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6x08
Only two Red John suspects remain.
Gale Bertram and Reede Smith.
Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!
6x08
Only two Red John suspects remain.
Gale Bertram and Reede Smith.
Here's one of my theories on Red John's voice and which might explain a few other things as well.
There are three things that have not been explained yet:
1) Why does Red John's voice sound the way it does, when the only two characters from the list with a similar sounding voice have been killed
2) How was Red John talking on his phone at the same time he was talking to Patrick in S6E1 (he can't have been using bluetooth or anything because he was using Teresa's phone, but could have had it propped up against his head with his shoulder)?
3) What's so important about Bob Kirkland's brother?
My idea is that Red John has an accomplice, one that he uses to speak to Jane for him. This would be someone he met long ago, like Bob Kirkland's brother. If we assume that Bob has close to the same voice as his brother, then this is a possibility. This would explain how Red John was talking to Jane while using both hands to draw on Teresa, since he wasn't actually the one talking. Bob Kirkland's brother must be important somewhere. Red John also made Lorelei Martins read the message to Jane instead of reading it himself. BH mentioned how there was an important clue in the first episode of the season that he was sure we wouldn't get until the reveal. I think the pigeons, 666, etc were all meant to distract us. Maybe this was the clue? Also, Red John did talk directly to Jane during the fake red john-wannabe episode finale (season 2?). Maybe Red John sent in Bob's brother for this. It didn't seem like Red John to be carrying a gun around and shooting people.
Leave a comment to disprove my theory, it's more useful than just an 'unlikely' :)
This guy ( McAllister / Xander Berkley ) would be a convincing Red John... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBvZ9JzQUiw ... In fact ... I think maybe the case is solved ....
So I'm curious about something. Most of the theories I've read on Bertram ignore Rosalind Harker's physical profile of RJ, either unintentionally or intentionally. May I ask why? Her account of Roy Tagleofera was the very first piece of evidence about RJ. Jane was absolutely sure Roy was RJ. He even brought Rosalind to the morgue in season 4 to make sure the man he shot in the cafe wasn't RJ. Even Dumar, the sheriff who wound up being the killer in "Red John's Footsteps" confirmed that Roy was really RJ. So again I ask, why are so many people ignoring the physical profile?
Okay, think about this. In season 1 finale, Rosalind gives us the physical profile for RJ. 2 episodes later, we meet Bertram for the first time. He's six ft 3 and bald. If Bertram is RJ, that would imply Bruno Heller decided 2 episodes after giving us our first evidence of RJ, he would introduce the "real" Red John who doesn't fit the evidence... Really? Is that not an incredibly convoluted idea?
Anywho, I would like some people's thoughts about Bertram. Comment below if you have a theory that might explain away Rosalind Harker's description.
How did RJ know PJ's list so far in advance of he even knowing it himself?? Remember the discwas made while Loreli was alive and that is a signifigant time difference. So is RJ a true psychic or PJ as a split personality?
I have argued for Ray Haffner as Red John,
but,
If we are judging the last seven suspects by the actors playing them, then Xander Berkley ( portraying McAllister ) comes out way on top...Anyone who has seen him in other roles ( like Percy in the show Nikita, or " The Man " in the series " The Booth at The End" ) knows he has the intelligence and subtlety to play a character like Red John...The small town hick Sheriff he plays in The Mentalist almost seems like a waste of talent...but he has played other characters, convincingly, that would be more than a match for Patrick Jane ....
As a director he would be your perfect choice to play Red John....A guy that can play the simple small town fellow....but change gears to emote menace and a top level intellect...
Teresa's dream [a nightmare] showed HAFFNER, SMITH & BERTRAM as killers, doing RJ's work, with HAFFNER going for Teresa. Now WHY is she dreaming about THEM as opposed to Stiles, Kirkland or McAllister? Doesn't this seem too on the nose then to be accusing Haffner?
Also, RJ says Te-REE-ZAH pronouncing the S as a Z. Americans pronounce the name Teresa with a very definite S but the Z sound is used in other languages, such as German, Italian and Portuguese