Bob Kirkland has many people working for his Homeland Investigation. In episode 8 of season 2, after Minelli's speech, you see Minelli is waiting for someone at the gates of CBI. A person in full black suit steps out of a limo. This is Bob Kirkland, who Minelli has been sending reports to, for years (since Red Dawn).
Minelli retires, and agrees that Gale Bertram should become boss, as he is a spy in Tyger Tyger. Fast forward 3 seasons, and you hear Bob Kirkland on the phone to "Tom". This is McAllister. Bob Kirkland also had a plan with Reede Smith. Smith's phone is tapped and traced, as evident when he is tracked down after handing himself in. When he "meets" with Reede in the park, they both pretend they don't know each other, because they have a trick planned.
Later on, the man with a more obvious beer belly is shot by Smith. This was Michael Kirkland, who had a drinking problem, as stated by Bob to Patrick Jane. The trick switch is done, and Bob is free.
I hope you would agree, the meeting of the 3 suspects of Reede, McAllister and Bertram is to talk about the arrests of BA members. And when Reede Smith says 'It's your job to know,' he is saying Bob Kirkland has tasked them with finding out how close Jane is to capturing Red John.
When Jane invites 3 of Kirkland's spies to the meeting of 5 suspects, Gale Bertram phones Bob Kirkland and informs Bob. Bob Kirkland is the only person with access to a military grade bomb. He can provide surrogates for the blast. Bob Kirkland knew that only since his 3 spies weren't Red John, one of the other people attending were.
After the first concussion bomb, you can see a black car, travelling in the opposite direction to Lisbon. Kirkland has kidnapped Stiles and Haffner. This makes sense as Jane wakes up later than everyone still left in his house.
Then Gale Bertram escapes capture using a SWAT suit in his home and someone called SWAT divisions from different regions. Only Bob Kirkland, a homeland agent could do that. The suit being in Bertram's house shows that Kirkland has planned this out very carefully.
End episode 7.
2 years passes after Episode 7! Not after episode 8. Episode 8 is a very special episode.
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Start episode 8: You cannot trust anything you see in episode 8. This episode is based on Kim Fischer's dream, just before she arrives in Mexico. First you'll want proof:
- the little girl closing the door looks like young Kim Fischer
- Jane is speaking Spanish in the episode, so she is obviously expecting him to speak it as he's been in Mexico for 2 years
- the events you see unfold are based on real FBI case files. Jane is suspected to have murdered Thomas McAllister.
- While the FBI agent personalities are spot on, the CBI team's is not. Grace would never bang her head.would never say "You're even worse than Cho". Their personalities are wrong because Kim doesn't know them.
Before the explosion at Jane's house, there is a gun in Jane's back pocket with Jane's fingerprints. Kirkland could have taken it. He was setting up DNA for some fake murders. He has the devious potential to pull of a masterful trick. In episode 8, we see this gun is placed in McAllister's hand. Noone witnessed any of these so-called murders at the point a person physically died.
I'm saying Bob Kirkland framed Jane for the murder of McAllister. So who is the killer? The very creepy Bob Kirkland. Thomas McAllister died a large distance away from Gale Bertram. It's like Kirkland was killing off loose ends.
Bob Kirkland always said he was willing to kill 7 people to get the job done.
He directly or indirectly killed Ben Marx, Michael Kirkland, the Barman, Gale Bertram, Oscar Cordeiro, Thomas McAllister and Ray Haffner, who Bob thought was the real Red John.
Earlier, I said Bob Kirkland kidnapped Haffner AND Stiles. I bet Stiles was tortured by Kirkland, but he never broke. That is, he never revealed the true identity of Red John. He must have blamed Haffner.
In My Blue Heaven, we see Roger. That is Bret Stiles, driven insane by torture. At some point, Stiles was handed over to Jane. (In the church probably).
At this point, there is no evidence that Red John, Brett Partridge was ever involved in events after Jane's house. He is safe and alive. "Red John" is figuratively dead because there is no way he can gather followers. First of all, he can't gather followers from Visualize as Stiles is away and incapacitated. Kirkland broke the conspiracy by getting the names of all BA members, from Bertram's flashdrive. And "Brett Partridge," doesn't have a job as a forensic scientist anymore.
Eventually, Jane will screw up and go under trial for the murder of Thomas McAllister. And he will be cleared. And Red John will be sat at his new home, watching as the judge says "Cleared of all charges!" Game on.
