Making a case for Bob Kirkland.


Introduction:



Note: Dear mister Jane, I don't like to be slandered
in the media, especially by a dirty money-grubbing fraud. If you were a real
psychic, instead of a dishonest little worm, you wouldn't need to open the door
to see what I've done to your lovely wife and child.


Kirkland: Sorry Mister Jane.


Jane: Do I know you?


Kirkland: No. But I know you.

 


**After Jane is ‘injured’ in the vehicle, once Lorelei runs:**



Kirkland: Agent Kirkland, Homeland
Security. I need rescue south of Orr lake, forest road 42 north 12.


Jane: Who is that guy? (asking
Lisbon)

 



Jane: You don't know. You just guess.
And you didn't tell your new best friend Kirkland either.


Lisbon: I don't have any evidence, if I
did I would put you in cuff myself.


Jane: No you wouldn't.


Lisbon: Try me.

J
Jane: Hahaha...


Lisbon: What's so funny?


Jane: Nothing. Sorry. All of it's
worth it. She told me Red John and I are very much alike. That it's a wonder we
weren't best friends from the moment we shook hands.

Lisbon: You've met Red John?


Jane: Yes. He's someone I know.

 

 



Do we
honestly believe Lorelei made a ‘mistake’ by saying this? I think RJ/Bob had
told her some while back that the time had come for him to start interacting
with Patrick, and that he was going to be stepping out of the shadows (where as
we know, he has in fact been since the day Jane started at the CBI – see ‘Red
Dawn’) and ‘making direct contact’. She had no idea when or where this would
have taken place, and presumed it had already happened.

 

(There
are quite a few ways around this ‘loop hole’ – lots of speculation of course.)

 

 

 



 

1.      The Final Case for Bob Kirkland:


 


Bob was
there from the start. Jane started at the CBI and Bob was pulling the strings. (Red
Dawn – flashback episode) Alexa calls Minnelli asking him to give her feedback
on the RJ case, as well as what Patrick does. Minnelli asks ‘what’s in it for
me’? And she says, ‘its good to have a friend in the FBI’. (For the record: who
else has spoken of having a ‘good friend’ in the FBI....RJ of course) Alexa
then tells Bob Kirkland who is sitting in the limo that it has been done.

 

 



We have him saying ‘your mind is clear’ just before asking
Lennon if he recognizes him. Trigger sentence for some or other hypnotic state.
It was RJ testing as to whether previously altered states of consciousness
(hypnosis) were STILL effective. (In other words, was Lennon still ‘conditioned’
to NOT recognise RJ on hearing a certain trigger word or sentence i.e. ‘your
mind is clear’. The other men he was torturing were ALSO in fact disciples or
connected to him, and possibly also conditioned/hypnotized. (Stiles might have
assisted Bob with his mental powers back in the day)



We have the cabin. Smells of pine and earth.



We have the convenient ‘twin’ which IMHO was the story RJ
(Bob) constructed to give Jane a clue about how he would be escaping ‘whenever’
/ IF ever he was eventually caught.


We have Jane reading ‘A tale of 2 Cities’ in season 5 – a
prisoner swap is part of the storyline.



Bob was present at Lore lei’s ‘presumed to be STAGED’ death
scene, and would have done what is required.



He is the one Bertram called, once the meet was arranged.



He is also the only suspect on the list if 7 who was off the
GPS tracking when Partridge was killed – if I recall correctly?


His voice – check.



Physical description – check.



Power (the senior amongst the rest of the TT’s and suspects)
– most definitely. Homeland security takes precedence to ALL else within the
confines of law enforcement and state departments. It also provides the
broadest capabilities in terms of surveillance, access to information,
specialized equipment and more. Whilst working there – he could actually do
whatever the hell he wanted, from changing people’s social security numbers, to
making people disappear, to creating new people if he so wished. THAT is the
type of capability RJ needed to pull of his reign of terror and control the TT
group.

Logically – Homeland security rule the roost and are given
more powers and legal leeway by the very nature of their work, than any other
department or law enforcement division.



Bob get’s Minelli to step down, because he didn’t feel
Minnelli had enough control over Jane.



