My favorite scenario:
Grace van pelt is rjs daughter. Van pelts older sister was the little girl with cancer in janes tent at the carnival.

My hope:
Styles is alive. Lisbon eluded to him being alive with foreshadowing. Macalister started tiger tiger but styles was his teacher . How else could he brainwash kristina frye ? Macalister pulled
Out styles before the bomb.
Van pelt is related to styles. I know this show has made up clues for no reason but they are showing us a weird connection between the two. The show is also making rigsby look suspicious. There is a good reason why many thought he was rj. He has been so out of character lately . Re watch that usb scene with them in bertrams secret storage . Weird dynamic going on. It felt like it went like this :"hey cho your buying into our plan to make bertram look like red john right" . Rigsby wasnt asking van pelt he was staring at cho as he addressed them both

Season 6 episode 13:
Patrick jane returns to work for the fbi after Abbot pleads with him to do so. Abbot discovers another suspect in the tiger tiger scandal that left a few loose ends. This has something to do with the usb drive found.
Patrick learns thru the code that there was a person that macalister did most his business with and had many phone calls too. Jane searches the clues to and tells his team that he has found something. This spurs an interest in van pelt and rigsby as they seemed very worry some about the whole ordeal and are eager to help.
Jane lies and tells the team that a man he met thru the usb info has red john info. Jane than watches this man untill rigsby shows up to kill him
Rigsby tries to think of a reason why hes there and jane calls him red john. This forces rigsby into his true voice and then van pelt comes out with a gun. Pointed at patrick. She craves bad boys . Daddy issues for sure . Jane thinks its his end when cho comes out and shoots van pelt and rigsby both.

I'm really enjoying these 'symmetry' theories about RJ turning Jane into a killer. Maybe they are red john's rules. Kill the guilty or RJ will kill another innocent. Seems like the kind of game that would befit the twisted sense of play given previous interactions.
Maybe the concussion bomb knocked PJ out and he was gathering clues in dreamland. Also, does anyone else find it strange that 2 regulars, well liked are being out out to pasture in a PI business. They must play a far bigger role before exiting, or it's just another 'whimper' ending to more great characters.

Quote:
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Righetti,
who is leaving alongside leading man Owain Yeoman, admits that she’s still
in the dark about how exactly Van Pelt and Rigsby will be written out of the
CBS drama. “It keeps changing,” she explains.
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This really sounds as BH's way to treat the script: not a cue since the very beginning.

Guys we still have most of the season left to answer questions ! The mentalist always has two season finale type big episodes , and sometimes more . We just had the mid season finale and well get another one. Maybe it wont be about the DEAD red john but it could be a cooler story. Lets face it, rj was played out . Heller admitted he didmt know who rj was till recently so there is no explaining anything really ! There is nothing to say becuase all the old clues were just ploys to make is watch the show .

You guys are acting like this show isnt mad corny sometimes . Remember tommy volker and how that ended ? Him trying to kill a kid in broad daylight at a zoo hahah kristina frye coming back a mute ? Lorelie martins whole story line was horrible . We put this show on a pedestal, thats our failt.