If Heller is going along the route of inventing a twin brother at the last moment just for the sake of a twist in the plot he might as well name the season finale "Jumped The Shark."
This is awful.  I feel sorry for Simon and Robin and the rest of the cast for having to act like this is so believable.  It's also sad when the fans can pull better scenarios out of their butts in under 3 paragraghs.
C'mon Heller, show us we are all on the wrong track.

Just a thought.....

CSI (Brett P) and Kirkland (DHS employee) both get killed and its not on the News?

We could find a super elusive, fugitive #1 Osama in a godforsaken nation and we cannot find one, just one serial killer who is killing federal employees? and that in the state of CA what with its hollywood and silicon valley fame !!!!

Visualize is powerful you say? screw visualize...no one is bigger than google or apple or the hollywood stars when it comes to power and media coverage. I don't care if you click 'Unlikely' THIS IS A FACT!!

Does Bruno know how big a deal it is when federal employees get murdered? What kind of bullshit is he making us watch and believe? (He is british and perhaps in Britain people do get away with such shit? not sure)

Tyger Tyger may be a plot that will continue beyond Red John's capture looks like....something to keep the show alive after episode 6x8.....

But the very fact that local new stations (NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX) have failed to capture these murders AND that CBI, PD, FBI (IN THE STATE OF CA!!!!!) are supporting and abetting rape, abduction, torture, and murder seems (well actually it is) unbelievable.

Considering that this is just a TV show and nothing should be taken seriously....look at law and order or CSI for that matter....they keep it real for most part.....

Bruno is just messing this one up big time. Up to season 5 it was good TV, season 6 so far has been a big let down....the fact that Bruno is trying to wrap this up in 8 episodes after leading us on for 5 seasons is disappointing.

Again....this is just a thought

Has anyone seen a scene as ridiculous as the scene when Reede smith and that driver saying tiger tiger to each other. honestly at night , middle of the nowhere , two grown adults instead of goodbye or any other thing saying to each other tiger tiger!! 

SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH !!

This is not a theory...but it looks like the writters of the show keep looking this site too mucho...2 of the 3 the top suspects in the site are "all ready dissmissed"....maybe Haffner is next?!
Honestly at this point I think every thing is possible...i really think they been changing red john since season 1...They didn't know if the show gonna last 5-6 season...so it dosn't make sense introduce red john in season 3 (bertram), season 4 ( Haffner) (Smith), season 5 ( Kirkland).

I think the original red john was Partridge...but now im not sure of no one...they dont follow the story...and every thing we all ready knew from the show we can not trust it at all...

smith to fat
stiles to old
bertram to tall

If we considered that "they say something true in the all serie the only suspect "alive" aproaches to be red john would be Haffner...

Sorry for the mistakes english is not my first lenguage... 

It's so Odd!!
Since I start to watch this show, since the Pilot, I always though that Partridge is RJ. his body language shows that he hide something weirdoo, I guess that his not dead... the person Brett Partridge is dead, but not him like RJ.
 It's just a theory but.. Jane always sad that in most of times, the mostly obvius suspect are the real killer.
I think that the Tyger, Tyger conspirancy is just what is going next on the show, after jane kills RJ, RJ want to told Jane and Lisbon about this conspirancy.

So the mostly obvius suspect, for me is Partridge, or Haffner, but a go with Partridge cuz I when we se the last scene of 6x01 I'm acctualy see the pigeons reference.

Funny coincidence: Mentalist turned into "men-AT-list" :)

I hope very very much that authors will provide a clear explanation of all weird moments, as so far I'm not convinced. Can anyone explain me why Kirkland killed that guy at the hospital? Bob doesn't know the name of RJ, so why not at least torture that guy?)) Instead ...we could translate that dialog ("do you recognize me?) as follows: hey, did you see my brother? -no.-are u sure? -yap, I'm sure.- ok then I'll kill you. I would love to know your boss identity, and you know it, but eh... whatever, I'll kill you." 
weird, isn't it?

Now my theory is RJ could be anyone. Literally. Give me any name and I will explain why he is Red John. I think the main point is that authors haven't decided it till the last moment. During the first 3 seasons we see a crazy maniac, whose friends are creepy dummies. And now RJ is so rich, powerfull, with his philosophy, secret organization, which involves people from FBI, CBI... They've changed RJ!

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/fzbd.JPG/       First
Image. Mentalist Poster. All of the cbi team are in front of the car. Why is
rigsby at the back of the car? The front part doesn’t fit 5 of them? Okay...
Nothing significant.



http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/209/1car.jpg/
     Second Image. Mentalist Poster. All of the
cbi team are standing. Rigsby? Sitting down. Okay. Significant. Nope. I don’t think
so.



http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/812/539m.jpg/
     Third Image. Mentalist Poster. All of the
cbi team are standing. Rigsby? Sitting down, wearing that creepy look at Jane.
Ahm yeah... Creepppppyy.....



http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/do2a.png/       Fourth Image. Mentalist Poster. Rigsby
at the center of the poster. It should be jane right? Why is there a redjohn
smiley above rigsby’s picture? Creepy eyes.........        Creepy.



http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/822/oa49.jpg/        Fifth
image. Mentalist Poster. Cho, Van Pelt, Grace have their reflection... Jane and
Rigsby, no reflection?  Why is that?
Maybe they are the reflection of each other... 
Yeah. Maybe.

 



I do not like rigsby for red john.. But there are some clues
pointing him... He can change his voice over the phone. Etc.



Van pelt’s first boyfriend wants to kill Jane. Second
boyfriend, works for redjohn and spying jane. 
Third boyfriend, and now her husband, maybe redjohn himself.  Poor Grace... if ever... She always cries
because of her boyfriends...



So you are thinking maybe olaughlin was working for
rigsby/redjohn? Why not? It is the perfect cover up. Who would suspect rigsby
anyway? He is cool, cute, soft hearted, a good father, a good friend., a good
police...



I cannot remember what he said when grace told him that two
cbi employees can now be married because cbi already changed the policy in
office relationship...



And there is this rumor that redjohn has thing for Lisbon...
RIGHT????



Rigsby: I can now date Lisbon (i can no longer remember that
exact words.)



VanPelt: You want to date Lisbon?

It MIGHT be a clue.



It will be a very big disappointment if rigsby is redjohn



Just a crazy thought. But why not...?