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 put myself believing that Brett Patridge is Red john. It coundn't be any obvious. Bruno Heller said that it is important that Patridge died at the first episode of the season. Many people have been expecting him before that and so does patrick. Self elimination had to be made to clear those assumption or else it would get too easy. And his death isn't even investigated and when lisbon got pulled and faints, red john draw on her face, where the f is brett patridge? Its really confusing but still i expect brett patridge to be red john.

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Theory #10085 • By matvegan
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"Tyger Tyger,
Burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful SYMMETRY."

Clearly is Patrick...

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Does anyone know whether the episode 'The Great Red Dragon' will be online for viewing this week? Even though it will not be shown on tv for another week? I usually watch on stream-tv.me and was wondering if it will be uploaded this week or whether it will be delayed a week like the tv airing.

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Red John is a single killer who has evolved into an organizational serial killer, all who have the three dot tatoo, (and others, and even fakes and wanna-be's) .  He started out at the old Visualize ranch, (perhaps Stiles or son), and Visualize is still the backbone of moral support.  Many cops are Visualize church members, and they recruit others throughout the country, giving the organization Red John great knowledge and ability, on short notice, in any location (like Tijuana).  

Timothy Carter was not speaking falsely when he identified himself as Red John.  Red John is many individuals.  Red John cannot be killed, because the idea behind Red John is justified killing according to each members interpretation of justification.  

Theresa Lisbon was a personal target of a Red John because she is the written rule of law, not personalized justice killing, and because the crucifix she wears offends a major Red John.  Jane would be a valuable Red John which is why his recruitment was attempted. 


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I just saw CBI Rob in an old episode of the Gilmore Girls. The girl he was with took a red balloon. CBI Ron is Red John!

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it doesn't make sense to pay attention to such nuances as where PI's eyes
look when the door opens, or such. The show seems to contain a lot of
incosistencies, far greater than if her eyes looked up or down. They
just put a random actor for that scene. Don't expect that level of
attention to detail, not from this show. It is also pretty obvious that
the identity of Red John was not decided upon the start of the series. The maximum I hope for is that the writers knew what was going to happen in the running season, so in S01e01 they may knew what would happen till the end of that season (regarding the RJ case I mean), in s02e01 what was going to happen in second season etc. In order to make the season interesting and to keep up going regarding the RJ case, they threw in clues throughout the seasons without a master plan, and now that the time for the reveal has come, they just don't add up. Don't get me wrong here: I still enjoyed the series, just saying that when you make an inter-season arc, you must have a masterplan in the beginning that encompasses the whole proceedings so that everything heads to an unexpected, well thought out dramatic finale.
Anyway, I hope the writers manage to explain the unexplainable in these last few episodes, and who knows, we may even get a surprise.

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Brett Partridge fakes his death but before dying utters "Tiger, Tiger" as the first fake clue to throw Jane off the right track. He pulls distracts Lisbon with a door opening trick and then pulls her from underneath with the intention of knocking her out. He then gets his corrupted disciples in the work force to carry out a dead body which isn't his knowing that Jane would be too distracted caring for Lisbon then to check the sites for clues that the death was a fake.  Brett Partridge then hires an amateur lady to bug the office and when she fails as expected he goes over to her house with the three-dotted tattoo on his left shoulder purposely revealed and fatally wounds her but doesn't slit her throat so that she can tell Patrick Jane that the killer (he suspects to be Red John) is a member of Tiger, Tiger (when really his isn't). Brett Partridge knows Patrick Jane will want to group everyone into a room to reveal their tattoos and then once that happens he can blow them all up at the same time and be rid of them which is what his plans were as stated in the promo for the next episode.

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