories I feel that It may be obvious in choosing Brett Partridge but I feel they will add a twist. What if Partridge is a half brother of Janes. Janes father (who we dont hear mentioned enough) could have had another son with similar talents to Janes. The last episode seemed adiment in bringing up Patrick's youth.  Brett seems like a mirror image of Jane and It wouldn't shock me if we start to learn more about Janes' father early next season and it comes to fruition with The Jane family all being involved.

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I think that Patrick made that video with Lorelei.  There were a few things that were a little off about it:

-The absence of Red John in the video.  Lorelei read the whole note herself.  Red John did not hand her the note, she picked it up herself.  The camera seems to be set up (not being held by anyone).  It seems like Patrick has set it up so that he leaves no evidence that it was him making the video.
                --why did Lorelei have to read Red John's words?  wouldn't it be much more powerful if Red John read them himself?  wouldn't he want to scare Patrick a little bit by being in the video (and wouldn't it have made for a WAYYY better episode if the fans got to SEE Red John on the video!!?)

-The destroying of the CD.  After watching the video with Lisbon, he destroys the CD in disgust like he's baffled and frustrated by it....but REALLY, he destroyed the CD to get rid of any evidence that would link the CD to himself making it.  (and it was easy to pretend like he destroyed it out of anger and frustration in front of Lisbon)

-This one has been brought up by a lot of people:  The foster home lady being let go in the back of a police car with no other supervision, no more questions, no sense of urgency....Whenever there is somebody linked to Red John, Patrick is OBSESSED with talking to them and finding out EVERYTHING that he can from them to get closer to Red John.  With this lady, there was none of that.  No sense of urgency, not a lot of questioning, no follow-up...the only tricky part is that they showed her swallowing a pill at the end....If she was a part of Patrick's plan, why would she kill herself?  Maybe she didn't kill herself...they didn't show anything after she swallowed the pill, so who knows...

-All of the "reaching into Patrick's mind" stuff is a little strange.  I don't know how Red John could have had the exact 7 names (there are some possibilities), but it makes me think that it was really just Patrick giving the names to Lorelei to read...

There are, however, a few flaws and holes in this theory of mine:

-How would Patrick know that Red John is going to kill a happy memory of his?   Did Patrick use the assistance of some of his carnival friends to pull this off?  Maybe that woman who died had NOTHING to do with Patrick's past, but he used it as a ruse to fool Lisbon and everybody into thinking that Red John was one step ahead of him and in his head.

-If Patrick made the tape with Lorelei, then why is she dead and why did Patrick say that she had it coming to her?  Maybe after they made the tape, she still felt compelled to go kill RJ?  Who knows...


Personally, like many of you, I was pretty upset with the Finale...We didn't see Red John at all, or hear his voice, it was just finding out the 7 names...Nothing else was exciting about it, or gave us much new information...They tried to make it interesting with the "Reading Patrick's mind" stuff, but that just confused everybody.
Hopefully the way that they explain everything next season will be exciting and informative, but I was pretty disappointed with season 5 overall.  From the stories, to the 2 or 3 week breaks in between new episodes, to the lack of Red John...I just didn't like season 5 as much...
When does season 6 start?

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Red john is patrick jane's father

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I would say fairly that the season finaly removes Bob Kirkland from the list.

Presumably, Red John would have know who Jane's 7 suspects were while Laureli Martin was still alive, therefore, if Kirkland was Red John, then he wouldn't have needed to break in to Jane's room and steal the information, as he would have already figured it out at that point.

One other point however: The reveal at the end of the episode you see the video playing and Jane dropping the photos. You don't actually know that those are the same 7 as on Jane's list. Maybe only a few of the names Red John listed cross over, therefore shortening the list.

I'm going with Bret Stiles for a number of reasons:
I feel that the wording in the video is very suggestive of his speach style. He has the means and the ability to control people and 'brain wash' them. They way the RJ followers we have seen act, they all act like the mindless cult people as well.

Guess we will see one day!

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