Hi,
I am re-watching some important episodes and trying to understand the underlying presumptions that we have and never challenges or didn't find any answers for.
Please help me in reviewing these questions and finding answers to them to find RJ based on the best theories.
1. Why did RJ want to kill Hightower by risking so many of his links? Why so much insistence?!
2. What happened to Kristina Frye? Why is no-one contacting her anymore after being free from RJ?
3. Why did Kirkland kill Jason Lennon?
One Answer) Is it because he thinks he might be RJ? (I don't buy the fact that we are suddenly going to see a new character as his twin! That's too dramatic!)
4. How did RJ guess the list?
5. Why Jane doesn't take the suspects to Rosalynd Harker?
6. Why tell the list to CBI and talk about it everywhere easily when RJ has spies in police?
7. What is the "biggest clue" in 6.1 Bruno Heller was talking about?
8. Relation between Tiger Tiger group and RJ?
9.Why didn't RJ kill TL? Is this the clue?
10. What is RJ's next move after the list is revealed? Why RJ killed Brett partridge first? Why did he say tiger tiger?
11. Why bugging Cho by Amateur PI? Who killed her? Was it RJ or someone else with other intentions bugged and killed her with a different style.
ONE APPROACH FOR THE SOLUTION: Let's put ourselves in PJ's shoes! What would he really do, based on all other episodes we have watched so far in any single case? He would design a trick.
But what is the structure of his tricks?
a) Everything initiates with a smart guess! based on a single clue, which seems unimportant.
b) He should leverage that information which the killer/RJ doesn't know (in most cases even CBI don't know, unless he needs people to work out the plan for him and in these cases TL and Agent Cho are his more trustworthy companions.)
c) He becomes the proactive player of the game, something that police couldn't become, because they are morally and ethically and legally banned to do! Then he makes the killer/RJ become the reactive player. To do something based on incidental action, without thinking about the long-term consequences.
d) He uses deceitful techniques to diverge everyone's attention to somewhere where it is not important from somewhere that the real action is going on.
And...
e) he patiently waits for the killer's move like going to a fishing in a camping trip!
Now! Based on this: Maybe we can answer some of the questions by disecting the RJ case based on this structure:
5) 7) 9)
Maybe Rosalynd Harker (Katrine and Hightower) are the clue/leverages that PJ is using, but he deflects the attention of the team in a way that she is safe and PJ can verify the real killer by her. We know whenever the CBI, FBI and hence RJ pays attention to a witness, he/she is really in danger!
Maybe not killing the TL is one big leverage, or something else that could be found in the last scenes of episode one, something that has made PJ to guess and find RJ has done something wrong and therefore initiate the trick.
6) 10) 11)
Maybe these thing are happening since RJ and the whole CBI team's attention have been deflected in the game that PJ has been designed. Maybe PJ is now in control of the game, by making RJ angry or confused! Maybe PJ has provoked the Red Dragon to come out of his Cave without prior planning for the first time of the show!
8)
The only thing that remains is the role of Tiger Tiger group. To decode this role, one should guess to whom are they closer? Are they closer to RJ or PJ or none of them? How about their actions? Is it helping PJ or RJ in long-term? Are they part of the Patrick's game also or they are a nuisance for his plans? An unwelcome inevitable consequence of devising a trick to provoke the bad guys?! Or are they making it harder for RJ to stay undercover and do whatever RJ wants and therefore loose his temper and cool?
That's my two cents! Please mention your reasonable challenging questions, and you could also formulate an answer for them using the structure I've mentioned.
