I know that there are a
lot of theories about Brett Partridge. What I want to do is not to make another one, but to add to some of them another
aspect that may be relevant.
Let's start by picking the four episodes that Brett Partridge appeared:
Pilot; Red Sky in the Morning; Red Lacquer Nail
Polish; Red John's Rules.
On the first one, Pilot, you have his first
appearance in the show. It's a Red John copycat, but Brett says it is the real
Red John.
On the second One, Red
Sky in the Morning, again you have a Red John copycat, and again you see Brett
saying that it is the real one.
On the third episode, Red
Lacquer Nail Polish, you don’t have a Red John case. But he says that it was
accident, while Jane says it was a murder.
On the fourth episode,
Red John’s Rules, you have a Red John case, but again Brett says the opposite,
saying it is a copycat.
The question is: Is he supposed
to be wrong all the time? Or is he just playing with Jane? I bet on the second
one. You can’t just say that he doesn’t know Red John well. You just need to
watch again the season 5 finale. He says he’s been working on Red John’s crime
scenes since he begins. And then when the crime scene photographer asks him if
he had killed recently, what did he answer? That it didn’t count, because Lorelei
Martins was an internal issue. So he knows Red John case well. And if you see
the way he says it, it’s like he is answering by himself.
But anyway, from all the
suspects, he is the one we know the least. And I believe that this is true for Jane.
But over everything, like his voice, his job, his physical description and what
every other evidence people have about him, what I want to add is this:
The three episodes that Brett appeared on a Red John
case (real or copycat) were written by Bruno Heller. And that is not something to ignore. Especially
if you think that in the two copycat cases – that ordinary non-related to Red
John people tried to copycat him – you have Brett Partridge. That’s not
coincidence at all. He went to the two because he knew that they weren’t his
murderers, and he wanted to see Patrick closely.
The thing is, although he
is such a small character compared to the other suspects (or at least the
second smaller), he has always been a Bruno Heller itself character. On the
third episode you can see him on a not-Bruno Heller episode, but you don’t see
a Red John case, so it’s ok.
I would bet that on the
next episode he shows up, and it’s a Red John episode, the people behind the
writing will be Bruno Heller itself. And that, my friends, would not be a
coincidence.
