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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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Why would CBI and FBI talk strategy with a smalltime sheriff? Both Reede and Bertram vie for McAllisters attention like children...

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Theory #7463 • By theREDisDEAD
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with no coments on other theories, RJ could be anyone in the show.
the real RJ is DEAD at the end of season three.... (Timothy carter)
wait and read until the end.
Walter Mashburn appears in E13S02 and was facinated by PJ and was bored and willing to do anything to play with him.
He's very very rich - Knows a lot of people in law eforcement - Travels often and fits all descriptions.
So this Walter Mashburn (WM) decided to create the tiger tiger Org to play with PJ.
at the end of season2 it's him who saved PJ and launch the tiger tiger thing. w've never heard of tiger tiger before.
He next appears in E07S03 and shows us that hehas one other thng that all other suspects dosen't have: Lisbon.
he is the head of the tiger tiger org, none or few members knows who he is.
Question 1: who told RJ (Timothy carter) that PJ and Bertram are going to the mall to meet with Hightower S03 finale?
Question 2: Who Did Bertram called after PJ came int hs office and told him that Hightower wants to meet with him S03Finale?
Answer 1: RJ Followed PJ from the CBI office to the mall to see PJ's reaction after the supposed killing of Hightower by o'loughlin.
Answer 2: Bertram called mashburn to tell him that the CBI got News on the RJ affair. after all Bertram came to the CBI starting season 3, maybe on influence of mashburn.
Mashburn send's one or more of the newly tiger tiger org to watch what's hapening in the mall(the security guy).
and it is Mashburn who has the phone and the gun of RJ the real dead RJ killed by Pj.
After that WM decided to continue the RJ Killings, of course without the knowing of the members. Masburn can tell the tigers to get rid of someone, but not that RJ is dead and he's the new RJ.
Kirkland knew all that,, not about mashburn but about the death of RJ and that tigers are killing in RJ's name. he killed Lennon and didn't ask him about RJ because he knew that RJ was dead and to cover himself from the tiger Org. and only after that he discover's PJ's fake list and ask his next victim if he was RJ
brett Partridge discover what's happening Mashburn killed him and left Lisbon Alive.
before dying Partridge and todd jhonson pronounced tiger tiger to denounce the organisation, and to point their murderer.
rosalind harker didn't identify RJ, she was shocked, she's blind, Timothy carter's wife (RJ)
admitted that her husband was RJ and she could be the twin sister of rosalind harker,, RJ likes this type of women. RJ is Timothy carter and he's dead.
on E08S06 we won't see mashburn but he will be revealed by Bertram and reede Smith.
Do you want more? ok
Lorelei? what about her
after reading the RJ files Mashburn found her, and told her that he was RJ and manipulated her to bring back Pj to the game. by the way when she was found dead there was no traces of the bullit she took when chasing Lennon, on her left arm.
In all that i wrote above you replace Walter mashburn by Brett stiles it would be the same thing except that with stiles i have the answer to my last question.
what happened to Kristina Fry?

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Bob Kirkland says to Lisbon: 'We moved for Dad's work, we moved for Mom's work, I like to say, I grew up in America." Bob Kirkland left his brother Michael with his father. Bob Kirkland placed Patrick Jane under surveillance for 9 years because he thought he was Redjohn.

What do Patrick, Michael and Bob have in common with each other? They moved a lot, growing up. Mhmm. They were in the carnival. Why else would Bob suspect Patrick was the person Michael met? So Michael met someone else in the carnival who was Redjohn.

Why would Redjohn go to the carnival? Because he's killed 2 people at the Visualise farm and needs to get away. How does Bret Stiles know Patrick's father? It's not like a "kid" could be high up in Visualise, while he's working in the carnival, after killing people on Visualise property. Why were the murders never reported? Could the "kid" be someone important to Stiles? Did the kid become Alex Jane's new apprentice?