His actions in general, throughout his appearances: classic
sociopath – most perfectly exhibited during the murder of Jason Lennon.



So where has his twin Michael been? Probably locked in that
cabin, kept drunk/drugged and semi comatose by Bob until he was needed for
Bob’s ‘great escape’ one day.  (Prisoner
swop)

 


I still believe Jane knew Kirkland was RJ way back,

I also believe Kirkland’s comment to Jane about ‘seeing this
thing through’ or whatever it was he said when arrested; was a challenge to
Jane. 

So why did Bob/RJ abduct Jane?
Simple: he needed to be arrested in order for his ‘disappearance’ plan to work.




Kirkland is the only suspect we have seen sitting in a
limousine. Relevant yes; when that is where Wainwright was ‘posed’ to appear to
be RJ for Jane’s benefit.



Bob drinks a ‘bloody Mary’ as he works on piecing together
Jane’s notice board.


In series 5 episode 18 or 19, after Kirkland had pieced
together Jane’s ‘notice board’ he stands over the completed board which is on
the floor – his shadow over the ‘RJ’ board is symbolic – look at the stills pic
for this shot - scary.



The way he patted Jane on the left shoulder outside Lennon’s
hospital room – same way RJ did when he said, ‘Roll tide’.

What other suspect have we seen torturing people and
committing cold blooded murder without an increase in heart rate, without
pupils dilating, without even blinking. Hell, Bob could have been preparing lunch
for all the ‘emotion’ he showed. That’s true RJ style I reckon.



The finger cutting  -
a RJ trademark isn’t it?



Red Dawn = 100th episode = the major flashback
episode, directed by Chris Long (who directs the most important Red John episodes) and
this is where we see Bob Kirkland: his power, his friends, his influence, his
limousine and his face for the 1st time.

Also interesting that Alexa
ALSO tells Minelli that Jane has been in a psychiatric institution. Any guesses
as to who told her that – correct, Bob Kirkland, the man sitting with her in
the limo. Why on earth would ANYONE other than Red John, at this stage of Jane’s
life (just released from the institution, just starting at the CBI) have been
following all Jane’s movements since the murders?  Only Red John would care about this, and know
this – at this stage.

Patrick didn’t tell anyone about what Kirkland said to him
about a twin. Why? Because Jane knows what Bob is planning in terms of swopping
with his brother and Jane wants to kill RJ – without anyone knowing. ‘Red John
is mine’. He doesn’t want arrests and court cases – the aim is to kill a man who is either sitting in jail, or is already 'dead'.



Red John/Bob is cleaning up, because since season 5, when he makes 'face to face contact' with Jane for the 1st time, he has
been planning his ‘escape’ – by murdering all who know him and worked intimately
with him and then finally disappearing (because technically – he is already dead/in jail). As
Timothy Carter said, ‘RJ wants to retire’.



Bob set up the PI, knowing what Jane would do (but Jane also
knew what Bob was doing) – gather suspects together. Jane KNEW that RJ would
act when they got together in one room – he knew Kirkland would appear, but he
didn’t count on the bomb.


I’m still hoping for a Bob and Jane scene, in the park. Jane
kills him, buries the body and no-one is the wiser because Bob’s already dead.

Then Red John TRULY is his (Jane’s)



I’m on team Kirkland. Kevin Corrigan would scare the bone
marrow out of me as Red John. (I think Reed Diamond would be pretty damn scary
as well, when he pulls off that cold look – but just a little too ‘main stream ’
to really freak me out in the way Corrigan would) 



 ***I know Partridge is the most popular, but as we now know
RJ is pretty much the string puller and power broker within TT – logic says it
would have to be someone with some SERIOUS punch within the fields of law
enforcement and government.  No genuine
sociopath is going to be happy stuck in a forensics job (even if in
hiding/undercover, as it goes against their natural drives)-no power, no
massaging of the ego, no minions to walk all over, too many rules and
regulations to follow, no real freedom to act as a sociopath would. No, the
TRUE sociopath wants to make his own rules, flaunt the power he has, abuse all
that is rigid, and report to no-one. Homeland Security offers all that – and more***