Who is Red John?

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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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Theory #5980 • By redjohnhimselfs97
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its blaitanly thomas mcallister, i can list a series of reasons. my reasons are based on the episode 'wedding in red' First off his phobia of heights which he gives away to lisbon and Jane.   second his fear of pigeons, thirdly the way his voice is very much like red johns on the phone, he seems to have a sudden change in voice when on the phone to jane and then even more bizzarely he creeps up behind jane immdiaitely after jane hangs up the phone, and shows abit of nervousness around jane and comes up with the excuse of hunting when jane asks why hes right behind him. another fact is that he saves janes life makes me question thomas mcallister even more as he has previously save janes life in series 3 where red john picks jane up by the chair and says to jane 'if its one thing i wont tolerate its cheap mutations of my work' and shoots the people trying to kill jane.  hes also very good at examining the body in the episode where him and jane are discussing the clues based on the body. he's very quiet at following jane around in the church and at the pond where jane is on the phone to mcallister. he seems very psycholoigcally clever the way in which he examines the body with jane aswell.

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Theory #5977 • By Undecided
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its blaitanly thomas mcallister, i can list a series of reasons. my reasons are based on the episode 'wedding in red' First off his phobia of heights which he gives away to lisbon and Jane.   second his fear of pigeons, thirdly the way his voice is very much like red johns on the phone, he seems to have a sudden change in voice when on the phone to jane and then even more bizzarely he creeps up behind jane immdiaitely after jane hangs up the phone, and shows abit of nervousness around jane and comes up with the excuse of hunting when jane asks why hes right behind him. another fact is that he saves janes life makes me question thomas mcallister even more as he has previously save janes life in series 3 where red john picks jane up by the chair and says to jane 'if its one thing i wont tolerate its cheap mutations of my work' and shoots the people trying to kill jane.  hes also very good at examining the body in the episode where him and jane are discussing the clues based on the body. he's very quiet at following jane around in the church and at the pond where jane is on the phone to mcallister. he seems very psycholoigcally clever the way in which he examines the body with jane aswell.

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Heller is playing us all!  If your theory changes every episode, you're falling right into his trap!
In all honesty, we don't have enough information at this point to prove who RJ is.
Here are my ideas of what to base a good theory on:
Look at the themes of the show (misdirection, deception, a story behind the facade, etc.)
Don't read too much into a single "clue," it can always be a red herring.  For example, Rosalind Harker's description of Roy, RJ's voice, the alleged phobia, whether he killed someone or one of his followers did.
Patrick knows more about RJ than we could ever dream, so pay attention to him.  However, sometimes he is acting, lying, deceiving etc. so we can't always trust what we see!  But remember, he is similar to RJ (tyger, tyger symmetry).

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I have always been an advocate of PJ as RJ or at least the possibilty of it being him. They constantly do teases that it is. Here are a couple from the last episode. 1) PJ is scared of heights. Evidence - when he gets taken out onto the church roof, before hand he says. I would love to go out there but i dont have wings charlie. He then proceeds to crawl and pretty much say ooooooh. Then something like Charlie saying we will find a way down and PJ saying that is what i am afraid of. He is also terrified when the sheriff helps him and crawls back in.2( he then says and I quote "sending out mixed messages is one of my many failings" 3) mcallister then says at your disposal any time 4) Why did PJ not enter the wedding,. STRANGE.

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There has to be something with the pigeons...one flown away in s06e01, one in s06e03...SO, two down...4 more to be in following episodes...

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I'm down to 2.
My original and still current guess Bertram and then the dead man Partridge.
I want to see Partridge moaned in an open coffin, and to be sure he is dead. Otherwise all the Red Dragon and anything related to Tyger Tyger poet starts to be heavy weight resurrection evidence.

The elegance of season 3 final has left me to wonder why did Jane, by influence of RJ?, suddenly get so confident of how the room arrangement was indicated. He drove Bertram away, as a "wrong" subject.
PJ: "Walk away!"
RJ: "There will be consequences! Mark my words."

The remaining characters are just not enough "at plain sight" as these 2 have been.

I wonder why people are inclined to take on the clues which are the most concrete? Perhaps I'm too inclined to the subtle (plain at sight) clues... 

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