I loved this episode! It rocked. Yes I was wrong. My hats off to those that picked McCallister a below 1000 theories..really..Bravo! The key to that was the Vanpelt scene in season 1. Awesome job Heller!  All the others who picked the Sheriff..good job and a tip of my hat to you!
  
  That being said...I think the woman who tried to kill Patrick will be the new big bad and the visualize connection will get explained later. 

I know just about everyone was let down, but I absolutely loved it.  I am also extremely happy that it was not BP..I did not like that character one bit. 

Here comes the hate...but that leaked episode matches all the clues for this episode(ie the pre-reviews, the TV guide article, and the previews..so it appears to be genuine..)

So..now it is not Who Is Red John.. It is who is the woman who tried to kill Jane?

The Mentalist 6x8 - Red John - Sheriff Thomas McAllister.

http://youtu.be/EsnqP1PummY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsnqP1PummY&feature=youtu.be

I vow never to watch anything That Heller does ever again. I can't after that. 

They should have treated the episode as a funeral. They should have alotted the time for going back and revisiting everything, the farm, Patricks family, maybe some stuff we hadn't seen before. RJ watching Jane on the news for the first time. It should have been a tribute to Red JOHN. Again he was the backbone of the show. it's makes no sense that it was all wasted. They obviously thought that Red John was not important enough to spend the time on.

 His Story should have been told. There should have been great imaginary, we have seen it before right. The pilot, Patrick standing outside the barn and the light showing the smiley. Well the same thing should have been done for Red John. They should have paralleled some of that stuff with Patrick Jane. just like Patrick was standing outside the barn they should have shown a flashback to Red John just after painting the smiley. They should have explained the cutting of the women's throats and related it to a back story maybe with his mother or a sister. Why does he seem to have a hatred for women mainly and left the copycat man killer alive?? They should have shown him using his skills, sneaking up on a victim or getting someone to kill themselves. it just takes quick flashbacks and it's about fitting everything tightly together. I am telling you I could have done a better job then Heller did.  

What they could have done was build him up as a god in the flashbacks where he was in his own territory surrounded by his followers. A skilled serial killer, smart and cunning. They could then stripped him of this with Jane having gotten the upper the hand with his phobia and shown that under it all he was just a man with no followers behind him. 

That's just me though. Wasted potential with this whole story.

I don't really understand why you all think that the episode sucks.

Although McAllister wasn't my favorite Red John when this season started, this season has clearly been built to fit McAllister for Red John. I thought this entire season was pretty bad, mainly because it lacks Patrick's brilliance. But this episode itself wasn't bad, and it fits perfectly to the story. I agree that there are still A LOT of questions that must be answered, and I really hope they will be. I also agree that several dialogs were pretty cheesy and "funny", but not enough to prove the episode being fake. You might think that it still lacks Patrick's brilliance, but it doesn't. He knew who Red John was AT LEAST in the previous episode (as I and many others "knew").

A lot of people seems to believe that this release was fake, which is not impossible, although unlikely. 
If we assume that Red John is someone on the list (which most people assumes), this ending is clearly better than either Bertram, Smith, Haffner or Stiles being Red John. So, that leaves the only possibly better ending with Partridge as Red John, which I still might have preferred. But anyways, I'm not upset with this ending either, not yet anyways, because I still think that everything will be explained.

For those of you who still hope that Partridge is more involved than it seems, I'll just say that it's possible that it was him in the last scene of the episode (at least looked that way in the crappy webrip I watched). It's a reach, and it's more likely just a tease, but still.

I can only advice you to watch the episode again, because it's really not THAT bad.

From a badass cold blooded killer to a pussy calling 911 and begging for his life. 

I think this "Pink John" t-shirt is perfect
http://teespring.com/PinkJohn

From a badass cold blooded killer to a pussy calling 911 and begging for his life. 

I think this "Pink John" t-shirt is perfect