I am Red John, I am clever, I will show you clever by killing again often.
So If I am McAllister I just :

killed brett partridge.
made a joke while I shot a man in a rooftop.
barely killed a woman.

Yeah of course, you are the man Red John !! You are the greatest sucker of the universe.

So u was watching "the red barn" and at the end jane says he has 2164 people he's shaken hand with since his wife and daughter were killed 807 are women which he excluded and 949 were men that he had brief encounters with and never saw or heard from again so that leaves 408 names now jane only met mccalister once ? Wouldn't he have been excluded from his lost? Along with the other 948 people so why would Jane just suddenly think it's mccalister after he had already excluded him, I don't think Bruno planned any of this but sadly I think we all need to probably accept that the rj reveal was real even if it was stupid.

So, pretty much everybody agrees that RJ revveal episode was a failure.  To me, this whole season was after the first few episodes.)  But you know what, in certain aspects, it was a great comedy, perhaps intended:

RJ cuts off
PJ to boast if his accomplishments and the grandeur.  He built a large
secret society, full of members from all different walks of life, cops
included, all ready to die for him at a moment's notice. 

And then, who is his backup?  An old church lady with a potato peeler!

Now you can now enjoy the show better...

If McAllister had an ear plug in then the concussion bomb wouldn't knock him out - he may have had it in one ear and remember he was expecting the blast.



Cheers

Nothing would please me more than McAllister's not the real
villain. There is however a fact that is very strong evidence for the opposite.
PJ killed again! And to be precise, we should say that he killed two people.

Ok, the audience would gladly tolerate the righteous kill of the beast, that
caused Jane so much suffering and loss. But how many times? Timothy Carter was
murdered for nothing. Yeah, he was evil, he was a criminal and a kidnapper. But
was he Red John? Actually not!

In episode 8 of the last season Jane killed again. This time the real Red John.
Believe it or not, the stupid sheriff is the real one. It's about the silly
voice, it's about the close view of Simon Baker in the very moment of the Red
John's end, when to be fair Baker made another great performance, it's about
the murder of the Red John's associate.

The majority of people have a sense of justice. We all know, that the criminals
deserve to be punished. The writers know that and they can not afford
themselves let the main protagonist kill people just for nothing. Ultimately we
can tolerate the vengeance, but not indiscriminate and unjustified murders.


The whole 8th episode
was not another misdirection, it was just bad written and directed. I just hope
for the rest of the season, that Bruno Heller will give us a strong and
plausible mind twist, that will rock us. A lot. I know he can do it.

At least show us in flashbacks what a sadistic and unscrupulous psychopath
McAllister was.


After all, Patrick Jane got his satisfaction.We just want to get ours!

I thought that the reveal upon the first time that I watched the episode was pretty crummy. But as I look at it later and watch it again, I realized that it was a pretty nice way to end things. When Jane suffocates RJ at the end, I thought that was a bad way to end the first time, but the second time I watched I realized that he had made RJ apologize for his mistakes, but saying im sorry doesnt cut the lives he took.

So Red John had thousands of followers.... if that encrypted list is BA members, there's no way it even listed 1/10 of the members.  Also RJ had followers who were not BA members (outside of law enforcement) such as Lorelei Martins and Todd Johnson.  Its not believable if they caught or killed everyone even in 2 years.  When RJ died, did everything just crumble?  Regardless, they are still RJ followers out there and they would want revenge against Patrick.