TONIGHT!
TONIGHT!
I feel sorry for those who still think Patrick is Red John, you guys really need to see a doctor! Simon Baker and Bruno Heller have both said Patrick is not Red John, and Red John is someone on the list, and he is a person, not an organization. It's not Mashburn, Lisbon, Van Pelt, Jane's father, or Cho! Grow up please!
With all due respect guys, some theories are as stupid and ignorant as it can get. Please think a minute before you post a theory and respect the readers. Please know most who come here are fans and know enough to see how nonsensical your claims are. At this point claiming Patrick is Red John is a direct insult to visitors of this website.
Jane could have done this subconsciously, his mind is intricate enough for this to happen. We all like him but it can't be denied he's manipulative. I think that during his subconscious phases where he resorts to being Red John he has arranged with people plans. I think his seven main people for these kinds of arrangements are the same seven people he has put into his final suspect list.
There are lots of reasons for Jane being Red John, read any of the other theories they're more or less the same. But what really makes me suspect him is the show itself and they way it picks its killers. They always throw lots of obvious suspects at you with reasons that make perfect sense but it always ends up being the person you like or sympathise with the most that turns out to be the killer. Out of every single character in the show Patrick Jane is the most beloved, in their mind he's the ultimate final answer to this case. Oh, and I just love the idea of him naming his seven suspects/helpers each after the seven deadly sins.
This is a longshot but I watched and listened to Lorelei read the
list over and over. While she read most of the names on the list with a certain rhythm, she
hesitated slightly while reading Haffner's name. I feel this may have
been her attempt to give Patrick one final clue before Red John ended
her life. Don't know, but I am sure anxious to find out!
My money's on Kirkland. Kirkland is the only one who had access to Patrick's data so he could have deduced the same list that Patrick had compiled. I feel either he IS Red John or is a Red John informant.
Heller's assessment of each suspect:
Brett Stiles (Malcolm McDowell): "He's certainly a frontrunner, partly because it's Malcolm McDowell," Heller quips of the recurring guest star, who plays the leader of the Visualize cult. (Not to mention his history of insanity.) "He has the money, he has the resources, and he certainly has the kind of single-minded temperament and lust for power that you would expect to have from someone like Red John," Heller notes
Gale Bertram (Michael Gaston): As the CBI director, Bertram is certainly in an ideal position to carry out the Red John killings. "[Being] well-placed inside a law enforcement organization, gives him a lot of power," Heller says. "He has admitted that he is a duplicitous and a manipulative person already. We know he can play two sides of the same issue very well. He's certainly got the intellect for it. Whether he has the depth of evil required of this guy, that remains to be seen."
Bob Kirkland (Kevin Corrigan): The Homeland Security agent is "a dark horse," according to Heller. "If you were a betting man, he'd be an outside shot I think, but a good dark horse. He is probably the most mysterious of the candidates, and that makes him suspicious. His behavior sometimes, even what we've seen of his behavior, is inexplicable and even murderous. So, if he ain't Red John, he's certainly one weird cat."
Ray Haffner (Reed Diamond): Heller characterizes former CBI supervisor and cult member Ray Haffner as "the sort of Richard Gere-as-villain type. Smiling, charming. Maybe seems a little too shallow to be a serial killer, or too light. ... With Haffner, he always seems smiling and cheery but there always seems to be a dark cloud behind that smile. That, more than anything, would be what made me suspicious of him."
Reede Smith (Drew Powell): Reed certainly has a temper, but does that make him a killer? "He doesn't even try to hide his anger. He's clearly a man with issues," Heller admits. "The question is, Red John is obviously a very, very intelligent person. What would be a better place to hide your real sort of psychopathic anger than behind a mask of anger? Probably most people are expecting Red John to be a calm, cool, collected type of person. If you were Red John and you wanted to disguise yourself, then you would certainly disguise yourself as the kind of red-faced, angry kind of guy that he can be."
Thomas McAllister (Xander Berkeley): "Again, he's well-placed as a law enforcement official," Heller says of Sheriff McAllister. "He, like Kirkland, has a lot of mystery in his past that makes it difficult to judge. He's a dark horse candidate. He's not a Top 3. He hasn't displayed any signs of madness or anger or homicidal tendencies. So, there's no handle on which Jane can put his suspicions — which in itself is suspicious."
Brett Partridge (Jack Plotnick): "You've always got to be suspicious of the nerds," Heller cautions. "He's both a slightly embittered soul and a very intelligent person. Someone who feels they've been underestimated, underrated and mistreated by the world. Demographically, he's right there where a profiler would say, 'Yeah.'" As far as his career choice as a forensic investigator, "That's exactly the kind of job that a serial killer would want to take up. That's exactly the interests that a serial killer would have. [But] he always appears slightly weedy. Is he concealing strength or is he really that flaccid a person? It's hard to tell."
- each suspect can be the reel Red John, the mysterious character of Bob Kirkland let me think he may be a frontrunner suspect.
I think The Mentalist is too good of a show to not have a twist to the RJ storyline so I don't think they are just going to come out and say whoever Red John is. There are many good theories and clues for each suspect that could also be "red herrings" so I'm not particularly sure who he is but this picture of RJ killing looks alot like Brett Partridge.
https://twitter.com/Eaglesk8r/status/384088228619247616/photo/1/large