This theory is a loose one and just a wild thought;
I was watching the pilot today, in which they mention how people look at the magicians assistant instead of the magician. Maybe Bertram, Smith etc are trying to hide their shady goings on by creating a distraction, maybe they created Red John!
My theory is that Bret Stiles killed the two bodies in 1998, and his son - maybe Walter? seen this, left him damaged and he's been copying his dad, that could explain the gap in the murders, Tyger Tyger, Bret's knowledge and lack of fear of Red John, and many other things. It could also be why we can trust the list - because the original RJ was Bret, yet the actual RJ that we know is his son.
(Aswell as the theory being a wild guess, Walter is a guess too, could be someone else)
Hey,
I just watched episode 24 from season 4 and had a funny thought.What if the client Oscar is RJ. (The one who interupted Patrick and Lorelei at the bar and whose bodyguard beat Patrick up)I somehow got the impression that Lorelei had met him before and:-he has money (bodyguard)-he is a male -age and discribed look of RJ fit-RJ kills mostly females. Maybe because auf a trauma similar to the one Oscar told PJ (about his mum not being dead but abandon him)-he touched Patrick on the shoulder and Patrick will certainly have shaken hands with him the first time they met because he was a client.
If he is RJ, then he did it to get Patrick behind bars so Lorelei could buy Patrick out and find an easyaccess to him....The whole scenerio was planned. So were thethe cops that arrived just at the right time...The story about his mother might be true or might be invented to become Patricks clientbut if the story is true he has a personal grudge against Patrick.Then (if he is RJ) Patrick might have betrayed him before he killed Patricks wife and daughter. But he did not intend to seek revenge on Patrick from the beginning.He started killing femals because his mothers betrayl was bigger and he knew that Patrick is someone not to mess with. But then Patrick went to that TV show and he decided to teach him a lesson. And in season 4 he pretended again to seek his help with the intention to show Patrick what happends if you mess with people and to get him arrestet and Lorelei could pass on his message...It would have also given him a kick to see if Patrick remembers him.
What do you think?