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Roy Tagliaferro is Patrick Jane!

Rosalind Harker is not blind!

Here is why:


1.) There is the timing in the scence
where Dumar is killed. It takes only 4-5 seconds from the time Dumar
rises until he dies. A couple seconds before we see Jane standing on
the veranda. The pumpgun he uses is Dumars that has been carried out
by a forensic tecnician to the van. From where Jane is standing it's a good
15 to 20 feet to the van. I doubt he could have made that shot
without knowing in advance what was going to happen.

2.) The piano scene

It is
a short scene around 26-27 min in. It's easy to miss, really deceptive in and very important on top of it.
 I have
seen that scene maybe 5 times and still missed the two most important aspects about it
until just now.


It starts off with the music playing showing the house in the
evening just after sunset with a light on in the living room:
 
http://i62.tinypic.com/2gt28uh.jpg

The
camera moves in to show Rosalind playing the piano. Behind her is the
armchair where the elephant sat before. Now it is empty except for
the cardigan she wore that day.

The light remains warm and yellowish as
the camera zooms in to show her play.

http://i59.tinypic.com/2n9cqqv.jpg


The camera cuts to a different
angle. The light has changed from warm yellow articial light to a pale blue
tone of light like natural light. The position of the piano moved. The the piano was facing the wall behind her before and is
now positioned diagonally, also it is further away from the wall. Patrick Jane now sits in the armchair with a teacup in his hand listening with a
sad and thoughtful expression.

http://i58.tinypic.com/6ib7yb.jpg

So why is this scene so important? What do we learn?

Rosalind is not blind.

There is light in the living room. Why would a blind woman turn on the lights in the evening?

She wouldn't!

Rosalind does therefore she is not blind. There are more circumstantial hints as well. You can see spots on the wall where paintings were removed.

http://i58.tinypic.com/10pr2ut.jpg

Most of the time she stairs strait ahead, but during her talk with Jane and Lisbon she breaks character and turns her eyes to face Jane and Lisbon. 

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She even has the line: "I'm blind, but I'm not blind."

Second thing we learn: It's a flashback!
The only reasonable explanation for all the changes mentioned above is a flashback. As she plays the melody she remembers her time with Roy. That's the reason why we see Jane sitting in the same armchair the elephant (a symbol of memory) was in before.

3.) The
third major element for Roy being Jane is the piano music. It is the Prelude in C major
(BWV 846) from Bachs well tempered piano. The well tempered piano
consists entirely of Preludes and corresponding fugues. There are
actually two Preludes and Fugues in C major (BWV 846+870).

In the talk with Jane and Lisbon Rosalind
mentions that Roy admired Bach for his vigor.


The first time we get
to hear that melody is the piano scene, mentioned above.

The second timeit is played is after Dumar says: "Red John shhh" dies and
the camera starts to zoom out. It is played in the background until closing
credits of the episode.

It is played again in Season 2 as a CD recording in the room Hicks was found.

4.) Oranges
The forth element is the orange.
When Jane and Lisbon question Rosalind there are oranges on the table
one there are even some peeled slices right in front of Rosalind. In the very
last scene we see Jane walking to an orange tree, plucking one,
smelling on it and the proceeding to open it, all that while the prelude in c major slowly coming to an end.

If you look closely at
Patricks face you can see him reminiscing in that first piano scene
as well as the last. When Rosalind is talking about Thanksgiving his
facial expression screams "i am trying very hard to remember the
event you talk about".



There is a very odd shot at the end of the episode that seems very symbolic:

Jane very far away from the victims family, Lisbon inbetween and behind him a Highway Patrol Officer in his car as backup.

http://i61.tinypic.com/2lwraz7.jpg

It was Highway Patrol Officers who were transporting Rebecca Anderson when she got killed.

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Why did Abbot question Lisbon about janes whereabouts if he already had agent fisher watching him?
Fisher keeps saying that she was hired to watch patrick but never says by the fbi.
Abbot also says he was ready to search the whole island for jane but didnt have to cuz jane came to him.
If fisher had his exact location why would he have to do this ?
She is an odd character . It seemed like jane taking off his wedding ring for their date really struck strong with fishers emotions. She made great tea too and was reading a book about the lies of history created by the ruling class.
Would you be suprised if she was red johns daughter or a follower ?

