Bruno Heller is an experienced creator and writer. The final confrontation will not be a parlor trick. Jane will pit his mental abilities against RJ's mental abilities. He will cause Red John to reveal himself and we will be amazed.
Or Heller needs to find a new job.
I just thought of something. RJ gave Patrick the list so he obviously knows that Patrick is watching him. So when Jane is investigating him, he is behaving differently. Like when Jane went to Napa to be close to McAllister. Do you think he show his phobia or give jane any clues? He is manipulator like Jane. He will act differently. Maybe he let the recorder in Sophie's drawer and the phobia is just a red herring.
I trusted the list but now as we are approaching the long -awaited episode i feel he is not and Jane knows it too but he is just playing along to trick Red John. He knows his identity already but he is just investigating to reveal all his associates. This time Jane is ahead of RJ.
I believed Jane still wants to kill him so he will probably sent the team on his second best suspect and he will go and see RJ alone. I cant wait to see JANE and RJ face to face maybe in his attic.
I have presented a kinda non-theory here http://www.whoisredjohn.com/See-a-theory-Red-John/6920 to make it easier to dismiss Haffner, but the thing that bothers me is that Heller said RJ is someone who was there from the beginning. Now...he couldn't have known from the beginning that the show would last 4-5-6 seasons, so he HAD to have someone lined up to close with, just in case the show would last say 1 or 2 seasons. So I guess that would leave only McAllister or Partrige right?
Guys, I feel like Jane is playing a long con to get Red John. He has revealed all his tricks. Whether the list or phobia or is true Jane knows a lot more. Usually he never tells his teams what he is doing until the last minute. I feel he is doing the same thing with Red John. He has to ahead of RJ this time to catch him. This is just my opinion.
Is Patrick Jane looking at Red John here in the pilot episode?
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Guys, this season has something that bothers me. In
previous seasons RJ was presented as a brilliant mind, as good, or
even better, than the PJ, with many connections, disciples, very persuasive and a lot of power power. This guy played with PJ when wanted sor several years, he is arrogant and a very powerful man. None of the suspects seem to fit in this profile, unless Brett Stiles but I think he is too much obvious.
This
season we are seeing a different RJ, more fragile than
previously presented, to the point of hiring a cheap detective to put in
trasmissor in CBI office, totally contradicting his image of very well
connected man, full of resources and powerfull (and this kills the
theories that Bertram, Hafner or Smith can be RJ since they had free
access to the office in previous episodes, Bertram work there and Hafner
could do it easly in this epiosed since he was working with CBI).
Also
the phobia stuff sounds a lot off to me, I do not know why. I will be
very disappointed if RJ is one of the suspects because none of them fit
the profile presented in previous seasons. My opinion is that the
suspects are part of a secret organization that hunts RJ, and not that
he is their leader. I believe we will have a big surprise at the end and
that RJ is someone off the list and no one we expect to be.
The Mentalist Season 6 Episode 6 : "Preview"
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