Maybe stiles is in fact red john. We did see that he is dying now, so this may be the reason he will reveal himself to jane, just saying its possible. I cancelled him out once we found out he is dying but maybe it is a trick to make us feel sorry for him.

i dont want patridge back from the dead. I wish it was him though, only because he is a cool character, and some great acting !!

Not a theory...but the episode 7 promo it shows a board with the pictures of Hafner, Stiles, and McAllister...Are their pictures posted because they are dead ? Or because they are at large ?

Reasons Partridge is Red John in the simplest terms.....

1. First episode

2. First line, "Red John enters here.

3. First 2 times he appears on the show are Red John copycat killings.

4. Second time he appears on the show is the first and only time we actually see and hear RJ.

5. Doesn't appear to be smart enough to be RJ.

6. William Blake's A Brace of Partridge

7. First person eliminated from the suspect list.

8. The pigeons everywhere.

9. Faking his death is not out of the realm of possibilities.

10. Patrick never shook his hand on the show.

11. He is nothing like RJ. A perfect cover to be close to everything and everyone involved.

12. He is a ghoul.

13. He is irksome.

14. Goes out of his way to annoy Patrick

15. Even dead, more people think he's RJ than when he was alive.

16. Nothing about him is a character trait of RJ

17. He made Patrick's list for no apperent reason whatsoever, while the other 6 all seemed suspicious at one time or another.

18. Only victim to say, "Tiger Tiger" with no apparent connection to RJ before hand.

19. Just because it makes sense.



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My opinion: Ray Haffner.
Reasons:
1-He likes/respects Jane (not like Bertram, for instance, that doesn't seem to appreciate Jane at the CBI, or Smith, who apparently doesn't give a s.);
2-He truly seems to like Theresa and call her by her first name;
3-He fits the profile, including the whole visualise/barn thing (he was a teenager at the time);
Now it gets interesting..
4-As mentioned in other theories, the actor who plays RJ says in the interview for TV Guide that he was surprised for being chosen - he thought he was a red herring. He also uses the expression "truth be told". It has been proven Reed Diamond (Haffner) also uses that frequently;
5-He hasn't the three dotted tattoo. You might be saying: that's the opposite of a lead! Some people already discarded Haffner as suspect because of that. The way I see it, anyone who has the dots is also a member of Tyger Tyger (a symbol of it). I don't believe at all RJ is a member of such organisation (more on that later). Therefore, it could be either Haffner or Stiles. Well, Stiles is dying, which, again in my opinion, pretty much eliminates him as a suspect (that and the fact that he wouldn't be in his 20s or so at the barn);
6-He is missing from this picture (before anyone starts criticizing, I know this is sort of a long shot): http://instagram.com/p/gjUXK7FnMM/ This picture was taken on Sun's episode, clearly after the suspects had shown their shoulders to Patrick. Why is Reed Diamond missing? Well, it could be nothing, but it could also mean something.


Now I'm gonna move to my actual theory of the plot.


I think RJ is not a part of Tyger Tyger. Instead his almost unlimited resources come from Visualise. As to why I don't think RJ belongs to the organisation, that's because Partridge, a probable member (Tyger Tyger before dying, as usual), was killed by RJ. As to why I think RJ belongs to Visualize, because Stiles, the church's guru, knows RJ quite well, apparently (I remember he mentioning Patrick's friend 'John' is quite powerful etc.). Guess who's the only one - besides Stiles - who belongs to Visualize on that list? Yup, Haffner. Seems kind of odd, right? Among the 7 original suspects, 3 definitively belong to Tyger Tyger, 2 definitively belong to Visualize, Brett Partridge is probably a member of the latter and Kirkland was trying to uncover the story behind this same organisation (BTW, I think that's the reason Smith killed him, and not because he knew something about Red John (which we probably wouldn't tell anyone but Jane)).

I also believe Visualize and Tyger Tyger are completely different entities, and do not have members in common (at least shouldn't). In fact, I think these organisations have some rivalry (they both have their fair share of illicit activities, one way or the other), which probably would have to do with Red John.


That said, I think Partridge got wind of the fact that he was being bugged by CBI's team and wanted to kill Theresa, confront her, tell Tyger Tyger; something along those lines. RJ killed him before he could do that to protect Lisbon (amongst other reasons) (vide item 2). That gives rise to the problem that Tyger Tyger then had also to be on the search for Red John. He, on the other hand, would've been able not to be caught by Tyger Tyger so far with help of Visualize.


If that's the case and Visualize and Tyger Tyger are rivals, it sort of explains why would RJ bomb PJ's house with 3 tyger tyger members (obviously, PJ and RJ definitively survive the explosion. If Stiles doesn't, that's because he was gonna die soon anyway, he probably arranged things with RJ to avoid suspicions). This also would explain why Smith was kind of astonished when Jane announced one of the five was RJ (a fact probably new to Tyger Tyger members, who would've been searching for Red John for a while now).


I hope any of this made sense to you guys, and I would ask that before you downvote my theory (I'm not saying that you shouldn't), just leave a comment saying why do you think I'm wrong. I think that's more useful to refining the hypothesis (or just throwing it completely away, if that's the case) than just downvoting it. Thanks.

Greetings from Brazil!

So my theory actually ignores most of the evidence, because as far as I'm concerned at this point the suspects must be able to fit most of the evidence given or they wouldn't really be suspects to Jane. 

The events of season 3 seem to solidify Red John as a man of psychic ability, and again we have events in season 5 that seem to corroborate that fact.  However, Jane constantly proves that Red John uses Patricks methods of mental deduction.  In order to enter Jane's mind to get the list of the 5 suspects revealed at the end of season 5 he seeks out Jane's old therapist.

As such the events of season 3, Hightowers frame up, and Jane's resulting trap set up an event where Red John MUST be in the suspect list at the end of the season.  Because Red John knowing its a trap STILL has to accept Jane's terms and send someone in.  But in order to plan accordingly and be safe he has to take in all the information he has.  As such he cannot be prepared to enter bertrams room, AND repel down to o'laughlin's room UNLESS he is privy to both room numbers and as such the trap itself. 

Lastly when confronted about murder Bertram is incredibly cool about it, he doesnt question Patrick judgment but merely defends himself (reminiscent of the very first episode where jane points out that an innocent man would have punched him by now).  He during that conversation uses the phrase "at the end of his rope" which i beleive is a tactic to elicit Jane's memory of the trap knowing that Jane is about to spring his plan.  This mentioning of rope is inevitably what leads Jane to focus on o'loughlin and divert his attention to the other "Red John" in the room, and is a common practice amongst proclaimed "psychics"