Does anyone else think that Gale Bertrum might be eliminated as a suspect after last week's episode?  When Reede Smith told him it was his job to know about Jane's knowledge of Red John, he was pretty stern.  Would someone really talk to Red John like that?  I get the feeling that people don't speak to Red John in that manner.

Just a hunch

Could RJ's phobia be of the water?  Perhaps he never learned how to swim.  

There has been repeated water symbolism, boats, and MAR means The Sea, among other things.

Also, something makes me think of how Lorelei Martins wanted to go to the ocean -- because maybe it was a safe place where RJ wouldn't go.  RJ seems to spend his time in remote country places, farms, old and abandoned houses and barns, fields and parks.

First of all I'm not sure who red john is .I had great theories but now...

Jane's narrow down the list of seven Red John suspects
I still can't understand how jane could possibly know where everyone could be in the time of RJ's murders.( he knew where mashburn or others were ? )

Fake list . 
I read somewhere that Jane reveals that a list of fake Red John suspects he planted was stolen, and the team realizes these men are in danger, so 7 suspects are fake or what?

whistling :
Like last season's handshake. Now suddenly people in show start whistling.

show's Orientation :
In this season they trying to make bertram and haffner look like the main suspects . bertram's dialog in first episode and haffner in second !

Bad feeling :
honestly I am feeling stupid for spend so many hours to watch and analyzing clues .

I Just hope they have a strong explanation about everything .

Thanks for you time and sorry for my bad english 

Just a few thoughts on the last scene of the show so far, that is the last scene of episode 6x02. We have the late Sophie Miller talking about her observations of her session with who we beleave to be RJ. She says that she beleaves what he told her about his fear of heights was not true. She thought that he had other phobias that he didn't talk about. Now we know from Jane that Dr. Miller realy cared for her patients, and wanted to help them. So here she starts her observation upon two things as a bases. 1) That man needed help and 2) He didn't tell her the true about his phobias because of his many isseus. Well we know that RJ didn't go to Sophie for help or to discuse with her any isseus he might had, or because he needed her help with them.
So I think that any observation she might had on his character are doomed to be wrong, because she misses the main trait of this man. That he is a very evil murderer. We can't trust anything she got out of RJ's act. Simple.

What we can trust is what she says he looks like and what the director shows to us while we hear her recording. Here is what I think we are shown at the end, a dominant trait of each of our remaining suspects:

- Bertram, the charming politisian. The peoples man. Although he leads CBI he is only one that knows how to talk, not realy one that does anything usefull.
- Haffner. The vaine charmer. We have seen that he is less than what he lets people think with his looks.
- McAllister. Look how he walks. He realy thinks he's a womanizer. Remember him hitting on Van Pelt. He realy thought he had a chance with her.
- Stiles. The charismatic leader. He only can think of him leading and the others following behind.
- Smith. The intimitating brute. The violent one.
- Kirkland. The methodical and very much in control. The productive one. He says little but does much.
- Now Partridge is dead, but we could give him the trait of not being serious. Of being playfull. The joker.

Also we hear Sophie speaking some of these traits about the man that went to see her.

Well the man that Sophie is talking about appears to have many of the traits of above!
It looks like RJ is all of them together.
He is many!

I've decided, that it's finally time to get the truth out, to not be the only one suffering.

The Mentalist is my favorite ongoing tv show no doubt, but sadly I can't watch it and enjoy it as I could 2 years ago when I started watching it. I'm not saying that the show was better 2 years ago because it wasn't. I'm saying this because I've watched too many interviews with the cast and behind the scenes clip that I can't even watch the show as if it's real, because now it all just reminds me of that the show is just fiction, there are cameras in front of the actors and the actors do pickup lines, nothing is real. Nothing is ever getting exiciting for me anymore, even though I know that some scenes are supposed to be exiciting, but I still get reminded of that all they do is just pickup lines in front of cameras and nothing else. I watch like 13 tv shows and I can't enjoy any of them thinking of this, and I can't control it in any way. When lisbon was knocked out by Red John she wasn't unconscious, she was conscious, because they are acting. She was aware of the stuntman pretending to be RJ was painting the RJ mark on her face. When RJ called Jane moments after I clearly hear Simon bakers voice. Same thing in s06e02 at the recap, but more clearly. I could go on. I want to watch tv shows like I could 5 years ago, and knowing that this never is going to happen again hurts badly because for 7 years I've lived for tv shows. And now it has been taken away from me, for life. I miss the exiciting feeling to watch a exiciting scene, the goosbumps you get after something messed up happens. I remember watching the movie se7en a little more than 2 years ago and after the ending I was so shocked, best movie I've ever seen, and I'm glad I watched when I could.

