Ok, so tonight was, if I'm not mistaken (and please correct me if I am), the first solid link that Red John was a member of Visualize.

Certainly, previous to this, there were potentially ties, but that could be just Red John knowing someone who was in Visualize, or perhaps an unsanctioned Visualize splinter group - much like the Freezone people are an unsanctioned splinter group of Scientology, which Visualize is obviously based off of.  But I digress.


Visualize is about, publicly, self-actualization - being the "best you that you can be".  Now put a sociopath in that situation.  (Aside from those running it, obviously.)

You've got someone who is deliberately making himself into the very best serial killer possible.  But he can't know he's the best, unless he tests himself against others, such as Jayne.

I think it will be revealed that a significant number of Red John's victims (obviously, not all of them) will turn out to be opposed to Visualize, and similarly, a number of the RJ cultists (is there an accepted name for them yet?) will turn out to be people met through Visualize.

As we learned in tonight's episode, Visualize refuses to turn over membership records, so we don't know how many of the known RJ cultists are also in Visualize.  I'm willing to bet money that, if revealed in the show, it will turn out that the correspondence between the two is above 80%.


Now, as to theory...  Ray Halfner did not make himself look good at the end of the episode.  Certainly, he could have said "no", but if it were later learned that he lied, that would make him look bad; worse, in fact, if he had said "yes".

That said, I don't think it's Hafner, though I wouldn't put it past him being a RJ cultist.

Wouldn't someone in that town know who "the kid" working on the farm was? Shouldn't Jane be out interviewing everyone who lives/used to live near the farm?

I agree with Ben. At this point, it shouldn't be hard to find Red John. Think about all the stuff we know about Red John. He hung out at that house near the blind lady. He is not fat or soft. He is not short. We know who many of his associates are.  We know the times and dates of his murders. If his name is on a list, process of elimination should work like magic. 

So, by next Sunday, Jane should know who Red John is, right...  Think about it – Jane is highly intelligent
and has the entire weight of the CBI and their databases behind him. He has a
list of approximately 400 suspects.  In
addition to all the other things he knows about Red John, he now knows that Red
John was on that farm on particular day (the date on which that woman shot the
one guy) in 1987.  It wouldn't take long
to eliminate most of the list.  The
majority of his suspects will have alibis for that time/place.  (As in they were too young, too old, living
in another state, etc.) The one suspect that has no alibi for that date AND no
alibi for the dates/times of the other Red John murders is Red John. Seems
simple enough.