in 6x01 when lisbon enters the house where partridge is, there's a "666" and the word "DIE" on the wall.
the "666" is the number of the DEVIL, or better, the BEAST.  

remember season 5 finale? ...when Cho asked Sandra about the red john murder, she said:
"did you see in that room?...that was the DEVIL in there"

the other writing on the wall was the word "DIE" and in fact we saw the death of brett partridge and other suspects.


now, a lot of theories already said that if we take the Book of Revelation (13:3) it says:

"I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the BEAST" (the great red dragon: the number of the beast is 666)


the next episode is THE GREAT RED DRAGON
if this was the real clue heller was talking about, one of the 4 "probably dead" suspects will come back as red john in 6x07

the 4 of them are: Partridge, McAllister, Haffner, Stiles (kirkland is out of the list, smith killed him)


in my opinion partridge could be the best red john, but I think he's really dead... he had to die because RJ wanted to lead patrick to the "tyger tyger" group, and now jane thinks that RJ is one of them while in fact is not.

stiles would be great, he even said that he will come back after the death... but he's too old to be RJ

mcallister is another possible great red john, but if my theory is right it can't be him because someone shot him...

...and that person is the last one, haffner.
he was the first to show his shoulder (for obvious reasons, he had no tattoo), because he tricked patrick into thinking that RJ is one of the tygers, so that he could be free from any suspects. 

he was the one who shot mcallister (bertram and smith are still alive, they will appear in the following two episodes) in jane's house, because he feared that one of the 3 tygers would reveal his identity under the shotgun threat.

I don't know if he will be confirmed as dead in 6x07, for now we only know that the promo said he died because of the explosion, but anything's possible... my bet is on Ray Haffner.

maybe the list is fake.

Lisbon is NOT Red John, BUT she's being manipulated against her will by him and she knows it. I believe RJ contacted Lisbon with one of his creepy RJ 'Instant Messages' and told her he would kill Jane if Lisbon didn't play along. This may or may not have something to do with her random broken arm, but RJ knows Lisbon loves Jane and he's using that as leverage.

Jane knows Lisbon is no longer trustworthy. Hes known since last season. There are several times he deliberately gives her information that we the audience know is misleading. Jane most likely has known whom Red John is for some time now but he is pretending to buy into the list Red John concocted and he also knows that the tattoo is related to the secret law enforcement group. He only feeds Lisbon information that would lead Red John to believe Jane is buying the ruse that Red John is selling.

In yesterdays episode, Jane told Lisbon she was the most honest person he knows....double meaning? She is highly moral and Jane can read her well so if shes being forced to help RJ, I bet Jane picked up on it. Also, notice how her face is enraptured when he confesses his feelings out on the bluff. She's so in love with him that she would do anything to protect him.

Last night, Lisbon was CERTAIN Jane was throwing his life away she says it verbatim 2-3 times....she has *never* been this forceful. This is because she knows RJ has set a trap at PJ's Malibu House. RJ wanted Jane to get the remaining members of the list together with Jane so he could kill them all and tie things off neatly. -Everybody with any ties or knowledge of Red John would all die at the same time. RJ uses Jane to set this meeting up with the other members of the list because he cant get them all together himself and killing them off one-by-one would alert the others that RJ was coming for them -Just like in the previous episode with the false list.

Next weeks episode is called 'The Great Red Dragon'. I believe that is the acutal name of the group we are all calling 'Tyger, Tyger'. When this group realizes that three of their members have been kidnapped, they come out in force to rescue them. Thats what we are most likely seeing in next week's preview. Of course, RJ is COMPELLED to appear because when he finds out that PJ and some of the others have survived his bomb,  he needs to be on site to 'finish off' anyone who might survive to talk.

Expect Jane to pull some crazy trick to lure RJ away from the other officers to try to kill the 'bait'.....then RJ will kidnap PJ and they will finally get to catch up and have some "alone time" to talk about their relationship. Red John gives the *final* rose to Patrick Jane. Eat your heart out, Chris Harrison!

After last night's CBS "snafu" of showing a Mentalist repeat to most of the country, I'm pretty certain I know who Red John is.....

He's an psychotic executive at CBS who chooses to cover his tracks by showing as little of the Mentalist as possible to us viewers. Think about it: "Sports Delays", Playing the wrong episodes this close to the series finale, moving the show to a late, Sunday night time slot to shed viewers.......

These are all attempts to mislead and obscure the truth! Red John is so purely evil that I would bet he's behind such critical flops such as the 'Good Wife' and 'Hostages'. Oh, I don't think Dean Harken is Red John, -of all the choices, he looked the most like a sociopathic, network executive mass-murder!

Bonus theory: I think Visualize is somehow involved because have you ever noticed the creepy resemblance between the CBS and Visualize 'eyeball' logos?

Happy Monday =D

I hope Heller create a great turnaround on the show.I believe the easy money is now interresse of business writers is to make a big audience (and since most people are idiots), so a plot increasingly scrappy. I no longer believe that Heller manages to connect all the loose ends over the 6 seasons. I pray you get. If Red John is one person on the list is a disappointment because because he would be giving us the Red John identity in small doses and this is not in accordance with the magic of the show. Heller do not make the show become a mexican soap opera. Now everyone has tattoo and whistles :(  Red John was Max Winter.