FOR THOSE
WHO ARE INTERESTED IN RJ STRATEGY, BECAUSE THERE WAS ONE DESPITE WHAT WE CAN
READ ACTUALLY.
(skip the italics part)
Hello,
As I sadly expected
to, anger, disappointment and virulent
reviews are still dominating this website because many people feel cheated by
an RJ storyline ending they judge too simplistic and obvious to truly satisfied
them. It’s almost like because we guessed RJ identity rightly long before the
airing and CBS promo mistake ( let’s be honest there), the ending could only be
a bad one. Where’s gone the proudness of outsmarting the show creator and
writers at their game ? Wasn’t it the reason we’ve been so involved there in
the first place ? Anyway, I won’t say
anything more on the subject since I’ve already done so yesterday, explaining
why such a reaction has to be expected. (1)
I only
regret that such feelings make people blind to the point of not seeing RJ
strategy for the final encounter which explains a lot of questions we’ve been
wondering about (PI/3dots thing, Partridge death, the bomb at Jane’s house…).
Everything
makes sense when we admit a natural impression we got in 606, that the meeting
at Jane’s old house was meant to be the last one between the two enemies, not
only because Jane planned to kill RJ there but because RJ too intended to
definitively end the game in that precise place and occasion.
Let’s start
by the beginning : the game changing in Red John’s rules.
In his
video, RJ says “until you catch me or I
catch you”. While it’s pretty clear what the “you catch me” means, a lot of
speculations have run about the strange “I catch you”. What does it mean for RJ
to catch Jane ? If it was simply killing Jane in order to prevent him to find
his true identity, RJ wouldn’t have bothered with the list and murdered him
already. The only logical interpretation is to understand the “I catch you” as “I con you” : at that point, RJ had already
planned his next course of action for the 8 following episodes or had a pretty
clear idea of what he intended to do. (2)
As to how
he guessed Jane’s list of suspects,
2 possibilities : or Jane used computers to eliminate and investigate his
suspects, leaving traces behind him (less likely) or he tricked RJ into
thinking he was making big, final progresses in order to make the killer
wanting to regain the upper hand, because to do so, RJ would have to show his
cards, the list of seven names, in which he had to include his own name to
cover his basis. (I’ll give you more details later if you are interested in
them).
Partridge death :as we now know, Partridge had to cover the DNA falsification
which will allow RJ to fake his death after the explosion of Jane’s old house. It
had to be the first murder after the list reveal because he needed a gaps of
time long enough to assure himself that people won’t make connections between
the two events and draw the conclusion that a supposedly dead man is in fact
alive. Finally, luring Lisbon to the crime was a way for RJ to distract Jane
from the real purpose of the killing : too worried about his partner wellbeing,
he’d be less likely to think the legist died for any other reason than he wasn’t
anymore a useful RJ’s tool, than he was more of a risk than an advantage for
the serial killer, when he was carefully
preparing his disappearing.
PI murder/3 dots tattoo : Manipulating and killing the PI was
the last thing RJ needed to do to prepare the final confrontation between him
and Jane. At first sight, hiring the PI to bug CBI offices appears to be a
particularly clumsy, stupid move coming from such a great serial killer,
moreover so when he doesn’t complete his killing. But, on second sight, it
really is a smart move from his part : Rj wanted the PI to see his tattoo, gave
her the opportunity while fighting, and he wanted her to tell Jane about it,
the reason he left her still breathing.
But why would he do that ? It’s quite
simple in fact, and his plan all along : Rj wanted Jane to reunite the remaining
suspects in a unique place and the only way to achieve that was to give him a
reason to : the 3 dots tattoo. He wanted them all together in order to stage
the RJ death by default : if all RJ suspects die in an explosion, it’s safe to
assume that RJ is dead. Who would suspect than one of them to fake his death ?
Certainly not Jane, since he’d be killed with them… (3)
In
conclusion, the whole thing tells us that RJ
intended to disappear after the villa explosion, to use his fake death as a way
of escape Jane vengeance and justice. No one else, not even Jane, was supposed
to survive the explosion. Scientists would have found DNA of every people
present in the house when the explosion occurred and Lisbon, who knew who would
be there, would have confirmed that no one else was there. RJ’s freedom would
have been guaranteed without anyone knowing about it. He would have won.
Unfortunately
for him, something has gone wrong and Smith, Bertram and Jane survived.
It was the beginning of his downfall. Highly
confident in his intelligence, he probably didn’t thought something like that could happen and he had to
think fast about another plan., moreover so when Jane publicly accuse Bertram
of being RJ. It wouldn’t be strange that he started panicking to some degree,
anyone would have in this context. It only was a matter of time before Bertram
resurfaced, arrested by FBI or some other law enforcement, or trying to make
contact with Jane, which he did, in order to save his life. If he didn’t
already knew ( which would be strange with Jane being Jane), Jane would have
understand that Bertram wasn’t RJ and pursue his quest for revenge until he
finally succeed...
RJ's life
was at stake, his only solution was to kill Jane, no matter what. Pressed by
time, afraid for his life and freedom, reduced to react to events rather than
initiate them like he ordinarily do.
A desperate
man…
Bound to
commit mistakes, to underestimate his enemy…
An ordinary
man facing death.
(1) see
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(2) Pure
speculation : at that point in time (RJ’s rules), Jane had definitively refused
to give RJ his friendship which probably hurt the feelings of the killer, making
him start to think about a way of getting rid of Jane, since he couldn’t have
him. The Lorelei debacle was probably the detonator that made him act on his
intentions.
(3) I tend
to believe, without having any proof or certitude, that Jane understood what RJ
intended to do. That’s why he took so much precaution while preparing the
meeting. I’ll add, regarding RJ’s reaction when accused of being RJ, that he wasn’t
as convincing as he could have been because it didn’t really matter as everyone
was supposed to die soon.
