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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Why is no one stating the obvious?? Look at the season 2 finale! Red John is slim. Reede Smith, is fat! Unless Red John put on a lot of weight in between then... Reede Smith is not red John because he's too fat. Simple as that.

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Okay here is the clue which the Heller is talking about- Brett Partridge was working for Red John, He came Jane to save him and recited that poem in his voice. In season 6 premiere red john called Partridge in that house and asked him to record a message for him in recorder. Then he killed him to confuse Jane. And when red john called Jane on his mobile he played that recording with the voice of Partridge as you can see he was painting Lisbon with his both hands (assuming he did't use loudspeaker on his phone). So from now on we will never hear that girlish voice from red john again.

It wasn't hard. was it?

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So red john is the tyger, patrick jane is the lamb. Similar qualities, different morales. They come from the same creator according to William Blake, cited English poet. Same mother, same mentor?

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Okay here is the clue which the Heller is talking about- Brett Partridge was working for Red John, He came Jane to save him and recited that poem in his voice. In season 6 premiere red john called Partridge in that house and asked him to record a message for him in recorder. Then he killed him to confuse Jane. And when red john called Jane on his mobile he played that recording with the voice of Partridge as you can see he was painting Lisbon with his both hands (assuming he did't use loudspeaker on his phone). So from now on we will never hear that girlish voice from red john again. 

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Some things here are makes you think twice.
Red John is a powerful person well connected and with loyal minions who are not naive miserable persons and still they all talk about him with admiration like some kind of a deity.

So how some clown can become so powerful more powerful then some billionaires or high state officials.Brett Stiles is a clue but not necessary the RJ himself, maybe father or he do something bad to RJ family so he protect him now and paying his debt.
Anyway I believe that RJ had a bigger reason to kill Jane's family maybe revenge or who knows what.

RJ is womanizer and powerful man and only people like that could control and impress beautiful and strong person like Lorelei.So i would put my money on Mashburn. .
I see RJ as modern professor Moriarty on his mission.

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Heller has said that we’ll be ‘disappointed’ when we find out who Red John is… and to be honest I’d be disappointed if it was any of the seven, they are either too obvious (Stiles Haffner and Kirkland) or too feeble (Partridge) or too underdeveloped as characters (McAllister and Smith)….what about Bertram?…well he did know the words to Tyger, Tyger, but this type of misdirection wouldn't be uncommon in a show of this complexity. 


The ‘hero is the villain’ approach has been overused in film and TV – but it’d still be kinda cool if Jane was Red John.


Wouldn’t it be super cool if it was Lisbon? Just imagine her face, turning to camera to admit it was her all along. That’d be some dark-shizz.


All the usual reason that someone could not be Red John (too feeble, too dead, too good, too short, too young, too old, too close to Jane etc.) cease to count in this case because RJ is cast as a master manipulator and if anything; the series has told us not to accept any information at face-value.

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I have read an very interesting theory. I agree with that theory. If the RED JOHN-thing seen in Episode 1 Season 6 has to do with Janes carny years and if BP is really dead, then my money is on SHERIFF THOMAS MCALLISTER.

He really looks and behaves like a clown. :o))) Maybe an habbit from his carny-days. :o)))


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