Who is Red John?

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List of seven

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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Theory #11122 • By utkarsh
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hi

well, my belief takes me to places where i think jane has faked his list as much as he likes to play with cards stuck to his chest. however, if it had to be one of the seven, its got to be Partridge. but is jane foolish enough to not check the body? or then, is he WILY enough to let rj think he has got jane's number while jane knows that bp isnt dead..all kinds possibilities are there guys. but 1 thing needs to be made sure, that in the end it nees to be interesting and true to the rj and pj characters. they need to be playing a big game of ruse which we dnot understand yet. thts the credit for the writers.

my name out of the 7 -  minelli

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If you want to link what happened in Patrick's house to other key moments throughout the Mentalist, this is how it's done.

http://www.whoisredjohn.com/See-a-theory-Red-John/10330

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Just because we have new hints and facts, it doesn't mean that the hints from the PAST 5 seasons are completely wasted.

Has someone or Can someone think of how old theories such as "He is Ma(r)" and other lots of hints can be connected to any of the suspects?

Please try and recollect the other old hints from last FIVE f**kin seasons.. We must get some connections there..!

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Theory #11116 • By sahar__taamalli
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Firstly, Let me describe how the Last Episode Ended, Patrick Jane was in the room of his residence with all the last 5 possible suspects who could be Red John. Jane had a leverage that Tensely told her before she was expired by RED JOHN that he has 3 Black dots on his Shoulder. No one was willing to remove his shirt in the room, so Jane had to force them so he pulled out his Shotgun and asked all them to slide down their weapons onto the carpet and then slowly remove the shirt. Ray Heffner is clean, Stiles is clean. But there are 3 dots on Sheriff Thomas’s shoulder. Stiles point that Gail Bertram and Reede Smith has 3 dots too. Jane asks these 3 to stand against the wall. Then an outside view of room is shown and a single gunshot is heard, Lisbon reaches the Site and as she approaches near the room a BLAST occurs BOOM!!!!Let us just focus on only those 3 suspects who had the red spots.Now the possible predictions:-

1.       The shot which was fired was clearly from the shotgun, not from the pistol he had kept with him as a secondary weapon. Maybe the shotgun he had, just had some fake bullets or some rubber bullets. And no one was killed by that shot, was used just to scare them to utter the truth. As its clear that Reede Smith is involved with RED JOHN for sure as he killed Bob kirkland. This fake bullet trick might have been set for him. And then all went out of room and let Reede Smith die with a gas explosion so that Jane remains safe and his revenge fulfills.Personally, I don’t think this happened.
2.       The Guy who can read minds, solve huge cases with a blink of an eye, and judge people’s behavior might have done some research and deep thinking regarding “WHO COULD BE RED JOHN” and when all suspects were in the room, he just SHOT the REAL RED JOHN and left the room with others and did a explosion so that it looks like an accident.
3.       Considering the fact that RED JOHN is in the room, Jane had nothing left with him in this world and his ultimate goal was to take revenge for his wife and daughters death. So he finds this as the first and last chance to catch RED JOHN and kill him. And he does that by doing an explosion in the room.Patrick Jane committing suicide? NO way and one more thing … 2 of them were innocent who didn’t even had the black dots. This prediction seems pointless to me.. But still you never know…. 
4.       The most important one, what if Red john is someone else…. And these Black Dots on shoulder just mean the people who are working for Red john?  As at many places Gail was seen talking to someone on phone and telling the other gut on phone that Jane is digging deeper and deeper into the RED JOHN CASE …. And what if the Black Dots on shoulder was some sign of Training or some Course which the Police Officials did and those three suspects had those because of it. And Red john was someone else…………… And that gunshot was just to force suspects speak the truth …. And that Explosion could have been the RED JOHN’s plan, killing all the suspects with Patrick Jane under one roof. As he was already killing the suspects one by one….
DO COMMENT BELOW AND TELL US WHAT YOU THINK…….. WHAT MORE PREDICTIONS COULD BE THERE……

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Plausible, because every fan deserves to see the video at the bottom.


My Prediction:

I believe the meeting in the park with Red John will be very shortly after Patrick reveals to the media that Gale Bertram is Red John. Therefore the media reveal must be at the end of the episode.

