RED JOHN EPILOGUE: (I really hope this gets filmed and happens on the show!!!!) Please vote "Plausible" if you agree!
This would be the ultimate awesome: In a few episodes from now, Jane's just minding his own business. Maybe he's finally decided to start dating Lisbon, or whatever. He sees (out of the corner of his eye) someone who looks a lot like Partridge, in some random resort town or something, while on vacation with Lisbon.
He vary cautiously, but casually confronts him, Jane doesn't want Partridge to be able to see him until he is close. Partridge now has bleached blond hair and a deep (but realistic) tan, maybe an accent of some kind (Spanish, French, surfer Californian? I don't know), but it is definitely him, and he plays dumb of course. He pretends to not recognize Jane, except for a twinkle in his eye (much like Timothy Carter did).
Conversation ensues, etc. Partridge admits that he's Partridge, but only admits that he is under some sort of "Witness Protection Program" in exchange for his participation with the FBI in ratting out as much as he knows about the Blake Association (as a former member). Before he leaves, Jane asks him how he thinks McAllister pulled off being Red John for all of those years. Partridge just can't resist and tells Jane his "theory" which explains everything (all clues connected) -- which only Red John would know, but which doesn't actually implicate himself, because it is just a "hypothetical," much like OJ Simpson's book, If I Did It. But, anyway, "Brett" explains that he is bored now with chasing (read: being) RJ now and just wants to be a surfer/ESL teacher/whatever now, under the radar. PJ has not recourse to kill, shoot, or arrest Partridge. He has no weapon and he has already cried wolf twice, with two different "RJ"s. No one would belief him, he would become the stupid, psycho, serial killer of suspected serial killers, claiming them all to be Red John -- how would that look? Jane's hands are tied and he is in a stale mate.
"Partridge" is able to leave and get away, bathed in anonymity, likely going to change his hair color or face again. Before he leaves, still acting gregarious like he and Jane are old friends (except he seems much smarter this time) he yells back that maybe Jane's search for Red John brought something good after all -- he got to meet Lisbon, fall in love and have (adopted?) their young daughter (who we now see playing with Lisbon in the background).
Jane realizes that RJ/Partridge is much smarter than he and says out loud (soliloquy for the camera) that the real RJ provoked Jane to murder two "innocent" men; PJ realizes that HE has become a serial killer at the beckoning of RJ, who gets away scott free.
A few days/a week/a month later, Jane receives a registered letter in the mail. It is from Visualize -- a posthumous note from the desk of Bret Stiles. (It was written in his will to have this delivered to PJ 6 weeks (or however long) after his funeral. In it, he apologizes for never coming clean all of these years, cowardly trying to protect his empire from defamation, thereby protecting, harboring, and even supplying RJ with all of the resources/followers he needed, while Bret was under duress of blackmail form RJ (who was his son, nephew, foster child, whatever). This explains why he loved/harbored RJ, "Brett Partridge" (not his real name -- chose it in honor of Bret Stiles and his love of William Blake: an homage to "A Brace of Partridges"), but, over the years Bret Stiles also grew to see Patrick as a worthy adversary and, daresay, even to love him like a son. And so he wrote this note to let him know that.
But it's too late, RJ has gotten away into a sea of anonymity, never to be heard of/from again.
