Not a theory, but after watching a few older episodes, and specifically "redshirt," I've decided I'm going to be completely disappointed sunday if RJ someone on the list of 7.


In redshirt jane solves a case using at least 3 clever schemes and discovers that Doc's wife still loves him. This happens in 48 hours. If Jane kills RJ and it is someone on the list it will be bc RJ made two HUGE mistakes after making like 2 small ones in 25 years. Firet RJ shares the bit about shaking hands, then he doesn't kill the private Investigator and she sees his 3 tattoos.there is nothing clever about it. No twist. No great wcheme to teick the bad guy ibto making a miatake, just oure dumb luck. Just thinking abiut it upsets me.

I like these theories because they don't refer to "who is Red John?"

They explain all the loose ends from the show

Theory 11340:  http://www.whoisredjohn.com/See-a-theory-Red-John/11340

- Why Patrick never went to Rosalynd Harker
- Why Patrick made a list and why these people really made it on the list
- How Red John got the list
- What was the meaning of Patrick saying Red John killed the PI? How does it fit into his plan?

Theory 12782: http://www.whoisredjohn.com/See-a-theory-Red-John/12782

- Who are Reede Smith, McAllister and Bertram?
- What happens in Patrick's house?
- What the hell is happening in Great Red Dragon?

Everything has been going to Patrick's plan. The Mentalist has this game won.

Could Bertram and McAllister be brothers?

Check out the photo in the comments. They look quite similar!

Ok, this is more a few questions to discuss rather than a theory.

In Jane's flashbacks I noticed a few interesting things.

Check out the photo's in the comment section.

Firstly you'll notice that Haffner changes places on the couch when PJ walks the three Tyger Tyger people over to the wall.

Why would he do this? Maybe he knew where the explosion would be and knew he would be protected from the blast in that spot?

Secondly, McAllister appears to be holding something in his hand. A trigger perhaps?

What do you guys think?

This isn't much of a theory just stuff I was thinking about...

Don't you find curious that Stiles was shown pouring blood over some girls and then "drawing" on their faces? That has to mean something, otherwise it would be pointless to even show it. 
I do believe that most of those who were in PJ's house are not dead. We never really see anyone die and there's much more to be explored, whether it's who placed the bomb and why Stiles (was it him that shouted?) yelled something before the blast. 

I don't know if you guys have read or at least know Agatha Christie's book "And Then There Were None". The whole plot is pretty much 10 people stranded on an island and "judged" by an unknown voice, assumed to be the house's owner. The thing is, they all die and we don't get an answer until the very end. (So sorry if I ruined the book, but it's necessary) Turns out that the killer is one of the characters that died in the middle of the plot. He carefully prepared everything to go out as he wanted, leading the police to think it was an impossible scenario. 
Partridge "dies" right at the beginning of the season, giving out an important clue. I wouldn't be impressed to see him cheat death, knowing exactly how to "act" as a corpse. We all know Red John has contacts, which would explain why his autopsy is written. The dead body we saw recently might not even be his.

I also think Red John might be an old member of Visualize, meaning that Stiles (is..) or knows exactly who it is. He claims he has more reasons than the FBI waiting for him to miss the meeting with Jane. Maybe he knew exactly what he was going into. 

After reading a ton of theories, I think my picks (for now) are McAllister and Partridge. I don't see Bertram or Reede as Red John, even though they are definitely involved with him. 

P.S: Isn't it just really messed up that Ron shows up in almost every episode in the background or saying something? He may not be in Jane's list, but you gotta admit it's weird and it can't be just because!

I'm sure of one thing. It would be really stupid to show Red John already in a promo.
I think that the scenes in the promo are just some seconds of chasing  someone else who works for him.
I mean come on The Mentalist is made in a film world where they make film. The most simple thing to know is that a film is build on  24 frames per second. I mean Bruno Heller should have known that people will pause every frame to see who 'Red John' is. Even the tabloids..
And until now he never showed the most important suspect in a promo, so why will he show RED JOHN now of all the suspects? And the stuntman of Thomas McAllister admits he is in the show just like that? There is more behind this. 
It is like Bruno Heller wants that the viewers will all focus on the man who jumps through the window.

PS:
Robin Tunney(Teresa Lisbon) they had a 7 year contract, so we can expect a season 7.

Cheers.

This is my theory on how things happened in Jane's house:
1. First we heard a gunshot: The only one that had access to a gun was Patrick; Besides, if somebody had in fact a gun the only possible target would have been Patrick Jane, and none of them would have failed that shot (as they are all police), so, who Jane shot? and more importantly why?. 

Haffner tried to make a move, Patrick sees him and somebody yells "wait! no", well that's Stiles trying to stop patrick to shoot him, Patrick shoots and Stiles takes the shot for Haffner. So, now we have a dead guy, 3 suspects, and Haffner who is now furious; at the end of the day Stiles is his leader and mentor. Jane finds out in a situation where he lost control; he won't be able to figure out who RJ is, but luckily he has a plan B, he hided a bomb in his house, so he detonated it. And the rest is history.

Talking a little bit about the bomb, there is no reason why RJ would have to detonate a bomb, let me explain: if Haffner (or Stiles) is RJ he is not gonna be interrogated, and if he is any of the others three Patrick will not be able to figure out which one.

Moreover, both Bob and Brett are dead, there is no reason too put such a creppy weirdo as a charismatic mastermind, and Bob was declared dead by tyger tyger.