@ Stoopkid
I think that Heller gave the mentalist the greatest Scooby Doo ending. I
was really disappointed that Red John could not say "I would have gotten
away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids." Jane then could
have looked at audience and said it the sheriff the whole time. Like,
zoinks, man.

It seems like people wanted a scooby doo ending . One where there was flashbacks showing everything than red johm saying and i almost got away with it ! Corny

I thought the episode was awesome . I didn't like it the first time but now i understand it all. Everything was explained by the discovery of the Blake Association. Thats how red john was one step ahead. But it was NEVER red john that was a step of ahead, it was a whole organization. For all we know timothy carter the og red john could of killed Patrick's wife and daughter. Maybe the sherif did it himself. But what i learned from this episode was this...
Tom macalister was a power hungry control freak. A sadistic man who used women to do his bidding. Sort of like charles manson. He was obsessed with the game as patrick was for 6 seasons . Jane gave up this game because it played right into what red john wanted . Jane didnt care for an explanation about the tricks and magic this serial killer created. Jane realized hes just an obsessed guy who doesnt have many friends. "He craves" the affection and attention . Jane gave him none . He wasn't a serial killer he was a mob boss more so in that he was drunk with power and got offended at janes remarks . He wasn't visualize religious or really had any doctrine except power and control . He was a sheriff for crying out loud!

I loved that jane strangled him. It was wicked and twisted . Also jane made macalisters last thoughts be "regretting killing janes family" and "being afraid to die" . No smiley faces here. Gurgle gurgle lights out .
In conclusion, red john never existed . The image macalister created was a facade. A red herring . A game . He was the leader of a mob called the blake association. He was a sick mentally ill prick too but he WAS NOT DEXTER MORGAN!!!

The writing was great . The birds are dinosaurs line went way over peoples heads. Think about our government and how they act . Wink wink right back at u mr heller ;)

I think that Heller gave the mentalist the greatest Scooby Doo ending. I
was really disappointed that Red John could not say "I would have gotten
away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids." Jane then could
have looked at audience and said it the sheriff the whole time. Like,
zoinks, man.

For all you haters out there , when red john said he created the blake association ; that answered 95 percent of the questions . If you didn't like the episode thats totally fine . But dont say it was badly written and that no answers were given. Thats shit! Your acting like the mentalist isnt a semi cheesy show with cheesy dialogue ! You know its main demographic is old ladies too. Im 28 and i love it , but i am also honest about what it is and was. Jane didnt wanna give rj the satisfaction about explaining how he guessed the list. That was cool. When jane strangled him after making rj feel sorry for everything was wicked and cool. The gurgling was great. It wasnt partridge and you need to understand that. Why wasnt it bp? Becuase bp had an even lesser role on the show than maclister ! Seriously he had like 5 lines and jane ripped him apart every-time. Partridge was cool cuz he sucked and was dumb and jane destroyed him verbally.
THIS is NOT DEXTER!!!!!!

One more thing really bugged me which I was reminded of looking elsewhere at discussion of RJ - THE SECRET CODE/LIST from the flashdrive??? In Bertram's storage locker. With presumably expensive bottles of wine and crates full of cash. The wine and cash seem standard fare for a secret storage locker space, but they never even mentioned the CBI looking into the coded list, and that was our last big standout clue if I recall correctly. Maybe it's just Bertram's off-shore account numbers in hidden format…but this seems drastically secretive for someone who already has a super secret space to hide things. 

Also, Grace would have been the natural person to crack codes given her supposed whiz bang computer hacking skills, but she deferred to Jane in her passing remark - why? 

I have enjoyed this blog for a while now and since we all seem to think it (might) be over here's a few lingering questions  and thoughts which I haven't noticed mentioned yet…some of these could be answered if I just went back and rewatched (I'm lazy, though)

-Did the tombstone for janes wife in the wide shot of the cemetery have her name (incorrectly) as priscilla ruskin jane? i could have sworn i paused it to read the names because I actually forgot what they were, and I think it said Priscilla, but her names supposed to be Angela. Maybe I didn't look closely enough.

-As for Bertram's comments on the phone to Jane regarding a voice, what he said was something like "Do I have to use a funny voice or something?" Yes, it's a red herring, but you all seem to be baited by it too easily. I think there was a natural explanation for the question - he was jokingly asking Jane as to whether he needed to pretend he was someone else calling in to his phone because Bertram knew Jane's line would likely be tapped and didn't want police to nab him before he gets to escape with all his cash (how did he get all of that anyway? secret drug stashes he's selling from the evidence lockers? what?). What he did NOT say was "Do I have to use *THAT* funny voice anymore?" which some of you seem to be remembering the line as. It was more like, "Are we being listened to? Can I speak openly?"

Other miscellany - 
-If RJ is still out there, why do we assume he necessarily has/had the three dots? I don't know if the Blake Association all went en masse with thousands of unknown, widespread members to a single tattoo parlor to get inked up together. He could be a member, know the password (probably created it, if we assume he's the poetic mastermind who loves Romantic English verse), and never need to have the tat. Beyond that, they all seem to identify solely by verbal code "Tyger, Tyger" - I suspect cops might beat each other up if they had to ask one another to take their shirt off each time they wanted to identify themselves as members. 

-I enjoyed reading the theories that RJ is a woman, and when I was thinking about that, I started noticing how 50% of the women on the show are redheads, which is far disproportionate to real world populations and even disproportionate to model/actresses across tv shows. Clearly the red haired beauties tied in easily with all the red themes in the show, but beyond that, I wonder if there's some linguistic play on the names…not exactly sure how to put this - Red John, John as in John Doe, Jane Doe is the female counterpart to that anonymous name non-identifier, Jane is Patrick Jane, but Jane could also be Red Jane (instead of Red John) and the pun could be she's a redhead (hey, they used a redhead for our first, and apparently preferred Red John - Timothy Carter).