Who is Red John?

Theory #4952 • by SwitchItBack1131

Suspect

Gale Bertram

Gale Bertram
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ARGUMENTATION

Look at the promo video of Season 6, on this link :
http://www.melty.fr/the-mentalist-saison-6-mariage-en-vue-et-nouvelle-video-promo-video-a212804.html

Now, stop the video at precisely 00:20 ! You will see Lisbon and Jane standing in the bureau of the CBI, with a smiley on the window and one on the floor, and two corpses : the ones of Grace and Rigsby ! What sentence is written in red ? "Behind the Smiley"
Later in the video (at 00:25), we can hear the voice of Jane saying loudly "LISBON !", and her being surprised. What can you see behind her ? The one smiley on the window that was before in the scene with the two dead bodies !

Now, what can we suppose ?
First : Both Lisbon and Jane discovered the two dead bodies of their team in the night (the flashlight of Lisbon), Grace and Rigsby were dead a few minutes ago.

Secondly and THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE : Red John didn't fear coming to the CBI at night to kill two experimented agents in the same place. That means :
- He knew he wouldn't be suspected if he were found in the CBI before escaping. It IS someone that can regularly move in the CBI ;
- He knew he would be able to kill them both before they could react with their guns. Grace and Rigsby didn't have the time to react when Red John killed the first one of the two. It must be someone they knew from the CBI, not someone like Sheriff McAllister who would be directly suspected if seen in the middle of the night in the office.

OR : Red John managed to hypnotize and kill them with them reacting. We know Grace likes Bret Stiles's speech, can't resist to his words. He could have easily hypnotized her, then kill Rigsby right after that.

Who could be seen in the CBI late in the night without being suspected ? Only Gale Bertram could.

So, I'm left with only two suspects if Bruno Heller wants to make things coherent :
- Gale Betram, being logically there because he's the head of the CBI ;
- Bret Stiles, possibly because he would easily hypnotize them and is the only person we know that can be anywhere with some excuse.

I just put Gale Bertram because I can't choose the two, but I'm still thinking about it. I have looked for tips in the 6x01 end for both of them. Have reaaally interesting things, but can't decide whether it makes sure it is one or the other.

I'll quote one sentence of a pretty clever guy we all know : "I'm getting close, I'm getting really close ..." And you ?

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