Theories of Red_Jake_Red (2)

So don't know if any of you saw my other post about Stiles faking his death to return as a 'Messiah' which explains why Visualize hasn't had a word mentioned about it despite being a prominent theme throughout the show and Red John, and why we've shifted two years forward - to make the reveal more dramatic.

So I cant believe I didn't spot this before BUT in season 5 episode 8, the one where Jane enlists Stiles help to get Lorelie out of prison, he meets Stiles at the start of the episode in a cinema. He's watching 'North by Northwest' the Hitchcock classic. The two scenes they show of the film are when Cary Grant gets 'shot' and killed infront of a room full of witnesses, which the viewer regards as real.

Then the next scene we see is the one shortly after where the car carrying Grant's  'body' pulls over and it is revealed it was a ruse he struck with the woman who shot him who's been working for the FBI/government and is a spy/informant on a powerful figure. The 'he's not really dead' angle.

This is the last episode we see of Stiles before season 6 I believe.

Foreshadowing anyone? Possible? Likely? Theories?

As much as I wish Stiles was RJ don't think he is, what that may be implying is he's either 'coming back from dead' as the messiah like figure, or was working with the government or RJ reluctantly and this was a consequence of that, he may be really dead or if he was working with government and or RJ the film scene may be a nod he's coming back too.

Either way, messiah ruse or working for/with somebody I see Stiles coming back now, more than ever after that scene. He also comments on the film saying 'It's a classic, never gets old....gets better every time.'

Almost like the character Bret Stiles! Sadly very unlike The Mentalist.

Let me know if you agree he'll be back!

Now just an observation I noticed at the time but haven't seen people mention on here yet;

Stiles has a terminal illness with 'a couple of weeks' a couple of weeks before blast. His crazy ritual with the women and the blood, stating he knows far more than PJ or RJ ever could. Then claims it is not a a death but 'a departure, as I will return!

Now - say everyone's right about RJ not being dead and this all being a ruse, which I personally don't believe but wish was true, surely this would explain the two year gap?

Stiles wanted to lay low for a couple of years to take the heat off him as RJ and also to make him appear as more of a messiah when he returned from the dead to lead Visualize. This was all his plan. He's the only one who doesn't have a weapon at Janes house, is early like he's relishing it, and is quick to point out to PJ several have the tattoo.

He happily leaves the embassy where he had immunity because Jane asks him to - also why is the FBI after him after all these years? Sets the stage for him planning all
this, he's the only one with the tools and the resources to do so, and takes heat completely off him, maybe that why we see his lookalike in My Blue Heaven.

He is really the only candidate from the list with the skills to be RJ as we all imagined him and maybe Heller knew this and this was best way to fool us all as The Mentalist loves to do.

I've always wanted it to be Stiles so just making an observation that's probably wrong but surely all this conveniently explains why we've jumped ahead two years and so many plot holes?

That or we have been truly robbed of our time and effort analysing all these clues! Which is a very real possibility.

I don't know, may well just be clutching at straws but I do hope we didn't see the two best characters in The Mentalist killed off with the line 'they died in the blast' and if McA survived so could Haffner and Stiles. Surely this isn't what the show has turned into with the terrible characters, acting and stories we've had since 6X06.

And makes sense that the gunshot could've been at Haffner. Maybe.