Patrick Jane is Red John. if im wrong...so be it. I always wanted to write a screenplay where a detective hunts a killer who killed his wife ten years before....and at the end of the story...you find out the detective was a little nuts and was the killer himself. i think its a genius idea....and i think it would be great if the mentalist went that route. it would be absolutely genius if they dragged out red john's identity all the way to the end of the show...and then made the reveal to be jane himself. it would be fantastic