To all Red-John-is-Bob-Kirkland-believers:
How do you explain the wall-writing "He is mar/He is man" in the season one? According to Bruno Heller, all questions will be answered after the reveal of Red John. So if it´s Bob Kirkland, there has to be a link to him.

Here is my proposal:
The second word is written in big letters, so its more like "He IS Man". Taking into account, that the writer was going to die, he or she might have been chatted, so the second letter looks like e but is an unfinshed o, and the big letter I could be very easily ment as an L. Then we have: "Ho LS Man" - short form for Homeland Security Man, a link to Bob Kirkland. Maybe the writer didnt know the name of his murderer, but he knew what his job was, so he gave that information. Starting to write the whole word Homeland, he realized that he will not have enough time to finish it before he will die, so he stoped the long word after the second letter and changed to the short version HLS, resulting in "Ho LS Man".

maybe Lorelli got the list of seven out of PJ's little book while he was asleep after they made sweet love. she gave it to Bigred. there. that's what i'm going with.

Here is an addition to my theory (#7883), that Bob Kirkland is Red John.

In the meanwhile I got a good question about my theory from my girlfriend: "Ok, your theory sounds good, but how do you explain, that Bruno Heller said, that we have already seen Red John til the end of season 3, but Bob Kirklands first appearence was in season 4?"

Now I found an answer to this question, which not only answers this question, but also some more questions, which were still unsolved:
- how could Red John know, that Patrick Jane will be at the mall in 3x24?
- how could Bruno Heller say, that we will see Red Johns face in final episode of season 3, but then it turned out, that it was a fake-Red John. Was he lying?
- why did Patrick Jane in season 4, when he meets Bob Kirkland for the first time in the office says: "do I know you?"

Answers:
We learnt from Hightower in season 6, that Bob Kirkland was informed on a regular basis about Patrick Jane by the Chiefs of CBI, at that time that was Bertram. So he knew it from Bertram. That setting makes it possible for Kirkland, to show up at the mall, without making Bertram skeptical. In 6x24 at 34:39 you can see a man in a red pullover, who looks very similiar to Bob Kirkland. He is seated between Patrick Jane and the fake Red John. And what is interesting, at 35:14, exactly at the moment, when Patrick Jane walks in direction to the fake Red John, this man in the red pullover, stands up and leaves his table very quickly, even without paying. But Patrick sees his face just for a fraction of a second. That would explain, why later in season 4, when he sees Bob Kirkland for the first time in the office, Patrick asks him "do I know you?". That fraction of a second was too short to remember him, but it was enough for a mastermind like him to have a feeling of remembering. A nice clue from Bruno Heller to the audience. It is also interesting, that this man in the red pullover, who left the table so quickly, is later seen in two szenes in the background. Maybe this could be interpreted as the waldo szenes, that Bruno Heller was refering lately.

So, that all explains, why Heller can say without lying, that we saw Red John til the end of season 3, that we saw Red Johns face in the final episode of season 3 and that he was at the mall. Everything he said was true, and it was very good covered by the fake-Red John storyline.

I think Tereza is one of Tyger Tyger ,that is why Partridge told her Tyger Tyger
RJ learns about the list from Tereza ,I want to still say RJ from out of list but there is to much pressure from other people in this site that he is some one in the list,if some one it should be haffner.

I think Tereza is one of Tyger Tyger  Because Kirkland's dead was something very important, but she never surprised ,she just pretend to be..and she did not call and let Jane know about it, because it was something Tereza already know about it before she heard it from Rigsby. 

Also Tereza did not mention to Jane about Haffner's visit her on hospital ,why does Tereza Lisbon keep some information and does not tell to Jane? 

S6E6 Promo

http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2013/the-mentalist-season-6-episode-6-fire-and-brimstone-sneak-peek...

WTF!! Jane gets crazy and gather remaining 5 candidates 

Its dexter morgan...think about it.

A good theory must have answers to the open questions of the Mentalist:
- why did Bob Kirkland kill the man in the hospital, who knew about Red John, when he was hunting Red John himself?
- how could Red John know about the seven suspects, two months before PJ?
- why did Partridge have to die?

I think the solution to the Red John Puzzle will be tricky, because the whole show is about tricks. So it is not just about reducing the list of seven down to one because of a red tatoo. There has to be a special trick from one side and an even better trick from the other side, showing that this is a fight between two masterminds.

So I was looking for a tricky solution.

Here is my theory:
Bob Kirkland is Red John, so its is obvious, why he killed the man in the hospital. Red John/Robert Kirkland gets the information from Lorelei Martins, that Patrick Jane knows about the handshake. In that moment he understood, that he is in trouble, and he decided to create a masterplan: to make Patrick believe, that he is not Red John, let Patrick reduce the list to only one name, so that Patrick will kill the last name on the list, believing he must be Red John. Clever. First he let Lorelei Martins speek all possible names on video, that PJ could possibly may have shaken hands with, maybe dozens or hundreds of names, for further usage. Two months later, he broke in Patrick Janes room, as seen in TV. With the informations from Patricks wall, he learned two things: Patrick has a list of seven names and Patrick has also created a fake list. He makes use of both. First, with the seven names he created the video. He had a lot of names spoken by Lorelei on tape, including this seven names from the list, so he fabricated the video out of this. Of course you could see the manipulation in the video, if if would be possible to look at the video, while Lorelei ist speaking the names. But you can´t. Why? When you look very carefully at the video, you can see, that Red John has used a manipulation trick, to shift your focus away from the video to the pictures (saying something like: "I give you time to look on your pictures"), exactly at the time, when Lorelei starts with the names. So the TV watcher (and Patrick and Teresa also) cannot see the manipulation in the video. Clever.

Next, Bob Kirkland makes use of Patricks fake list to make Patrick believe, that he is not Red John. How? He argues, that he is hunting Red John himself, proving that by torturing and killing people from the fake list. Very clever.
Next, he has to fake his own death, otherwise he has to go to prison. How?
From his job he knew about an organization inside police, that can provide what he wants - faking his death, and that partridge has something to do with it. So he tortured Partridge and got the informations about the inside organization he needed, including that Reed Smith is a member. So he made contact with Reed Smith and tells him, that he already knew about the organization. Not seen on TV was the part, where Kirkland and Smith made the fake-kill-deal. The killing of Kirkland was just a show - for the security man (and the TV watcher). First Smith gave the informations to Kirkland about how to escape, then he makes a fake-kill. How do I know? When you look in 6x04 at 42:15, you see and hear, that Reed Smith shoots seven times in Kirklands back. But later in 6x05 at 26:41 we hear Rigsby saying: "Kirkland is shot six times in the back." Maybe a clue from Heller to the audience. For the fake-kill they used a safety jacket, let Bob Kirkland escape and for the police to find, they replaced Bob Kirklands body with the dead body of his twin brother Michael. Very clever.