A little tid bit...one of the major power struggles on the show is custody of lorelei. Bertram wants custody, but only jane is able to deceive the judge into keeping her. When they go to get her, she is gone. Hence, bertram is not rj, but that does tell us something...RJ has a connection inside a federal prison or directly within the fbi that is higher up than smith/o'laughlin
Two more things I'd like to point out:
Episode 3x16: bertram recites blake poem to lisbon, BUT laroche is the one who tells her it is by william blake. I believe this puts Laroche squarely in tyger, tyger. Could he be the pwrson Lisbon mistakenly trusts? Not sure
Also, episode 1x07. Kristina Frye tells patrick, "your daughter never woke up." So we must either choose to believe: 1 - she is red john 2 - she is a real psychic 3 - she knows RJ and he intentionally shared that with her. If what lorelie says is true, the RJ and PJ should have been lifelong friends, then it would make sense the Frye could fall for a guy like red john as she is obviously drawn to patrick.
Thoughts?
RJ will kill either Rigsby or Van Pelt, and at that moment Lisbon will officially condone Jane playing the role of judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a question, not a theory: Why is Mashburn not on the list? He is the perfect candidate to be RJ. No one else even compares. Also, we know he has some sort of phobia and it seems odd that Jane accused Mashburn of a mild dirt phobia when he does a cold read of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL336yZCB90
Anyway, just curious. I missed whatever thing it was that took him off Jane's list.
Just a thought...tell me what you all think.
Jane always says Red John thinks of himself as an artist. We know his is also narcissistic. Brett Partridge is at all of the Red John and copycat Red John killing sites. Wouldn't it make sense for him to be there so he could "admire his work" and see other people's reactions? Not only that but he would be around Jane all the time. This way he can get a feel for how much he knows, and how close he is to discovering who he really is.
Let's just assume for the purpose of this argument that Partridge is Red John, and that he did fake his death. It looks like Bertrum, Smith and McAllister are part of this conspiracy. Also assuming that Red John is the leader of the group, it would have been simple for one of them to be in the house while Partridge appeared dead. Faking his death could be Partridge's way of trying to make other people look suspicious, and take some of the heat off of himself.
Heller said Red John killed Brett Partridge. Does this mean he literally killed him, or he killed the alias known as Brett Partridge?
They blew away the best character created ... has a "touch & go" with Lisbon and gets out of the picture for 3 seasons. Sent Jane a "nice gift" for his breakdown : Lorelei (nice mistress indeed). Asks for Lisbon's head as if saying "we're even dude, knew you wouldn't gimme her head and I didn't want hers" (Lorelei said it anyways) ... charismatic, billionaire, womanizer, good at building bombs, he was at a reformatory (Bret Stiles decided to help this ambitious lad like he so proudly announced did with the ecuatorian child) ... issues with his mother ... was on Jane's list ... but there's this thing that bothers me : why did Lisbon said there were 8 suspects on this season's first episode and Jane didn't even corrects her ... an spoiler says thay she's gonna search for the worst possible person for some help or whatever ... if that's true an ex-one night stand that suddenly reappears as another spoiler is saying would make it great ... Mashburn being Red John ... the reason Jane and Lisbon's relation straints and ends up pretty bad after the hunt is over ... to hell with Red John
Just want to throw something out there...as we know william blake plays a role in the storyline. Tyger, tyger is his poem and the great red dragon is his painting. I looked up the painting - there are 4 of them, and they were drawn to illustrate the book of revelations 12 and 13...I see a lot of possibility for revelations 13 to match up to the story line. A dragon and two beasts - could that be rj, visualize and tyger, tyger...or perhaps Ardiles, tt, and rj.... 7 heads, each blasphemous - 7 suspects. All who worshipped the firet beast should be marked (3 dots). A wound that appeared lethal, but was healed (partridge OR whoever survives the bomb blast)...seems to be more than coincidence to me