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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Pretty sure partridge (not the character but the human inside) is still alive...why? read on..

Well...Heller said there is a clue in the last sequence of s06e01. We saw a very different smiley in this episode that was drawn on Lisbon's face. People are thinking that it has open eyes because RJ did not kill Lisbon. But did anyone think of this: Where is the smiley for killing Partridge?
Yes...the smiley on the face of Lisbon is not for her but for Partridge. And it is different (had open eyes) not because RJ did not kill Lisbon but because he did not kill partridge. And I guess this is the big clue Heller is talking about...

For Guys who still do not believe that Partridge is alive:

Think yourself as RJ. You had two jobs to do:
1. Kill partridge
2. Kill Lisbon/ teach her a lesson for bugging cellphones

These two jobs are independent of each other..Why you will want them to be done simultaneously??
And there seems to be only one reason for me: Whoever RJ is, he wanted to show Lisbon that he killed Partridge...

And also there are many theories besides this: 
1. Partridge's throat was not slit
2. He was the woman feeding pidgeons in s06e02
3. Voice matches to RJ
etc.

My theory just tells why Partridge (not character but human) is still alive...Still I don't know who RJ may be...

So what do you think guys? Please comment if anything is wrong...



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BH tells us a clue at the end of 6.01 will make sense in 6.04

We have the photo of Kirkland with Jane in a chair with arms bound, from the promo for Ep.6.04

Note: Partridge bound with plastic packing ties in 6.01; Jane bound with plastic packing ties in 6.04

I this a major clue? That either BK is RJ or was somehow involved in the Partridge murder?

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I hate it when people accuse Teresa or Jane of being Red John -- I'm not about to do that here. But there was something peculiar about Lisbon in the final episode of season 5 that caught my attention and kept it. 

Question: Why does Lisbon have a cast on her arm in Red John's Rules? Oddly, she does not have it in Desert Rose, which picks up immediately where the previous episode, mentioned above, left off. 

Theory: Robin Tunney broke her arm. The director said, "Let's go with it, but when Patrick asks you what happened say 'I just slipped and fell' in an awkward high-piched voice and do that shifty-eye-thing Lisbon does, as if she's trying to hide something, so that the viewers will question it."

Any better ideas?

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Hy, first time posting, and not a theory, i have millions of theories
but none conclusive so I will keep them to myself for the time being.



Back
to the facts I want to lay down:



-William
Blake,  is clearly the
only rock solid clue that we have in almost all
seasons, and the only one given to us by Red John Himself willingly 



The Poem:



The
tiger, tiger poem, from which we can obtain , after we read it of course, the
first clue into the mind of red john, the poem is an artistic way of presenting
William blakes set of believes about the world, the central theme is Evil,( the tiger) the poem consist of 6 stanzas, and all the
lines except one , are questions to the tiger , who created the tiger?  where it was created ? how it was formed ? who make
the lamb also made the tiger? The only line that’s not a question is the one
that says Tiger Tiger Burning Bright in the forest of the night.



The
first clue, good and evil, antagonists created by the same hand, contraries
that don’t exclude each other but rather need each other to progress, to go further,
to grow.



Once
we are presented with the poem, we must take a look at William Blake, as the poem is only a mere pointer
to the clue that is the writer.



-William Blakes and his
believes:




(I
will not write about his life, and work but mostly reference bit and pieces in
particular if you want a quick idea of the man you can wiki him)



Across
his writing and art, Blake lay down his thoughts about, man, religion, and his
spiritual believes as well as marriage and sex (he was one of the first writers
part of the first free love movement back in the 19th century)



-The
body is an extension of the soul, a part of it.

-Obedience
to a moral code imposed from the outside of man is against the spirit of life

-I
must Create a System, or be enslaved by another Man's

-He is
the only god, so am I, and so are you (the marriage of heaven and hell)

-Rejects
received ideas, systems, authorities and traditions.



-The
Great Red Dragon (From The revelations Book of john AKA John of atmos, John the
revelator)



John
means  = God is Gracious/Benevolent



Red
means= Blood/Fire



RED
JOHN= The Gracious God of Blood and Fire. = Satan/Beelzebub in revelations =The Great Red Dragon



The
Great Red Dragon is a series of paintings created but Blake between 1805 and
1810, 4 of them to be exact that show the red dragon waiting to consume the
child of the lady clothed with and in sun,show the dragon itself and present
him as the beast (the devil).



-The Marriage of heaven and
hell:


Probably
the most relevant piece to understand Blake set of believes and there for clues
into RED JOHN mind.



In The
Marriage of Heaven and hell Blake explains that, without Contraries is no
progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are
necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious
call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy.

Good
being Heaven/Reason/Love/Attraction. Evil being  Hell/Energy/Hate/Repulsion.



Blake's
theory of contraries was not a belief in opposites but rather a belief that
each person reflects the contrary nature of God, and that progression in life is impossible without
contraries. Moreover he
explores the contrary nature of reason and of energy, believing that two types
of people existed: the energetic creators and the  rational
organizers , or, as he calls them in The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell, the  devils" and  angels. Both are necessary with out contraries  is no progression.

Innocence
and experience (theme that he explores in his book Songs of Innocence and experience, as two
states of the human soul)



With
out one the other cannot be and vice versa, they need each other to have
meaning within themselves.



I Hope
this helps develop or better theories, I think we need to match the whole
picture taking the hints for what they are but not building theories around
them.



Can
wait for next episode, thanks for reading and I apologize if I misspelled any
word, English is not my native language.

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i dont understand why people are saying that kirklind is trying to get to red john. Why would he go to the hospital and kill the man that knows who red john is.

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No explanation required #cbironforlife #hehas69theories #coincidence #idontthinkso #rongetstheladies

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I don't think Bret Stiles is the only Red John, but he is totally the brains behind the operation. My guess since the 2nd time the team went to Visualize (i cant remember the episode), I guessed it was a team effort.

I think Bret Stiles could easily be Red John, because he has that charming personality, and he also has the brains to do it. He leads Visualize, and I think that some of the people on the list of 7 (excluding McAllister, Smith, and Bertram) have been a part/are a part of visualize. We know that whoever Rj is, was a part of Visualize because of the Red Farm episode. Bret in my opinion doesn't do any of the killing (maybe the first few, but thats about it). I think that all the people involved with Rj have been a part of Visualize, because if they weren't then why introduce it anyway?

My theory is that Bret convinces the people to do the murders, its as simple as that. In S06EP02, the scene about Lisbon's Dream is useless, and that it's just another way Heller is trying to throw us off (like in S3 finale when Jane killed who he thought was Rj, but wasnt). I do think that Grace is also part of this team, but not from the beginning. In the EP03 promo, she gets married to Rigsby (the dude doesn't really look like him), this is something that will come in handy later on. I think she joined sometime before the S4 finale, where she killed Craig. I think that Craig was killed for Rj's sake. The thing that always gets me is that she has RED hair, and they are trying to catch RED John.

I think that in the Season Finale, things are going to get crazy. Rumors are that Rj is revealed on EP08, titled the "The Great Red Dragon" i believe. I think that the rest of the season will have really important people killed, some names I think of are J.J. LaRoche, atleast 4 other people on the list, one member of the team (most likely Rigsby/Grace), and also whoever Rj is.

Something I hope to happen in the finale is that Jane isnt the one to catch Rj, they lead this all up to think that Jane is the one that solves EVERYTHING, I think that Lisbon will be the one who gets Rj.

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