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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I think it is a cat, because it lies alot and can catch alot of mice, which can later be traded for gold and used to kill people. Also cats are kinda smart compared to other animals. It would be a real twist of plot if they became friends at the end.

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It has to be...

When Jane shot "Redjohn(rj)", he was reading a newspaper. The same newspaper was read by Bertram the same day. Coincidence? 

He matches RJ'S description perfectly.

He's in a high position, and we don't know anything about his past. 

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Theory #1026 • By mavericks2k
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first of all, I remember the time when I was watching lost, after couple of episodes I got into it deeply but I said to myself " god, I hope they don't drop all dead like a cheap copy of 6th sense" eventually happened. On this I am not sure yet. I believe it's gonna be some1 suprising cuz if u paid attention it's been 5 seasons and yet u don't see personal life in enough details. I am starting to get suspicus about an alter ego that they are the same person ( fight club stuff :D )
mostly all u see is a start with a victim, then police interrogating without enough evidance then our hero makes some funny and cleaver conversations and tricks, traps etc. and ending with a confession. but in 45mins u see 2-3 minutes of personal life.

and umm there are some details that I really don't like in serie that I wanted to share:

* Medium girl, she said she was dead :D is she ? I believe everyone wonders that.
* Hightower was framed, she's saved and cleaned, why didn't see return back to her job ? isn't that awkward ? instead a 25 years old guy took control of CBI and then died in few seasons ? and not even replaced yet
* Cho was dating with a korean girl, suddenly she's dissapered from serie and he started to date with the blonde slut.
* Patrick character is inspired by Grigori Rasputin a little, very convincing and all those hypnoses etc, even a police unit can't solve any cases without him ? that's kinda odd, if he's that cleaver why can't he just get this john red guy ? then it wouldn't be a serie huh ? :D
* every episode name is obsessed with RED episode name, but yet the main object is very limited, u don't actually have enough exciting red john episodes... on an episode ending u get some clues about red john, and couple of full episodes on mid-season or season finals... u get this feeling "ohh man next week it's gonna be awesome I can't miss" then it continues irrelevant and it's disappointing. it's kinda repeating itself, for 5 seasons same opening a victim got killed by a gun or hard object to head. as of yesterday it's been 95 episodes and 80 are same, same tricks etc it's kinda getting boring but yet there are still awesome funny dialogues and stuff that I find very original and creative.
* if u ever watched "24" Jack Bauer character saved the world thousands of times, stops all terrorist attacks saved presidents yet he had to came out from setups and had to prove his innocence for 8 seasons :D u get what mean ? this serie is going what way...

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Red John once uppercutted a horse and created the giraffe.

Superman wears red John pyjamas.

Red John doesn't call the wrong phone number, you answer the wrong phone.

Death once had a near-red John experience.

Red John can win a game of connect 4 in only 3 moves.

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Theory #1024 • By VinnieB
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I'll throw this out there, agent Stephen Hannigan.  He was in the flashback episode "Red Dawn"  He got out of the unit real quit after Jane came aboard. He liked torturing Jane enough to make him sick at the crime scene.  He
punched him in the face. He made it way too obvious that he didn't like
him. One issue to get around is that you don't actually 'see' them shake hands.  I don't see a purpose to introducing this character in a flashback.  Unless, it is to throw him in there quickly, so when it is revealed(if it is ever revealed), it is a character that has been on the show and he was forgotten about.

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i think it is Max Winter. And this article shows it http://thementalist.wikia.com/wiki/Is_Jack_Coleman%27s_character_Max_Winter_the_real_Red_John_%3F

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I am a huge fan of the mentalist from day one. I go back and forth with my suspects lol. Could be so many different people. One of my top suspects is brett stiles especially the whole kristina frye thing. My sister has jus recently started watching the mentalist by borrowing my dvds. She recently watched the episode where brett stiles gives the address to kristina's whereabouts. I mentioned how I thought it was him because he knew the location and she put something interesting to me that I had never thought of......when we are first introduced to visualize they mention that all their members have to make confessional videos about all the bad things they have done (and only senior staff have access to these videos). What if red john is a member of vizualise and on his video he made mention of kidnapping kristina frye (bad thing he has done) and also mentions her location. As brett stiles is the most senior staff it would make sense why he knows her location (watching the video) and also makes sense why he also said to patrick i know more than you and red john (watching confessional videos).....just a thought!! :)

Another thing I wanted opinion on - in the episode where the team goes to the location of where the dead frozen man has been laid with the flowers, lisbon notifies everyone on the phone however she is not there with them when they investigate and this is the same time bosco and his team are murdered by rebecca. Where was she????

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