Who is Red John?

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 one thing we know for sure is the red john story line will be done concluded in episode 8 as its "red john" as episode 9 is called "My Blue Heaven" and 10 is "Green Thumb" and this is the first time bar the episode s406 (tho red john was supposed to of still been thought dead by everyone bar jane) that the title has not refrenced the color red or have a connection with something red i.e fire,cherry, rose, blood, crimson even pink

right back to the topic who i have wanted red john to be for a long time now is bret stiles (tho i dont think it is) as when jane and him first met they didn't get on but had a mutual respect for him, he is a very intelligent charecter and seems as now he would be smart enough to be red john, tho i went off him being red john when jane asked for the favour stiles had owed him and located lorali for him and  helped for escape for jane to talk with

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Theory #4608, Part II

Red John is puppeteer. He just pulls all those strings and makes things happen. 
He is pure evil, but not an executor! Executors are naive, stupid and small human beings. They made all these crimes, and they are all stimulated by one man, a pure evil.
He is devil in human body, an evil mentalist.

In season 2, episode 20 (Red All Over), Elizabeth Stanfeld, Visualization member, planted bomb in some house and Lisbon deactivated that bomb in last seconds. In interrogation room, Cho and Jane questioned her, and in one moment she told them: „Im looking down on you from a great height, You are like ants. Its sad how far I am beyond from you people, spiritually and mentally, Just because you stopped my work doesnt mean others wont follow my path.“ 
Is sounds like Bret Stiles is talking from her. After all, she is his obedient follower, brain-washed and easy to manipulate. Red John used her to send message to Patrick that he is always one step ahead.

In season 3, episode 3 (The Blood on His Hands), Bret told Jane that many policemen are Visualize members. Brets chief of security Warner Vander Hoek told Lisbon that he read her dossier. Also he told that he spent eleven years working in Seattle Homicide and seven years in Intelligence Division. So, we can see that Bret Stiles is powerful and surrounded with strong, obedient people. His members are practically connected to Visualization for life. Lucy Joel is member who left Visualization, and after that she is scared for her life. She told Van Pelt and Rigsby that she have been followed and threatened. Also, she told that Visualize dont like when people leave the organization. Visualize uses threats and blackmails to keep their members in. When Van Pelt and Rigsby left the Lucy Joels house, somebody was followed them. It was FBI agant Craig O'Laughlin, who said later in CBI office that FBI were looking at Brat Stiles and Visualize for couple of years ago. He criticizes CBI for weak investigation of Brat Stiles and he told that FBI thinks that Stiles has his own people in police. But, we know that agent O'Laughlin was accomplice of Red John. Later, he was CBI insider for Red John and he had relationship with Grace Van Pelt, He also knew his father before. To much coincidents, isnt?
In this episode, Julius Coles, a Visualization attorney killed Celia Jovanovich, member of Visualization, too. At the end of the episode, Julius Coles was accused for murder, and immediately after he was shot and murdered by his victims husband, who is also a member of Visualization. Red Johns plan? Surely it is. In the end, Red John always eliminate his accomplices and disciples.
In the background of this episode, there is story about Kristina Frye. She was kidnapped and Brat Stiles told Jane that he knew what Red John is planning. He said that he knows much more than Jane and Red John could ever imagine. It is creative move by Brat Stiles, some kind of distraction. He praises himself in front of Jane. He domonstrates his power to him, manipulating and convincing him that he is his friend and that Red John is someone else. Brat told Jane that Red John is going to take everything and everyone that he cares about, and that it is some form of love.
I would say, wicked love.

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