"I'm surprised the two of you didn't become lifelong friends the moment you shook hands." That sentence alone is enough of a reason for me to believe that Brett Partridge is NOT Red John. If Bruno Heller has other plans to make this unlikable, pithy, geeky wanker of a character into a sudden god-like swarthy, charismatic lothario that women swallow cyanide over... I will ban the show. Patrick Jane is a smart man. He knows who his equals are. If he EVER thought that Brett Partridge was of equal caliber believe me... this would not have lasted six years... I would rather see Lisbon turn on him than have Partridge as Red John. And I love Lisbon...