In the park, Patrick will meet his nemesis, only known to him before by the name of Brett Partridge.

Sooner or later, it will be revealed that Patrick kidnapped Stiles and Haffner with the help of Bertram, McAllister, Smith and Robert Kirkland. Then he says Gale Bertram is Red John to the media. The kidnappings will be why Jane has to flee to Mexico. Jane has got away with killing a man who isn't Red John before. But not with kidnapping- especially a man like Bret Stiles.

Thank you for reading fellow Mentalistas. Here's a treat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZjb_pcOu8o

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The twin story seems to me to be a little
too convenient a tale for Bob, explaining why he's hunting for RJ
suspects, and why Jane should trust him, as a brother in arms against
RJ.

We know that it is not just the false RJ suspects he's killing, and that he's not really trying to find RJ. He's also killing people off that know RJs appearance.
My theory: because he got a facechange operation.
I propose that it's due to RJ shaking Janes hand, way back when he
had killed his wife and daughter, and Jane was beside himself with shock
and grief.
RJ just couldn't resist the temptation of
keeping Jane alive for more play. Much more. But, while Jane appears to
have forgotten the encounter, RJ has concerns that he'll one day
remember. A modicum of facial numbness/immobility should also make his face harder to read. Hence the decisive move of a facechange, and hence the questions, and the satifaction at hearing that people can't recognize him.
As that means Jane likely won't remember him either.
When was it made? Likely shortly after
the murder of Janes wife and daughter, and shortly before RJs stay with
the blind woman Rosalind, while his facewounds were healing up. Once healed, he
could let her touch his face, no problem. Once healed we could see him
with Corrigans face in Red Dawn (ep 100), when Jane had just been hired by the
CBI.

His ultimate wish is to get
mentally close to Jane, and to befriend him, possibly with no intention
of revealing himself as RJ, but just to play cat and mouse role reversal with Jane, sometimes appearing to hunt with him, for RJ, sometimes killing new victims, as RJ.



Hunting for the false RJ suspects, and the touching story of his brother are both just tools of deception used by him to get under Janes RJ-radar. (Fun
fact: When Bob intimidates Jane, he uses a a kind of garden variety
scissors as finger clipper, which Lorelei was about to use on Janes
finger, by RJs order, right before the FBI charged in on the scene at
the car, in The Crimson Hat (5/24).)

Apparently, the deception works according to plan, too.
Jane writes him off as a suspect before we
see him get shot.  and Kirkland expressed absolutely no surprise,
panic or regret when Hightower and Lisbon 'interrupted' him. This was
not the response of a man getting foiled.


Supposing that Robert really doesn't have a twin, we must assume he
then really got shot. Except none of the bullets appeared to go through
him, but tore up the back of his prison coat pretty well... My proposal: Bulletproof
vest.
Was Smith really working for him? I don't know, but I obviously
assume, in this twin-less theory, that Robert getting gunned down was
all a show in honor of... who? the guard in front of the van? Or
possibly in honor of Smith and the TT club, to mislead them. (Then the
guard in front is probably RJs man)


I'm guessing it is the Tyger tyger boys that are getting played.

Why the private investigators attempted plant of a bug at Chos desk?

Because Robert can no longer afford to be seen at the CBI, possibly not even
to contact his former TT stooges. (I assume he initiated the secret movement, but has no problems sacrificing any and all of them to suit his goals.) He's supposed to be dead. When the bug plant
fails, he doesn't just remove his PI as a wittness. He frames the TT guys for
it.
I think he plans to resurface as "the heroic Robert Kirkland", leader of the resistance against Read Johns TygerTyger conspiracy, fighting side by side with his favorite playmate:
Patrick Jane.
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A point of added support for Kirkland being RJ:
He only showed up at the CBI when Lorelie is gone, and can't ID him
[except if she gets caught again, or talks] and he then gets personally
involved in the manhunt.

In spite of the fact that he's known to be very interested in the RJ
case progression. A highly convenient absence from the CBI, it would seem.








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My theory which I've posted here for a couple of weeks is that Max Winter is RJ and I still believe. What if the bomb all the time was in the gunbox given to PJ by Winter? Also a bugadvice in it? I still believe I saw a character familiar to him in season 2E08 when the Boscoteam is killed. He has the founds, patience and ambition.

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