I think the writing has gone shitty recently. Even the idea of coming up with a seven-suspect list is total nonsense. I mean come on, look at the people on that list! Reede Smith, Ray Haffner, Sheriff McAllister! What do they have to do with anything? 


Reede Smith, seriously?? Some fat FBI agent with no self-control?What is he doing in the show, what is he even doing on that list? He literaly came out of nowhere!

Sheriff Thomas McAllister, are you fucking kidding me Bruno Heller? We haven't heard of him for like a thousand years and then he comes back up on PJ's list for no reason... I'm 100% sure nobody even remembered who he was before his name was mentioned on the list.

Ray Haffner, dafuck? He got manipulated by Jane like a hundred times in one episode, and he too comes up from nowhere, admitting to being a member of Visualize. What's the fucking point?

Only Stiles and Kirkland seem clever enough to be the mastermind PJ has been dealing with for all these years, but one is old and dying and the other was prematurely killed (by fucking Reede Smith???) for NO reason that we know of! 

The only other suspect that could have been an acceptable choice as RJ was Partridge, as he had been hanging around RJ crime scenes since the very beginning BUT he too was prematurely killed for no fucking reason and I think it would be shitty writing if he came back from the dead.

Another sloppy writing example: after Kirkland and Partridge died, we never heard of them again, I mean it's not like they were prominent RJ suspects, it's not like they were murdered, it's not like their deaths needed to be investigated! We should have seen an investigation into their deaths but what do we get instead? Some random tattoo story that leads us to think that fucking Reede Smith, McAllister and Bertram are the only remaining RJ suspects? For God's sake.

Bruno Heller and CBS don't give a damn how good or bad the show gets, they don't give a damn who you want RJ to be, they proved their only purpose is to make big filthy money. They only care about keeping their audience watching their fucking commercial breaks. Their audience decreases and all of a sudden they feel like coming up with some list of suspects, killing Partridge and Kirkland (to me the best character in the show so far), making big explosions and crappy tattoo nonsense.

The story has gone completely shitty. They had all the elements they wanted to make it good, plenty of interesting characters. Rosalind Harker? Kristina Frye? PJ's father? Walter Mashburn? Hell no, that'd be too boring, let's come up with irrelevant characters like McAllister Smith or whoever they want to bring back to life. 


Don't be too disappointed when RJ is revealed, I think we all will be anyway, whoever he turns out to be. Heller and CBS will have reached their goal. They will have made a lot of fucking money, but they will have wasted our time for years.


Peace, and sorry for my English mistakes, I try.

FUCK YOU CBS, if you don't get horny reading Fangoria, then I'm Britney Spears.

I'm sorry. CBS irks me. They're irksome.

Jack Plotnick is now credited as Brett Partridge on IMDB in Episode 8: Red John (reveal episode)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3196216/

The scene with the freaky pigeon lady is too profound for it to not be BP as RJ.... what an interesting turn of events

Is the great red dragon on today? can someone please give me a link to watch it and say when it will be on?

My first theory is posted here

http://www.whoisredjohn.com/See-a-theory-Red-John/9976

And in my personal opinion that is the only suspect it can be, to give this great show the final meeting it deserve, Bruno Heller said that people would be dissapointed when they learned who RJ was, of course he's gonna say that , without lying , you just have to read all the great theories here in this forum, you can't please us all, we all have our favorite !

RJ has to be some one who was in the show very early on, the team behind The mentalist, didnt know if it was gonna be a hit or be shut down after one season, and that kinda narrows the list a bit, but again they can have changed their mind about who RJ is as the show gained so popular, so they had to put in some more suspected characthers, to keep us the audience on the edge, but if they are gonna stay true to their first choice I guess Partridge is de ideal character , you can read my reasons for this using the link at the top.

Heller has himself talked about  similarity between RJ and PJ relationship and Sherlock and Moriaty, I guess he means the cat and mouse game they are playing, and we know that RJ's hope for PJ friendship exposes him, how RJ can think that PJ wanna be friends with the person who killed his family shows that RJ in his criminal brilliance , is a person without human perspective, yes he knows have to seduce and manipulate , but as a psycopat he cant really connect to normal human feelings, and in a sick way, maybe he think he did PJ a favour killing off his family.

For me only one person can portrait such a devious, creepy person and play it with an intensity that blows you away !

To keep it simple,

Red John = Brett Partridge (Death was glossed over too easily, always has been RJ in my mind. The Voice)

Red John Co-conspirator = Bob Kirklands Twin 'brother' Michael (they killed Bob so we are not confused as an audience when Michael shows up/ He helped Partridge fake his own death at the house/ killed the PI and made it look like it was Tyger Tyger)

Red John Father = Bret Stiles (Instilled some weird values and rituals into his 'son', including the blood smearing MO) 

Really long shot = Van Pelt is on Team 'RJ'. Her back story is too vague. She set up the tracking on the RJ suspects and helped get Lisbon to be the one who showed up at the house.


Happy theorizing guys!