Is it a co-incidence Redjohn leads Patrick to Rosalynd Harker? Patrick and his father con a little girl who is terminally ill, in the carnival. Did she survive to be Rosalynd? Did Redjohn pick up her name while Alex Jane recounts the story of Patrick's last con.

Did it become important to Redjohn to find her, to remind Patrick that he is a con man in season one?

The "kid" aka Redjohn has been important to Stiles for a long time. He sees himself above Patrick and Redjohn. Jason Cooper also knows Redjohn and said once in Red Barn they didn't report the murders because, "The police never took reports from Visualise seriously." That was 25 years ago.

Do you think that might ever prompt Visualise to raise up and form a group, specifically involving those in law-enforcement, to make the Tiger Tiger group?
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7 suspects on the PICTURES of the list

- Brett Stiles: Head of Visualise

- Haffner has a very respectable job after Visualise drives him straight. He's looking good. "You think you're so smart, Patrick." 

- Michael Kirkland's actions suggest he is a learned hypnotist (from Carnival) when he kills Jason Lennon. He can pose as Homeland Security, as he's apparently "dead" in Bob's mind.

- Bertram, Director of CBI, calls Patrick - "Boy Wonder"

- Sherriff McAllister, Sherriff in Napa, where O'Loughlin wanted to take Grace

- Reede Smith, a fat member of "Tiger, Tiger," showing recruitment is not due to rank.

- Brett Partridge, Jane's worst enemy, member of "Tiger, Tiger."
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There's your 7-headed dragon. Heads on the same dragon don't always get along, but they're part of the same dragon.

So, find the head who is fatally wounded. William Blake is the biggest theme throughout the Tiger, Tiger organisation. Brett Partridge sounds like a fitting name to rename yourself.

"Brett", to show he is son of "Bret." 
"Partridge" to run with the William Blake theme.


So, lets break it down.

Redjohn < Tiger Tiger < Visualize

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I really don't think it's Haffner, RJ is very controlling and egotistical. Haffner is a member of visualize , do you think rj could stand not being in charge?

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To all the people who say that RJ is Michael Kirkland- wouldn't it be weird for RJ to turn out who only joins at the last moment? Also, Heller said that we already saw RJ. Now you will that it was Michael that killed Lennon in the hospital, but why would he ask him if he recognized him? Surely if he is RJ, then Lennon would know him. Especially as he led RJ to Lorelei's sister. Additionally, twins don't looks exactly the same after 40 or so years, their appearance changes depending on their lifestyle etc. We know that Michael was an alcoholic for some time, whilst Bob was leading a relatively healthy life.

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I'm still going to go with Micheal Kirkland

1.  His mother committed suicide by slicing herself with a razor.  Hmmmm that's RJ's MO.  He like to kill women by cutting them.

2.  Micheal could have felt abandon by his mother leaving him with his abusive father by committing suicide which would probably give him a hatred of women in general which would explain why Red John targets women and only kills men out of necessity.  

3. Micheal is neither confirmed dead or alive.

4. If this spoiler about the dots on Red John's shoulder are true and i'm not saying it is, then it could be a mark that is put on identical twins to tell them apart.  

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Sheriff Mcallister is Red John.

I support my theory on the following facts.

1- In the scene where she saves him and recited the poem Tyger, Tyger: approaches him quietly, without noticing Patrick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZvmwU1ufg

2.- Also goes to him quietly, in the 6x02 which saves him a second time, without noticing on two occasions.

3- In this chapter, we show that cross quiet until the pigeons appears.

4. - On the other hand, the actor who will make Red John, in chapter 8, he looks like him young.

5. - After reading the theory on a Blake poem and see the description http://www.whoisredjohn.com/See-a-theory-Red-John/7453 I am convinced: Old John with white hair

6. - Sherif is connected to Bret Stiles may be his brother or Partridge, in which case the 666 make sense.

7. - The three dots SPOILER Also can carry religious meaning, Representing the holy trinity.

8.- finally when when he killed a accolite in CBI offices he looks dress as a sheriff.

9.- When the list is given the only person who is not called for his name is sheriff

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