I don't mind who RJ is as long as it isn't Reede Smith.

It may be ridiculous, but the sheriff is the only one that tells"hi patrick"

If I were casting a young Xander Berkeley, I'd cast Nick Nordella - the likeness is crazy. But in the promo for Great Red Dragon, Patrick says, "he's one of them.". One of who? Doesn't make sense he wouldn't know if he's narrowed it down to the three.. And what is the bigger lie? Can it really just be the police conspiracy? And what house do they have surrounded? Kinda looks like Napa. Only a few more weeks...who is Red John????

Someone was asking about Nick Nordella, cast as Young Man in Episodes 7 and 8. Here's a link to a twitter post where a fan posted a side-by-side of him and Xander Berkeley. Fans have also made comparisons between him and Reede Diamond. Pretty sure he IS the young RJ.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nicknordella/status/398566644131590144

So the whole bugging the CBI thing bothered me, but now I have a theory.  Remember the scene in episode 2 when Reede Smith asked Jane, "What mistake did he make?"  Jane responds, "I would tell you but I always had a suspicion this room is bugged... wired."  He kind of does a quick hand movement while saying so.  

This might be a stretch, but maybe Jane hypnotized either Red John or one of his accomplices to bug the CBI, which he knew would be kind of sloppy and possibly lure Red John out.

Just a thought.

Just an observation.

If RJ in fact did bug the CBI office, I really don't see how it could be Bertram....he could VERY easily do it himself without any suspicion whatsoever.

Does anyone think it had something to do with Jane's statement about always feeling "this place is bugged, wired"?  Perhaps whoever put the PI up to it was doing it to play with Jane.  And that would mean he had been in that office when he said it.

CONTAINS SPOILERS!

Someone else today mentioned Lisbon's "happy memory" --- "the song about the cake left out in the rain" that made her think of her mother feeding pigeons (lyric: "birds like tender babies in your hands").  I wrote yesterday about the pigeon clues (Episodes 1-3) and coffee clues (4-6).  Some of these happen in a park.

Well......the song Lisbon mentioned is called MacArthur's Park
And here are the lyrics:

"Spring was never waiting for us 'til it ran one step ahead

As we followed in the dance MacArthur's park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again, oh, noI recall the yellow cotton dress foaming like a wave

On the ground beneath your knees

Birds like tender babies in your hands

And the old men playing Chinese checkers by the trees
MacArthur's park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again, oh, no MacArthur's park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left my cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again, oh, no"
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Now, according to the spoilers from TV Guide, PJ is going to kill RJ in a park.  I think there's a connection between her "happy memory" that makes her SMILE and the pigeon clues and park clues we keep being "fed," so to speak.  Not that there's necessarily a story-line connection or some deep meaning, but that we've been fed hints that RJ will be killed in a park. Maybe there's more, but I don't know. 

And yes....I can't help but notice that MacArthur is very similar to McAllister!