If Red John is definitely on the list, I just don't buy any of them as him except for Robert Kirkland.  Somehow, it will come out that his brother was the one shot by Reede Smith.  He is the only one I can see PJ confronting where I'm thinking "yes he is that smart, that evil, and that manipulative."

Good evening to you all, can you tell me why Kirkland, always ask if they kill people that we've seen??If these people had already seen the reason it does not recognize it! he is convinced that Red John's accomplices should recognize because it asks whether his brother is alive??
thank you

I always thought that Partridge was Red John. Now I am thinking Bob Kirkland (with his twin brother) is Rj because his story fills the blanks.

What is the meaning of "he is mar"? Look closely it. It is kind of "II is mar". It (he) is number two and refers to the twin brothers. Mar means Michael And Robert.

How did RJ know the list of PJ? We know that Rj is also a mentalist. Robert had a great cover. FBI and CBI considered that Kirkland believed PJ might be RJ so they gave information about Jane and his investigation on RJ. Therefore, Kirkland did not need to have a mole in CBI or FBI. Their directors were already his informants without knowing it. We know how mentalist are good at educated guess. Kirkland always watched closely Pj and even knew he was in mental institute even CBI did now know. With all information about Jane and the RJ investigation, a great mentalist like RJ can easily predicts the names PJ suspects.

How are RJ and Visualise connected? Michael had alcohol issue like his father. We also know that Visualise has also members with this kind of problems in their past. (I do not remember the episode but there was a girl with drug addictions and she said Visualise helped her to be clean). I think Michael also became a member and he was at the Red barn. Robert found Michael and how he became drug-addicted there after his alcohol problem. He killed other two members of Visualise and made his brother his disciple. He also hid his brother because he thought Visualise would suspect that Michael killed those members and could hurt Michael. So he made his brother disappear. This is how Bret Stiles knows about RJ. He believes he is Michael who kills people because his killing rituals resembles The Visualise rituals in a twisted way.

What is the meaning of conversation between Jane and Kirkland? When Jane said Robert Kirkland is in the list. He said "interesting. make sense actually but this doesn't help me with my cause, does it?". When Jane said "you are hunting RJ same as me". He also replies "not exactly the same, I am willing to kill seven people to get the job done". He also rejected Jane's demand to work together. He said "we both want our revenge and only one of us is going to get it". He has another agenda. He is not hunting Red John, but RJ himself and he wants to kill other suspects for a reason. That is his revenge. Maybe he hates Bret Stiles because what Visualise did to his brother and Haffner is the one who introduced the visualise to him and Tyger Tyger group is a threat for him or Bertram, McAllister and Smiths are moles in the group led by Red John.

If they are undercover cops inside the group, this makes sense. They are close to reveal the head of the Tyger Tyger group (I mean Kirkland). This why he approached Smith and told him about the group. He is a mentalist and he knew Smith would act with his anger and act against him. When it is revealed that Kirkland is a murderer hunting Red John (smith thinks that way) and might tell about the group to Jane, he feared that that would ruin the operation and he killed Kirkland. However, he did not know that the driver was the man of Kirkland and his gun had blank bullets. He was holding something when he was running. I assume that it was igniter for fake bullet wounds at his back and he swallowed something. I think it was a drug to help him weaken his pulse look him like a dead. In this way, he maybe planted the bomb at Jane house to kill all of them or wants Jane to kill them. That is why he gave tattoo clue to Jane.

Last thing. I am not sure Michael is identical twin of Robert. he said he has a twin brother, not identical twin. Maybe CBI Ron or Brett Partridge is his brother.

Sorry for bad English.

I have actually changed my mind.

Despite reading theories which have stated Michael Kirkland as RJ. I shook my head at these as I found them ridiculous. I am now actually starting to believe it is him.

Lets look at this with common sense, from a writers perspective.

1. You want to make Bob Kirkland hunt RJ. Whats the backstory? Now this could be anything. Like he killed his girlfriend, or something like that. But what have they come up with.

they came up with the idea of a TWIN who Bob 'thinks' RJ murdered.

Not only is that vague but it is pretty lame. I mean it is pretty poor explanation This HAS to be revisited in the next 2 episodes. There has to be more to it then that.

Now if you start looking at the clues, for what we know about RJ. I am pretty sure, all of them could be linked to a MK

1. He would have the link to Visualize
2. Height hair weight etc
3. He would have access to most things by impersonating his brother
4. We don't know what his voice is
5. Phobia's etc no idea.

Then all the clues with symmetry and poems etc. Twins

It didn't make sense the killing of Lennon. He would have been interrogated to find identity of RJ

This would be classed as a 'surprise' as we had never heard of Michael Kirkland before (fits with Robin Tunney quote)

The actor who gets to play RJ has said he thought he was a red herring. Bob Kirkland WAS definitely a red herring.

Michael Kirkland could easily blend into the background

Bret Styles would know him. Bret also laughed at Patricks suggestion that one of the five was RJ. To me this was telling he seemed very surprised by this.

I am not sure how I would feel about it. But it really can be twisted so it does make sense so I wouldn't be overly surprised if it turned out to be him.

I still think it is Bob Kirkland.  The one who was shot was NOT Bob Kirkland, it was his twin brother pretending to be Kirkland.  The twin knew his brother was Red John and was trying to stop him.   Bertram, Smith, and McAlister are disciples, which is why Smith killed the twin who was trying to expose Red John.

Not a theory just a questiin, is it true that theres not going to be an episode this next sunday?

Please dont dont do that to the fans now thats just plain cruel.

Okay, how did I miss this before!!!

I just re-watched the episode "Red Listed" and something occurred to me.  Hightower and Lisbon are searching for a building near a pine forest that belongs to Bob Kirkland.  Van Pelt searches online and then says the following, "Nothing for Robert Kirkland... but there's a Michael Kirkland.  Owns a cabin up near Elderado State Park."

What if "Michael"Kirkland still uses this cabin from time to time?  Rosalind Harker said Roy T. smelled of pine and earth. The cabin is located near a pine-tree forest.  It would certainly explain Roy's distinct odor if he were "Michael".  Frankly, no one else on this list really has a reason to smell like pine and earth.

Another caveat: which of the remaining suspects looks most like Bob?  It is possible that Michael IS one of the other suspects and underwent major plastic surgery to change his appearance.  Unlikely, but not impossible.