Who is Red John?

Theory #1965 • by TheGreatJoker

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Well this first one is more of a joke than a serious theory but I thought it might be fun to point out. The whole Lisbon's boss position kind of remind me of the Defense against the Dark Arts teaching position at Hogwarts in Harry Potter series. If you remember, since Dumbledore denied Voldemort the job, no one could hold on to that position more than a year. Now I noticed that each person in that position has somehow left:
1. Virgil Minelli resigned/quit
2. Hightower was suspended/chased out
3. Laroche went back to PSU
4. Wainwright was murdered
5. And I can't remember who holds that position right now (embarrassingly!)

Wouldn't it be funny that RJ was after the job but was denied? :-)

I kid of course!

On a more serious note, two things still bothers me about RJ:
1. I am not convinced how Tim Carter knew to be in the mall if Bertram is not a friend of RJ. Some say Van Pelt told O'Laughlin but all she told him was he was a suspect and asked him to go with her to Hightower. The mall thing, I am not sure who exactly knew about. But if it was only the team, then Bertram is linked to RJ considering the phone call he made and of course the Blake poem thingy.

2. All the built-up the show has produced about how intelligent RJ is so that only PJ is smart enough to catch him and how PJ and RJ have similar manners direct us to believe RJ is as smart if not smarter than as PJ. And the only person we saw in the show as smart as PJ is... no one but PJ. Well, maybe Stiles but he doesn't fit the physical attributes and we know RJ was a member of Visualize in the farm so he is younger than Stiles. So the choices are: either one of the characters who is the real RJ is playing dumb now to throw us off track or PJ is RJ. I would appreciate a Fight Club scenario and considering that RJ serial killing has stopped after PJ's family, it might seem plausible. Also, maybe RJ has a decoy at any given time hence changes in the voice of the masked man reciting Tyger poem compared to the limo voice. So the masked man could be Tim Carter and then some other decoy might have fooled Lorelei, and the voice in limo is obviously a tone change of PJ (or maybe this was a game Heller played to throw the geeks with good hearing off track!). So given above facts, we can justify PJ being RJ. And I love that ending. BUT I have a feeling that will not be the case. If the case is someone playing dumb, well I really would have loved it if Wainwright was the one and he faked his death. He was charming and smart enough to satisfy me of being RJ (and it'd go full circle with my first Voldemort theory). Maybe he was too young but I like him for it not someone like Kirkland, Bertram, or even Mashburn. I'd rather Stiles and even Frye over them since they have a bit of charisma at least. And that is what PJ has mostly, charm and charisma. So RJ should be like that as well to be interesting, not "a sad lonely man"!

I'm gonna stop blabbering now!

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