As i Was Reading The Mentalist Cast On IMDB i notice something interesting to me...as i was searching the cast i got to Angela Ruskin Jane....am i the only one that find it weird that patricks wife has the initials RJ ? especially since Rj and patrick never knew each other before the killings...Could patrick Be Rj.....or Just A Dream?

I know that the actors who play them aren't related, etc...but did it strike anyone that Gale Bertram looks A LOT like Sean Barlow?
I was just watching the last episode "Red John Rules" and couldn't help but make the connection when Barlow started talking about how Red John has "Powers"...
Does Barlow believe that Red John has powers because he is really a Barlow?  Maybe Gale is actually a Barlow, but changed his name somewhere along the way to Bertram.
This is obviously just a theory of mine, but it would kind of make sense if it was true as far as all of the "killing a childhood memory" goes.  
Let me know what you think!

I like Bertram for it. It just makes the most sense to me. Keeping Jane so close... Kirkland though... That one is interesting to me. I think he is in very close with Red John.

My brother thinks it actually is Jane. Multiple personalities disorder and all that. But the whole "the moment you shook hands" thing kinda ruins that. But I can still see where one might think that it could be Jane.

I also have this theory that Lisbon is going to be the one to kill Red John, not Jane. I think RJ is going to have Jane in danger of his life, and then Lisbon will kill him.

I'm also wondering if anything is going to happen (romantically, I mean) between Lisbon and Jane?

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Need I say more... ;-)

"He is many"

Jane has narrowed the list to seven specifically because they were all people who could have been at each killing.  If "he is many" then that means the main factor in narrowing the list is meaningless and it could be any of them or none of them.

I like Bertram for it.

The Kirkland possibly being the anti-Jane from his youth that was there for his good memory but grew up hating how easily things came to Jane is compelling but I think less likely.


Outside of the list, I think the Jane alter-ego is interesting (deep naps, blocked memories, insight into murders that could be explained by repressed memory couched as an observation).

Also, Rosalind Harker is interesting.  Rosa=Red.  She is not suspected because she is blind, but she could be faking or using her handicap as a cover.  She is blind, not stupid, she seems oblivious to the fact she "dated" a murderer and that the morgue attendant was dead in her house as she played piano.  Roy Tagliafero could be of her own making or even someone she killed and stole an identity.

Still I think Bertram for many of the reasons others have said (he said the poem when Jane wasn't around, he's a fisherman [Red John has disciples - a possible Jesus reference, i.e. fisher of men], he's intelligent, has resources, seemed to care less about getting rid of the team but always prioritizes keeping Jane within close watch, etc...)

HE IS MAR  this was written on the bath.

One suspect is GALE BERTRAM 

But if we put it  backwards its RAM = Gale Bertram

My theory eliminates certain people rather than pinpoint a suspect.

So the question that's probably bugging a lot of the fans is "How exactly did Red John know about Jane's happy memory?".

One possibility is that Red John may have approached the traumatized Jane when he was hospitalized, and because he was at such a lot point in his life it allowed him to hypnotize Jane and get that information. If that is the case, then my theory is null and void.

My theory assumes that the "memory leak" occurred much earlier in his life. Red John somehow managed to hypnotize a fully functional Patrick Jane (who may not have been as experienced as he is now) and had him tell him about the memory. If my premise is true, then I believe it stands to reason to assume that Red John is much more experienced than Patrick Jane at hypnosis - which implies that he's also much older.
This is what my theory focuses on. Assuming that I'm correct about Jane not being hypnotized in the psych ward (and I admit there's nothing that really supports that assumption), then I think there's no way Jane could be hypnotized by someone who's the same age as he is. I don't think Red John is Jane's superior. I think they're equals. Red John has the upper hand owing to his resources and anonymity, whereas Patrick was a public figure and that's what Red John took advantage of. Intellectually, though, I feel they're equals.

So anyway, if my theory is correct then it should eliminate:
-Bob Kirkland
-Reede Smith
-Brett Patridge
-Ray Haffner

And leaves us with:
-Gale Bertram
-Sheriff McAllister
-Brett Stiles

Sheriff McAllister, I feel, isn't a viable suspect simply by virtue of being an extremely unknown character. I'm assuming that the writer of the show wants to deliver. It would be a let down if Red John was a character that appeared in a grand total of two episodes or so.

Which leaves Brett Stiles and Gale Bertram. I think either of them are viable suspects, but I'm leaning towards Gale Bertram.

My theory makes an unfounded assumption that Jane wasn't hypnotized in the hospital, but rather well before that, but it's all I have so I thought I'd post it.