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Something interesting that I thought of that *maybe* hasn't been mentioned yet or maybe it's been "overlooked" :

Remember when Madelaine Hightower rescued Patrick Jane from Bob Kirklan from his brother's barn and told Patrick to only contact her after he's killed Red John to let her know that he's dead so she can come out of hiding?

Why hasn't he contacted her yet? Been well over two years...

Something to think about... ? Or just another "clue" that will never be answered amongst the other ones?

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The craziest f***ing thing I've come across so far.

Last night i
discovered something really stunning. I guess everybody has seen the
scene where the 3 dotted tatto is discovered at least once, some
including myself even multiple times. Jane does a lot of talking and gun
pointing. Shortly before the tattoos are revealed Jane as he said the
following:

"Kira Tinsley told me something before she passed. She
told me that her killer--Red John--has a tattoo. Three dots on his left
arm."

While Jane says all this we see his face and we can follow his lips as he says those lines.

After that there is a short sentence added: "On his shoulder"
The camera focuses on Bertram and Smith while these words are said.

Here comes the crazy part:

It is not Simon Bakers voice that says these words!

From what I heard it isn't the voice of any of five suspect sitting there either.

I
kind of suspect it's bruno hellers voice, but i am not sure. He usually
has a strong British accent, on the other hand he could have worked on
that so it doesn't give him away.

If you want to watch the scene
here is a youtube clip of it. The part i am talking about starts at 2:15
and the phrase in question is said arround 2:24-2:25.

sorry forgot the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LihOPlJQq7w

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The craziest f***ing thing I've come across so far.

Last night i discovered something really stunning. I guess everybody has seen the scene where the 3 dotted tatto is discovered at least once, some including myself even multiple times. Jane does a lot of talking and gun pointing. Shortly before the tattoos are revealed Jane as he said the following:

"Kira Tinsley told me something before she passed. She told me that her killer--Red John--has a tattoo. Three dots on his left arm."

While Jane says all this we see his face and we can follow his lips as he says those lines.

After that there is a short sentence added: "On his shoulder"
The camera focuses on Bertram and Smith while these words are said.

Here comes the crazy part:

It is not Simon Bakers voice that says these words!

From what I heard it isn't the voice of any of five suspect sitting there either.

I kind of suspect it's bruno hellers voice, but i am not sure. He usually has a strong British accent, on the other hand he could have worked on that so it doesn't give him away.

If you want to watch the scene here is a youtube clip of it. The part i am talking about starts at 2:15 and the phrase in question is said arround 2:24-2:25.

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I suspect Jane to have planted the bomb himself.

There has been much discussion about how the bomb made it into Janes house. In absence of any better way to make sense of it many have concluded, that the sheriff must have brought it in under his hat.

On the plus side hat offers a certain amount of space to hide things in, on the other that space is quite limited, especially if we choose to believe the statement about the additional concussion bomb.

The sheriff has been seen wearing that hat almost without exception, so other than the possible hiding space there is nothing suspicious about it.

Now I have discovered something I consider a better possibility for a hiding place.

There is an object hidden behind Haffner on the couch under the blanket. It is an object that wasn't there when Jane arrived at the house. It seems highly unlikely a suspect could get inside undetected with an object of that size.

This is what the sofa looked like when Jane arrived:

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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10mo58k&s=5#.Ut5oQLQ1i70

and this is what it looks like behind Haffner:

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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2m7ezdg&s=5#.Ut5owbQ1i70


There is a certain possibility Stiles was somehow involved in Janes plan. He arrives as the first of the suspects and since we don't see each individual text Jane sent out it is entirely possible that he was told to be there at an earlier time than the others. 

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Not a theory just a partial observation. I think the coded message is fake through and through.

The reason for my suspicion is the following. Cho, Rigbsy and Van Pelt were searching the wrong room!

When we see Bertram walking to his storage space we see that they are numbered. He is walking to what must be space number 14. We can also see that storage space 12 is opposite space number 20. It follows that 13 is either opposite 19 or 21 and 14 opposite 18 or 22.

When the three are searching we can see that the opposite storage has the number 21. Therefore the 3 are finding the coded message in store 13 not in 14 that Bertram used before.

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