As I mentioned, The Mentalist is my favorite tv show and I will never be able to watch these last episodes in peace. Eventually this sickness will haunt you also, just when you least expect it.

Hello,

I think there is more to it than meets the eye.........

The fact that RJ was watching Jane on TV tells me that he must either be a fan, or a friend, or a competitor (from carnie days), or even a family member......how else would he know that someone by the name of Patrick Jane appeared on TV and mentioned RJs name? he follows Jane's moves very closely....obviously

AND.....it is NOT easy to convince head honchos from CBI (Bertram), FBI (Smith), Local Police Dept.(Mccallister), and DHS (Kirkland) to be his follower/disciple.......there is definitely something more to it......what is their incentive to keep RJ's identity under covers?

If someone is "controlling" these guys on BEHALF of RJ.....other than the president of US or the CIA, I don't see how head of DHS can be controlled.....unless there is an incentive offered.....if that is the case, then what is that incentive?

Personally I don't think they (Bertram, etc) are part of RJ's team, instead they are out to get RJ before jane does.....

Oh yes!!!! Bruno has lied to us :) AND played with our minds :)

I have been watching the mentalist from day one I have taken psychology for 8 years no I am not a mentalist just giving my opinion the reason why rj in my theory did not kill lisbon is not for love but for love of the hunt rj over the past years have enjoyed the mouse hunt with the cbi patrick, lisbon, rigsby, cho what better way then to really play with than showing you see patrick I can save you tied from a chair lisbon I can paint blood on you the as far as the list it is a trap by pj what better way than to weed out a serial killer by putting bulls eye targets on 7 suspected people its a hunt for rj remember in the video with lorelei I am going to start killing again and often till you catch me or I catch you my theory on that is after your supposed list of 7 I am coming after you rj knows patrick is getting close and rj is getting tired of the chase yes rj sees pj as a comrade a friend just like lisbon and if you notice every women pj has loved or liked rj has either killed kidnapped or played a game lisbon the painted face its obvious pj loves lisbon, kristina frye rj kidnapped her, lorelie ended working for rj so my theory is yes the list is fake bruno heller is doing such a good job at playing mind games the whistling rosalind harker description which is also fake, and if you see they are focusing on that list of 7 to much were everyone is fixated on the 7 and no other possibilities as far a partridge is concerned I believe he is alive no body no funeral no nothing rj I believe has a regular job is not very powerful but is very munipulative the red dragon theory could be right but what makes me wounder of its inaccuracy is the fact red john makes no mistakes 7 people would be very difficult to keep control of as far as killings covering it up its one person with many followers rj kills the people that have seen him if there is 7 wouldnt that mean everyone has to die and only one survives and if you go back to previous episodes the voice of rj sounds the same. One last thing pj knows who red john is since season 5 last episode that is why the list is fake I believe episode 4 season 6 is red listed thats slang for dead or I am going to kill you as for who I think rj is bruno heller has been such a good con man lol like lying about rj is one of the 7 and partridge is dead if you put your heart and soul into something are you really going to tell the truth or make obvious things like kirkland , haffner and sheriff whistling no and as far as the we are going to be dissapointed when rj is revealed of course were not its another mind game once we know everyone is going to jump on here and say I told you it was not the 7 but someone more breathtaking and exciting the only thing I hope heller does is not let pj kill him but ask questions on whg did you do that and when we were here and you were there thats what I am hoping for.